The TWI Innovation Network Podcast

Cem ask Genevieve Leveille, Founder and CEO, about Blockchain Technology, or using the term Genevieve prefers to use, Distributed Ledger Technology.

In the podcast Genevieve tells us about the changes in the technology and trends, advance being made by business in how blockchain is used, and the challenges being faced, particularly in the lack of standards.

Together, they touch on AgriLedgers business ambitions in the food technology field for distributed ledger technology, and the need for individuals and business leaders to embrace how this technology is the present and future.

In the episode, Marc Jacobs, Chair of the Board at the Molecular Plasma Group (MPG) talks about their involvement in COVID-19 PPE development.

Together with Cem, Marc discusses the scaling up success of MPG as well as their aspirations for expansion in the UK.

In this weeks episode, Dr Cem Selcuk, Head of Business Development at TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN), has a conversation with Tuğrul Karasarlıoğlu, Research and Development Coordinator from Floteks, a company that has advanced technology and production of plastic parts with rotation moulding in Turkey since 1983 and a lead supplier to the automotive industry.

In the second episode in this series, Dr Cem Selcuk, Head of Business Development at the TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN), talks about Integrated Manufacturing with Professor Bahattin Koç from the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University.

In the first episode of this series, Abbas Mohimi, Head of Public Funding and Regional Engagement at TWI, is joined by Keith Owen, Head of Systems Development and Energy strategy at the Northern Gas Networks.

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With wholesale gas prices recently making news headlines and COP26 just around the corner, Abbas and Keith discuss the rapid challenges facing industry to reach net zero targets, as well as how consumer demand is influence decarbonisation strategy.

Together, they discuss the complications involved in laser welding and the potential avenues for further utilising artificial intelligence. The conversation also looks to the future and how technologies like 'Coboting' could impact the need for highly skilled, hands on expertise.

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Abbas Mohimi is joined by special guest Dave Robson, Technical Director from the North East of England Industry Cluster (NEPIC) to talk about Net Zero challenges on regional clusters.

Before joining NEPIC, Dave has over 28 years of experience working in the UK Steel Industry, doing so across a range of energy orientated positions. During his time in the steel industry, Dave worked on projects to decarbonise the North East such as the Teesside Collective Industrial CCS project, focusing on industrial emitters.

In this episode, Abbas ask Dave about how the North East region can be a leader for decarbonising industry, as well as discussing the technologies  involved in Carbon Capture and storage.

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Abbas Mohimi is joined by special guest Paul Brodrick, Business Development Director at Siemens, to discuss the challenges to business in achieving Net Zero targets.

Recorded at the end of 2020, Paul and Abbas touch upon the impressive decarbonising achievements of Siemens as well as the adoption of a greener and more digitally ambitious corporate strategy. Paul also provides insight into how Siemens has faced the impact of COVID and the knock-on effect it has had on carbon neutral policy.

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Dr Cem Selcuk, Head of Business Development at the TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN) talks to Dr Nicholas Allott, CEO and Co-Founder or NquiringMinds, a British company that opened its doors in 2010, providing industrial expertise on digital transformations, secure Internet of Things,  Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

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James Brookman at the TWI Innovation Network is joined by Ameni Lounissi, Academic Team Leader at the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) and they discuss the centre offers postgraduate academia driven by industrial need. In part 2, Hannah Stedman, Recruitment and HR Coordinator presents the latest opportunities at the centre in Cambridge from PhD to MSc and MBA courses.