The evening’s presentation features the confessions of a venture technologist: Marketing Director of the DDA, Timothy Brundle. The DDA is the UK’s leading provider of technology-based innovation and maintains a network that connects 3,500 businesses each year to innovative technology.
Timothy will be sharing observations from various technology ventures through a number of creative themes:
Topics:
- ‘Being Miss World’ looks at the importance of the need to travel and meet people in the pursuit of technological competitiveness.
- ‘The Foresight Saga’ discusses the significance of market foresight and technology road-mapping prior to investment.
- ‘The Appliance of Science’ will highlight that, for good technology, you need good science. Poor science gets you nowhere. But how can you undertake a useful assessment?
- ‘Easy as Pi’ demonstrates with a case study lesson that financial planning for technology commercialisation programmes can be notoriously difficult.
- ‘Did Philip Scofield invent the iPod?’ takes a light hearted look at when, on April Fools Day 1989, the BBC aired a new product which could store thousands of your favourite songs without the need for tape and which could be downloaded via the airwaves. Tim will discuss which came first – the market (the problem) or the technology (the solution).
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Total number of people registered: 100
Total number of people attending: 71 (71% of those registered)
Comments:
This was a brilliant event
Great speaker, interesting topic
Learnt a lot