Tech Connect 2018
2018-05-31
Goonhilly Earth Station, United Kingdom
who it's for
satellite operators and space engineers, founders of tech startups, embedded software engineers, product managers and designers, data scientists and machine learning engineers, community and heritage organisers, education and apprenticeship coordinators
topics
microwave waveguide test bench; network analyzer setup; optical terminal recovery; space debris tracking sensors; capture-and-deorbit methods; in-orbit 3D printing; private LoRa home sensing; GDPR anonymized data stores; NLP free-text parsing; groundstation services for nanosats; Deep Space Network receiver; Level 4 apprenticeship programme
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Des Prouse - Goonhilly Heritage Society - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Des Prouse | 07m |
Volunteers preserve Goonhilly Earth Station history, cataloguing thousands of donated documents, photos and kit while running public access labs from two rooms… | ||
| Gail Eastaugh - AeroSpace Cornwall - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Gail Eastaugh | 11m |
Student-built system tracks space debris and proves low-cost sensors can spot spent rockets and fragments; companies are prototyping capture-and-deorbit… | ||
| Andrew James - PKF Francis Clark - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Andrew James | 08m |
Explains how UK R&D tax relief actually works for companies not sole traders: SME relief gives an extra deduction on qualifying spend so a £10k project… | ||
| Belinda Waldock - Software Cornwall - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Belinda Waldock | 08m |
A 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual maps seven concrete sabotage tactics onto modern teams and shows how they quietly kill projects: endless questioning… | ||
| Caitlin Gould - Bluefruit Software - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Caitlin Gould | 09m |
Combines design thinking with lean agile practices for embedded software teams to reduce rework and surface hidden assumptions, using five whys at project… | ||
| David McGuire - Radix Communications - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | David McGuire | 12m |
Five specific copy red flags and what to do instead: generic adjectives that tell not show (e.g. passionate appears on ~50 million pages and immediately rings… | ||
| Dan Perkins - remeody.com - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Dan Perkins | 08m |
A web platform called Remeody ingests street maps, satellite/GIS layers, clearance survey outputs and crowdsourced hazard reports and turns them into… | ||
| Darren Stevens - ehealth - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Darren Stevens | 07m |
EU‑funded community e‑health project deploys sensors in homes measuring temperature, utility use, air quality and humidity, sends data over a private LoRa… | ||
| Emma Hamblin - Game Changer - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Emma Hamblin | 08m |
Organisation supports ages 15–24 who are at risk of leaving education by matching them to local employers for week-long placements that cost companies nothing… | ||
| Garry Barter - Hertzian - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Garry Barter | 08m |
Company founded 2015 builds an NLP/ML product that turns messy free‑text into structured outputs, prioritizing parsing and task automation over generic… | ||
| Ian Jones - Goonhilly Earth Station - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Ian Jones | 07m |
Goonhilly Earth Station grows from one person to 23 staff and 70 hires planned, repurposes giant 1970s antennas into operational ground stations and builds new… | ||
| James Bemrose - Truro & Penwith College - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | James Bemrose | 08m |
Truro & Penwith College runs a two-year Level 4 apprenticeship that mixes workplace learning with roughly one day a week in college, aimed at anyone 16+ with… | ||
| Josh Hoole - CloS Skills Hub - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Josh Hoole | 06m |
Claims that businesses become 30% more productive by mapping current state to target, building a bespoke training plan and linking firms to funded or unfunded… | ||
| Paul Massey - Bluefruit Software - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Paul Massey | 06m |
Bluefruit Software describes a practical strategy of aligning company goals with individual goals to deliver quality software, running training programs and… | ||
| Wo King & Josh King - Hi 9 | Wo King, Josh King | 07m |
Argues that data sharing moves from clumsy PDFs and form entry to conversational, voice-first access by showing a working fitness platform that uses NLP-driven… | ||
| John Catchpole - TechLaw - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | John Catchpole | 09m |
Law firm describes concrete tech: a collaboration platform where lawyers and clients edit the same project, share documents and reduce duplicate work during a… | ||
| Marcus Kearn - CFT Group, Duesday - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Marcus Kearn | 08m |
A payments app called Duesday collects recurring bills while removing the “direct debit fear” by letting users choose payment date and split bills with… | ||
| Catherine Armour - SWCoE Satellite Applications - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Catherine Armour | 14m |
Regional centre focuses on downstream satellite data and commercial apps, claiming a UK market of £25 billion downstream market by 2030 and targeting GPS, EO… | ||
| Dan Goodwin - fffunction - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Dan Goodwin | 09m |
A digital team repurposes software skills into low‑budget filmmaking, building a stop‑motion rig using a life‑size shawarma and a skateboard as a dolly… | ||
| Henri Egle Sorotos - Tech Nation - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Henri Egle Sorotos | 25m |
Tech Nation presents the 2018 national audit as an open dataset with a browser-based SQL compiler and JavaScript visualisations so users can run queries. Key… | ||
| Sam Armondi - Everest Media - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Sam Armondi | 06m |
Five-minute sponsor lightning that explains what Everest Media does, why it sponsors Software Cornwall and how it plugs into Cornwall’s tech ecosystem, with… | ||
| Rob Edlin - Niddocks - Tech Connect Lightning Talk, Software Cornwall | Rob Edlin | 09m |
Sponsor lightning update describing a local tech meetup that pairs Software Cornwall with Goonhilly Earth Station and reports measurable turnout and… | ||
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