Eastern Promise - The Podcast

In this very special edition of the Eastern Promise podcast, your host Mike Rigby looks ahead to Cambridge Tech Week (9-13 September 2024) with help from: Chair of the CTW Steering Committee, Chris Bruce; University of East Anglia Pro Vice-Chancellor Nicola Hancock; Mills & Reeve's investment guru Zickie Lim; and CEO of Form The Future CIC, Anne Bailey.   This superb panel (and Mike) take you...

We interrupt your Summer fun to bring you our CrowdSourcerer's picks for the very best gifts that the East of England has given to the world, all with our trademark silliness to boot... Look out for the next CrowdSourcery on LinkedIn.   To get in touch with the show, email podcast@easternpromise.org.uk or visit https://easternpromise.org.uk .  Eastern Promise is brought to you in proud association...

AN EASTERN PROMISE SPECIAL!  Recorded on Day 1 of the 2024 Royal Norfolk Show, this special takes us around the STEMM Village, chats with VIPs, talks to educators and energy gurus and generally has a whale of a time!   This year, Dr Penny Hundleby of the John Innes Centre joins Mike Rigby on a tour of the show and this year, we focus on the STEMM Village and the magnificent people within...BUT! We...

This Week: Just in time for the school holidays! I take a trip back in time, to The ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure Park at Lenwade near Norwich to meet Adam Goymour, Park Director and scion of the Goymour family.  I'll be chatting with Adam about the park, his family's legacy, the Norfolk tourism sector, and just where d'you get dinosaurs from anyway?!  We'll also be taking a trip along the Valley of t...

This Week: We return to Leeds and UKREiiF 2024, so no need to check the map! With the help of our friends at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Eastern Promise is proud to bring you the second panel held at UKREiiF and chaired by our host and executive producer, Mike Rigby. Along with Al Kingsley, Chair of the CPCA business board; Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council...

This Week: Eastern Promise comes to you live(ish) from the 2024 UK Real Estate, Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) and the Team Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Pavillion for the Combined Authority's inaugural panel event: "How can we develop the Cambridge phenomenon with community at its heart?"    Our own Mike Rigby chairs an all-star panel, consisting of: Chair of the UK Innovation...

This Week: We asked YOU what you're looking forward to at this year's Royal Norfolk Show - the UK's premier two-day agricultural show - and you did NOT disappoint. So many recommendations, we'll still be there on Friday 28th!  So many people to meet and so much we need to squeeze in! Thank you to all who contributed and everyone stay safe in the sun tomorrow (26/6/24). Oh, and to all our friends e...

This Week: Executive Producer and self-confessed Amiga fan Mike Rigby was thrilled to meet BAFTA-winning game designer, and CEO and Creative Lead at Glowfrog Games, Kate Killick, along with Game Artist Ellie Eady, to discuss the thriving Norwich indie gaming scene.     What makes the scene so special, how does the creative process for games work (which comes first, look or gameplay?) and what woul...

This week, we look at how and when the East of England last blew your mind!  Plus our first contributor in their own voice!  Get in touch by LinkedIn DM or via email: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk .   Find out more about the University of East Anglia's advancements in 3D-printing that could revolutionise the treatment of cataracts, here And! Listen to Dave Graham on the Blooming Late Scientists po...

This Week: It's another packed edition this week, as we look back at Cambridge Wide Open Day 2024, and ahead to The Rising Festival this September.   I'm joined by Lily Cheng, founder of The Rising Network and creator of The Rising Festival.  We'll be chatting about the genesis of the network and we'll preview the forthcoming festival along with two of the event's highly distinguished panel modera...

This Week: Episode 100 arrives at last, and WHAT a bumper show we have for you!   First, recorded at UKREiiF 2024, O2H Co-founder Prashant Shah previews Cambridge Wide Open Day and tells us more about O2H before we're joined by special surprise guest, Dr Andy Williams, Chair of the Oxford Cambridge Supercluster Board.   Find out more about Cambridge Wide Open Day here: https://cambridgewideopenday...

This week: We journey to King's Lynn in West Norfolk to see the Bard's Boards - the very stage upon which Shakespeare performed, recently discovered under the floor of St George's Guildhall in the town.   We'll also be discussing how the Guildhall is the centrepiece of the £25m Town Deal project, and taking to the streets of King's Lynn to find out more about the town, visiting historic streets an...

This Week: We journey out to the magnificent public house in Guilden Mordern, near Royston in Cambs to visit 'The Three Tuns', a magnificent pub that is in community hands thanks to the efforts of some very dedicated residents, along with help from Plunkett UK and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.  We're joined at the pub by CPCA Mayor, Dr Nik Johnson and Susie Middleton of P...

Welcome to Crowdsourcery, an audience participation spectacular rooted in the East of England, where we use LinkedIn to root out the best the region has to offer! This time, our focus is the landmarks that welcome you back to the East of England, and let you know your doorstep is not far away.  And your choices range from roundabouts to racecourses... ...to squeeze all this and more into the show,...

This week: We join the audience at the East of England Tech Collaboration event at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, sponsored by Mills & Reeve.   We hear from Dr Soraya Jones, UEA VC Prof. David Maguire, Cambridge Tech Week Chair Chris Bruce, and a panel consisting of Dr Jerry Wu of Tus Park UK, Prof. Sheng Qi of the UEA, Hannah Smith of Anglia Capital Gro...

This Week: We hear from one of the East of England's foremost Angel Investors, Peter Cowley.  Host Mike Rigby chats to Peter about his career, the highs and lows of being an angel investor and puts some submitted questions to the man himself. We also learn about the tumultuous life experiences that have shaped his path, leaving him with many valuable life lessons.  Plus!  A look ahead to what's in...

We investigate your happy places in the East of England, where you go to rest and recalibrate.  A lot of our contributors choose water, some pick pooch walking, long countryside ambles ofwhich we have many.  And coffee shops are ever a popular place to watch your fellow humans and enjoy the benefits of a well-crushed Arabica bean..  The makers of this podcast apologise to Scotland for shooting bag...

This Week: We preview the forthcoming East of England Tech Collaboration Event at the Sainsbury Centre on the University of East Anglia's campus, itself a curtain-raiser to Cambridge Tech Week!     And then, for the main event, I chat to Rachel Hales, founder of Get Synergised and the With Purpose platform, along with Hannah Chapman of the Cambridge Acorn Project and Nick Finlayson-Brown, partner...

This Week: We celebrate your Unsung Heroes in another star-spangled CROWDSOURCERY! For More Information, please go to https://easternpromise.org.uk . We are proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve .       

This week: This is it!  The Grand Finale is upon us, with the last panel comprising Dr Riaz Bhunnoo, Director of the GlobalFood Security Programme for UK Research and Innovation; Dr Stella Peace, Director of Healthy Living and Agriculture for Innovate UK; Shadow Food and Farming Minister and MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner MP; and host  and Director of the Quadram Institute, Professor Ian Charles...

Let's kick off another round of community-sourced goodness looking at sporting venues across the East of England in another goal-hanging CROWDSOURCERY... 

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby takes you back to the Norwich Food Science Supercluster event and we hear from Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Professor David Maguire, who introduces the second half of the event.  Then, after the audio of the film promoting the Innovation capabilities of the supercluster, Imogen Shipperlee of Hethel Innovation, , Dr Nick Goodwin of Anglia Innovat...

We are but eight episodes away from our centennial episode - 100 episodes shining a light on the very best of the East of England, whether in  - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk & North Essex.  But how should we mark the milestone?  You tell us your view with a magical touch of CROWDSOURCERY! Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk . Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills &a...

This week: We continue our coverage of the recent Eastern Promise Norwich Food Science Supercluster summit with our Infrastructure panel.  It should probably have been called the 'planning' panel as that's the primary focus: the Food Enterprise Zone upon which the Food Enterprise Park is forming; the proposed HP3 facility (Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet) on the Norwich Research Par...

We celebrate your best indie businesses in another sense-shattering CrowdSourcery!   If you want to get in touch you can contact me via https://easternpromise.org.uk