This tweet highlight a problem with recruitment. What's the difference between ❌ "Python skills are essential" and ✅ "experience with Python is a benefit, but there is also room to improve your programming skills" in a student job add? 60% increase in qualified applicants and ~30% vs. ~5% female applicants. -> — Dr. Victoria Grinberg…
So You Want To Write a Tech Book? By Jason Bell If there’s one question I get asked most of all, it’s not about what I actually do for a living or specific tools like Kafka and Hadoop, it’s this: “What’s it like writing a book?”. Well it’s certainly an experience, it has highs and…
We’ve debated and considered lots of tools and put together this list of 15 top tools that founders need in the startup world. Some are free, some have a small subscription free. Founders can do a lot with these tools, get their website created, emails sent and prototypes designed. They can manage their finances, get…
One thing that the Covid-19 crisis has revealed is that commuting is a curse. The idea that it’s okay to pay to attend work, pay to store your car, pay more to eat, and spend two hours or more of YOUR UNPAID TIME to attend an office is quickly becoming untenable for knowledge workers. I’ve…
Sifted.eu writes: A European rival to workplace messaging app Slack called Element has won the world’s largest-ever single contract for a collaborative software service, supplying half a million licences to help communication in the German education system. The win points to the growing concern about privacy in communications around the world. At Raise, we use…
Thank you everyone who joined us last month for our Tech for Non Tech event on Automation, No-Code and Community. We had 4 amazing speakers including Niamh McAuley, Ellie McBride, David Shawe and Fajar Siddiq. Watch the recording of last months event. Slides We currently have slide decks from Ellie McBride and Fajar Siddiq. Davids and Niamh’s will be…
As we mentioned in our last newsletter, the University of Ulster are helping with the industry demand for programmers by releasing two new Postgraduate courses. These courses are free of charge. The first, 100 places in a PgCert in Artificial Intelligence, is designed to get a hold on the demand for AI across many industries.…
Remote Raise hosted 7 great startup pitches with an audience of 40 angels and funds on Zoom on Thursday 18th June. The startups included Armour, Machine Eye, Journey Protector, Pryntd, Upskill, Stable Innovations and UMA. The audience came from far and wide, US, UK, Ireland and Europe with the focus on connection, building relations and…
@deptinfra launches #SBRI challenge with £130K available for #emergingtechnologies solutions for remote monitoring of flood defences across Northern Ireland. Briefing 10th July https://t.co/1uiGa0tzPU @digicatapult @digicatni @innovateuk @matrix_ni @economy_ni @AI_NI @IoTBelfast pic.twitter.com/Ix5qcUaoAo — Sue McGuire (@sue_mcguire) July 1, 2020 SBRI represents an easy way for SMEs to get involved in widespread infrastructure and technology projects. My…
This recognition is well placed and the ranking is all the more impressive when you look at the populations of the cities in the top 9 places. Andrew Jenkins, Fintech Envoy for Northern Ireland was quoted to say: “Confirmation that Belfast has been ranked in the inaugural top 10 “Tech Cities of the Future” for…
