EACH thanks supporters during Volunteers’ Week
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is celebrating Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) by recognising and thanking its 1,300 volunteers.
It’s a clean sweep for Anglia Ruskin illustrators
Students on Anglia Ruskin University’s MA Children’s Book Illustration course swept the board at the prestigious Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2017, winning first, second and third prizes.
Inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize winner chosen from more than 700 worldwide entries
James Williams, a 35-year-old doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University, has been announced as the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize at an awards ceremony at the British Library this week.
Bidwells awards University of Cambridge students
Leading property consultancy Bidwells has presented students at the University of Cambridge with prizes for their winning coursework projects in Real Estate Development.
Call for entries – new BT Infinity Lab competition
BT is looking for innovative start-ups to help them and their customers digitise their businesses and operations.
Conductive inks: major innovation themes and trends
An often overlooked fact about the conductive industry is that it has seen significant innovation over the past decade. Indeed, the industry has a long history of developing new materials and formulations in response to changing market needs and new applications.
SQL Prompt v8 brings true collaboration to SQL development
The latest version of SQL Prompt, the popular SQL formatting tool from Redgate Software, introduces a new feature that can reformat SQL code to a preferred style in one click. It means developers can write code in their own style and then switch it to their company-wide style to share it, making true collaboration and standardization possible instantly.
Growing Global - Bailey Fisher hosts Women 4 Technology event for London Tech Week
Bailey Fisher Executive Search will host 'Growing Global: doing business in South America, China & the US' for London Tech Week. This is the latest in its series of Women 4 Technology events for female founders, CEOs, CXOs, NEDs and investors.
Gearing up for growth: Hamillroad Software readies itself for further expansion
Hamillroad Software, specialists in prepress solutions for the printing industry, today announced the appointment of two new hires and a move to a new office as part of their expansion plans.
Education leaders study best practice at Cambridge Regional College
Education leaders from Brazil visited Cambridge Regional College to look at best practice in leadership, management and STEM education – part of a programme aimed at improving education in their own schools.
Bhargav Trivedi promoted to Partner at Birketts
Birketts, the leading law firm based in the East of England, has announced the promotion of Bhargav Trivedi to Partner.
NERA discusses energy economic stress and new market models at Smart Grids, Cambridge
At the ARM-sponsored 8th Smart Grids Cleanpower Cambridge conference next month, the energy economic consultancy leader NERA will give a joint session with UtilityWise. In the face of decarbonisation, the emergence of variable and intermittent generation technologies and technological change are causing stress in the market created by the Smart Grid.
Darktrace finalist for Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Award
Named One of Three Companies in the Running for UK’s Most Prestigious National Prize for Engineering Innovation
E-readers boost girls’ education in Tanzania
It’s a winning combination: the lived experience of young women graduates in Camfed’s CAMA alumnae network paired with e-reader technology, which brings thousands of books to some of the most marginalized students in rural Tanzania.
2017 UK Technology Fast 50 nominations now open
Are you part of the UK tech elite? Has your company experienced exceptional growth over the past four years as a result of technology innovation? Nominations for the 20th Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 programme are now open.
Bicycle Therapeutics, co-founded by blockbuster drug developer, raises £40m
The top blockbuster drug for 2016 was based on the techniques developed by Professor Sir Gregory Winter. Now his latest Cambridge company, Bicycle Therapeutics, has gained £40 million from investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital.
Technologies tackling global challenges compete for top UK innovation prize
Two Cambridge companies are among the three global game-changers in the running for this year’s coveted MacRobert Award, the UK’s top innovation prize, which has a record of spotting the ‘next big thing’ in engineering. Awarded each year by the Royal Academy of Engineering, it is presented to the engineers behind the UK’s most exciting and impactful innovations.
Powering the oil and gas sector of the future
The economics of offshore oil and gas operations have changed and the industry is continuing to adjust to lower for longer oil price environment. But as prices climb back up, the industry will not simply return to the way things were. Operators will not just abandon efficiency measures adopted to maintain viable margins.
Learn how to tackle the fundamentals of time management
Do you feel like 24 hours in a day are simply not enough? Do you feel overwhelmed with your to-do list and want to stop hearing the time ticking away and instead see your to-do list getting shorter?
ATUM and Horizon Discovery collaborate to speed bioproduction cell line development
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) and Horizon Discovery, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announced they have signed a cross-licence agreement for Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform and ATUM’s vector technology to speed development of highly productive stable cell lines for drug development.
Tier 2 Consulting on ‘Cloud 9’ with new Crown Commercial Supplier status
Stevenage-based Tier 2 Consulting now offers Cloud Software Support and technical services around the Red Hat OpenShift Container Management Platform (PaaS) on the G-Cloud 9 procurement portal, which went live on May 22nd.
Last call for entries to Cambridge Independent's Science and Technology Awards
A new £1,500 intellectual property prize from Appleyard Lees has been announced as the June 6 deadline nears for entry to the Cambridge Independent's inaugural awards for start-up and scale-up companies across five categories: Artificial intelligence, biotech, cleantech, fintech and medtech.
The five key ‘factors’ in factor investing
With factor investing and smart beta strategies on the rise, Professor Elroy Dimson of Cambridge Judge Business School looks at five central factors that all investors should monitor closely.
Popular Colour Dash returns to Ely
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) will be bringing a splash of colour to Cambridgeshire again this year, with tickets for one of the charity’s most popular fundraisers on sale now. EACH’s Ely Colour Dash will be held on Saturday, 12 August at King’s Ely.
Air Liquide wins major engineering and construction contract with Chinese energy company
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has recently signed a major contract amounting to around €100 million to design and build three Air Separation Units (ASUs) for Yankuang Group, one of the largest energy and chemical companies in China.