Image thanks to Freepik Time is a funny thing. I can’t really decide whether January is going quickly or slowly. At the end of December, despite all the other things that were going on, I was panicking over the short amount of time that we had to plan for CyberNorth’s Innovation Centre #2. It was … Continue reading Getting Closer to Innovation
In scope
Image thanks to Siccar.net A few weeks back I mentioned how I was working through the application to become a B Corp. Whether we go for accreditation is very much up in the air at the moment, yet it is a very interesting exercise. Thanks to some significant help from Katrina at UMI, I’m pleased … Continue reading In scope
Going backwards
Image thanks to Il Mesagerro I’m no fan of Apple. Yes, their products are great and innovative, yet seem overpriced and over-hyped to me. It is the cult of Apple that I simply don’t understand but then, each to their own, there are many things that I don’t understand. So, I would normally skip over … Continue reading Going backwards
Innovation Centre #2
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
Creating something that doesn’t exist
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
Maritime Innovation Week
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
AI Centre for Doctoral Training
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
The Vengabus
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
Those forms (again)
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)
Quality over quantity
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
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 