This last week, UK Tech Week was launched, and a host of events took place across the UK in celebration.

We asked its Founder, Stuart Clarke MBE, to talk to us about the inspiration behind creating an umbrella platform to showcase tech communities across the UK.

With events throughout the year in most regions from Glasgow to Basildon, Humberside to Bristol it was great to hear about how different tech weeks differentiate themselves based on local expertise. We talk about capital, partnerships, and why something like UK Tech Week can expand the reach of tech to a much broader audience through collaboration.

Do head over to the UK Tech Week website and social channels to find out more.

We also had some updates from Chris Bruce on Cambridge Tech Week too, including:

• The Innovation Alley exhibition call has been announced - Innovation Alley takes place on Tuesday 10th September at the Corn Exchange and will showcase 50 innovative startups, 10 scaleups and a small number of corporates to showcase the exciting diversity of tech innovation. Nominations close by 30th May.

• The call for contributors closes 13th May, so if you are interested in a speaking slot or being part of a panel or fireside chats they there is still time to apply (conditions are on the website).

• The registrations for delegate tickets went live this week, with super early bird rates for the first 50 registrations. Will we see you at #CamTechWeek?

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Please be aware this podcast talks about sensitive issues including cancer, alcoholism, and suicide.

Most people will know Peter Cowley through his hugely successful career as one of Europe’s best known angel investors.

#CamTechPod was at the launch of Peter’s latest book Public Success, Private Grief in which he details for the first time the succession of tragic events which have shaped his life and fuelled his relentless drive and ambition.

In a fireside chat with Louisa Preston who spent over fifteen years as a news reporter on the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 and ITV, Peter discusses:

- His inspiration as an entrepreneur and investor

- Treating his cancer like another project

- Experiencing bereavement from a young age and losing two sons

- The advice he would give his younger self

- What he hopes the book will achieve

- Working on his bucket list: running two half marathons this year, sleeping on Antarctica

- Helping charity and encouraging others to do so. He is donating £2 from the sale of each Public Success, Private Grief book to the charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide.

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Founding CEO Tom Collings talks to us about Kalium Health and managing kidney disease.

Did you know that 800 million people are affected by kidney disease around the world, costing $2 billion to manage kidney disease in US alone?

Tom talks to us about:

· His background as an engineer, to helping startups, to building a company

· Founding the company with three amazing women – Fiona Karet, Tanya Hutter, Liz Norgett,

· His tips to ‘just do it, life is too short to watch for the side lines’ and bringing others along on the journey

· Following Andy Richards well-known narrative that “Cambridge is a low-risk place to do high risk things”

· Manufacturing in Cambridge at prototype scale to get the product into the hands of clinics and clinical services, launching initially in the US

· Initial funding from Cambridge investors – Cambridge Angels, Martlet Capital – any timely opportunities for new professional investors during 2024

· We talk about medical insight and scientific innovation from an original idea to clinical trials.

Tune in to hear all of this, and much more.

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