After months of planning our in-house capability to deliver hybrid events is at an international standard. We now launch our High Growth series of bite sized insights.
Over the coming months C4DI and Barclays Eagle Labs will deliver several episodes of the High Growth Series.
Director of International business development, Bob Spence and Community Manager, Louise Cooke are delighted to confirm the C4DI membership of One Call. One Call is led by Tech Entrepreneur Gohar Sultan who previously worked with Bob developing advanced technology within the Middle East FinTech sector. One Call is currently based in Lahore Pakistan which is where Bob originally met Gohar.
Sauce launched here at C4DI roughly 7 months ago and have been developing web and app projects for clients across many sectors ever since. Amongst several projects in varying stages of development one mobile app, in particular, has been a huge success and landed them the award for Best Mobile App at the 2016 Digital Awards held earlier this month.
Software developers Arc Studios won the award for Best Digital Startup this year after being nominated for the award two years in a row. Creating bespoke software for local and international businesses, Arc Studios have evolved from 4 students in a bedroom to an 8-man team providing opportunities for interns and year in industry students to develop their talents and skills.
Victoria Parkinson is the Director of VSP Accountancy, a chartered accountancy service that specialises in small businesses and new start-ups. Previously working at a firm for twelve years, we met up with Victoria to find out why she became the in-house accountant for digital freelancers and tech start-ups at the C4DI.
Having founded the start-up Good2Learn, an interactive platform that aids primary school children in their understanding of English and Maths, Paul Mandalia is now excited for the future as he progresses to the next stage of his project. We caught up with the former operations manager to see what inspired him to enter the world of education.
Zero Day Security is the brainchild of Lukasz Jendraszek. Covering everything from penetration testing to emergency system recovery, the fully flexible service provides protection against hackers, leaks and unauthorised access. We caught up with him in our co-working space to find out more about the future of web security.
Marketing specialist John Cant works independently to help start-up businesses with their initial establishment and early growth. We caught up with him in our hot-desk area to learn more about how he does it all, and which project he is focusing on at the moment.
“I’m currently working with a software start-up called Hubscope,” explains John. “It’s a visualisation application used by IT project teams that shows how people, requirements, services and technology interconnect.”
“I’m the kind of person who has a lot of ideas,” Neil Curtis confesses as we sit down in the C4DI hot-desk area. His company, CTOP Limited, reflects his creativity, acting as an umbrella for a vast variety of online projects. Running several affiliate websites, an e-commerce parenting business and even designing his own online course, Neil’s ideas have taken him very far. “You just need to give it a go and see how it pans out; I tend to find that most things work out if you’re serious about them”...
In case you were wondering what it is about…
Expect to see more of these things wandering around C4DI in the coming months. The Hardware Meetup is designing and building robots with lights to create a unique display as part of City of Culture 2017.
The idea is simple - build a robot platform carrying LEDs that will exhibit particular behaviours. Stand back (in the dark) to enjoy a very unusual art form.
The plan is to have many HullPixelBots so if you would like to get involved we need more builders and software developers. The chassis can be provided and the components together cost less than £10.
Rob Miles is the creator and for more details see his blog: http://www.robmiles.com/hullpixelbot/ or talk to Robin Harris or Mike Clarke.
Sauce is a development team born out of the C4DI that comprises Matt Gibson, John Polling and Jim Wardlaw (pictured left to right). Together they work on web and app projects across a wide range of client sectors, bringing solutions to problems of all sizes. We met up with Matt to find out more about a current piece of work, which will help members of Hull University Union to make the most of their student journey.
“Hull University Union (HUU) want to improve student engagement using a phone application,” explains Matt at their offices in C4DI. “We’ve been tasked with creating an app for WelcomeFest, which will allow the student population to access info on services available to them, view and plan events, and learn about the campus and city.”
Many complex IT projects go over budget, over time or fail to deliver many of their anticipated benefits. Hubscope is a visualisation application that improves the success rate of IT projects by improving communication between the technology team and business stakeholders.
John Cant who is part of the team is based in C4DI.
You can read more about their launch here : https://bdaily.co.uk/technology/27-07-2016/new-zealand-tech-startup-to-launch-in-hulls-c4di/
...and view their website here : http://hubscope.com
Happy Goon is an exciting startup that is based around high-quality greeting cards that you can buy online anytime, send them anywhere, and watch them come to life with the Happy Goon app.
Their Kickstarter Campaign was successfully funded and they have great plans in store.
Tim moved to Hull in October 2015. He has a Masters of Engineering from Warwick University, 8 years experience working for HSBC in a wide variety of technology roles. Check out Happy Goon's website here
Whether you’re a web developer that specialises in C# or a CEO in need of a videographer, Tender North will solve your problems and present a spectrum of possibilities
The local partners driving forward the regeneration of Hull’s Fruit Market have revealed their vision for the £80m transformation of the city’s cultural and creative quarter.
Regeneration company Wykeland Group and residential developer Beal Homes said the rejuvenation of the Fruit Market would see £70m of privately-funded development in Hull’s most significant urban regeneration project.
The two long-established Hull companies have formed a joint venture company, Wykeland Beal, to breathe new life into the Fruit Market, in partnership with Hull City Council.
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My Cardboard Bedroom is a new interactive film produced by C4Di based production company My Pockets.
The film was commissioned by Hull City Arts to encourage young people to get involved in creative activities in Hull.
My Pockets worked with a team of young people to devise, design, shoot and edit the film. They built a bedroom entirely from cardboard and created an interactive story where the viewer can make choices for the lead character, condemning her to a life of boredom or encouraging her to try something new.
The film was created on the new innovative Interlude platform and has been selected for its featured projects page alongside films for Coldplay, Coke and MTV.
HULL, 11th February 2016: Tech City UK, the UK government backed organisation tasked to accelerate the growth of digital businesses, along with innovation charity Nesta, today launch the Tech Nation 2016 report in partnership with core data partner, GrowthIntel. The most comprehensive analysis of the UK’s digital tech industries to date, Tech Nation 2016 underlines the economic importance of digital tech businesses, with the number of businesses in Hull growing by 24% between 2010 and 2014. Tech Nation 2016 found the digital tech economy has a strong impact on employment nationwide and is creating highly paid job opportunities, with 1.56 million people employed in the sector, including 6,070 in Hull.
Stepping outside of the rat race and becoming a creative, driven entrepreneur has never been easier.
