16/01/2025

The BattleBus, what is it?

Just sharing something that we have been working on in my business X-Net. A bit of a tongue in cheek look at the BattleBus and the opportunities.

16/01/2025

Innovation and Women in Intelligence

I had hosted the author Dr Helen Fry as part of a Bournemouth book festival back in 2018, and it was a pleasure to see her again speaking at “re:connect lite” event at the BattleLab. Although she only spoke for 30 minutes, we could have sat engrossed for hours. This is just a little video of Helen explaining the contribution of women as part of […]

24/11/2024

Steve Mallon – MD Cunning Running, geospatial solutions to search, protect and assess.

I’ve known of Cunning Running Software Ltd before the BattleLab was built at the Dorset Innovation Park and they were one of the first people I showed around when the workshop hangar was up. They were then onboarded into the D3IP ecosystem as partners, ready to gain sight of MOD client challenges as they come through the Defence BattleLab, as well as calls from Law […]

11/11/2024

Jyoti Hirani-Driver, COO of NATO DIANA. Seeking dual-use innovators.

Given some of the supporting work my business does for the Defence BattleLab on the Dorset Innovation Park, I had been looking to make a connection with NATO DIANA. In fact, the BattleLab is also a test centre for that programme. DIANA stands for Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, and is an organisation established by NATO to reach out and find dual-use innovations […]

02/10/2024

Resilience Conference 2024

26 – 27 September 2024, London. We’re all Mission Partners in the resilience of our country. (This summary is more for those in my network that aren’t deep into the Defence and Intelligence space, so serves as my personal lightweight take on a recent event I went to. I found it useful to better understand the sectors and hope it is returns. Marketers will also […]

22/09/2024

Andrew Roughan – CEO Plexal, orchestrating innovation outcomes

This was a slightly different interview in that I wasn’t interviewing one innovation centre, one manager of that place, I was speaking to Andrew Roughan, the CEO of Plexal. Plexal is a company that manages many innovation centres and co-working spaces around the UK, such as in London, Manchester and Cheltenham. In rewatching the video to summarise, I know he gave so much information and […]