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Startup Accounting for Startups ( Online Event)

Are you worried about not "Uncovering Your Unknowns"? Then this free workshop is for you. Hosting at 2 PM on 22nd February 2023 (GMT)

Jake Ryan joins Bailey Fisher as Senior Associate

Jake Ryan has joined Bailey Fisher Executive Search as a Senior Associate, helping fast growth technology businesses to build their leadership teams. He will be supporting clients across the technology sector as they make C-suite hires to drive further growth. Before joining Bailey Fisher, Jake was a Talent Specialist at Cambridge start-up Origami, where he was responsible for recruiting into key roles across all departments. Prior to Origami, Jake worked for two further tech start-ups and founded his own recruitment business at the age of 19.

The Superhero SIM by Nick Hunn

What will Quantum Computers ever do for us?

By: Peter Debenham Senior Consultant, Plextek Quantum Computing is buzz phrase found across technical journals, websites and blogs. The phrase even escapes outside the scientific and technical domain into general newspapers and television. It is a recent concept; physicist Paul Benioff proposed a quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine only in 1980[1]

Waking up from the Maternity Leave dreamland

Written and illustrated by: Polly Britton Project Engineer, Plextek People sometimes want to know what it’s like being a female engineer, but it’s really just like being a male engineer who goes into a different bathroom. Becoming a mother and primary care giver adds a completely new dimension to the question, though. I just got back from six months of maternity leave, for the second time in my career, and it’s slightly surreal. As more women are encouraged to go into engineering as a field of study and a career, we may soon see more and more women going through this transformation of engineer into mother, and then into an engineer-mother hybrid.

T 0702/20: patentability of a sparsely connected neural network

In T 0702/20, the Board of Appeal considered the patentability of a sparsely connected neural network in EP 14882049.1 to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. This is one of the first cases to consider the patentability of core AI at the EPO.

Developing Software Defined Radio applications with OpenCPI

By: Robert Littlejohns Consultant, Plextek Wireless technologies are always evolving and becoming more complex to meet the ever-increasing capacity, reliability and security demands of customers. The most prominent example of this is the ongoing rollout of the 5G mobile phone network. Over time, the 5G standard will improve and gain new features. With the cost of deploying such a network nationwide in the billions of pounds, the ability for a network operator to modify the functionality of their base stations with a software update is very attractive. This can be achieved using Software Defined Radios (SDRs).

Startup Accounting for Startups

Are you worried about Don’t know what you dont know? Then this free workshop is for you. Hosting at 2 PM on 8th February 2023 (GMT)

Inaugural Cambridge AI talk to be delivered by Fellow of the Royal Society

With the November 2022 release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the rate of advance in AI has seemingly gone from meteoric to meteoric on steroids. But many commentators have expressed doubts that Large Language Models such as ChatGPT are truly intelligent.

Can Radar Detect Tennis Balls?

By: Dr Damien Clarke Lead Consultant, Plextek Large and expensive military radar systems, such as the Artisan Radar, are capable of detecting objects as small as tennis balls at great distances even while moving at high speeds:

Running engineering projects sustainably

By: Bede O’Neill Business Development, Defence, Plextek In this blog, I aim to show how we run projects in a sustainable way. This covers all ESG angles, from tackling economic inequality, equal opportunities, to fighting climate change.

AI: Diffusion models in art and beyond?

By: Josip Rozman Consultant, Plextek Science fiction has long played with the idea of a creative, and mostly benevolent AI which would be able to produce innovative works of literature and art of the highest quality. The hype is partially to blame for our extremely high expectations of said models, and to a degree of disappointment when our expectations are not completely met. There are currently two big areas of research for generative models: natural language and image (video).

Need support with CE / UKCA marking your product?

Need support with CE / UKCA marking your product?

Vodafone Announces Executive Committee Changes

Vodafone Group Plc ("Vodafone") today announced changes to its Group Executive Committee. Aldo Bisio, CEO of Vodafone Italy, will take on the role of Group Chief Commercial Officer in addition to his current role effective 12 January 2023. Aldo has been CEO of Vodafone Italy since January 2014 and is a member of the Group Executive Committee.

Launch of EBCam Employee Benefits & Rewards Survey 2023

Specialist Employee Benefit consultancy EBcam Ltd, who are based out of Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds have re-launched their unique employee benefit survey for 2023. The survey is free for local companies to participate in.

The IP Driven Start-up is out now!

Marks & Clerk are happy to announce that Robert Lind's latest e-book, The IP Driven Start-up, is released today (5th January).

Accounting & Finance for Entrepreneurs - In person Workshop

A free in-person workshop for entrepreneurs and startup owners to help them understand Management Accounts, Taxes, R&D and their importance.

cofinitive Communications Clinic

cofinitive first began holding its monthly Communications Clinic at The Bradfield Centre in 2018 and it remains as popular as ever.

Making the Leap from Prototype to Properly Marketable Product

This is the third in our series tracing the progress of a start-up's first new technology product from detail design through to volume production. In the previous article, we suggested that having a working prototype puts you about 30% along the road to completion: the point where you can start volume production and shipping units to customers. And, perhaps more importantly, to receiving the revenue that represents the well-deserved return in exchange for your ingenuity and efforts. Now that you have the funding to move forward, what comes next?

Anglia accelerates in its 50th year

Anglia celebrates its 50th anniversary in some of the most difficult market conditions that any of us have known. As we mark this occasion in the company of the customers, suppliers and staff who have journeyed with us for many of those years, we remember that we and the industry we serve has weathered many storms over those years and will encounter new ones in the next 50. It is consistency of approach, and strong core values, accompanied by dynamic innovation in line with those values, which will allow the relationships that have brought us this far to prosper and continue to grow in the coming years.

Howes Percival Featured in the Time's Best Law Firms

Howes Percival has been named one of the top 250 law firms in England and Wales in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2023 list published on 3 November 2022.

GCP Making Connections 2022

Have your say on proposals for faster, cheaper, more reliable bus services and safer cycling through the introduction of a Sustainable Travel Zone

IoTAS will be attending the CW Event: Network slicing – vision or reality?

Kevin Spalding, Operations Director - Global at IoTAS will be attending the CW Event: Network slicing – vision or reality? (Delivering private services from public networks)

Investments in impulse’s game-changing entrepreneurs top £100million

The applications window for impulse ‘23 is open and will close March 19th, 2023.