Eastern Promise - The Podcast

Episode 98: How Guilden Mordern saved 'The Three Tuns' pub, w. help from Plunkett UK & the Cambs & Peterborough CA

This Week: We journey out to the magnificent public house in Guilden Mordern, near Royston in Cambs to visit 'The Three Tuns', a magnificent pub that is in community hands thanks to the efforts of some very dedicated residents, along with help from Plunkett UK and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.  We're joined at the pub by CPCA Mayor, Dr Nik Johnson and Susie Middleton of Plunkett UK, alongside representative of the community John Harrison to hear the tale of the Three Tuns unfold...
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CROWDSOURCERY! Coming Home...

Welcome to Crowdsourcery, an audience participation spectacular rooted in the East of England, where we use LinkedIn to root out the best the region has to offer!
This time, our focus is the landmarks that welcome you back to the East of England, and let you know your doorstep is not far away.  And your choices range from roundabouts to racecourses...
...to squeeze all this and more into the show, your host Mike Rigby, converses with pachyderms, engages in filthy, FILTHY wordplay, and fends off demons from the Orwell Bridge for some reason!?
All this and more, thanks to a little bit of...CROWDSOURCERY!
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Episode 97: UEA & CTW East of England Collaboration Event

This week: We join the audience at the East of England Tech Collaboration event at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, sponsored by Mills & Reeve.  
We hear from Dr Soraya Jones, UEA VC Prof. David Maguire, Cambridge Tech Week Chair Chris Bruce, and a panel consisting of Dr Jerry Wu of Tus Park UK, Prof. Sheng Qi of the UEA, Hannah Smith of Anglia Capital Group and Martin Frost CBE. Oh, and Eastern Promise host Mike Rigby, too...
Join us for the event as recorded on the evening of Tuesday 23rd April 2024!
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Episode 96: Peter Cowley

This Week: We hear from one of the East of England's foremost Angel Investors, Peter Cowley.  Host Mike Rigby chats to Peter about his career, the highs and lows of being an angel investor and puts some submitted questions to the man himself.
We also learn about the tumultuous life experiences that have shaped his path, leaving him with many valuable life lessons.  Plus!  A look ahead to what's in this jam-packed run of six episodes...
Peter's book, 'Public Success, Private Grief' is available here.
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CROWDSOURCERY! Happy Places...

We investigate your happy places in the East of England, where you go to rest and recalibrate.  A lot of our contributors choose water, some pick pooch walking, long countryside ambles ofwhich we have many.  And coffee shops are ever a popular place to watch your fellow humans and enjoy the benefits of a well-crushed Arabica bean.. 
The makers of this podcast apologise to Scotland for shooting bagpipes out of season, and BBC East for...everything, really.
Yes, we're very sorry - BUT!  It's time for a spell of CROWDSOURCERY!

Episode 95: Rachel Hales & East of England Tech Collaboration Event Preview!

This Week: We preview the forthcoming East of England Tech Collaboration Event at the Sainsbury Centre on the University of East Anglia's campus, itself a curtain-raiser to Cambridge Tech Week!  
 
And then, for the main event, I chat to Rachel Hales, founder of Get Synergised and the With Purpose platform, along with Hannah Chapman of the Cambridge Acorn Project and Nick Finlayson-Brown, partner and Head of the Cambridge office of Mills & Reeve.
 
And then and then!  We tell you what's happened to your favourite CrowdSourcing feature...(Spoiler alert - not much).
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CROWDSOURCERY! Unsung Heroes...

This Week: We celebrate your Unsung Heroes in another star-spangled CROWDSOURCERY!
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Episode 94: 'What Next?' Panel @ The Norwich Food Science Supercluster Summit (5/5)

This week: This is it!  The Grand Finale is upon us, with the last panel comprising Dr Riaz Bhunnoo, Director of the GlobalFood Security Programme for UK Research and Innovation; Dr Stella Peace, Director of Healthy Living and Agriculture for Innovate UK; Shadow Food and Farming Minister and MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner MP; and host  and Director of the Quadram Institute, Professor Ian Charles OBE.  We'll hear what they made of the event and their advice on collaboration, the need for a narrative, and  where the Norwich Food Science Supercluster should focus to see continued success.
And Finally!  We celebrate your Unsung Heroes in another star-spangled CROWDSOURCERY!
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CROWDSOURCERY! Sporting Venues...

Let's kick off another round of community-sourced goodness looking at sporting venues across the East of England in another goal-hanging CROWDSOURCERY... 

Episode 93: Innovation Panel @ The Norwich Food Science Supercluster Summit (4/5)

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby takes you back to the Norwich Food Science Supercluster event and we hear from Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Professor David Maguire, who introduces the second half of the event.  Then, after the audio of the film promoting the Innovation capabilities of the supercluster, Imogen Shipperlee of Hethel Innovation, , Dr Nick Goodwin of Anglia Innovation Partnership, Dave Martin of Condimentum and Dr Jon Clarke of the John Innes Centre, then take us through the current innovation climate in Norwich, Norfolk and the East of England.  It's an intriguing discussion which highlights the possibilities as well as the true depth of the facilities in Norwich.
And finally: let's kick off another round of community-sourced goodness looking at sporting venues across the East of England in another goal-hanging CROWDSOURCERY... 
 
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