Cambridge Tech Podcast

In this week’s episode we’re diving deep into AI optimisation with Ushnish Sengupta and Federica Freddi, the co-founders of Sqwish, a startup on a mission to make AI smarter and more efficient.

Ushnis…

In this week’s episode Faye and James welcome two inspiring guests: Natalie Gray, head of marketing and partnerships at Codurance, and Ilker Akansel, a community strategy consultant. They delve into …

In this week’s episode we hear from Russell Haggar, CEO and co-founder of VyperCore. Russell shares his fascinating journey in the "hard tech" space, revealing the challenges and triumphs of creating…

Last week, we attended the launch of Cambridge Tech Week. This week, we’re sharing key highlights from the panel discussions, covering AI innovation, policy challenges, and collaboration.

Some standou…

Special guest Michaela Eschbach, Deputy Chair of the Cambridge Tech Week Steering Committee, joins us to give the inside scoop on Cambridge Tech Week 2025 (15th – 19th September 2025).

We discuss what…

Last week marked the 7th annual #21toWatch awards, a key event in the Cambridge startup scene that recognises rising talent across People, Companies, and Things. This year's list is dominated by grou…

This week’s special guest, Andi Hektor, takes us on a deep dive into his journey from academia to entrepreneurship, how GScan is tackling critical infrastructure challenges, and why he chose Cambridg…

This week we meet the co-founders of Cambridge Female Founders Network, created in response to the lack of genuine support for women entrepreneurs.

Key initiatives include:

• Founder Dinners & Fireside C…

This week’s episode features an insightful discussion with Roz Bird (Anglia Innovation Partnership) and Dr. Nicola Hancock (University of East Anglia) on the cutting-edge research, entrepreneurship, …

This week, we caught up with Farbod Shakouri of Phantom Technology, a returning guest who’s undergone a significant pivot in his startup’s journey. Originally focused on building an operating system …

This week, we sat down with Nick New, CEO of Optalysys, to explore the groundbreaking technology transforming data security, AI, and cloud services. From optical processing to fully homomorphic encry…

In this episode we hear from the winners of The Trinity Bradfield Prize:

·       Demetria who aims to reduce the time it takes for an endometriosis diagnosis from nine years to nine minutes using AI-a…

This week we are back with Alan Patterson from BeyondMath.

As our most listened to episode to date, we re-run the original interview with Alan and Darren Garvey, topped with a quick update with the c…

We learn all about Crystallography in this week’s episode with Suzanna Ward, Head of Data and Community at The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) – a non-profit organisation whose mission …

We’re back with our regular slot with the insights team at Deloitte with the Predictions for 2025. We welcome Ben Stanton back, and this year we also have Paul Lee join us.

We talk GenAI; Media, Enter…

Beginning with playing Minecraft as a child, this week we talk to University of Cambridge alumni Sam Sully from Planetary Processing, a company who are developing a platform for Indie Gaming Studios.

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As we take a short break for Christmas, we decided to re-run one of our most popular episodes of 2024, the one with Pam Garside, chair of local angel network, Cambridge Angels.

The episode originally …

The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) is offering Cambridge 'a better memory' and 'self-consciousness' of its own technological and social development.... moving beyond the simple celebr…

In this episode we talk about a lifelong passion with tech and ‘trying stuff out’ with founder and chair of Cambridge Spark, Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma.

We have a rich conversation about:

·       A passion…

Telling us all about #EnterpriseTuesday #NorwichEnterprise we talk to Sheng Qi, UEA and Roz Bird, Anglia Innovation Partnership who introduce the Innovation Hothouse.

The Innovation Hothouse is an exa…