Get expert tech help with the Marches Digital Hub Webinar Series and the SOLVD Digital Enterprise Project
Want to know more about digital best practice and technology to help you achieve smarter working?
Interested in fully funded consultancy to implement emerging technology?
The Marches Digital Hub Webinar series, led by Hollie Whittles of Fraggleworks, is a programme of eight sessions running every Wednesday from 2nd June to 28th July. This is a great opportunity to identify which is the best technology for your business and to get better at understanding and using it to help you achieve success.
By exploring the use of new technology, the sessions can also help your business to identify how the SOLVD Digital Enterprise Project can support with the implementation of emerging technologies. ERDF funded and led by the University of Wolverhampton in partnership with Telford & Wrekin Council, SOLVD offers free consultancy with specialists and academic experts, not normally available elsewhere.
Who's it for?
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin business owners and managers, Entrepreneurs, SMEs both Business2Business, Business2Consumer, not for profits and charities.
You don't have to be an expert, this is for you if you want to know how!
Transform your Business through 5G and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Tues, 1st June 2021 10:00 – 11:30am
As the COVID 19 crisis has unfolded, products and services have been digitising at a rapid pace. A recent report commissioned by Vodafone highlights key areas where 5G can support economic growth across the UK:
- UK’s mobile infrastructure to 5G could be worth as much as £158billion to the economy over the next ten years.
- 5G private networks will enable manufacturers to dramatically increase efficiency, helping to revive manufacturing across the UK
- 5G could provide a much-needed financial boost to the UK economy as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
SMEs in Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire can take advantage of the latest emerging digital technologies and access fully funded support available through the SOLVD project to enhance business productivity.
Join us in our fourth Digital Technology event, to learn more about how 5G will transform Industrial IoT and how this can help your business to move into the fast lane.
Part of a series of Tech Briefings organised by the University of Wolverhampton in partnership with Telford & Wrekin Council.
 Tech Nation have officially opened applications for their growth and sector programmes. Since 2014, Tech Nation has supported 845 UK tech companies, and our alumni companies have created 11,000 jobs within the UK economy.
They are currently looking for 160 companies to join the next 6 growth programmes:
- Upscale 7.0
- Future Fifty 10.0
- Net Zero 2.0
- Applied AI 3.0
- Fintech 4.0
- Libra 1.0
SMART Grants for R&D Innovation – last chance!
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25m from Innovate UK to deliver game-changing & commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. Closing date: 26th May.
 Scanning Pens recognised in the field of International Trade with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
Telford’s Scanning Pens Ltd is a worldwide education technology company which provides support to students with reading difficulties, guided by its co-founders, Jack Churchill and Toby Sutton. The last three years has seen a significant increase in its overseas markets. Overseas sales have grown by 216% and the percentage of sales exported has also grown from 44% to 60%.
The company, one of four Telford companies recognised for the award, receive a number of benefits, including an invitation to a Royal reception, a special crystal trophy presented by the Lord Lieutenant, the right to fly the award flag at their headquarters and use the logo in their marketing for five years as well as worldwide recognition as a winner.
Read the full story on Scanning Pens here
Find out more about local businesses winning Queen's Awards here
 Telford’s Protolabs launches £20,000 fund to boost sustainable product design with new Hackathon Challenge
A £20,000 manufacturing support prize is on offer for designers and companies keen to take part in ‘The Hackathon Challenge’.
Now launched, the Protolabs-backed competition is one of the main events of the ‘InspirON’ series of best practice talks and virtual seminars currently underway.
It will give participants the opportunity to take what they have learned from global experts and use it to create a hand tool with life-cycle analysis (LCA) and sustainability in mind.
Entries, which can be made until 31st June, will be assessed by a panel of experts on their manufacturability (how the parts can be realistically manufactured) and their LCA credentials. Judges from Protolabs, Wevolver, IET and a number of speakers will also look at the potential market impact of the new hand tool and whether it responds to a current need and how sustainability improvements will be achieved.
Read the full article here.
 Solar-powered Path Light Developed Using Simmonsigns Solar Panel
Simmonsigns has been working in collaboration with OG2 Lighting Ltd supplying our solar panel for use on their new solar-powered pathway light. The device has been designed from the bottom up to provide both an aesthetic and technically advanced solution for solar pathway lighting in the UK.
Read more here
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Tech Telford website re-launch
We have now updated the website to include all the best practice for digital and tech locally, news and views, business intel and business support on offer.
Visit the website to find out more.
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