TechToTransform

In episode 7 of our podcast series, Mantis PR's MD Eleanor Willock is in conversation with one of Europe's most active health venture capitalists, Joe Stringer, from Octopus Ventures.    They discuss: The new market definitions of health and med tech, and how investors' appetites for both are changing How International tech firms should be viewing the NHS as an opportunity How data colle...

In episode 6 of our podcast series, Mantis PR’s Rebecca Paddick and MD Eleanor Willock shine a light for tech companies on the positive UK conditions for capital raising and what the opportunities and hurdles are. If you’re raising money, or thinking about raising money in 2021, this is a must-listen episode. In this extended episode, you can hear: • Neil Shah, technology sector specialist at the...

In episode 5 of our podcast series, Mantis PR’s Rebecca Paddick sat down with Will Marsh, the University of Bristol’s Deputy Director of Communications, to discuss the impact of the pandemic on one of the country’s most popular and successful universities. They discussed how Bristol’s PR and comms team navigated the ever-evolving challenges created by COVID-19, and also talked about what student l...

In episode 4 of our podcast series, Mantis PR’s Rebecca Paddick sat down with Government ICT analyst Rob Anderson, to discuss the green shoots of recovery for the UK’s GovTech community of suppliers in the wake of COVID, the role of the new Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) for Government and how it will work alongside GDS, and the further changes we are likely to see to GovTech in 2021. Rob...

In episode 3 of our podcast series, Mantis PR’s Rebecca Paddick sat down with tech strategist Jessica Figueras, to discuss UK public sector priorities and the technology helping to navigate COVID and Brexit. She also asks how international technology providers can break into the UK arena and boost their chances of winning public sector contracts. Every month, we speak to the leaders who are drivin...

In episode 2, Mantis PR's Rebecca Paddick sat down with Miranda Evans, Head of Research at Tussell and Georgina Maratheftis, Head of Local Public Services at techUK, to discuss how local authorities have been coping with coronavirus, and how technology has helped, in recent months. They also talked about the barriers to implementing transformative tech before the pandemic, and how these have now c...

In Mantis PR's very first Tech to Transform podcast, we learn about the challenges and opportunities facing policetech in the UK from Wayne Parks, Chair, National Police Technology Council and Ian bell, CEO of Police ICT, a partner to UK police services and law enforcement organisations. Quizzed by Mantis PR's Rebecca Paddick, Wayne and Ian discuss the challenges police services face around invest...