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We know innovators are always thirsty for knowledge and the latest intelligence. At Innovate UK, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to drive innovation, spark dialogue, and inspire change. Our podcasts are dedicated to sharing thought-provoking perspectives, expert opinions, and industry analysis that illuminate key trends, challenges, and opportunities in a range of sectors and in the innovation ecosystem. Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. It works to create a better future by inspiring, involving and investing in businesses developing life-changing innovations. Its mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate. Innovate UK Business Connect is the new name for Innovate UK KTN, part of the Innovate UK System. For more information on how you can get support or join us at one of our events, visit our website https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/ or contact us on enquiries@iuk.ktn-uk.org.
Episodes
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Silent Designers Episode 4 - Tom Inns, Cofink
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
What role does design play in our healthcare systems?
In this fourth episode of Silent Designers, our guest Tom Inns explores the theme of healthy living and technologies. Tom is the director of the consultancy, Cofink, a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, and a coach on the Innovate UK Design for Growth programme.
Join us as Tom explains his fascination with the role design can play in helping the silent designers within healthcare teams understand complex challenges, undertake the necessary phases of discovery, and innovate to deliver change.
“Each time I run a project I learn as much as the team about nudging and evolving our processes, tools, and methodologies. How we can push the boundaries and make collaborations happen.”
Tom Inns, Director of Cofink
Tom shares:
- The powerful impact of design thinking approaches and ethnography in healthcare settings
- How mapping out a visual ecosystem of healthcare pathways creates a fantastic focus point for collaborations
- The real-life impact of healthcare innovation—in trumpet form
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In the second half of this episode, Tom also shares three simple yet fascinating new ways of looking at the world and how you can introduce design thinking into your own practice at work.
“If you take these three little pieces of mental gymnastics on board, you'll be motoring when it comes to design and systems thinking.”
Tom Inns, Director of Cofink
Episode transcript: https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/KTN-Silent-Designers-Tom-Inns-Episode-4-Transcription.pdf
Read more: https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/news/silent-designers-podcast-series/
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Silent Designers episode 3 - Marie Williams, Dream Networks
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
What happens when you bring children as young as seven together with businesses, senior designers, and architects and ask them to design a space to play?
The third episode of Silent Designers explores the theme of Knowledge Transfer and Design with guest Marie Williams — Chartered Engineer, Design Lecturer, TEDx speaker, and Founder of Social Enterprise, Dream Networks.
Join us as playful engineer, Marie Williams, explains what took her from a career in innovation across aerospace, nuclear fusion, and software engineering to launch a social enterprise, Dream Networks and her drive to address the need for more equitable access to play areas in socially deprived areas.
Marie explains:
· The impact of design on social or environmental value
· How children approach co-design and design thinking opportunities
· The importance of context and equity in effective knowledge transfer
“I think about one in eight children in the UK has no access to a garden and relies on public play areas. However, the data reveals that many of these children live in deprived areas that don’t have play spaces. So that's when design is the catalyst for change and a response to more than an economic need. It can be our response to growing social and environmental needs and problem sets.”
Marie Williams is a playful chartered engineer, design lecturer, TedX speaker, and CEO of Dream Networks. She founded Dream Networks in 2016, and has collaborated with businesses, schools, and communities to co-design and build engaging play spaces in economically deprived communities worldwide. To date, Dream Networks has adopted sustainable design practices to create inclusive play spaces for over 60,000 children in the UK and Africa.
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Silent Designers Episode 2 - Cat Drew, Design Council
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
The second episode of Silent Designers explores the theme of Net Zero and Sustainable Technologies with guest Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer at the Design Council. Cat shares how, in her role, she’s bringing together the very best knowledge, practice, and frameworks about how to Design for Planet and sharing that knowledge with designers, innovators, commissioners, and policymakers.
“The Design Council’s vision is for a regenerative world for all. The way we’re way going to get there is for people in the design sector—all 1.79 million of us—to Design for Planet and help us make the shift from a consumer to a regenerative society.”
Join us as Cat explains:
- The vital role people-centred design plays in the adoption of sustainable technologies,
- The importance of ‘new-to-me’ innovation on the path to Net Zero
- How she made the transition from policymaker to ‘Silent Designer’
An expert in Systemic Design, Cat started her career as a policymaker working across government and writing strategies for Number 10, the Home Office, and the Cabinet Office. Combining her 10 years of experience in Government with an MA in graphic design, she co-founded the UK Government’s Policy Lab. Cat has also held leadership positions in Uscreates and FutureGov, where she led programmes to make public services more user-centred and systemic in addressing local homelessness challenges.
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Battery Caffè Podcast Episode 10: Critical Minerals
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
This podcast episode focuses on critical minerals in the battery supply chain and is hosted by Nikoleta Piperidou, Cross-Sector Battery Systems Innovation Network Lead at Innovate UK KTN and Dr Sheena Hindocha, Knowledge Transfer Manager for Materials Chemistry at Innovate UK KTN with special guest Olimpia Pilch, International Partnerships and Business Manager at Critical Minerals Association United Kingdom (CMA UK).
Nikoleta and Sheena talk about the economic and technological importance of critical minerals and why we should collaborate with global industry partners to build a more resilient energy supply that accelerates the growth of the UK’s domestic capabilities.
Throughout this conversation, the supply and demand of critical minerals for batteries as we transition to net zero in the UK is discussed at length. The 2035 UK Battery Recycling Industry Vision highlights that there is a major opportunity to secure the supply of critical batteries for minerals through recycling. Battery development can adopt a circular economy approach whereby battery materials are separated, recycled, then re-manufactured into new batteries all within the UK which would allow for significantly more of a battery’s economic value to be kept within the UK’s economy while also reducing the UK’s dependency on other countries for critical minerals.
Read the podcast transcript here.
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Silent Designers Episode 1 - Anna Wilson, 52 North
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Redefining Design Boundaries: Join us for the inaugural episode of 'Silent Designers' as Anna Wilson takes us on a captivating journey into the world of design. With a fresh and innovative approach, Anna showcases the true essence of design in its purest form, while also sharing her unexpected path into process design. Reflecting on her experiences, Anna reveals, "This doesn't work so well, let's come back to the drawing board and try to improve that. My main learning is that it's an iterative process and actually, it is never finished." Trained as a vet and now Head of Operations at 52North, a Cambridge-based Health Tech start-up, Anna is transforming triage for neutropenic sepsis, a critical complication of cancer chemotherapy. Additionally, as the founder of Tortoise, a digital health solution, she aims to support people in their recovery journey after injury. Discover the limitless possibilities of design as Anna shares her unique insights and challenges faced along the way. Tune in to be inspired by her multifaceted use of design. As part of our commitment to empowering innovators, we invite you to join the Design In Innovation Network (DIIN), a vibrant community of cross-sector innovators who are passionate about driving innovation outcomes. Our online platform serves as a collaborative hub, connecting you with sector experts and fostering meaningful engagements. Discover the vast potential of design and uncover new pathways to embed it into your own innovation journey. Join the community: https://designinnovationnetwork.ktn-uk.org/ Meet our hosts for the "Silent Designers" series Steve Welch Steve is half-engineer, half-scientist … all innovation! After a lengthy career in systems engineering applied to Spacecraft projects, he is now director of Innovate UK KTN’s activities in Knowledge Transfer, Place and Design. Steve has long appreciated the overlap between engineering and design and is always delighted by fresh ideas—especially the fresh ideas that pay-off: and that’s where this series comes from. Katherine Wildman Katherine is a B2B copywriter working with multinational businesses on projects that can involve anything from video scripts and tone of voice development to marketing campaigns and case studies. Katherine is interested where innovative ideas come from. What was the actual problem our guests identified and how they went about solving the challenge they faced?
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Battery Caffè Podcast Episode 9: Anodes
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Hosted by Debra Jones and Juan Maria Gonzalez Carballo, Chemistry Knowledge Transfer Managers at Innovate UK KTN, with special guest Alex Groombridge, Chief Technology Officer & Cofounder at Echion Technologies.
This episode focuses on different chemistries for anodes and the challenges of scaling up manufacturing. Juan and Debra talk about the UK's battery anode and cathode capabilities, the desired properties of these materials and the production as well as commercialisation of this emerging technology to supply anode grade niobium oxides.
Read the podcast transcript here.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Battery Caffè Podcast Episode 8: The UK battery investment landscape
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
This podcast episode focuses on the funding landscape and specifically discusses opportunities and challenges within the UK battery ecosystem. We also discuss the insights and findings from the Electric Vehicle Battery Tech in the UK 2022 report that Faraday Battery Challenge has recently partnered with DealRoom to deliver with contributions from Innovate UK KTN. This report outlines how the industry is going to scale up with more investment in scaling innovative battery technology companies.
This podcast is hosted by Nikoleta Piperidou, Cross-Sector Battery Systems Innovation Network Lead at Innovate UK KTN, and Jordan Fletcher, Knowledge Transfer Manager for Net Zero Investor Communities at Innovate UK KTN, and features special guests Jim Totty, Managing Partner at Virdis Capital and Ian Whiting, Commercial Director at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC).
Read the podcast transcript here.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Maritime Innovation Sound Waves - Episode 5: Future Sustainable Ports
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Matthew Moss, the Maritime Knowledge Transfer Manager at Innovate UK KTN is joined by Debra Jones, Knowledge Transfer Manager - Chemistry to talk about Future Sustainable Ports.
During this podcast conversation, Matt and Debra discuss making vessels and port machinery sustainable by using renewable electric power or alternative fuels including biofuels, or hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. They also discuss specific examples of use cases of this technology such as hydrogen or battery powered ferries.
Useful links and additional information
- The Maritime & Ports Innovation Network is a community that collates knowledge from the maritime and ports sector to solve challenges and share industry opportunities to succeed in the transition to a Net Zero future through building innovative maritime solutions.
- Contact Innovate UK KTN’s Infrastructure team.
- Contact Innovate UK KTN’s Transport team.
- Read the Maritime Innovation Podcast Episode 5 Transcript.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Battery Caffè Podcast Episode 7: Advanced Materials for Batteries
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
This episode centres around the advantages of having graphene and nanomaterials in batteries, the most exciting commercial opportunities in the future, and the technological challenges of using these advanced materials.
During this podcast episode, Nikoleta Piperidou and Neelam Mughal from Innovate UK KTN were joined by James Baker, CEO at Graphene@Manchester.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Maritime Innovation Sound Waves - Podcast Episode 4: Green Ports
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Episode 4 of the Maritime Innovation Sound Waves Podcast from the Maritime and Ports Innovation Network has drifted ashore. This podcast series is dedicated to discussing and exploring technologies as well as solutions developed and used in the Ports and Maritime sector to meet the UK’s Net Zero targets.
In this episode, Matthew Moss, the Maritime Knowledge Transfer Manager at Innovate UK KTN is joined by guests Elly Howe, Environmental and Sustainability Coordinator at Portsmouth International Port & Jerry Clarke, Marine Pilot at Portsmouth International Port and Marlene Mitchell, Commercial Manager from the Port of Aberdeen, exploring the topic of Green Ports.
During this podcast discussion, they discuss port decarbonisation initiatives and the large transformational projects that are enabling the UK to adopt sustainable technologies.