Gateshead College students were given the opportunity to use cutting edge technology to make a film, thanks to a partnership with a group of local tech firms. Students working in film production, scriptwriting, art, gaming, performing arts and music were given full sway to bring their ideas to life, using equipment typically seen in big-budget …
Maybe Mel O’Connor can see the future… as well as a way forward for world class athletes to significantly improve their eyesight and move more efficiently. It’s 20 years since the North Tyneside-based entrepreneur hatched his idea for revolutionising professional sport but that long-term vision is finally paying off. “We’re ready to do this for …
“Immersive technology is the future and the future is in Gateshead,” they said. Well, one of them said it and they always say things, don’t they? It was a chilly, wet and windy morning in November 2017 when I first entered Proto, the emerging technology centre based in Gateshead’s Baltic Business Quarter. The rain had …
In my column for The QT last week I explored where the North East’s tech sector fits into the wider narrative of a region set to embrace deeper devolution. In the piece I talked about how we must assess the size of the sector and understand the strength of its constituent parts if we are …
The combination of new devolved powers and a proven track record in digital investment presents an exciting opportunity to take the North East’s tech sector to the next level. That’s the verdict of industry trailblazer David Dunn after it was revealed that the North of Tyne Combined Authority (NTCA) has achieved its target of helping …
I’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. …
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. I’d always be envious when those mates would jet off to Austin, Texas, every March …
It’s an enduring misconception that most tech entrepreneurs achieve success because they’re either lucky, born into privilege or are even privy to some secret sauce that the rest of us just don’t know about! Mitch doesn’t subscribe to any of that. Rather Mitch is a “normal lad”, as he describes, “who works hard and solves …
Born in Newcastle and given his big break in Sunderland, music and tech mover and shaker Harvey Lee will always have a soft spot for the North East. It was AC/DC, fuelled by flat-cap wearing Geordie frontman Brian Johnson, who inspired the academic flop’s colourful future career. And Harvey will be hoping the region’s next …
If the last 14 years of Conservative government have taught us anything, it’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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