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 collect data and making it accessible, transform the data into knowledge banks, and generate new insights.

We learn about the structural database and how researchers use it, and how their work now fosters innovation globally.

It’s also a great story of how tech advancement has changed the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) over the years, and their support of the next generation of scientists.

And we think this is the first episode where knitting needles have been referenced.

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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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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 more at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/chip

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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 environment vs the corporate world

· Taking a B2C coding model to a very successful B2B model

· Tapping a market need by developing corporate AI skills, and learning how to ‘sell’

· Building data scientist sandbox environment with EDUKATE.AI

· Being bootstrapped, but with lots of support from people like Hanadi Jabado and non-dilutive funding like from Innovate UK

· The transition from CEO to Chair

· The importance of growth, development and strategic decisions

· Oh, and Raoul has his own podcast – The Data & AI Mastery podcast – check it out!!

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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 Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence is supporting this initiative because she is excited about the potential of a vibrant ecosystem working together “so much more can be achieved together than in isolation”.

We talk about some of the 2023 winners – TraitSeq (we also caught up with Joshua Colmer and Felicity Knowles in the episode), Virilitas, Ediform, Opau

And we catch up with two of the finalists for 2024 - Rosaria Campilongo of PfBIO and Safir Jamal of Vida Vodka before hearing all eight finalists pitch – Knee3D, Healthium Platform, iBoxit, PathoProst Detect Test, Bioscopic, Birthview/Birth4cast.

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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 bandwidth, and longer term with sensing and quantum.

We gain great insights about:

· Quitting a job maybe too early to start a business

· You don’t have to be impossibly smart and motivated to be an entrepreneur

· Building technology from scratch

· Experiencing different universities and accelerator programmes (both sides of the pond)

· Recruiting the right people

· Experiencing Silicon Valley next-level optimism and vision

· Targeting clients at such an early stage of a company

Watch this space as Wave develops their products and builds their go-to-market outreach.

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