With all of the noise about chat GPT Beena Puri talks about GMdigital focus on upskilling of people and businesses in how best to leverage AI 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Excited to see the Startup Coalition rebrand and this report on the top 50 startup constituencies in the UK Yet again Manchester is top ranking outside of London (and the only non-London constituency to make it into the top 10 🚀 )

I’m in meetings in Manchester all day today but enjoying sneaking by a peek at my wonderful ex colleague Sammy Fry as he takes the stage to discuss all things climate tech London Tech Week 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Super early start today but I’m really excited about spending a couple of days in Amsterdam at TNW hanging out with a bunch of other tech ecosystem builders and supporters 🤓🇳🇱

And for my morning commute…. The good ship TNW ⛴️

What an absolute delight to be reunited with Maha Gadher at TNW. Maha was the powerhouse behind so much of our partnerships magic at Tech Nation, and is now doing great things at Techleap as they build the Dutch ecosystem. I’m loving hearing about their approach.

So so thrilled to see this come to life 🥳

Absolutely delighted to see this brought to life 🥳 Praetura Ventures • are known for doing some superb work across the north, and this will be an important addition to the funding ecosystem 🚀

Well hello Tech Climbers - welcome to Manchester! 👋🏽 (ps - sorry it’s raining, but you know….Manchester ☔️ 😂) And so lush to see one of my faves Mo Aldalou doing his super-connector thing so so well as usual 🤩

🙌Manchester’s Female Founders Incubator programme has just launched and is looking for female entrepreneurs in the region to benefit from 6 months' free office space, peer-to-peer help & £20k worth of business support, in partnership with Bruntwood SciTech. 👉bit.ly/3qsJvm5

Can you tell I was excited to bump into Stephen Kelly at a science and technology event in Manchester today? I loved my time sitting on the Tech Nation board with him, and can’t wait to see what he and the team do with @WANdisco in this new chapter 🙌🏽

It’s nearly time…. New mission accepted 💪🏽

Launch day is nearly here! 🥳 We’re bringing the Turing Innovation Catalyst out into the world on 25th Sept and want as many voices from across Greater Manchester’s AI ecosystem in the room as possible! eventbrite.co.uk/e/turing-innov…

Well Manchester has shown up in force for the Praetura Ventures • and Enterprise City Founder F*ck Ups event! Great to see experienced founders sharing what’s gone wrong along the way, so others can avoid making the same mistakes 👏🏽👏🏽

Love this!

Can’t believe how many wonderful folks turned out to celebrate the launch of Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester with us! Delighted to meet so many people keen to take Greater Manchester’s AI ecosystem to the next level 🚀

Hanging out in Rochdale today as part of the Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester collaboration with Fire Up co-working space It’s a gorgeous coworking space based in a heritage fire station 🚒 with loads of support offer Can’t wait to get stuck in on AI skills and growth support with the team here

At the launch of the new University Academy 92 (UA92) business school and its fab to hear Mayor of Greater Manchester talking about the importance of line of sight for young people from all GM boroughs to amazing well paid careers. Such nice alignment to the skills programmes were running Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester

Err hello brilliant panel 🤩 ISOBELLE 🤎 doing such an amazing job of chairing the University Academy 92 (UA92) discussion tonight 👏🏽 Such an explicit focus on blending the best of academia and industry is great to see (and very Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester -y!) and love the dedication to socio-economic inclusion

Y’all know I don’t break cover on here very often anymore, but this is worthy of an exception… #NextInTheNorth