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.…
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…
It’s great to see the government using the current pandemic to bolster new innovations which would have long-reaching effects beyond the current crisis. We have seen how air quality has improved due to the numbers of cars off the roads but there are challenges on how to get people onto public transport (and planes). It’s…
This week we are spoiled for choice. Two conferences which attract large numbers of people are happening for free (and recordings are made of both of them for those of us who can’t attend in person.). Both of them have content geared towards the IT and digital sector. Some of the content is complex and…
We’ve just launched the Raise Ventures – summer startup accelerator programme intake and we thought it would be a good idea to share with you an A to Z of startup tech lingo. A is for API API stands for application programming interface. An API is a way for your product or web service to…
Last Thursday, the Raise Startup Club hosted a meetup on Zoom with guest speaker Mel Morrison from Bluesona. Mel has built Bluesona up over the last few years from an idea to a startup that now sells through their partners in the insurance industry. Having identified the problem of drivers being distracted by their mobile…
Watch the first video in our new virtual/online Tech for Non Tech series. During this chat, we hear from one of startups )Legal Tech Founder / CEO ‘Charlene Armour). Charlene talks to us about her journey into outsourcing tech. ‘ from Armour Global and completes the chat with a Q&A from our live online audience.
Using sli.do We recently used sli.do during our Tech For Non Tech virtual online event and thought it might be a good idea to share the service with you. The event was an interview with Charlene Armour (CEO – Armour Global) What is sli.do? sli.do allows you to maximise the effectiveness of your Q&A time and we…
A long time ago (nearly 20 years ago), I was very interested in the concept of remote working, especially from the confines of coffee shops. I amassed as much knowledge as I could, tested as many products as I could, all with the strong conviction that it was the future. This began really in around…
Northern Ireland is one of the best places to start a startup as it has a close network of highly skilled, resilient people with entrepreneurial ideas looking to solve real problems. It’s the skilled people with ideas that are one of the groups able to survive during these uncertain times. They have identified a solution…
