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The STEM Positive Disruptor introducing my special and talented guest, Kai Clarke, an Electronics Engineer, specialising in renewable energy systems and circular economy, she is a disability advocate and founder and CEO of EthicalAI on MIA Conversation, passionate about bringing in change where disability is concerned in Jamaica and Caribbean and businesses to use AI ethically and responsibly. She...

🚀 From Track Dreams to Torque Realities: A Young Engineer’s Journey from Motorsport School Competitions to the Pit Lane 🛠️The STEM Positive Disruptor introducing my special and talented guest, Lucas Maynard, Motorsport Engineering Student on MIA Conversation, passionate about all things motorsport, racing. What an impressive and inspiring conversation with the slightly reserved, shy but extremely...

FROM SKILLS GAP TO SKILLS EDGE: THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF APPRENTICESHIPS IN UK INDUSTRY As of 2025, the UK’s technical skills gap is showingsigns of improvement—but it’s still a major concern for employers: • 76% of UK employers report difficulty filling roles dueto a lack of skilled talent, down from 80% in 2024. • The engineering and manufacturing sectors remain amongthe hardest hit, with persiste...

Have you sometimes felt alone in your STEM career journey because there was no one else who looked like you and the support was not always readily available. This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, with special guest, Associate Professor Corey Tutt OAM, a Kamilaroi man from Nowra on the New South Wales south coast Australia. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a zookeeper and in...

Happy Friday - Electric Buses (lithium) Batteries Engineers needed to resolve this persisting problem with electric public transportation batteries The batteries for electric use a lot of lithium, the lightest metal and the lightest solid element under normal conditions. The benefits of electric transportation are huge such asreduction of carbon emission but there is also a downside In London, Tra...

Happy Friday -  the STEM Positive Disruptor As engineers it is important for us to make ourselves relevant and meet the demands of the industry. You are needed in the Cybersecurity space. The changing landscape of how we work and live is evolving rapidly and with all the benefits that emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, cloud storage, quantum technology and the Internet of Things...

Great opportunities await engineers in the Space industry. UK Space Investment: Driving Innovation and Creating Opportunities The STEM Positive Disruptor

As an engineer, have you ever felt sometimes vulnerable and isolated because you are female, an ethnic minority and a mother, here comes Daniella Sladen who used these attributes as a positive driver to bring change in her industry. This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, with special guest, Daniella Sladen, Co-Founder and CTO Zulu Pods, company was started nearly 5 years ago an...

Governments across the world such as in the UK, China and US are investing heavily in AI infrastructure and want to become one of the AI superpowers in the world by 2030. Davos 2025: The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting being held at the Promenade in Davos, Switzerland. AI is a hot topic. They say progress in artificial intelligence is advancing at a rapid pace, according to LinkedIn, AI will...

Happy Friday from the STEM positive Disruptor 17 January Engineers are you relevant and fit for the engineering and manufacturing needs for 2025? Engineers! You know, we are UNSTOPPABLE this year 2025. We are at the forefront of innovation. So, with the pace of technological change, the need to move to a green economy and global shifts in manufacturing and production means the engineering landscap...

Happy Friday from the STEM Positive Disruptor 3rd of December was International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024 this week The theme was “Amplifying the leadership of disabled people for an inclusive and sustainable future”. This brought to remembrance my conversation with Katy Deacon, CEng FIET IET Trustee & EDI Chair. She spoke about the importance of inclusive thinking and changing the...

Transforming Learning: Part 4 - Costs, Politics and why Guy think it will happen sooner rather than later. Politics is what drives everything. Politically impossible becomes political INEVITABLE. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to devel...

HAS SCIENCE FICTION MERGED WITH REALITY 🤔 Criminals are using AI powered tools and techniques to conceal their identities and it is now proving very difficult to investigate and prosecute a cybercrime when there are no suspects or evidence. For the past eight years, Guy Huntington has been thinking, writing, and searching for new pieces with which to rethink both human and AI System/Bot legal ide...

Headline News! National Public Database across the world are been breached on a regular basis Most recently in April this year - "The hacking group USDoD claimed it had allegedly stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from National Public Data  and "A hacker known as "Fenice" leaked the most complete version of the data for free on a forum in August 2024, Bleeping Computer reported."   Have...

Transforming Learning Imagine the trauma of learning at school because you are Neurodivergent, (your thought patterns, behaviours, or learning styles fall outside of what is considered "normal," or neurotypical of humans). Here comes, Guy Huntington a veteran identity and learning architect who has created a new learning architecture to tackle this and much more besides This is a four-part series...

In this fourth episode on STEM and Disability series: Business, Disability, Intersectionality and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, with special guest, Elaine Hughes, a successful business owner, living with Spastic Cerebral Palsy, is a passionate disability inclusion specialist. She helps bridge the gap between disabi...

In this third episode on STEM and Disability series: Deaf Children, Education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in Nigeria This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, with special guest Wuni Bitrus, CEO Deaf Technology Foundation and Disability Rights Advocate. Wuni did not plan this path for himself but was driven by his compassion for a young deaf girl wh...

In this second episode on STEM and Disability series: Inclusive Teaching This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, showcasing special guest Sara Shunkwiler, Engineer, Educator and Disability Inclusion Advocate. She work in the Space Systems Engineering field at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA Question: Why are people with disability still been discriminated ag...

This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, showcasing special guest Emma Collington, a PhD student in molecular genetics and bioinformatics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada. She lives with a genetic connective tissue disease caused by mutations in collagen and fibrillin, which results in her joints, organs, and blood vessels being too elastic. She also has a service do...

This is another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, showcasing special guest Thierry Tchangole from the Republic of Benin in West Africa. He describes himself as a Scientific Entrepreneur, a driver of and for change working in Space Engineering education and Renewable Energy, through his startup businesses, CosmoLab Hub via edutainment on all things space and Smart ENergy, a green start-up,...

Another STEM Positive Disruptor: MIA conversation, showcasing special guest, Salam Abualhayjaa, a mechanical Engineer from Jordan, specializing in spacesuit design and she is also an analog astronaut (According to NASA, Analog astronauts play a crucial role in preparing for future space missions by participating in these Earth-based simulations. These missions are conducted in environments that re...

This is another STEM Positive Disruptor - MIA conversation: showcasing the talented Nishika Chettry, a multi-award winner and a self-published author. She is a software engineer specialising in Firmware. She is a future Astronaut, her tagline is “aspiring to make a difference” and she is definitely doing that, even in this early stage of her career, her future is very bright and she will be an ins...

This is another STEM Positive Disruptor - MIA conversation with special guest William Lee, Associate Director at the National University and co-founder of Almatix. He is a scientist-engineer, who has a passion for all things to do with STEM education, especially Robotics AI and Machine learning and wants to impart his hunger for all things STEM to young people and others especially in Singapore by...

The discussion on Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace has been and still is a hot topic. There are great initiatives to enable this to happen, some successful and some not so successful. Did you know that in the UK, Employment prospects among blind and partially-sighted people have not changed in a generation, with only one in four in paid employment – Study published by Birmingham University...

The global gaming market size was valued at $249.55 billion in 2022 & is anticipated to grow to $665.77 billion by 2030 according to Fortune Business Insights. The sub-Saharan African gaming industry is expected to generate over $1 billion for the first time in 2024, according to data from research firm Newzoo. The gaming audience is expected to grow rapidly, with Newzoo forecasting 30.2 milli...