Chris Brock has a big heart. It’s part of the reason why he’s the perfect person to lead Virtual Memory Box, a digital solution enabling children, young people, carers and social workers to safely keep, share and access memories. “Children who go through the care system often have physical memory boxes but by the time …
As the Premier League season draws to a close, Newcastle United are battling at the top end of the table, hoping to secure a European qualification place. Since the Saudi-led takeover of the club in late 2021, the black-and-white army’s fortunes have been transformed. Opportunity, ambition and momentum exist. Cities thrive when they’re winning. I …
It’s official, people: we’re firmly in the tech calendar’s busy season. Won’t someone please think of the writers incapable of resisting fancy award show puddings? This quarter saw the launch of UK Tech Week, while the North East’s very own tech festival TechNExt will return in June. Before then, in May, the region will enjoy …
I’m enjoying the articles I’m reading in The QT each week. With enhanced devolution fast approaching, there’s rightly a lot of speculation and concern relating to how we get the most out of the opportunity. What’s interesting is the commonality of attitudes I’m seeing, irrespective of which sector commentators hail from. It seems most of …
They became stars in their own right as their joyous faces beamed into our living rooms but what was it like for the fans wearing the specially-made, vibrating Newcastle United shirts? Ciaran is profoundly deaf. A pupil at Northern Counties School in Jesmond, he was pictured celebrating on national television as the goals flew in. …
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 …
Whenever I go to leading UK tech events, be it in London or elsewhere around the nation, two questions are often thrown at me: “What are the North East’s tech strengths?” and, unless I’m in Scotland: “What tech companies have you got up there?” While the questions, the latter especially, could be considered ignorant or …
Five years ago I was invited to be part of an International Women’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 I’ve ever been part of. Before I go any further it’s pertinent to …
I’ve been writing about North East England’s tech sector for over a decade. In that time I’ve seen many narratives come and go, as the region has attempted to carve its credentials on the national stage. ‘We’re the fastest growing tech cluster outside of London,’ say some. Others will point at Sage PLC and Durham’s …
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 …
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