Biztech is collaborating with partners to bring businesses across the Milton Keynes region together within a new MK Digital Community. MK Digital Community is for organisations that want to collaborate and learn from each other about the opportunities that...

It was a delight to attend the South Central Institute of Technology (IOT) launch at Bletchley Park and a great pleasure to have the Institute’s Principal Alex Warner as a member of the Biztech Management Board. As launches go, it excelled – with a fast-moving and...

For over two years, and wearing my Biztech hat, I have been serving as an advisor to an Institute of Coding (IOC) panel charged with changing the way in which computing courses are taught within Higher and Further Education. It is a good example of the sort of role...

Post-Covid - and looking forward to COP26 in November 2021 - we see two major and lasting changes that the pandemic has brought about: an accelerated shift to digital ways of life; and a focus on green, sustainable engineering. The need for skilled employees in areas...

One of Biztech’s roles is to bring different organisations together in ways that serve the tech community within the region.  A recent webinar hosted by the Connected Places Catapult (CPC - which is located in Milton Keynes) reminded us how important collaboration...

When we started Figuringoutdata.com we knew that location would be everything.  We do what the name suggests – help businesses to ‘figure out' how to make the best use of data.  We, therefore, needed to be in a business community within which data would play a central...

Businesses urgently need talent with the best tech education: people want careers with real potential, rewards and security. It should be a natural enough cycle, and yet we have skills shortages that are holding back the region’s growth. Milton Keynes’ proposed new...

KMi or the Knowledge Media Institute is one of Milton Keynes' most diverse and inclusive educational institutes. It is dedicated to conducting research in computer science and technologies with a focus on social justice. To encourage more participation from the BAME...

A black technology entrepreneur has called for finance companies to be open and transparent about their funding decisions to help release the potential of BAME businesses in the UK.  Fredi Nonyelu, the founder and CEO of Milton Keynes-based tech business Briteyellow,...

One of the reasons for joining Biztech was to help foster greater collaboration across the tech community within Milton Keynes. It was therefore a very great pleasure to witness first hand the sort of collaboration that makes Milton Keynes stand out as a hub within...