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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 […]

This talk by Barbara Bulc during the Systems Innovation conference really resonated with me. Outside of work, I have a strong connection with where I live and try to join in and contribute into making it the best place it can be. The title of her talk was – Reimagining Wellbeing of Communities. Innovating with Values of Trust and Care. She called herself a Social […]

Joss Colchester runs the Systems Innovation network and I grabbed a short interview with him at the end of his fourth conference that was held in London in September 2024. Being new to Systems Innovation and my first time to the conference, I asked him about what it is, the different levels of stakeholders involved, and who attends these events.

The Systems Innovation Conference 2024 was held over September 6 and 7 at The Foundry co-working space near the Oval cricket ground. It is run by Joss Colchester. Not used to conferences starting dead on 9am, on a Friday and Saturday too, and not being an early bird either I thought it would take me a bit of time to get going. I can honestly […]