Category: General

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A quick observation from my visit to Cambridge I’ve been to Cambridge twice previously. Once for a mini-break meeting friends and another time for a wedding that happened to be in one of the college halls. This visit, during Cambridge Tech Week, was the first time for anything work related. I had already been trying to contact the Bradfield Centre and St John’s Innovation Centre […]

My chat with Andy Wilkins was just as interesting after the interview as it was during. The details and warning about the healthcare system and our approach, shows how big a problem it is, and as always, it means there is an opportunity too. Systems innovation could help bring a change because the financial and structural burden on the NHS will become unsustainable. Andy’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andywilkins/ […]

Miranda Dixon, Collectives Leads from Brink, gave a presentation at the 2024 Systems Innovation Conference on an innovation project that delivered improved oxygen concentrators to low and middle income countries. https://www.unicef.org/innovation/resilient-oxygen-concentrators Over 700,000 children have died from their need for oxygen support. Countries that did have oxygen concentrators, devices that remove nitrogen from ambient air and feed out higher concentration levels of oxygen, would see […]