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 for 2% of global energy consumption in 2025, and expected to double by 2030 as a result of AI running in the cloud

· Gender parity in the use of AU should be achieved by end of 2025, closing the gap quicker than in many other areas

· The growth of autonomous generative AI agents - AgenticAI – next generation of LLM 25% of companies looking

· An expectation of much more telecoms consolidation , globally

· And much more, including a nod to other rising trends and updates such as cyber defence, chiplets, silicon photonics, GenAI at the edge, 5G standalone.

And as usual, we have a review of any hits and misses from previous years.

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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

· Creating technology as a service for small gaming studios

· How 40% of gaming industry is no longer the big companies like Sony

Sam provides an insight into developing multi-player games that can scale to 100,000s players exponentially quicker, with lower risk.

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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 information for any founder looking to pitch to Cambridge Angels.

Pam shares her priorities as chair of the Cambridge Angels, which includes navigating a challenging market environment, adding investor diversity, and raising the profile of its members' depth of expertise.

And we learn about Pam’s unique background, and her journey into investing. And we talk about healthcare and how AI and automation is revolutionising the sector but requires caution – it’s not an area to ‘move fast and break things’ as Mark Zuckerberg advises!

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