Can AI help solve the UK’s public sector productivity puzzle? March 11, 2024 Jeremy Hunt wants to embed AI throughout the public sector to boost productivity - but experts suggest the policy could take a long time to deliver results.
Navigating the AdTech Evolution: A New Era of Innovation and Competition March 11, 2024 The advertising technology (AdTech) landscape is experiencing an unprecedented era of growth and transformation. Amidst this dynamic environment, AdTech Holding emerges as a beacon of innovation, challenging the dominance of giants like Google and Facebook while addressing the industry’s most pressing concerns, including the ever-pervasive issue of fraud. Olga Dmitrenko, Chief Revenue Officer at AdTech Holding, shares invaluable insights [...]
MY.GAMES. Empowering Diversity: Crafting a Blueprint for Inclusion in Tech March 11, 2024 In the rapidly evolving landscape of the global gaming industry, achieving diversity and inclusion represents not just a moral imperative but also a strategic advantage. At the heart of this conversation is MY.GAMES, a game development company with a portfolio of 50 titles that resonate with over a billion users worldwide. Under the leadership of the [...]
‘F1 fans are 40 per cent women, we need more female drivers and employees’ March 8, 2024 Chair & CEO of Kyriba and supervisory board member of at Porsche AG, Melissa Di Donato, dissects what it’s like to be a petrol head in an F1 world full of men, and how STEM and International Women’s Day are key to shifting the balance of power. The non-executive director at the Department for Science, [...]
Melrose Industries sets sights on growth as new chief takes aerospace reins March 7, 2024 Melrose Industries has pivoted to a "pure aerospace" play which will be led by their former COO
Spring Budget 2024: UK Silicon Valley dreams far off say tech bosses March 7, 2024 Some tech bosses have been left wanting after Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget 2024 missed the mark by their standards.
‘It’s not uncommon’: Minister defends £15,000 taxpayer payout to settle Donelan libel claim March 6, 2024 A minister has defended a £15,000 payout of taxpayer money to settle a libel case after tech secretary Michelle Donelan falsely accused two academics of "sharing extremist views" and one of supporting Hamas.
Spring Budget 2024: Hunt poised to double AI funding through Alan Turing Institute March 6, 2024 Jeremy Hunt is set to announce a doubling of funding for the Alan Turing Institute, the national hub for AI, in his Spring Budget tomorrow.
Spirent: Another listed UK firm to go stateside after £1bn offer March 5, 2024 British telecoms testing services provider Spirent Communications has agreed to be sold to US tech firm Viavi in a deal valuing it at £1bn.
UK strikes science deal with Saudi Arabia as the kingdom grows its tech industry March 4, 2024 The UK has struck a science and research deal with Saudi Arabia in a bid to get its foot in the door of the fast growing oil-rich nation.