Vixen Capital is currently looking for computer scientists and physicists to join its team of traders: “The systems are artificially intelligent, they learn how to trade in the market, look out for movements and patterns, and then call upon their ‘memory’ to decide what to do with that information.”

Evidently passionate about bringing business and a useful service to the area, Rob Lewis aims to produce products locally and work with the C4DI’s digital talent: “We want to do something that’s good for the north, especially this city.”

Suntory first established itself in Osaka, Japan in 1899. Today the corporate giant employs over 42,000 people across Europe, Asia, America and Oceania. The question is, how can one of the oldest global drinks companies in the world transform to become digitally connected to its customers?

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