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
Saying goodbye to the bird
It’s been a long time coming but we have finally decided to come off Twitter at CyberNorth. I still find it hard to call it by its new name as that is when the rot set in for me. When I first started using Twitter it was a new and exciting platform. OK, a lot … Continue reading Saying goodbye to the bird
Cause and effect
Back to last month’s UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration pan-cluster meeting and my mind is thinking about proving the success of CyberNorth projects. It’s important to be able to show value for the work that we do, to help get further projects and to secure support from members. It’s also important for our relationship with local … Continue reading Cause and effect
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
Community Conference
Last week’s first ever CyberNorth Community Conference, part of CyberFest was a bitter sweet affair for me. Having led the North East’s biggest cyber security festival for 6 years, it felt a little odd to be taking more of a back seat. I am reminded of that old joke about bacon and eggs, where the … Continue reading Community Conference
The book my father never wrote
My father and I had a lot in common, we were related after all, may he rest in peace. One thing we had that bound us closely was the amount of time we spent driving down and up the A1. Somehow he ended up with a factory in Stevenage, a mere 251 miles from his … Continue reading The book my father never wrote
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)
The event season
It is upon us again, that time of year where there are so many events to go to that you really are spoilt for choice. Our annual CyberFest begins tomorrow and we already have more than twenty events lined up. Most days have something and on other days we have had to double up. Others … Continue reading The event season
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 