This last week, UK Tech Week was launched, and a host of events took place across the UK in celebration. We asked its Founder, Stuart Clarke MBE, to talk to us about the inspiration behind creating an umbrella platform to showcase tech communities across the UK. With events throughout the year in most regions from Glasgow to Basildon, Humberside to Bristol it was great to hear about how different tech weeks differentiate themselves based on local expertise. We talk about capital, partnerships, and why something like UK Tech Week can expand the reach of tech to a much broader audience through collaboration.  Do head over to the UK Tech Week website and social channels to find out more. We also had some updates from Chris Bruce on Cambridge Tech Week too, including: •                 The Innovation Alley exhibition call has been announced - Innovation Alley takes place on Tuesday 10th September at the Corn Exchange and will showcase 50 innovative startups, 10 scaleups and a small number of corporates to showcase the exciting diversity of tech innovation. Nominations close by 30th May. •                 The call for contributors closes 13th May, so if you are interested in a speaking slot or being part of a panel or fireside chats they there is still time to apply (conditions are on the website). •                 The registrations for delegate tickets went live this week, with super early bird rates for the first 50 registrations. Will we see you at #CamTechWeek?Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please be aware this podcast talks about sensitive issues including cancer, alcoholism, and suicide.Most people will know Peter Cowley through his hugely successful career as one of Europe’s best known angel investors. #CamTechPod was at the launch of Peter’s latest book Public Success, Private Grief in which he details for the first time the succession of tragic events which have shaped his life and fuelled his relentless drive and ambition.In a fireside chat with Louisa Preston who spent over fifteen years as a news reporter on the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 and ITV, Peter discusses:-                 His inspiration as an entrepreneur and investor-                 Treating his cancer like another project-                 Experiencing bereavement from a young age and losing two sons-                 The advice he would give his younger self-                 What he hopes the book will achieve-                 Working on his bucket list: running two half marathons this year, sleeping on Antarctica-                 Helping charity and encouraging others to do so. He is donating £2 from the sale of each Public Success, Private Grief book to the charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Founding CEO Tom Collings talks to us about Kalium Health and managing kidney disease.Did you know that 800 million people are affected by kidney disease around the world, costing $2 billion to manage kidney disease in US alone?Tom talks to us about:·       His background as an engineer, to helping startups, to building a company·       Founding the company with three amazing women – Fiona Karet, Tanya Hutter, Liz Norgett,·       His tips to ‘just do it, life is too short to watch for the side lines’ and bringing others along on the journey·       Following Andy Richards well-known narrative that “Cambridge is a low-risk place to do high risk things” ·       Manufacturing in Cambridge at prototype scale to get the product into the hands of clinics and clinical services, launching initially in the US·       Initial funding from Cambridge investors – Cambridge Angels, Martlet Capital – any timely opportunities for new professional investors during 2024·       We talk about medical insight and scientific innovation from an original idea to clinical trials.Tune in to hear all of this, and much more.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we bring to you the ‘Would I Sci to You?’ event - the relevant but irreverent science panel show from Cambridge Science Centre!QI’s Head Researcher, James Harkin; scientist entrepreneur and CEO of Start Codon, Jason Mellad; Youtube sensation, Holly Gabrielle; Sliced Bread host and science journalist, Greg Foot; Director of Science and Entrepreneurship at the Babraham Research Campus, Kathryn Chapman; and renowned physicist, Isaac Newton face off against an array of science, research and other items that host Andrew Farrer directs at them.After an intro from #CamTechPod hosts Faye and James, we go straight into the event. There’s upset about the buzzers then we’re straight into primary school science – did you guess the answers?‘Would I Iie to you?’ puts Kathryn and Holly under pressure; the Missing Words round included suggestions from Biden to babies, and so much more. So, sit back and enjoy a selection of clips from the event and see Cambridge #SciTech in a very different way!Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we hear from Paul Beastall, CEO of HutanBio who are on a journey that has taken decades of research, formation of the company in 2019, and a trajectory to commercialise a new kind of biofuel company that is truly inspirational.We talk about the entrepreneurial relationship growing out of Cambridge University academics that took the team from the UK to Saudi Arabia, with a firm foothold now in Malaysia and the UK.Paul talks about the different stages of research and company development, including the creation of a floating lab to identify the right organisms to create their unique HBx algal biofuel. This biofuel is set to transform heavy transport and provide a green alternative to the over a billion tons of oil used each year.HutanBio recently raised their first Seed investment of £2.25m and are now set to grow, but notably in a super ethical way. They intend to desert land that is currently unutilised around the globe, and that can also provide employment for local communities. This is a great story of being intellectually based in Cambridge but spreading economic value elsewhere.Not only was it a high-impact chat, but you’ll learn a huge amount about heavy transportation and the impact a transformative biofuel could have on the global environment.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot - Why Technology Needs Feminism addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists, and co-editor Kerry McInerney tell us more about the book, its contributors, and carving her own way in the world of AI Ethics. With such a huge amount of thought-provoking content in the book, we highlight four of the essays written by: ·       Blaise Aguera yArcas, Google Research, Cerebra - Good technology is cooperative·       Margaret Mitchell, Hugging Face - Good technology is inclusive·       Ranjit Singh, Data & Society - Good Technology is Slow (to Scale)·       Kanta Dihal, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence - Good technology needs good stories. We talk about ideas and compromises of good tech and the tensions between if it is even possible to have good tech in the environments we live in, and the need to have technology ‘community-driven’.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boutros Bear is a company founded after an aggressive course of breast cancer where Founder and CEO, Sheila Kissane, saw first-hand a gap in her own treatment and care.Boutros Bear delivers comprehensive rehabilitation programs, empowering individuals facing cancer, chronic pain, and mental health challenges.This is a very personal and insightful conversation with someone who has taken an issue that affects many, understood it, and created something to improve health and wellness.·       From civil engineering to a healthcare entrepreneur·       An initial 12-week programme to an integrated #employeewellness platform·       From blind naivety to raising initial capital and the move to Series A·       Scoping what ‘tech’ meant in such a people centric programme (and how tech for healthcare / passive apps don’t necessarily have the benefit for the user)·       18-months of persistence to sign up the perfect partner·       How to engage with corporates on #CorporateWellness #WorkplaceHealth·       Scoping out the US market and being ‘in-pursuit- of sales·       A pursuit of asking questions and flowing honesty!Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A highlight of the annual calendar is the announcement of the #21toWatch Top21 – the seven people, companies and ‘things’ that are leading the way in innovation across the East of England, including from the centre for Science and Innovation, Cambridge. Running since 2019, now in its 6th year, the programme has seen 1,736 applications and 126 winners. It is recognised as the most independent listing of the who’s who of startups in the region covering every conceivable type of science and technology. Some of the programmes alumni includes Unitary, VividQ, Paragraf, Riverlane, Broken Strong BioSciences, Xampla, Sano Genetics, SATAVIA, Colorifix, Flusso, Porotech, Cambridge Gan Devices, and in this episode we will find out who the 2024 winners are. This episode features alumni and the staggering £415m (not including undisclosed amounts, private acquisitions, and the behemoth of CMR Surgical) raised between 2019-2023; interviews with Dr Alicia Showering CEO of BugBiome (People); Mohammad Saghafifar, Co-founder and CEO, Remedium Energy (Company) and Dmitry Khazhdan, CTO, Tenyks (‘Thing’); and much more.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As official podcast partner to Cambridge Tech Week 2024, we’re delighted to run our first full episode dedicated to the event, starting with the recording of the panel at the Cambridge launch, and an interview with Russ Shaw from the London launch event.The Cambridge event really highlighted the desire to bring the outside in – to create a #SXSW for Cambridge and the tech space, where the objective is to bring the outside in. The panellists (Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, CEO, Nu Quantum, David Moore, CEO, Pragmatic, Pam Garside, Chair, Cambridge Angels, and Harriet Fear MBE) had an open discussion about innovation, funding, and challenges of growth, as well as sharing feedback on last year’s event and their wishes for 2024.As one of the events ‘ambassadors’, Russ Shaw, Founder of Tech London Advocates, talked about Cambridge’s global reputation for Science and Innovation – “Cambridge punches enormously above its weight in terms of its size and scale”.And we also caught up with Douglas MacDonald, Partner who heads up the national tech sector at Mills & Reeve who are also one of the event sponsors (others include Rathbones, Cambridge Management Consulting, UK Telecoms Innovation Network UKTIN, HSBC and Cambridge Consultants).And of course, we caught up with the man himself, chair of the organising committee Chris Bruce, to find out which three words are on the top of his mind for 2024. Produced by Cambridge TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Providing a snapshot of what it has been like trying to raise and deploy capital over the last year, is Chris Keen, Head of Emerging Companies in Cambridge, at Mishcon de Reya.We discuss the more challenging market of 2023, but with a deal level that remained almost the same as previous years, it’s looking rosy for 2024.From Pre-seed through to Series D, Private Equity (PE) and Mergers and Acquisition (M&A), we talk about the dynamics of deals locally in Cambridge and throughout the UK. And Chris gives some useful guidance on when to engage with a lawyer, and note, the advice is to bring it further forward than you may think.We also find out that many advisors are providing line of sight of investment potential from the Cambridge ecosystem to investors outside of the region – so that’s great news for our homegrown tech and innovation.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s guest shares his career path from military, to a large corporate, to building a startup that supports …start-ups.Owen Thompson, CEO and co-founder talks about Cambridge Future Tech’s ethos and how they support technical founders to grow from the pre-ideation phase, commercialise and support the business set-up.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk to Cian Hughes, Partner at Sure Valley Ventures to find out about the inner workings of a VC – of course it’s about providing money to startups, but also about providing a platform to access other investors, partners, and experts. Investing predominantly at mid-seed stage, Sure Valley Ventures helps to identify gaps and fill them at acritical stage of development.We talk about ·       the different between the tech ecosystem in Silicon valley to Cambridge·       the importance of Universities in tech ecosystems – ideas and spinout·       access to talent·       a can-do mindset·       access to customersAnd Cian showcases some of their portfolio companies including VividQ (see Aleksandra Pedraszewska in episode 53), whilst also giving a quick 101 on how to approach investors.Watch out for Cian – he may well just strike up a conversation with you!Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to Farbod Shakouri who is the Co-Founder and CEO at Phantom Technology, a Cambridge-based start-up elevating human capabilities with AI wearable technology.Having spotted a trend of 3D graphics being used in applications other than games, Phantom Technology was founded in 2019 to improve the ‘contextual awareness’ issue with #AR which, in reality, is more of an AI problem. The company is delivering high-end AR software for low-cost hardware, helping OEMs integrate Phantom OS into their products quickly and efficiently. Their special AI assistant called CASSI™ which has got the industry interested and we are expecting some significant announcements in the coming months.Oh, and they chose to base themselves in Cambridge over Silicon Valley!Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we hear from all eight finalists of The Trinity Bradfield Prize, with the live announcement of the three winners made by Sir Greg Winter at the end of the event.The pitches covered a broad range of innovative ideas – (1) targeting T cell therapies for solid tumours (Alceus Bio); (2) developing a next-generation platform for spectral imaging (ProSpectral); (3) creating new class of biofilm inhibitors, providing an alternative to traditional antibiotic treatments (BioTryp Therapeutics); (4) a first-in-class enabling technology for X-ray imaging at lower radiation doses than today's technology (Hayden Salway); (5) creating software aimed at eradicating counterfeit/compromised, or environmentally unfriendly electronic hardware (Ethicronics); (6) developing a fully automated point-of-care sepsis test in under an hour (Cambridge Nucleomics); (7) an app where anyone can take a photo of their eye at home to help detect and monitor eye disease progression (AngioGenius); (8) a novel sensor to tackle food waste (Compound Hound).Will any of these be unicorns of the future?Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode we are joined by Pam Garside, chair of Cambridge Angels. Pam introduces us to Cambridge Angels and how they handle deals. She shares her priorities as chair of the Cambridge Angels ‘network’, and we learn about Pam’s unique background, and her journey into investing. We also delve into the Health tech space, and how AI and automation is revolutionising the sector but requires caution - don’t ‘move fast and break things’ as Mark Zuckerberg would advise!Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Epidemiologist to business leader. A pack of crisps and a diet coke, and next thing this episode’s guest is COO of #QuantumComputing company Riverlane. Of course, we talk about Quantum, and the huge potential and reality of what we can expect. But we also have a great conversation about: ·       availing yourself of the tech ecosystem in Cambridge – ‘the best place in the world’ to start a world-changing business·       being a #tech #COO – from buying the milk, to negotiating contracts·       setting up a new business –risk, change, lack of sleep – not for the light-hearted, and the importance of paying back·       building a culture and the importance of #InternalCommunications – helping scientists and engineers flourish (including a deep snack jar)Bek calls for more women to get involved in the #DeepTech space, but for Bek, the ‘class’ conversation is also critically important. A non-privileged upbringing taught her never to take things for granted, gave her a super-power of being able to talk to people from all backgrounds, and allows her now, not to succumb to #ImposterSyndrome. Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kieren Paterson started his career in 1998 at significant Cambridge employer Marshall majoring in engineer and technology and working with major #aerospace companies. He then moved into management within the business, and then, as part of company’s constant innovation, the idea of FutureWorx was born and Kieren found himself there.FutureWorx looks at the Horizon Three (10+year) space and aims to identify opportunities early and then look at ideas that have the possibility of solutions created to fill the gap. If the idea is successful, it could then be spun out of, or back-in to the business ticking both the #entrepreneurship and #intrapreneurship boxes.Their first product is LilyPad – a permanently deployed system of #UAVs located on offshore wind farms.Kieren talks to us about how they work with the entrepreneurial community, manufacturing companies, and the larger corporations who would be interested in the R&D at FutureWorx. It’s a really great story of a way of building new businesses within an established company.Tune in for a great story of a large company that goes through transformation to keep relevant in a very competitive space.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ben Stanton, Insights Manager at Deloitte returns to talk to us about the 2024 #TMT Predictions, and to look back on the 2023 predictions to see what was a hit, and what was a miss.The four main prediction themes are:#GenerativeAI#Sustainability#Media #Entertainment and #Sports#Telecom and #TechnologyTune in for a whistlestop, and insightful tour of the insights and let us know which you think will be the biggest hit for 2024.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a short episode, looking at some of the things we’ve done in 2023, and some of the plans for 2024. Neatly sandwiched in the middle are a short selection of bloopers, fluffs (or bluffs!) to make you giggle.Season’s Greetings to all our listeners, and we wish you all good health and happiness.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we recorded at the Form the Future annual conference held on 1st December at the Moller Centre in Cambridge. Many of us are responsible for hiring, and certainly working with colleagues of all generations, so this was an insightful day on how we can better engage.We had a fantastic time listening to the sessions, and talking to politicians, teachers, employers and academics who are all part of the community that supports the vital work that Form the Future and Cambridge LaunchPad does. Tune in and hear some great ways that you can engage in building the next generation of our workforce.Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.