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Artificial intelligence has been revealed as the most significant tech trend in 2023

AI revealed as hottest tech trend of 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been revealed as the most significant tech trend in 2023, according to a survey of over 100 business leaders in the South West.

The Tech From The Edge Report , published by Tech South West, reveals current trends, challenges and opportunities in the region’s tech sector.

According to the report, 68% of business leaders believe AI to be the...

Bristol's Intellium AI supports BAE Systems in AI supply chain project

Bristol-based deep tech company Intellium AI is supporting aerospace and defence giant BAE Systems through an Innovate UK sponsored project to reduce material waste and carbon footprint across the supply chain.

Intellium AI is working with BAE Systems and other industry partners including Codegate, Digital Catapult, Maher and MTC on Innovate UK’s Manufacturing Made Smarter project,...

Diversity in Tech and Trump's America: Joyann Boyce, Founder & CEO of Arima & Co.

Who are you and what is Arima & Co.?

I am a marketer now turned founder/consultant. I started my business back in 2017 as a social media marketing agency and then I found a problem and became obsessed with it. It started with the lack of diversity I noticed in stock images. I started with a project that highlighted this issue which got featured on the BBC. Then I went on to look...

Intelligent AI raises nearly £1m and launches South West recruitment drive

An Exeter-based artificial intelligence start-up whose founder was inspired to change the commercial insurance sector by the Grenfell Tower disaster has raised close to £1m in funding – and has just started a recruitment drive across the South West.

Intelligent AI, which uses artificial intelligence to accurately assess risk in the commercial property insurance sector, is aiming to...

Applegate CEO Stuart Brocklehurst

Exclusive: One billion pieces of PPE delivered by Devon firm

A Devon tech business behind a digital procurement platform has facilitated the delivery of more than one billion items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Barnstaple-based Applegate Marketplace , an artificial intelligence-powered procurement platform that connects commercial buyers with providers of goods and services, started to see...

Applegate CEO Stuart Brocklehurst

Stuart Brocklehurst, Applegate CEO: "We have in the South West an area in which we are genuinely world-leading and it’s an area of increasing importance"

Stuart Brocklehurst is chief executive of Applegate Marketplace, a Barnstaple-based artificial intelligence-powered procurement platform that connects commercial buyers with providers of goods and services. He sits on the board of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, where he also chairs the Innovation Board.

Stuart spoke to SWTD about running a tech business...

Exeter University builds £3.1m AI computer facility

Work has started on a multimillion pound computer facility at the University of Exeter.

The new building, which will be located on the University’s Streatham Campus, will house an adaptable space including an Artificial Intelligence Arena and Computer Learning Laboratory. The project is valued at £3.1m, according to Devon Live .

The building is one of several to deliver...