Category: General

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 […]

This is a LinkedIn post that I wanted to share. Shame I can’t embed. The reason for sharing is that it asks the question of does the strategy of building innovation districts work and what does it rely on for a successful outcome? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremybamberg_defencetech-cyber-innovationdistricts-activity-7218577700167315457-aOrA Hopefully I might get out to Berlin and interview Jeremy Bamberg as well.

We speak to Charlotte Smith, who is the Skills Growth Lead for CyNam, who are also part of the consortium to deliver CyberFirst for the South West. They are located in the Hub 8 MX building. Charlotte explains in more details the CyberFirst Schools initiative from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)  – a part of GCHQ. This is to encourage girls into the technical […]