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Free digital tools to help mental health understanding in Cornwall and IoS

People who work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are being offered a free mental health training package to help them cope with the stresses and strains of the pandemic.

According to research in the county, the number of people experiencing possible anxiety and/or depression has almost doubled since the pandemic began.

The package is made up of short films which feature...

FibreHub in Cornwall, the venue for the event

Half-day event to be held in Cornwall to "demystify AI"

AI has become the most talked about, most sensationalised technology in the world today, but it’s meaning and how it can be used is often misunderstood. Many people are unsure of how AI affects their own lives and industries.

For their first ‘Tech Connect’ event of 2022, not-for-profit membership organisation Software Cornwall has collaborated with members and partners to confront...

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall

Spaceport Cornwall's Melissa Thorpe named as one to watch in 2022

The head of the UK’s first horizontal spaceport, based in Cornwall, has been named by the Observer as one of 2022’s “faces to watch”.

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, has been named alongside incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and UK foreign secretary Liz Truss as a key figure “who will be making headlines this year”.

Ms Thorpe is joined in the science...

Anchoring system for floating offshore wind

Truro-based firm develops innovative anchoring solution for floating offshore wind

Marine-i has announced that it is providing support to offshore specialist, Reflex Marine, who are developing a new system for anchoring floating offshore wind (FLOW) installations.

Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Marine-i is designed to help the marine technology sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly grow through harnessing the full potential of research...

Mike Barritt

Software Cornwall co-founder and director Mike Barritt wins Lifetime Achievement Award for services to the Cornish tech industry

Mike Barritt, Co-founder and Director of not-for-profit membership organisation Software Cornwall has scooped the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 Tech South West Awards , hosted last Thursday (Nov 25) at the Market Hall in Plymouth.

Back in 2010, Mike was working for Oxford Innovation and created a Director peer group, bringing founders of software companies together which...

Cornish startup xigxag opens £250,000 funding round

Audio visual reading app xigxag has opened a £250,000 public funding round on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs with over 72% already raised.

Xigxag, available on Google Play and the App Store, is the first app to offer customers audiobooks and ebooks in a single format called the x-book, which indexes human-voiced narration to the corresponding text so users can listen and read...

TSW Awards 2021

Falmouth-based Feritech scoops award for International Success

Feritech , which is based near Falmouth in Cornwall, has scooped the ‘International Success’ award in the Tech South West Awards 2021.

The winners were announced at a live event at Market Hall, Plymouth, last night.

Feritech MD Rob Ferris says: “This is a huge honour and we are delighted to have won this award in the face of stiff competition from right across the South West...

Mike Barritt: Lifetime Achievement Award nominee at the Tech South West Awards

In SWTD’s final article on the nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tech South West Awards, we spoke to Mike Barritt, co-founder of Software Cornwall and one of the county’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs.

In 2010, Mike Barritt was one of the founding Directors of Software Cornwall, the not-for-profit membership organisation supporting the tech sector in Cornwall....

A UAV craft on the runway

Windracers chooses Cornwall for UAV test flight

With funding from Cornwall Development Company , Windracers Ltd ran a trial of their twin engine, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), named ULTRA from 13th to 15th November at St Merryn Airfield in North Cornwall.

Windracers is a non-profit organisation that provides transport services to the humanitarian aid, research and environmental protection communities using UAV’s....

Dave Longman

A HeadTalk for all, at FibreHub

Cornish software development company Headforwards shares how it is following through on its pledge to make the new FibreHub building a space for all businesses, by extending invitation of its HeadTalks to a broader audience.

For many years, the Headforwards team has used HeadTalks as a way of sharing industry specific ideas within the technology sector. Now, the company is opening up...

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