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Image thansk to anonymous photography. September is a very busy month for team CyberNorth and me personally. It is the culmination of an intense period of activity up to and including #CyberFest. Sixteen events for a small team is no mean feat yet this year has been the most successful so far. I know, define … Continue reading The calm after the storm 

The bit I hate most about events is when you ask for feedback. No, that’s not right, it’s when the feedback comes back.  Yes, I know you have to ask for it and it is essential to learn from other people’s experience and that there is only one way to find out and that is … Continue reading Feedback

We’re going out with a bang in the last week of #CyberFest, with another six events including the Big One, the Colossus, the Behemoth, ‘El Gordo’ even, but before we get to that let’s start on Monday. Those of you who have been involved with CyberNorth’s work over the last year will know that it … Continue reading #CyberFest Week 4 – The Big One

Image thanks to Christian Sandstrom Cyber security is a fast changing industry with new threats and solutions appearing almost daily. Who knows what the future will bring as technology speeds improve and the way people interact with it evolves?  In truth nobody can, though we can have some good guesses. Emerging technologies are bound to … Continue reading Innovation and the future

One of CyberNorth’s objectives, number three if you are keeping count, is to support the growth of new cyber security businesses. This may seem at odds with our second objective, which is to support the growth of existing businesses but this is not the case. One of the ways in which the region can do … Continue reading We need more new businesses

It’s that time of year. #CyberFest is back for its sixth year as the North East’s biggest cyber security festival. This time CyberNorth is partnering with local managed IT and cyber security service provider, Aspire Technology Solutions to bring some familiar events and some very different ones. At the time of writing this there are … Continue reading Get yourself to #CyberFest 23

No sooner had the festival started, it finished. Thursday was our last daily dash and this time we focussed on the region’s emerging FinTech sector and the so-called cost of living crisis. There is no doubt that the cost of living crisis has been one of the dominant stories of the last year, driven in … Continue reading Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 3

Looking back at the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival, the days all roll into one. I have to look at the photographs to remember what kind of a day it was. On day two I was wearing long pants and so rain must have been threatening, not that Northumbrian Water would have been too worried by … Continue reading Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 2