This week we bring you a live recording from Cambridge Tech Week. James hosted a panel discussion on the Cambridge Tech Ecosystem, that features Henry Whorwood from Beauhurst, Tabitha Goldstaub, Director, Innovate Cambridge and Christine Martin, Head of Seed Funds, Cambridge Enterprise.

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Many people, both locally and globally, will know this week’s guest, Peter Cowley, as an international angel investor, but here we dig deeper – much deeper.

With permission, we were very privileged to talk to Peter about his personal life – living with cancer, family bereavement, and removing the stigma of suicide. We also celebrate his recent marriage to Lis before talking about his career and the advice he openly shares.

Peter is a distinguished serial entrepreneur – from running a mobile discotheque when he was a student to a 40-year-old tech company owner with all the ups and downs you’d expect; as well as a portfolio of businesses from publishing and property.

He tells us how he stumbled into becoming an angel, with that first ‘exit’ with Martin Kleppman, that made it all possible. And shares some of the successes and failures likening angel investment to a ‘marriage contract you can’t break’.

Read the introductory chapter to Peter's book 'Public Success, Private Grief' - https://www.ps-pg.com/

Tune in for a unique insight into a remarkable man.

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If you look at the #EdTech space, the market is awash with solutions that are simple in nature, yet often lacking the power of ‘tech’. But sAInaptic is doing something very different. They have an AI-based web-app that auto-marks descriptive answers in science and provides instant teacher-like feedback. The feedback includes a predictive score and qualitative information on correct and missed concepts and provides actionable insights to teachers releasing them from hours of marking.

Telling us more about the marking accuracy that is on par with human marking, are co-founders Rajeshwari Iyer and Kavitha Ravindran.

They tell us about their mission to bring accessible, personalised learning to everyone, how they are democratising technology and how being alumna from the University of Cambridge has now introduced them to the vibrant Cambridge ecosystem.

Anyone can sign up for free to experience sAInaptic’s auto-marking tool https://sainaptic.com/

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We were back on the road recently at the One Nucleus #ONHelix23 event where we talked about #biotech trends, the use of #AI #tech in #lifesciences and the importance of the One Nucleus community.

We were delighted to talk to Tony Jones, Enhanc3D Genomics, Appleyard Lees, BRAINCURES and Mike Ward – all who shared details of their journey and some of the great opportunities for the industry.

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In this episode we talk to problem solver, Ben Pellegrini, CEO at #MachineLearning company Intellegens.

Intellegens’ objective is to use algorithms to get the most out of data, and they do this with a machine leading model and a complimentary enterprise SW platform that enables the tech to be deployed and the results accessible.

Ben talks about the journey that he and co-founder Dr Gareth Conduit took - spinning out from The Cavendish Laboratory, supported by Cambridge Enterprise, Innovate UK - and the path to demonstrating value as quickly as possible.

For more info about Intellegens here are a couple of links

https://intellegens.com/materials-chemicals-companies-innovate-with-ai/

https://intellegens.com/five-ways-machine-learning-can-power-life-science-data-analysis/

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Talking to leading tech entrepreneur Hermann Hauser was always going to cover a variety of topics and we hope you agree it was a really interesting discussion. We talk about…

·       Was it all out war between Sinclair and Acorn Computers?

·       How Intel initially told Arm to ‘get lost’ and how the tables turn, with Intel now paying $10m to invest in the Arm IPO.

·       How Arm saved Apple from going bust

·       The number of things that began life with “we had absolutely no idea”

·       An investment portfolio including 7 unicorns and 2 decacorns (Arm and Illumina).

·       Shoutouts for two standout companies - Photonic (Paul Terry), and Constructive Bio

·       The one nut Hermann would like to crack with AI

·       How “Cambridge has established itself as probably the #1 deep tech centre in Europe, if not the world”, but we can’t rest on our laurels. 

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This week’s guest is Ben Woodington, with fellow co-founder (AKA powerhouse) Elise Jenkins there in spirit!

Find out more about how Opto is developing a new generation of neurological interfaces that can read electrical information from inside your body.

Ben tells us about making very small interfaces, well-tolerated in the body, and applying it to one of humankind’s most significant health issues - cancer.

It is always so exciting to talk to very early-stage innovators – their passion is so evident and Opto has the makings of being a very important company in the #bioelectronics space. And how leveraging the Cambridge ecosystem works, but as important is thinking scale and globally from the outset.

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This week saw the inaugural Cambridge Wide Open Day orchestrated by Prashant Shah at o2h Group.

The day offered a unique insight into the city’s world-renowned science and technology, by bringing together visitors from across the Cambridge community - from scientists to school children - to explore what happens on their doorstep.

In this week’s episode, we talk about some of the activities and people involved with Prashant, Faye takes us through her whirlwind tour with Innovate Cambridge Director, Tabitha Goldstaub, and James fills us in on the activities in the North part of Cambridge.

For more information on all the companies involved and about the event go to cambridgewideopenday.com.

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Rather than writing about the news, this week’s guest, Matt Gooding, editor at Tech Monitor talks to us about how a range of subjects, including the potential for #AI; the Tech Nation move to Barclays Eagle Labs; the UK’s ambitions for the semiconductor and Quantum Computing industries and how we need to take our place in the global ecosystem; and the future of journalism.

Tune in to hear more from one of our most switched-on tech journalists.

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Did you know that Cambridge is working on autonomous vehicles, intelligent city platforms, and digital twins? Dan Clarke, Head of Innovation and Technology at the Greater Cambridge Partnership, tells us more and gets us thinking about how future cities could work.

One of Dan’s first outputs is the creation of an Innovation Prospectus to encourage more tech companies to use Cambridge as a testbed. The prospectus shares how to bring innovative ideas forward, how to access research and data, and importantly how to navigate procurement with the public sector.

For more information about Dan’s work and to get in touch, go to the Greater Cambridge website or contact Dan at [email protected].

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