The QT

Monday 21 October 2024
21/10/2024

Author name: Jamie Hardesty

North East know-how for no-code

Iโ€™d first heard about no-code in 2019. Five years ago, I had an idea for a football-related app for fans to use for fun, during half-time match intervals. Unfortunately, the app didn’t whizz me into becoming the Geordie Bill Gates but I did build, albeit shabbily, a minimum viable product (MVP) using a no-code tool.  …

Lessons we can learn on accessibility

As a technology journalist in my 20s, not only did I spend much of my time interviewing disruptive tech founders across the North East, and wider UK, but such people became my friends. I found a tribe for my passion.ย  Iโ€™d always be envious when those mates would jet off to Austin, Texas, every March …

Better not enough for women in tech

Five years ago I was invited to be part of an International Womenโ€™s Day panel event in Newcastle, designed to explore the challenges for females operating in the technology sector and how we might overcome them. It was the most eye-opening event Iโ€™ve ever been part of.  Before I go any further itโ€™s pertinent to …

A sector which cells itself

Iโ€™ve been writing about North East Englandโ€™s tech sector for over a decade. In that time Iโ€™ve seen many narratives come and go, as the region has attempted to carve its credentials on the national stage.  โ€˜Weโ€™re the fastest growing tech cluster outside of London,โ€™ say some. Others will point at Sage PLC and Durhamโ€™s …

Back to the future

Itโ€™s an enduring misconception that most tech entrepreneurs achieve success because theyโ€™re either lucky, born into privilege or are even privy to some secret sauce that the rest of us just donโ€™t know about! Mitch doesnโ€™t subscribe to any of that.  Rather Mitch is a โ€œnormal ladโ€, as he describes, โ€œwho works hard and solves …

Why AI man

What springs to mind when you hear the term artificial intelligence (AI)?  I suspect a lot of our readers, inquisitive and interested in the world as you are, have some familiarity but perhaps โ€” like me โ€” have much to learn when it comes to truly understanding the nuance of AI, its capabilities, use-cases and …

Let’s level up on policies

If the last 14 years of Conservative government have taught us anything, itโ€™s that the Tories love a slogan. Be it a ‘Northern Powerhouse’, a ‘Midlands Engine’ or an entire nation ‘Levelling Up’, this government has left a trail of big ambitions to be accountable for. And even with a General Election looming ever-closer, new …

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