Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker
Guerrilla Worker, strategic thinker, occasional maverick and reluctant over-achiever
Image thanks to Freepik It can’t be twelve months since the last round of Cyber Local funding, can it? Sure enough, just as the police are looking younger, time is speeding up and the time to apply for funds to run local projects has come and gone. I’m delighted that CyberNorth has been successful again … Continue reading Innovation Centre #2
Image thanks to Freepik One of the things that has fascinated me most about working with CyberNorth is that it is a very different type of business. On the face of it it is obvious what it does, or perhaps not. It is a cluster organisation working to support the growth of the cyber security … Continue reading Creating something that doesn’t exist
Another week, another event. It really is the season for this kind of thing. Maritime Innovation Week is a three day event organised by the Port of Tyne, with events in London and the North East. It’s a bit like Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival, though it all takes place indoors. Thank goodness as it was … Continue reading Maritime Innovation Week
Last week I attended the launch of Northumbria University’s UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). That’s a bit of a mouthful. Northumbria has received a grant to engage 60 PhD candidates in the CDT’s place-based civic mission, dedicated to ensuring that the transformative power of AI benefits all communities, … Continue reading AI Centre for Doctoral Training
I don't know if honour is the right word but it was certainly a great pleasure to host the latest UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration meeting in the region this week. Opencast kindly allowed us the use of their premises at the Kiln in Hoult’s Yard. It was a great event and rounded off (almost) this … Continue reading The Vengabus
Image thanks to Freepik You never have enough time to apply for funding. It all seems so easy at the start but as you get into it, the task becomes greater and greater until despair takes over. You hear about an upcoming funding round and you get your head around what it is that you … Continue reading Those forms (again)
Image thanks to Freepik I’ve organised many workshops during my working life but preparing for a series of workshops over several months was a new challenge. We’d been talking about the Cyber Security Innovation Centre for many years and had a clear idea of how it would work, yet when we finally got the nod … Continue reading Quality over quantity
Image thanks to Freepik.com When we make comparisons, why do we only ever look up? We only ever consider those who seemingly have more rather than less. Bigger, faster, better, richer rather than smaller, slower, worse or poorer. Among the people I know, the pool of people below is much larger than the tiny pool … Continue reading Comparison for startups
Image thanks to Freepik When we first bought our house, back in the day, we took out an endowment mortgage. I don’t know if such a thing exists these days yet they promised the earth. Basically, if I recall correctly, you borrowed the money for the house, paid the interest only and took out an … Continue reading The market will correct itself
Image thanks to pixels.com Talking to a potential business partner over the last few weeks I found that the question of how they make their money came to my mind. It’s an old chestnut for me, partly because I am interested in different business models but, more importantly, I don't want to enter into a … Continue reading Where’s the money come from?
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 