Cambridge Tech Podcast

In this episode we hear from the winners of The Trinity Bradfield Prize: ·       Demetria who aims to reduce the time it takes for an endometriosis diagnosis from nine years to nine minutes using AI-assisted ultrasound. ·       PowerMatrix who provide the most efficient and compact next-generation high-performance power supplies...

This week we are back with Alan Patterson from BeyondMath. As our most listened to episode to date, we re-run the original interview with Alan and Darren Garvey, topped with a quick update with the co-founders. We find out about progress in the acceleration of engineering design and simulation, saving companies orders of magnitude in engineering costs and time to market; from the design of everyth...

We learn all about Crystallography in this week’s episode with Suzanna Ward, Head of Data and Community at The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) – a non-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemistry and crystallography for the public benefit. CCDC was created by Dr Olga Kennard OBE FRS and J D Bernal who believed the collective use of data would be beneficial and wanted to...

We’re back with our regular slot with the insights team at Deloitte with the Predictions for 2025. We welcome Ben Stanton back, and this year we also have Paul Lee join us. We talk GenAI; Media, Entertainment and Sports; and Tech and Telecoms - the three main themes for 2025 - and then dig down into some of the specifics, including: ·       Datacentres accounting...

Beginning with playing Minecraft as a child, this week we talk to University of Cambridge alumni Sam Sully from Planetary Processing, a company who are developing a platform for Indie Gaming Studios. We talk about: ·       Learning how not to build technology ·       The bridge between technical and non-technical people · &...

As we take a short break for Christmas, we decided to re-run one of our most popular episodes of 2024, the one with Pam Garside, chair of local angel network, Cambridge Angels. The episode originally aired in January 2024 and has generated hundreds of downloads, and it's easy to see why. Pam gave us an introduction to Cambridge Angels, their focus areas, and how their process works - vital informa...

The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) is offering Cambridge 'a better memory' and 'self-consciousness' of its own technological and social development.... moving beyond the simple celebration of successes, to deeper understanding and description of what has happened here.   In this episode we talk about the CHIP Project and speak to some of the early protagonists. Find out m...

In this episode we talk about a lifelong passion with tech and ‘trying stuff out’ with founder and chair of Cambridge Spark, Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma. We have a rich conversation about: ·       A passion for education and teaching the most spoken language in the world – computer code ·       Doing more with less in the startup env...

Telling us all about #EnterpriseTuesday #NorwichEnterprise we talk to Sheng Qi, UEA and Roz Bird, Anglia Innovation Partnership who introduce the Innovation Hothouse. The Innovation Hothouse is an example of co-creation and collaboration between all the agencies in Norwich Research Park who are passionate about working together to achieve further impact and innovation. Dr Soraya Jones, The&nb...

James Lee, CEO and co-founder of Wave Photonics, talks to us about how they are enabling rapid photonic integrated circuit development for any wavelength or platform. James explains how the design for integrated photonics uses the same scalable process used to make semiconductor electronics chips to make circuits for light. And he talks about the market opportunity for both tackling energy and ban...

It’s not often that you get to talk to someone who has seen every press release and been part of innovation discussions for the last 35 years, not to mention who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the opportunities and challenges for our tech and science businesses. In this episode we caught up with Tony Quested and Jamie Quested to talk about not just their #BusinessWeeklyAwards, but the much broa...

In the second part of our conversation with David Cleevely, we talk about the Cambridge Cluster, the vital work with government and on policy, and the phenomena of serendipity and paying it forward. David has been instrumental in the Cambridge Cluster for decades, with the founding of groups like Cambridge Network and Cambridge Wireless; creating a vision for Cambridge (a few times); the importanc...

We talk with David Cleevely – telecoms, wireless and technology expert, a serial entrepreneur, investor in 55 companies, and an adviser to Government on both a national and local level. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and last but by no means least, awarded a CBE, for services to technology and innovation. As an...

Kathryn Chapman, Innovate Cambridge’s Executive Director joins us to provide an update on the initiative which started 3 years ago to bring a strategy together that is now supported by over 200 companies and 500 individuals. Focussed on three pillars - Frictionless Innovation – Value for the Local Community – Partnering to scale across the UK - the programme under Kathryn’s leadership is now movin...

From China to Cambridge – the story of a new type of #ElectricBike developed by Dave Henderson and Alex Murray. In this week’s episode we’re joined by Managing Director of FLIT, Alex who shares: ·       the evolution of the company ·       complexities of the market for ‘#ebikes’ ·       the be...

This week’s episode starts with Dr Nicky Dee telling us about how she went from an accidental PhD to entrepreneurship, and from #cleantech to #climatetech, culminating in a 20-year (to date) career in impact-driven innovation. Nicky’s early experiences highlighted that there were lots of startups with ideas, most with great intent, but that they were hard to scale and that the measure of a company...

This week we talk about a career in tech transfer, commercialisation, and seed funding with Anne Dobree. We hear about the growth of Cambridge Enterprise, the introduction of new programmes like Founders at The University of Cambridge, how the relationship with Parkwalk Advisors began, and how Cambridge Innovation Capital started. It’s a fascinating discussion about how Cambridge developed from na...

Join us for the first episode of the THIRD series of #CamTechPod. Joined by Linh Richardson, Programme Manager of impulse, Thomas Albrow-Owen, CTO of Prospectral, and Tim Jones, Product Manager for Digital Engineer and Data Science from NPL. Linh talks to us about the impulse programme and how it takes hi potential tech innovators and helps them to determine if there is potential for their inventi...

From ARU to Allia to Cambridge Enterprise, this week’s guest, Caroline Hyde of IE Cambridge, shares her long-held passion for supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the importance of connectedness. We talk about the new Innovation and Entrepreneurship report and the investment the University of Cambridge is making to support its students, researchers and alumni. Did you know that for every £...

In this special episode of #CamTechPod, recorded with a live audience during #CamTechWeek, we talk to guests Ray Anderson, Executive Chair of Bango, and Marc Rodríguez, CTO of Xampla, about how to scale smarter, not harder. We talk about two huge components of successfully scaling. Firstly, we hear about the inflection points that have signalled key points in the scale up journey, how to set targe...

In this episode we talk more about the business than ‘tech’ so get ready for a super interesting conversation with the person behind a successful Cambridge portfolio business. As the founder and now Executive Chair we caught up with Ciaron Dunne who talked to us about: ·       Growing up with business in mind ·       Doing ‘ever...

Hot off the press, we have a company soft launching right now with a database approach that is needed by most SMEs to improve their efficiency. Entrepreneurship started at school for this week’s guest, amplified by family connections in building tech businesses, and we’re thrilled to talk to Jason Mashinchi, Managing Director at Cambridge Kinetics. Jason talks to us about the rationale for creatin...

We can’t let a $75million raise go without a fanfare, so we invited Rebecca Simmons back on to tell us about the latest fundraise, and provide a moment to pause, reflect and celebrate their news. Tune in as Bek answers: ·       What was the process like? ·       How long did it take? ·       Wh...

Cleantech Venture Day searches for the most interesting 16 companies across pre-seed, seed and Series A in a range of cleantech areas. In this week’s episode Sylvie Russell, COO of Cambridge Cleantech shares details of the day, the industry and the new #Cleantech Super Cluster. We also hear from two of the founders who pitched on the day: Sarah Blake, Commercial Director and Co-Founder of Minimass...

It’s our 100th episode! We thought this episode we’d pick three tech areas that are gaining in traction – do you agree with our choices? What other technologies are the ones to watch? #FemTech - Stasa Stankovic – talks to us about her goal to crack the code on reproductive genomics. Stasa talks about how #FemTech as a term often remains taboo, and how it was only in 1993 that women started to be i...