Eastern Promise - The Podcast

In this very special edition of the Eastern Promise podcast, your host Mike Rigby looks ahead to Cambridge Tech Week (9-13 September 2024) with help from: Chair of the CTW Steering Committee, Chris Bruce; University of East Anglia Pro Vice-Chancellor Nicola Hancock; Mills & Reeve's investment guru Zickie Lim; and CEO of Form The Future CIC, Anne Bailey.  

This superb panel (and Mike) take you through each action-packed day, laying out who's who and what's where.  You better be quick if you want to join the party, 'coz tickets are going fast!  Find out more at https://cambridgetechweek.co.uk/ 

Eastern Promise is brought to you in proud association with Mills & Reeve.

Contact Eastern Promise at [email protected] or visit https://easternpromise.org.uk.        

We interrupt your Summer fun to bring you our CrowdSourcerer's picks for the very best gifts that the East of England has given to the world, all with our trademark silliness to boot...

Look out for the next CrowdSourcery on LinkedIn.  

To get in touch with the show, email [email protected] or visit https://easternpromise.org.uk. 

Eastern Promise is brought to you in proud association with Mills & Reeve.

AN EASTERN PROMISE SPECIAL!  Recorded on Day 1 of the 2024 Royal Norfolk Show, this special takes us around the STEMM Village, chats with VIPs, talks to educators and energy gurus and generally has a whale of a time!  

This year, Dr Penny Hundleby of the John Innes Centre joins Mike Rigby on a tour of the show and this year, we focus on the STEMM Village and the magnificent people within...BUT! We also bump into more across the showground.

Unfortunately, there was a fault on the microphone which means the audio wasn't as good as it could have been.  However, it's been cleaned up and worked on as much as possible so you at least get to share in the amazing happenings at the 2024 Royal Norfolk Show!   

This Week: Just in time for the school holidays! I take a trip back in time, to The ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure Park at Lenwade near Norwich to meet Adam Goymour, Park Director and scion of the Goymour family.  I'll be chatting with Adam about the park, his family's legacy, the Norfolk tourism sector, and just where d'you get dinosaurs from anyway?!  We'll also be taking a trip along the Valley of the Dinosaurs, giving you a flavour of the park.  If you're interested in dinosaurs, tourism, how to keep your children entertained over the summer, or all of the above (guilty!) then it's a must-listen.  

To find out more about the ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure Park, click here.

To find out more about Eastern Promise and listen to more episodes, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk.  

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This Week: We return to Leeds and UKREiiF 2024, so no need to check the map!

With the help of our friends at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Eastern Promise is proud to bring you the second panel held at UKREiiF and chaired by our host and executive producer, Mike Rigby. Along with Al Kingsley, Chair of the CPCA business board; Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council Matthew Gladstone, Richard Bickers of ARUP and Judith Barker, Executive Diurector of Place and Connectivity at the Combined Authority, we explore this concept and what it could mean for our region's second largest city: Peterborough.

Join us to find out!

To listen to previous episodes and find out more about Eastern Promise, go to: https://easternpromise.org.uk.

Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve. 

This Week: Eastern Promise comes to you live(ish) from the 2024 UK Real Estate, Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) and the Team Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Pavillion for the Combined Authority's inaugural panel event: "How can we develop the Cambridge phenomenon with community at its heart?"   

Our own Mike Rigby chairs an all-star panel, consisting of: Chair of the UK Innovation Corridor, Jackie Sadek; Chair of Homes England and the Cambridge Delivery Group, Peter Freeman; and Leader of Cambridge City Council, Cllr Mike Davey.  Incisive and informed debate is guaranteed, as are first rate questions from the packed audience.   

Do get in touch on [email protected] or via our website at https://easternpromise.org.uk.

Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

This Week: We asked YOU what you're looking forward to at this year's Royal Norfolk Show - the UK's premier two-day agricultural show - and you did NOT disappoint.

So many recommendations, we'll still be there on Friday 28th!  So many people to meet and so much we need to squeeze in! Thank you to all who contributed and everyone stay safe in the sun tomorrow (26/6/24).

Oh, and to all our friends elsewhere in the East of England, we'll be asking you for recommendations for Cambridge Tech Week next, you mark my words!

Find out more here: https://easternpromise.org.uk 

Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.

This Week: Executive Producer and self-confessed Amiga fan Mike Rigby was thrilled to meet BAFTA-winning game designer, and CEO and Creative Lead at Glowfrog Games, Kate Killick, along with Game Artist Ellie Eady, to discuss the thriving Norwich indie gaming scene.  

What makes the scene so special, how does the creative process for games work (which comes first, look or gameplay?) and what would make the Norwich gaming sector even more of a creative hub than it is already?  

Find out by taking a listen!  And if you want to weigh in, do get in touch by DM to Mike Rigby via LinkedIn, or by email to: [email protected].  

You can check out Glowfrog Games here!

Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk.

Eastern Promise is proud to be sponsored by Mills & Reeve.

This week, we look at how and when the East of England last blew your mind!  Plus our first contributor in their own voice!  Get in touch by LinkedIn DM or via email: [email protected].  

Find out more about the University of East Anglia's advancements in 3D-printing that could revolutionise the treatment of cataracts, here

And! Listen to Dave Graham on the Blooming Late Scientists podcast here.

Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk 

This Week: It's another packed edition this week, as we look back at Cambridge Wide Open Day 2024, and ahead to The Rising Festival this September.  

I'm joined by Lily Cheng, founder of The Rising Network and creator of The Rising Festival.  We'll be chatting about the genesis of the network and we'll preview the forthcoming festival along with two of the event's highly distinguished panel moderators, Mary Hockaday and Professor Dame Carol Black.  

Then! Join me on the 6th floor of Botanic House as I meet some of the businesses exhibiting for Cambridge Wide Open Day, from contracting AI to an unbelievably accurate speech-to-text engine, lab equipment, chemical processes, analysis and lightweight circuits on plastic. Yes, it's a packed episode but why wait?!

That's all on episode 101 of...Eastern Promise!

For more information, visit our website at https://easternpromise.org.uk.

Eastern Promise is proud to be sponsored by Mills & Reeve.