This Week: We preview the forthcoming East of England Tech Collaboration Event at the Sainsbury Centre on the University of East Anglia's campus, itself a curtain-raiser to Cambridge Tech Week!     And then, for the main event, I chat to Rachel Hales, founder of Get Synergised and the With Purpose platform, along with Hannah Chapman of the Cambridge Acorn Project and Nick Finlayson-Brown, partner and Head of the Cambridge office of Mills & Reeve.   And then and then!  We tell you what's happened to your favourite CrowdSourcing feature...(Spoiler alert - not much). For more info, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk.

This Week: We celebrate your Unsung Heroes in another star-spangled CROWDSOURCERY! For More Information, please go to https://easternpromise.org.uk. We are proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

This week: This is it!  The Grand Finale is upon us, with the last panel comprising Dr Riaz Bhunnoo, Director of the GlobalFood Security Programme for UK Research and Innovation; Dr Stella Peace, Director of Healthy Living and Agriculture for Innovate UK; Shadow Food and Farming Minister and MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner MP; and host  and Director of the Quadram Institute, Professor Ian Charles OBE.  We'll hear what they made of the event and their advice on collaboration, the need for a narrative, and  where the Norwich Food Science Supercluster should focus to see continued success. And Finally!  We celebrate your Unsung Heroes in another star-spangled CROWDSOURCERY! For More Information, please go to https://easternpromise.org.uk. We are proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

Let's kick off another round of community-sourced goodness looking at sporting venues across the East of England in another goal-hanging CROWDSOURCERY...

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby takes you back to the Norwich Food Science Supercluster event and we hear from Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Professor David Maguire, who introduces the second half of the event.  Then, after the audio of the film promoting the Innovation capabilities of the supercluster, Imogen Shipperlee of Hethel Innovation, , Dr Nick Goodwin of Anglia Innovation Partnership, Dave Martin of Condimentum and Dr Jon Clarke of the John Innes Centre, then take us through the current innovation climate in Norwich, Norfolk and the East of England.  It's an intriguing discussion which highlights the possibilities as well as the true depth of the facilities in Norwich. And finally: let's kick off another round of community-sourced goodness looking at sporting venues across the East of England in another goal-hanging CROWDSOURCERY...    Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk    Eastern Promise is proud to be sponsored by Mills & Reeve

We are but eight episodes away from our centennial episode - 100 episodes shining a light on the very best of the East of England, whether in  - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk & North Essex.  But how should we mark the milestone?  You tell us your view with a magical touch of CROWDSOURCERY! Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

This week: We continue our coverage of the recent Eastern Promise Norwich Food Science Supercluster summit with our Infrastructure panel.  It should probably have been called the 'planning' panel as that's the primary focus: the Food Enterprise Zone upon which the Food Enterprise Park is forming; the proposed HP3 facility (Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet) on the Norwich Research Park, and the scale of the ambition the supercluster can support (SPOILER ALERT: It's limitless!)   And Finally!  We are eight episodes away from our centennial episode - 100 episodes shining a light on the very best of the East of England, whether in  - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk & North Essex.  But how should we mark the milestone?  You tell us your view with a magical touch of CROWDSOURCERY! Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

We celebrate your best indie businesses in another sense-shattering CrowdSourcery!   If you want to get in touch you can contact me via https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: We're back with our second panel from the recent Norwich Food Science Supercluster summit, this time looking at INVESTMENT.  How we get it, how we keep it, what's already happening and how we can do more to boost the number of angel investors.     First, we'll hear from Mills & Reeve's Head of VC and Investment, Zickie Lim, then you'll hear from our panel of James Allen (New Anglia LEP & Connected Innovation);  Caroline Dean (Partner, Mills & Reeve); Chris Starkie (Director of Growth & Investment, Norfolk County Council) and Prof. Andy Neely (at the time of recording, Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor for Enterprise & Business Relations for Cambridge University).  It really is encouraging and I urge you to take a listen!   And finally: We celebrate your best indie businesses in another sense-shattering CrowdSourcery!   If you want to get in touch you can contact me via https://easternpromise.org.uk

We look at your recommendations for a weekend away.  So grab your toothbrush, drop your kids off with your ma & pa, and follow these top recommendations in another royally righteous CROWDSOURCERY!   To find out more, visit https://easternpromise.org.uk

We're back!  After a hiatus to prepare for the Eastern Promise event - 'The Norwich Food Science Supercluster' summit - the East of England's premier podcast pops up yet again, brining you the first part of that self-same summit!  We'll hear from Prof Ian Charles OBE, Director of the Quadram Institute and George Freeman MP, Mid Norfolk's Member of Parliament and a former science minister.  We then join Prof. David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Nova Fairbank, CEO of the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce, Dr Catherine Richards, Principal of East Norfolk Sixth Form College, and Mark Nicholas MBE DL, Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, to discuss how Norwich and Norfolk secure the skills a food science supercluster requires.  It's made the show longer than normal, so apologies there... And finally! We look at your recommendations for a weekend away.  So grab your toothbrush, drop your kids off with your ma & pa, and follow these top recommendations in another royally righteous CROWDSOURCERY!

This Week: We profile your favourite parks and gardens in the East of England, bizarrely with a decidedly Gallic flair?  Well, they ARE chosen by you! Yes, it all got rather silly but that's CROWDSOURCERY! For more information go to: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Thank you to our sponsor, Mills & Reeve.

This Week: We join the unsung heroes of science: technicians and other professionals without whom scientific research would be impossible.   We also have some of the keynote speech from Norfolk's own science superstar, Prof. Ben Garrod! And finally, we profile your favourite parks and gardens in the East of England, bizarrely with a decidedly Gallic flair?  Well, they ARE chosen by you! Yes, it all got rather silly... Thank you to Andrew Stronach, Dr Penny Hundleby, Saskia Hervey, Jim Lipscombe, Lizzie Meadows, and Lewis Hollingsworth.   For more information go to: https://easternpromise.org.uk Thank you to our sponsor, Mills & Reeve.

A shout out to our American listeners - Thank you for your support in 2023 and please do get in touch! We want to know why you're listening and who you are.  Thank you for your support in 2023. Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: We find out whither you wander as we set off to tread our region's most historic streets for another CROWDSOURCERY! Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve. Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: In an episode that couldn't be more timely, Mike Rigby talks to Tristan Fischer of Fischer Farms - a vertical farm just outside Norwich - about his philosophy, why a Lichfield-based organisation came to Norwich, and what the potential for Controlled Environment Agriculture to aid plant scientists at the Norwich Research Park and beyond. Also this week, we honour our American audience, whose listening figures eclipsed every audience in the world except England - that's right bigger than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland! And finally, we find out whither you wander as we set off to tread our region's most historic streets for another CROWDSOURCERY! Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve. Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material... Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: I talk to Clarice Benney of Connect Health Tech about this ground-breaking collaborative community at the nexus of tech and medicine, as well as sakuting the winners of the 2023 Connect Health Tech Community Awards! Find out more here; https://connect.cam.ac.uk/health-tech  And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material... Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week:  We delve into your big plans for 2024 and find out what's got you salivatin', despite the waitin'! Yes, that's all on the first 2024 CROWDSOURCERY! For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk

This Week: Mike Rigby and co-host Sally Osborne try out the UrbanXR pop-up shop in Castle Quarter, Norwich.   UrbanXR's James Lee Burgess helps them experience some mixed reality retail that just might save our high streets... For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk