Join the the Heart of the South West Growth Hub’s free workshop, ‘From Zero to AI: Introducing Generative AI for Everyday Business Tasks’ at Exeter Science Park delivered by Scott Quilter from Techosaurus and Lisa Lessware, Growth Hub’s digital business adviser. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate practical AI applications that you can start using straight … Read more
The Heart of the South West Growth Hub has launched a new service offering free, fully funded one-to-one digital business support. Businesses in North Devon, the rest of the county and Somerset can receive dedicated time with their digital business advisers, tailored to meet their unique business needs. An initial digital business review will identify … Read more
Two IT consultants who frequently worked alongside each other on various contracts recently celebrated two successful years of running their own IT consultancy based at Node Enterprise Hub at Barnstaple. Integy began when James Cook and Ryan Jewell joined forces in November 2019 to complete a government contract and has now grown to a team … Read more
North Devon businesses and households with poor indoor mobile coverage are being supported in improving ‘not-spots’ by a voucher programme administered by Connecting Devon and Somerset. The Mobile Boost Programme provides vouchers worth up to £1,200 towards the cost of one of a number of 4G mobile signal booster options from a registered supplier. The … Read more
The Tech South West Awards are now open for entries to celebrate the best of technology across the region’s businesses and recognise and celebrate talent, creativity, business success, education, leadership, diversity and more. There are 23 award categories ranging from Best Startup, International Success and Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, to Sustainable Tech, Tech Education … Read more
Google is bringing its Google Digital Garage to Bideford Business Expo (BBxpo) on 24 October 2019, offering North Devon businesses free advice and coaching on their digital skills to help them grow in their business, career or confidence. The Google Digital Garage is one of Google’s flagship investment programmes in the UK, where anyone can … Read more
Petroc is in the early development stages of its new Centre of Technology and Innovation Excellence (CoTIE), which is likely to house a clean room and proof of concept/prototyping labs and design facilities, together with a small flexible conference/office space to support SMEs who are looking to develop new and innovative products and ideas. The … Read more
Fast, reliable broadband is an essential business tool for businesses. David Thorne of Simpkins Edwards is campaigning for universal access to the service North Devon broadband: superfast or snail’s pace? Large parts of North Devon are finding broadband running super slow compared with the rest of the UK. Superfast fibre broadband was only installed by … Read more
Businesses are continually being urged to go online, but as the internet changes so fast Robert Zarywacz asks if anyone really knows how to use it? The internet is a fantastic tool. I first started using it to work with clients and launched our first web site way back in the 1990s. Since then the … Read more
