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Cambridge Tech Podcast covers all things tech from the heart of the UK’s tech capital, Europe’s biggest technology cluster, and one of the most respected tech and Innovation hubs in the world. Hosted by James Parton and Faye Holland, the duo talk tech with a full house of experts and personalities exploring this exciting ecosystem, sharing insights and opinions, and bringing you all the latest on

the innovators, the innovations, the game changers and the fundraiser. Cambridge’s strong startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship builds on the city’s long history of invention: the reflecting telescope, the hovercraft, the pacemaker, IVF, DNA, the pregnancy predictor test, wireless Internet, inkjet printing, Bluetooth, smart meters, round teabags and, of course, good old Alexa (to name but a few). Around 61,000 people are employed by more than 5,000 knowledge-intensive firms in the area, with a combined annual revenue of over £15.5 billion. Unsurprisingly, Cambridge receives four times the amount of tech investment per head than London and boasts more patents published per resident than any other in the UK. As managing director of Cambridge’s premier tech hub, The Bradfield Centre, James Parton is well placed to talk tech in a fast-growing world of co-working, incubation and accelerators. At Twilio, James was the company’s first hire outside of the US, building the EMEA business from scratch to IPO, and running it for its first five years. Entrepreneur Faye Holland is a similarly well-known protagonist on the Cambridge tech startup circuit - as creator of the innovation awards, which spotlights and promotes the outstanding innovators and innovations from the east of England, and as founder of multi-award-winning PR & communications consultancy, cofinitive, which specialises in promoting innovative and disruptive early-stage tech startups and scaleups.

18/02/2025

This week’s episode features an insightful discussion with Roz Bird (Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP) and Dr. Nicola Hancock (University of East Anglia (UEA)) on the cutting-edge research, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem at Norwich Research Park.

“We have more microbiologists here than anywhere else in the UK—possibly the world. That’s a testament to the depth of expertise we’re building.” – Roz Bird

Key takeaways:

• A Hub for Science & Startups – The park hosts top-tier institutions, including the John Innes Centre, The Quadram Institute, and the Earlham Institute, alongside the University of East Anglia and a thriving community of startups.
• From Lab to Market – Norwich Research Park fosters commercialisation through the ICURE programme, which helps scientists explore market applications for their research, and a £200,000 pre-seed fund supporting early-stage spinouts.
• Bridging the Talent Gap – The university and research institutes play a critical role in supplying skilled graduates and researchers to the growing tech and biotech companies in the region.
• A Future Accelerator – Plans are underway to launch a venture builder programme in 2025, offering targeted support to high-growth startups in biotech, , and .

We were also joined by two standout startups who shared their journeys: Sophie Vaud, Head of Microbial Engineering at Colorifix and Rory Hornby, Cofounder of Alora.

This episode is a must-listen for tech founders, investors, and anyone interested in and innovation.

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11/02/2025

This week, we caught up with Farbod Shakouri of Phantom Technology, a returning guest who’s undergone a significant pivot in his startup’s journey. Originally focused on building an operating system for smart glasses, Farbod and his team made a bold decision: to build the entire hardware and software stack themselves. Their mission? To help people combat smartphone addiction and improve cognitive health.

If you’re a founder, investor, or tech enthusiast, this episode is packed with insights on:

• The evolving AI debate & public perception
• How Cambridge startups are tackling energy-efficient computing
• The hard truths of startup pivots & funding strategies
• Why attention-tracking wearables might be the next big thing

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04/02/2025

This week, we sat down with Nick New, CEO of Optalysys, to explore the groundbreaking technology transforming data security, AI, and cloud services. From optical processing to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), this episode dives into the cutting-edge innovations driving the next era of secure computing.

Nick shares:

• His journey from his PhD in optical pattern recognition to founding Optalysys.
• How Optalysys leverages optical processing and FHE to process encrypted data without ever decrypting it—ushering in a new standard for secure AI and cloud computing.
• Optalysys’s big win at the Cambridge Tech Week Scale Up Awards and their plans for product launches, blockchain applications, and setting up a U.S office.
• Their mission to establish global hardware standards for FHE as part of the FETCH consortium.
• And, Optalysys's vision to become the “Nvidia of FHE.”

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28/01/2025

In this episode we hear from the winners of The Trinity Bradfield Prize, which saw an impressive 28 University Departments and 24 colleges represented in this year's competition.

Tune in to hear from

Lorna MacLean from Demetria who is aiming to reduce the time it takes for an endometriosis diagnosis from nine years to nine minutes using AI-assisted ultrasound.

Xufu Ren from PowerMatrix who provide the most efficient and compact next-generation high-performance power supplies.

Yizhou Yu from Healthspan Biotics who develop and distribute safe, affordable and effective probiotic bacteria that enhances brain resilience to Alzheimer’s disease.

This year’s awards also saw the introduction of the Angel Prize which recognises the most commercial progress over the previous 12 months from winning the competition. The award was split between:

Ash Zarkan from BioTryp Therapeutics who developed a class of biofilm inhibitors, which has the potential to revolutionise how we treat infection.

Hendrik Runge from Cambridge Nucleomics who provide rapid diagnostic tests based on proprietary RNA sequence counting platform method using DNA nanotechnology barcoding and solid-state nanopore detection.

The winners also discuss their experiences during the competition, highlight the importance of networking and skill development for founders, and share their funding needs and expertise requirements.

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21/01/2025

This week we are back with Alan Patterson from BeyondMath.

As our most listened to episode to date, we re-run the original interview with Alan and co-founder Darren Garvey, topped with a quick update with the co-founders.

We find out about progress in the acceleration of engineering design and simulation, saving companies orders of magnitude in engineering costs and time to market; from the design of everything from vehicles and aircraft, to lithium-ion batteries and data centre infrastructure.

We hear about working with Formula 1, partnering with NVDIA as they successfully install one of the first DGX H200 servers worldwide, and a new consortium funding programme with ATI in aerospace, another key sector. And we talk about team growth and their 2024 seed round led by UP Partners, with Insight Partners and InMotion Ventures, and prior investors.

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14/01/2025

We learn all about Crystallography in this week’s episode with Suzanna Ward, Head of Data and Community at The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) – a non-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemistry and crystallography for the public benefit.

CCDC was created by Dr Olga Kennard OBE FRS and J D Bernal who believed the collective use of data would be beneficial and wanted to collect data and making it accessible, transform the data into knowledge banks, and generate new insights.

We learn about the structural database and how researchers use it, and how their work now fosters innovation globally.

It’s also a great story of how tech advancement has changed the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) over the years, and their support of the next generation of scientists.

And we think this is the first episode where knitting needles have been referenced.

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In this week’s news and updates: EMBL-EBI, University of Cambridge, Stuart Clarke, , , , TechUK, The Startup Coalition, Tech Cornwall, Tech Southwest, Tech Exeter, UKRI, UK Black Tech

07/01/2025

We’re back with our regular slot with the insights team at Deloitte with the Predictions for 2025. We welcome Ben Stanton back, and this year we also have Paul Lee join us.

We talk ; Media, Entertainment and Sports; and Tech and Telecoms - the three main themes for 2025 - and then dig down into some of the specifics, including:

• Datacentres accounting for 2% of global energy consumption in 2025, and expected to double by 2030 as a result of AI running in the cloud
• Gender parity in the use of AU should be achieved by end of 2025, closing the gap quicker than in many other areas
• The growth of autonomous generative AI agents - – next generation of LLM 25% of companies looking
• An expectation of much more telecoms consolidation , globally
• And much more, including a nod to other rising trends and updates such as cyber defence, chiplets, silicon photonics, GenAI at the edge, 5G standalone.

And as usual, we have a review of any hits and misses from previous years.

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31/12/2024

In this episode we head to the gaming industry.

Beginning with playing Minecraft as a child, this week we talk to University of Cambridge alumni Sam Sully from Planetary Processing, a company who are developing a platform for Indie Gaming Studios.

We talk about:

• Learning how not to build technology
• The bridge between technical and non-technical people
• Creating technology as a service for small gaming studios
• How 40% of gaming industry is no longer the big companies like Sony

Sam provides an insight into developing multi-player games that can scale to 100,000s players exponentially quicker, with lower risk.

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24/12/2024

As we take a short break for Christmas, we decided to re-run one of our most popular episodes of 2024, the one with Pam Garside, chair of local angel network, Cambridge Angels.

The episode originally aired in January 2024 and has generated hundreds of downloads, and it's easy to see why.

Pam gave us an introduction to Cambridge Angels, their focus areas, and how their process works - vital information for any founder looking to pitch to Cambridge Angels.

Pam shares her priorities as chair of the Cambridge Angels, which includes navigating a challenging market environment, adding investor diversity, and raising the profile of its members' depth of expertise.

And we learn about Pam’s unique background, and her journey into investing. And we talk about healthcare and how AI and automation is revolutionising the sector but requires caution – it’s not an area to ‘move fast and break things’ as Mark Zuckerberg advises!

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17/12/2024

What a list of interesting speakers we have for you in this episode as we visited the pioneers of the Cambridge Phenomenon at the launch of the Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP).

We’ve ended up with a kind of mini-CHIP showcase:

Shai Vyakarnam talks about the story tellers from Cambridge Scientific Instruments to date and how the CHIP project aims at cataloguing and sharing the history of Cambridge. But importantly how innovation started and the drivers for innovation as a source of inspiration for future academics and entrepreneurs.

Matthew Bullock tells us about the decision to provide Acorn Computers the £1 million, and the importance of gathering 45 years of history.

Alan Barrell takes us on a journey from Domino Printing to Innovate Cambridge

Professor Barabra Sahakian gave the first example we have heard of science and tech coming together
Mike Evans talks about his days as a student and starting a business that is still running today, 40 years later.

We end with Catrina Dean telling us about the Cambridge University Library and its various collections, and Peter Rees who explains how to get involved with the CHIP project.

Imagine a repository where you could see defining emails, business plans, prototypes, images – all in one archive. If you have content to contribute, or would like to support the project, please contact the team at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/chip

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10/12/2024

In this episode we talk about a lifelong passion with tech and ‘trying stuff out’ with founder and chair of Cambridge Spark, Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma.

We have a rich conversation about:

• A passion for education and teaching the most spoken language in the world – computer code
• Doing more with less in the startup environment vs the corporate world
• Taking a B2C coding model to a very successful B2B model
• Tapping a market need by developing corporate AI skills, and learning how to ‘sell’
• Building data scientist sandbox environment with EDUKATE.AI
• Being bootstrapped, but with lots of support from people like Hanadi Jabado and non-dilutive funding like from Innovate UK
• The transition from CEO to Chair
• The importance of growth, development and strategic decisions
• Oh, and Raoul has his own podcast – The Data & AI Mastery podcast – check it out!!

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03/12/2024

Telling us all about we talk to Sheng Qi, University of East Anglia (UEA) and Roz Bird, Anglia Innovation Partnership, who introduce the Innovation Hothouse.

The Innovation Hothouse is an example of co-creation and collaboration between all the agencies in Norwich Research Park who are passionate about working together to achieve further impact and innovation. Dr Soraya Jones, The Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence is supporting this initiative because she is excited about the potential of a vibrant ecosystem working together “so much more can be achieved together than in isolation”.

We talk about some of the 2023 winners – TraitSeq (we also caught up with Joshua Colmer and Felicity Knowles in the episode), Virilitas, Ediform, Opau

And we catch up with two of the finalists for 2024 - Rosaria Campilongo of PfBIO and Safir Jamal of Vida Vodka before hearing all eight finalists pitch – the other six were Knee3D, Healthium Platform, iBoxit, PathoProst Detect Test, Bioscopic, Birthview/Birth4cast.

Congrats to all the finalists and the three ultimate winners:

1 iBoxit and we hear from John Farley at the end of the episode
2 KNEE3D
3 PfBio

Incredible work from the team on raising the awareness of the amazing work in Norwich and the East of England and we can’t wait to lfind out more about Norwich in the New Year.

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26/11/2024

James Lee, CEO and co-founder of Wave Photonics, talks to us about how they are enabling rapid photonic integrated circuit development for any wavelength or platform.

James explains how the design for integrated photonics uses the same scalable process used to make semiconductor electronics chips to make circuits for light. And he talks about the market opportunity for both tackling energy and bandwidth, and longer term with sensing and quantum.

We gain great insights about:
• Quitting a job may be too early to start a business
• You don’t have to be impossibly smart and motivated to be an entrepreneur
• Building technology from scratch
• Experiencing different universities and accelerator programmes (both sides of the pond)
• Recruiting the right people
• Experiencing Silicon Valley next-level optimism and vision
• Targeting clients at such an early stage of a company

Watch this space as Wave develops their products and builds their go-to-market outreach.

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In this week’s updates and news: Peter Cowley (episodes 46 in 2023 and 84 earlier this year) passed away peacefully on Saturday 16th November at his home, surrounded by his family.

19/11/2024

It’s not often that you get to talk to someone who has seen every press release and been part of innovation discussions for the last 35 years, not to mention who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the opportunities and challenges for our tech and science businesses.

In this episode we caught up with Tony Quested and Jamie Quested to talk about not just their , but the much broader impact and reach of Business Weekly since 1990.

Here are some highlights

• Current trends include a rise in genomics, synthetic biology, and quantum computing
• The US will continue to buy up our companies, to access the brain power and innovation across Cambridge and the East of England cluster…
• …but they will now keep the business here - like Featurespace (Visa), IQGeo (KKR), and Darktrace (Thoma Bravo) – rather than lifting and shifting to the US
• The demand for 100,000 engineers by leading tech companies will require different thinking
• The importance of ‘Brain Gain’ and how 70% (£1.65bn) of fundraising in the last year came out of the University of Cambridge…
• … and how overall funding in the last year topped £2.3bn of which £1bn was for tech (remainder life sciences), and 50% of all funding went to Cambridge Science Park tenant companies
• Whether our entrepreneurs are thinking strategically enough, especially when VCs and funders may have different priorities
• And then we finally talk about the Awards, and the ability to spot the successes based on a level of due diligence that is incomparable.

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12/11/2024

In the second part of our conversation with David Cleevely, we talk about the Cambridge Cluster, the vital work with government and on policy, and the phenomena of serendipity and paying it forward.

David has been instrumental in the Cambridge Cluster for decades, with the founding of groups like Cambridge Network and Cambridge Wireless; creating a vision for Cambridge (a few times); the importance of marketing and having a logo; and keeping Cambridge competitive.

A charitable contributor, David firmly believes that if you make some money, you should give back to the community – something Sara Allen at The Cambridge Pledge will be delighted to hear. And we hear about David’s pivotal role at Raspberry Pi and the eight years from formulating a plan to a flotation.

We talk about why an active involvement in public policy and government liaison is vital, and how entrepreneurs can help to fill gaps and stop us sleepwalking into growth challenges – locally and globally.

And we finish with a discussion on serendipity – the approach that will determine your path by making chance encounters happen. Tune in for a future episode when we’ll cover David’s Book – ‘Serendipity – it doesn’t happen by accident’.

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05/11/2024

For the next two episodes we have a 2-parter with the legendary David Cleevely – telecoms, wireless and technology expert, a serial entrepreneur, investor in 55 companies, and an adviser to Government on both a national and local level. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and last but by no means least, awarded a CBE, for services to technology and innovation. As an active and respected businessman, David vigorously promotes networking, collaboration and the City of Cambridge. So, we have lots to talk to David about!

We start with David giving his views on last week’s budget announcement which included providing “funding for Cambridge to help it reach its growth potential”.

We then take a journey into David’s education, career, and entrepreneurial journey including many of the investments he has made and been involved in. What you will hear as a continuous thread, and what we’ll talk about more in Part 2, is how serendipity shapes careers.

It would be impossible to list everything we talked about, so tune in for Part 1, and subscribe on your chosen podcast channel to get Part 2 straight to your feed next week.

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29/10/2024

Kathryn Chapman, Innovate Cambridge’s Executive Director joins us to provide an update on the initiative which started 3 years ago to bring a strategy together that is now supported by over 200 companies and 500 individuals.

Focussed on three pillars - Frictionless Innovation – Value for the Local Community – Partnering to scale across the UK - the programme under Kathryn’s leadership is now moving into the delivery phase. We talk through last week’s Innovate Cambridge Summit and some of the other progress that has been made including:

• The new narrative to ‘sell’ Cambridge
• A co-created Life Sciences strategy, including the recently announced ARIA funding
• Building the tech strategy and amplifying the tech sectors voice
• Bringing Cambridge and Manchester closer together for the benefit of the local region as well as economic growth for the UK, including an update from Lou Cordwell
• An update on ‘The Glasshouse’ – a new hub for everyone to utilise that opens in November – a front door into Cambridge as people arrive and meet in Cambridge close to the central train station
• An announcement of The Cambridge Pledge – with an insight from Sara Allen as to how entrepreneurs and businesses can pledge and donate to solve regional social problems
Find out more at innovatecambridge.com and get involved!

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22/10/2024

From China to Cambridge – the story of a new type of developed by Dave Henderson and Alex Murray. In this week’s episode we’re joined by Managing Director of FLIT, Alex who shares:

• the evolution of the company
• complexities of the market for ‘ ’
• the benefit of setting up in Cambridge
• the development stages to the FLIT M2
• functionality of the FLIT M2
• design and manufacturing
• funding and go to market.

We’re amazed at the number of things we didn’t know about mobility, electric bikes, ownership models and recycling which makes this episode another really interesting founders’ story.

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This week’s episode features an insightful discussion with Roz Bird (Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP) and Dr. Nicola Hancock (University of East Anglia (UEA)) on the cutting-edge research, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem at Norwich Research Park. “We have more microbiologists here than anywhere else in the UK—possibly the world. That’s a testament to the depth of expertise we’re building.” – Roz Bird Key takeaways: • A Hub for Science & Startups – The park hosts top-tier institutions, including the John Innes Centre, The Quadram Institute, and the Earlham Institute, alongside the University of East Anglia and a thriving community of startups. • From Lab to Market – Norwich Research Park fosters commercialisation through the ICURE programme, which helps scientists explore market applications for their research, and a £200,000 pre-seed fund supporting early-stage spinouts. • Bridging the Talent Gap – The university and research institutes play a critical role in supplying skilled graduates and researchers to the growing tech and biotech companies in the region. • A Future Accelerator – Plans are underway to launch a venture builder programme in 2025, offering targeted support to high-growth startups in biotech, #agritech, and #medtech. We were also joined by two standout startups who shared their journeys: Sophie Vaud, Head of Microbial Engineering at Colorifix and Rory Hornby, Cofounder of Alora. This episode is a must-listen for tech founders, investors, and anyone interested in #deeptech and #biotech innovation. Tune in on your chosen podcast platform to subscribe and listen. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67NCeqHhb5ZjhAHl85NNru?si=610647e635a3489f Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://bit.ly/CamTechPodYT #CamTechPod

This week, we caught up with Farbod Shakouri of Phantom Technology, a returning guest who’s undergone a significant pivot in his startup’s journey. Originally focused on building an operating system for smart glasses, Farbod and his team made a bold decision: to build the entire hardware and software stack themselves. Their mission? To help people combat smartphone addiction and improve cognitive health. If you’re a founder, investor, or tech enthusiast, this episode is packed with insights on: • The evolving AI debate & public perception • How Cambridge startups are tackling energy-efficient computing • The hard truths of startup pivots & funding strategies • Why attention-tracking wearables might be the next big thing Tune in on your chosen podcast platform to subscribe and listen. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67NCeqHhb5ZjhAHl85NNru?si=610647e635a3489f Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://bit.ly/CamTechPodYT #CamTechPod

This week, we sat down with Nick New, CEO of Optalysys, to explore the groundbreaking technology transforming data security, AI, and cloud services. From optical processing to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), this episode dives into the cutting-edge innovations driving the next era of secure computing. Nick shares: • His journey from his PhD in optical pattern recognition to founding Optalysys. • How Optalysys leverages optical processing and FHE to process encrypted data without ever decrypting it—ushering in a new standard for secure AI and cloud computing. • Optalysys’s big win at the Cambridge Tech Week Scale Up Awards and their plans for product launches, blockchain applications, and setting up a U.S office. • Their mission to establish global hardware standards for FHE as part of the FETCH consortium. • And, Optalysys's vision to become the “Nvidia of FHE.” Tune in on your chosen podcast platform to subscribe and listen. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67NCeqHhb5ZjhAHl85NNru?si=610647e635a3489f Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://bit.ly/CamTechPodYT #CamTechPod

Today James is at Freshers Fair on the IE Cambridge stand helping to promote all of the entrepreneurship activites that happen at the university, and of course the podcast! #CamTechPod

🎉 Tuesday 1st October marks the start of our 3rd series 🎉 We will be moving our publishing date from Sunday's to Tuesday's, so make sure you don't miss an episode by subscribing via your chosen podcast platform. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67NCeqHhb5ZjhAHl85NNru?si=610647e635a3489f Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://bit.ly/CamTechPodYT #CamTechPod

If you’ve ever had to wrangle with spreadsheets or are traumatised with the idea (or experience) of a large CRM system, then this episode is for you. Cambridge startup Cambridge Kinetics’s founder Jason Mashinchi joins us to talk about how the company is on a mission. Find Cambridge Tech Podcast on your chosen podcast platform to subscribe and listen. Apple podcast: https://ow.ly/2TBe50T7aLR Spotify: https://ow.ly/9igz50T7aLT Amazon Music: https://ow.ly/BjVi50T7aLV YouTube: https://ow.ly/N2I950T7aLW #CamTechPod

Ever wondered how we record the podcast? Now's your chance to find out. Join us at The Bradfield Centre for a BTS tour! And if you haven't done so already, subscribe on your chosen podcast platform. Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3P9RegV Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/67NCeqHhb5ZjhAHl85NNru?si=610647e635a3489f Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3VHqGGs YouTube: https://bit.ly/CamTechPodYT #CamTechPod

Hi, it’s Gemma here 👋 You can normally find me running the social media for Cambridge Tech Podcast. Today I’ve been let out of the office for a planning session with Faye and James to discuss the podcast as it hits it’s second anniversary! So you get to see what our hosts get up to, I have suggested that they film some behind the scenes content. If this video is anything to go by, there’s no telling what’s going to happen! #CamTechPod

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