Made in Lancashire: Recent Episodes
Digital and Innovation Team Lancashire
Chat about Innovation and Digital within Lancashire - what happens, how to do it and what support you can get for your business or your idea.
We chat with Tom Smith from Complete Online and find out where he started and how he now has an office in Dubai.
We then chat with Daniel and Steven from iSentra - and find out more on heat pumps and what is next for refrigeration systems.
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In this the start of season two, we have chats with Paul from Site Flight and also Neil and Hamsah from Aqua Spira.
Paul chats about using drones and Neil and Hafsah chat about a new innovation in plastic piping - you have to listen to find out more.
We also find out what support is out there and how Universities as a whole are a brilliant means of research and how underused they are in that respect.
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We chat with Lee Gosling from the Royal Academy of Engineering who explains more about their Regional Talent Engines and how they are supporting innovation.
We also catch up with Darren Bentham from Interact who chat about one of his passions in life - AI - where its at, how it needs regulating and what can be done with it. He explains it very well to someone with very little knowledge of it all.
We chat with Alan Reid - formerly of Boost Business Lancashire, now working for Innovate UK and what he is up to at the moment, then catch up with Jane Binnion of the Growing Club, based in Lancaster.
Chatting with Shane from Ultimaxx Ceramics who shares his passion for his business, and somehow the conversation gets on to cars! Listen in to hear what Shane has to say about coatings and how you are fooled by some in to thinking your car is unbreakable.
We chat with Paul White and Conor Walsh on how they are getting on with their various endeavours.
Patch is a new app that helps matchup window cleaners with customers and makes the one process and payment therefore simple and gives you the ability to find a new window cleaner quickly and easily.
We also talk about #LANIF22 the Lancashire Innovation Festival that is coming up as both are taking part.
We chat with Richard Harrison from Innovate International on what is happening in his world, then follow that up with Christina Melling from Stipendium - a service that allows you to move house without too much hassle.
Oh and don't forget the 7th October for our Innovation Festival.
We caught up with our Innovation Challenge winners - Gemma, Susanna and Conor to chat about what made them enter and how they are progressing with their projects.
We also find out who Steven Bartletts biggest stalker is ...
Find out more about #LANIF22
A quick catch up with Becky from Crowberry Consulting based in Chorley - and we get to chat about green, eco and energy and how she has grown her business using the skills of interns and kickstarters.
We also let you know some news about what is happening.
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Prior to announcing our Innovation Challenge competition, I caught up with Gemma from Scoff Paper - who eventually went on to win it, and we chat about where the idea for edible dog greeting cards comes from.
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In this our sixth episode you get the hang of it now - we chat with various businesses who tell us all about how they are coping, how they are growing and how they are innovating here in Lancashire.
So our first chat is with Issa Patel from Connect Care who have innovated an extremely useful device for healthcare, and the second chat is with Euan from Zigaflow.
Enjoy!
We headed to AMRC at Salmesbury and chatted advanced manufacturing with Nick Hall and Pete McConie and found out what is on offer, and we also chatted to Lisa at Perfect Recruitment about how she managed during lockdown.
This episode we chat with Sam Coggin from the Coggin Group who during the pandemic was faced with empty offices full of work furniture and everyone working at home - listen in to see how they adapted and we also chat with Paul Croft from Create Education who runs several businesses but this particular one is based on educating Schools and helping them understand 3D printing.
Listen in as we chat with Mike Parker as he explains to this idiot, how tools are not standard for everything, and then news on a great innovative woman.
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We chat to digital Dan - one of our team - find out about cyber and chat to an agency who are doing things differently! #DigitalFebruary
We chat about #DigitalFebruary here in Lancashire, meet some of our team and listen to the end to find out how you can get involved.