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The power behind the UK’s AI revolution - Simon McIntosh-Smith…
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Each week, Jane Wakefield sits down with some of the key movers and shakers from the UK tech ecosystem for the UKTN Podcast. Learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and understand the tech policy affecting businesses across the country.
The UKTN Podcast provides insight into the most influential people in the UK’s innovation economy, exploring their personal and professional journeys and hearing their views on the hottest tech topics of the day.
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- The power behind the UK’s AI revolution - Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director, BriCS · 32 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 9Jane Wakefield talks to Simon McIntosh-Smith about the role the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing is playing as the UK builds it own AI economy. The supercomputer is the UK’s…
- Universities aren’t set up for commercialisation – Anne Lane, CEO, UCL Ventures · 32 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 8Dr Anne Lane, chief executive officer of UCL Ventures, discusses why commercialising research at British universities remains a challenge despite significant will and the…
- Producing drugs in outer space – Katie King, BioOrbit · 30 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 7Katie King, co-founder and chief executive of BioOrbit, discusses how her company is building pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities designed to operate in space and why that…
- Building an AI database for life on Earth – Glen Gowers, Co- Founder, Basecamp Research · 35 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 6Basecamp Research’s co-founder Glen Gowers discusses the firm’s ambitious plans to sequence a trillion genes. Gowers talks about how he lived his business idea by taking a…
- Search isn’t dead but it is getting a major AI makeover - Chris Donnelly, co-founder of Searchable · 33 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 5Chris Donnelly, co-founder of Searchable, discusses the wild ride of growing a business in a matter of months to a valuation of $85m. He shares his thoughts on the radical…
- Profit is fine, businesses need to think about more - Andy Fishburn, Managing Director, Virgin StartUp · 31 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 4Virgin StartUp’s managing director Andy Fishburn discusses how the non-profit is helping a new generation of entrepreneurs. He talks about its programme designed specifically for…
- It’s a good time to be a European company – Michael Herron, Atos · 32 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 3Michael Herron, the CEO of Atos UK and Ireland, discusses what keeps him awake at night, how Atos is moving towards a human/AI agent world and why he is an optimist about his…
- Don’t be deterred by the size of your ambition – Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy · 37 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 2Greg Jackson reflects on his journey building one of the UK’s largest double unicorns Octopus Energy. He reflects on how he wishes he had started the firm earlier and explains…
- I have the best job in the City, working with clients changing the lives of millions - Emily Turner, CEO, HSBC Innovation Banking · 29 min · Säsong 15 Avsnitt 1Emily Turner, CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking UK discusses what makes it a go-to bank for start-ups and how her natural optimism means she sees plenty to celebrate in the UK tech…
- If we don’t embrace AI, we’ll be embraced by it – Ian Murray, Digital Minister · 32 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 10The Right Honourable Ian Murray, MP and Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology discusses the…
- Half the population has a uterus and the rest of you came from one - Yasmin Baba, Co-Founder and CTO, Amilis · 34 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 9Yasmin Baba discusses pitching her early-stage health tech startup to a room full of men, how she coped with bootstrapping by “being a minimalist with big dreams” and how she…
- Unlocking access to finance – Anna Wallace, CEO, CFIT · 37 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 8Anna Wallace, CEO of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology discusses why so many SMEs fail to get the financing they need and what they can do to change this (listen…
- If you want to get online, you need to prove you are human – Nick Pickles, CPO, Tools for Humanity · 35 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 7Tools for Humanity was co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and provides ways to verify human identity with the belief that the only way to counteract fakery and misinformation is…
- The fast-moving future of digital payments – Iana Dimitrova, CEO, OpenPayd · 29 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 6Iana Dimitrova, CEO of OpenPayd, discusses how we are moving towards a world where AI agents will be making transactions without human intervention, her thoughts on the governor…
- Rethinking how we use AI – Louise Ballard, Co-founder, Atheni.ai · 35 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 5Louise Ballard, co-founder of early-stage firm Atheni.ai discusses how we move AI usage to the next level, from simply responding to questions to actually building systems that…
- I wanted to talk about investing not diversity – Anu Adebajo, CEO, Newton Venture Program · 38 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 4Anu Adebajo, CEO of Newton Venture Program, discusses how we train the next generation of investors, the real solutions to a lack of diversity in the industry and how much of VC…
- The brave new world of AI marketing – Rebecca Sykes, Brandtech · 31 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 3Rebecca Sykes, a partner at Brandtech, discusses how AI is being used to transform marketing. The firm has worked with global brands and believes AI-generated content can…
- Not lost in Translation – Ed Crook, DeepL · 32 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 2Many people will have learning another language on their bucket list and with the help of AI that reality is creeping ever closer. Ed Crook, strategy and operation leader at…
- Be the least intelligent person in the room - Varun Bhanot, CEO, MAGIC AI · 30 min · Säsong 14 Avsnitt 1Varun Bhanot, co-founder and CEO of Magic AI discusses the journey of growing one of the UK’s most successful AI firms, how the AI-enabled mirror his company devised is…
- Why Manchester is having a moment - Katie Gallagher OBE, Manchester Digital · 28 min · Säsong 13 Avsnitt 10Katie Gallagher OBE, managing director of Manchester Digital discusses why the city is being seen as a blueprint not just for tech start-ups but for wider economic growth too…
