Cambridge Tech Podcast James Parton & Faye Holland

This last week, UK Tech Week was launched, and a host of events took place across the UK in celebration.
 
We asked its Founder, Stuart Clarke MBE, to talk to us about the inspiration behind creating an umbrella platform to showcase tech communities across the UK.
 
With events throughout the year in most regions from Glasgow to Basildon, Humberside to Bristol it was great to hear about how different tech weeks differentiate themselves based on local expertise. We talk about capital, partnerships, and why something like UK Tech Week can expand the reach of tech to a much broader audience through collaboration.
 
Do head over to the UK Tech Week website and social channels to find out more.
 
We also had some updates from Chris Bruce on Cambridge Tech Week too, including:
 
•                 The Innovation Alley exhibition call has been announced - Innovation Alley takes place on Tuesday 10th September at the Corn Exchange and will showcase 50 innovative startups, 10 scaleups and a small number of corporates to showcase the exciting diversity of tech innovation. Nominations close by 30th May. 
•                 The call for contributors closes 13th May, so if you are interested in a speaking slot or being part of a panel or fireside chats they there is still time to apply (conditions are on the website). 
•                 The registrations for delegate tickets went live this week, with super early bird rates for the first 50 registrations. Will we see you at #CamTechWeek?



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Please be aware this podcast talks about sensitive issues including cancer, alcoholism, and suicide.
Most people will know Peter Cowley through his hugely successful career as one of Europe’s best known angel investors.
#CamTechPod was at the launch of Peter’s latest book Public Success, Private Grief in which he details for the first time the succession of tragic events which have shaped his life and fuelled his relentless drive and ambition.
In a fireside chat with Louisa Preston who spent over fifteen years as a news reporter on the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 and ITV, Peter discusses:
-                 His inspiration as an entrepreneur and investor
-                 Treating his cancer like another project
-                 Experiencing bereavement from a young age and losing two sons
-                 The advice he would give his younger self
-                 What he hopes the book will achieve
-                 Working on his bucket list: running two half marathons this year, sleeping on Antarctica
-                 Helping charity and encouraging others to do so. He is donating £2 from the sale of each Public Success, Private Grief book to the charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide.



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Founding CEO Tom Collings talks to us about Kalium Health and managing kidney disease.
Did you know that 800 million people are affected by kidney disease around the world, costing $2 billion to manage kidney disease in US alone?
Tom talks to us about:
·       His background as an engineer, to helping startups, to building a company
·       Founding the company with three amazing women – Fiona Karet, Tanya Hutter, Liz Norgett,
·       His tips to ‘just do it, life is too short to watch for the side lines’ and bringing others along on the journey
·       Following Andy Richards well-known narrative that “Cambridge is a low-risk place to do high risk things”
·       Manufacturing in Cambridge at prototype scale to get the product into the hands of clinics and clinical services, launching initially in the US
·       Initial funding from Cambridge investors – Cambridge Angels, Martlet Capital – any timely opportunities for new professional investors during 2024
·       We talk about medical insight and scientific innovation from an original idea to clinical trials.
Tune in to hear all of this, and much more.




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Today we bring to you the ‘Would I Sci to You?’ event - the relevant but irreverent science panel show from Cambridge Science Centre!
QI’s Head Researcher, James Harkin; scientist entrepreneur and CEO of Start Codon, Jason Mellad; Youtube sensation, Holly Gabrielle; Sliced Bread host and science journalist, Greg Foot; Director of Science and Entrepreneurship at the Babraham Research Campus, Kathryn Chapman; and renowned physicist, Isaac Newton face off against an array of science, research and other items that host Andrew Farrer directs at them.
After an intro from #CamTechPod hosts Faye and James, we go straight into the event. There’s upset about the buzzers then we’re straight into primary school science – did you guess the answers?
‘Would I Iie to you?’ puts Kathryn and Holly under pressure; the Missing Words round included suggestions from Biden to babies, and so much more. So, sit back and enjoy a selection of clips from the event and see Cambridge #SciTech in a very different way!



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In this episode we hear from Paul Beastall, CEO of HutanBio who are on a journey that has taken decades of research, formation of the company in 2019, and a trajectory to commercialise a new kind of biofuel company that is truly inspirational.
We talk about the entrepreneurial relationship growing out of Cambridge University academics that took the team from the UK to Saudi Arabia, with a firm foothold now in Malaysia and the UK.
Paul talks about the different stages of research and company development, including the creation of a floating lab to identify the right organisms to create their unique HBx algal biofuel. This biofuel is set to transform heavy transport and provide a green alternative to the over a billion tons of oil used each year.
HutanBio recently raised their first Seed investment of £2.25m and are now set to grow, but notably in a super ethical way. They intend to desert land that is currently unutilised around the globe, and that can also provide employment for local communities. This is a great story of being intellectually based in Cambridge but spreading economic value elsewhere.
Not only was it a high-impact chat, but you’ll learn a huge amount about heavy transportation and the impact a transformative biofuel could have on the global environment.



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What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot - Why Technology Needs Feminism addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists, and co-editor Kerry McInerney tell us more about the book, its contributors, and carving her own way in the world of AI Ethics.
With such a huge amount of thought-provoking content in the book, we highlight four of the essays written by:
·       Blaise Aguera yArcas, Google Research, Cerebra - Good technology is cooperative
·       Margaret Mitchell, Hugging Face - Good technology is inclusive
·       Ranjit Singh, Data & Society - Good Technology is Slow (to Scale)
·       Kanta Dihal, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence - Good technology needs good stories.
 
We talk about ideas and compromises of good tech and the tensions between if it is even possible to have good tech in the environments we live in, and the need to have technology ‘community-driven’.




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