Category: General

Gordon Fong speaking at Dorset Stride event.
General Innovation Parks
18/02/2025

Defence innovation champions network talk

Sharon Jones, from Navy Engagement, asked me to present my findings to date from this ParkLife blog to the Defence Innovation Champions Network.  This web site wasn’t meant to be an academic study so I was a bit shy about saying yes. I had set out to learn about innovation spaces and processes, in a bid to provide input back into the Dorset Innovation Park […]

Lauri Almann
General
21/01/2025

CybExer, the rise of Estonia as an innovation beacon

CybExer – Lauri Almann, Co Founder Introduction Lauri Almann is the co-founder and chair of CybExer Technologies, which is a Cyber Range company that has been in business for seven years and services Government and commercial sectors. Starting work life as a visa clerk, into a diplomat and ending his career in the Estonian government as Permanent Secretary of Defence and moved into the private […]

General
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.

General
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 […]

Steve Mallon, MD of Cunning Running sofware Ltd
General
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 […]

Jyoti Hirani-Driver
General
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 […]