Ash from Drax’s UK power station has been used in the concrete structure of the £1.5B A14 Cambridge to Huntington road-building scheme. The use of power station ash in cement production has reduced energy consumption and prevented fresh aggregate from being mined.
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Nick Finegold
03.08.2020
Digital disruption in media and marketing is in evidence everywhere you look. From the rise of streaming and on-demand television to the ubiquity of highly targeted online advertising: new digital technologies are transforming the behaviours of both consumers and the businesses that sell to them.
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David Leahy
31.07.2020
Every company, as the saying goes, is a technology company. Those that don’t embrace technology will lose their competitive edge and falter in the face of new players. While the banking industry is steeped in more tradition than most, the winds of change are already here. We learn more from Diana Biggs, Global Head of Innovation at HSBC Private Banking.
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Esat Dedezade
30.07.2020
This week Caroline Franczia takes us to Amity Island to explain how you can build a strategy to move from catching small fry to snaring the biggest deals in the ocean.
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Caroline Franczia
30.07.2020
MIT’s Alex Pentland speaks to David Lee of the DDI about the importance of ‘neighbourhood data’ in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges – and why we need data unions.
30.07.2020
Nowadays, just about everyone has a side hustle. If you don’t, what are you doing with all your free time and no extra money? In the past, a side hustle may have been a casual way to pad out your paycheque, but things change. Now, you need to go legit.
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Kristie Wright
29.07.2020
Flexible business school Jolt offers courses run by the likes of Google, Netflix and Tesla execs and has now launched its most disruptive, most exciting UK course to date. Switch is a unique, live, immersive bootcamp that retrains people to enter the highly in-demand world of tech in just a month.
28.07.2020
Why do some startups take off like rockets while most others drift like leaky rowboats? The key to startup growth is what’s commonly referred to as “scale.” Scale is something everyone will say you absolutely must have, but only Joe Procopio can explain it and give you six phases to build your efficient growth machine.
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Joe Procopio
28.07.2020
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Hampus Monthan Nordenskjöld, Founding General Partner at TrueSight Ventures.
27.07.2020
Apple has pledged to expand its current carbon neutrality beyond its global corporate operations to the entire business, including the manufacturing supply chain, by 2030. The pledge covers all Apple products, as well as the energy used to manufacture and charge them.
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Nick Finegold
27.07.2020
The future is being accelerated with the introduction of 5G and the internet of things, and this means that companies will need to update and refresh their existing technology package, but what about the lifecycle of the technology? Shouldn’t we all be concerned with using products that can be repurposed and reused?
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Cleo McGee
27.07.2020
What trends are emerging in workplace experience? According to Hannah Lloyd-Jones of District Tech in the wake of COVID-19, there are many trends arising in workplace culture that you should be aware of.
24.07.2020
Glucose Republic is building a technology that can help with the management of glucose in the body with a tailored approach to understand and track what is eaten. Maddyness spoke with David Haines, Chief Executive of Glucose Republic to understand how the company has coped during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the future holds.
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David Haines
24.07.2020
During a "myfirstminute" webinar Ex-Formula One driver Nico Rosberg shared how he is carving out a second career for himself as a sustainable entrepreneur and investor, with projects in everything from air taxiing to electrical vehicle racing.
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Simon Lovick
23.07.2020
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