Author Archives: Silicon Roundabout

Ian Hood, CEO and Co-Founder of communications agency Babel discusses how to build a brand in an ever transparent, technology-powered world!


“Technology itself — social media, cameraphones — has also turned the world into a panopticon prison for bad boys, whose misdeeds are now visible almost all the time. It was a dash cam that caught Kalanick’s unsympathetic retort to a …

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We are at the point where companies are really understanding there is a lot of money at stake…..there is greed and fear. There will be winners and losers and that could happen pretty soon….’(Bryant Walker Smith,FT 15.04.17) Nina O’Sullivan, Legal Director at Mishcon de Reya LLP, reflects on the growing threat of IP wars disrupting the disruptors.


A series of high profile patent and trade secrets lawsuits has shone a spotlight on the significant challenges facing emerging technology businesses, both in protecting their valuable innovations, but also in ensuring that they do not encroach on their competitors’ …

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Banks and the Fintech Community – Compete or Collaborate? Phil Cox, Head of EMEA and President of UK Branch, Silicon Valley Bank explains!


Two years ago, I attended a seminar where more tales of woe for banks were being predicted at the hands of ‘fintech upstarts’. The sector was ripe for disruption, especially those ‘fat cat’ bankers who were too complacent to see …

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Architects Hollwich Kushner are behind some of the tech sector’s most exciting developments embracing New York, Munich and Philadelphia. Co Founder Matthias Hollwich talks about his practice, their approach and some incredible projects!


photo c/o Jason Lindberg Ten years ago we started Hollwich Kushner – to explore the future of Architecture and to build buildings! We were young, curious minded and relentless in our desire to explore the world around us. Over these …

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Two recent projects have placed Architects Fletcher Priest at the heart of two of the UK’s leading centres of both academia and entrepreneurism. Founder Keith Priest talks about the challenges of embracing culture, design and architecture in Oxford and Manchester!


Science and technology-driven entrepreneurs are at the heart of the UK’s plans for future economic growth. Two of the projects that Fletcher Priest is involved with will be high density places where creative collisions between investors, researchers and engineers happen …

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‘Critical prognosis looms over Chinese health apps’(FT 10.03. 17). As investment in ‘China’s digital health industry fell 10 per cent year on year in the last quarter of 2016 to $520m, after a 41 per cent decline in the previous three months’, we catch up with Lloyd Price, co-founder of London’s disruptive Health tech startup Zesty!


Zesty was founded in July 2012, since then we have been passionate about improving access to healthcare, automating tasks, saving patients time and hospitals money. James Balmain my co-founder, CEO and I have 40+ years combined experience of digital transformation …

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Firefly are a business making waves in Edtech


Founding partner Simon Hay talks transparency in learning, parental engagement, funding and international expansion! Today, Firefly supports over 500 schools in 33 countries – that’s some 500,000 students, as well as teachers and parents using our online tool every day. …

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Ranked #2 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 loveholidays is the fastest growing online travel agent in the UK. Co Founder Alex Francis talks about the future of the travel industry in an age of tech disruption!


The truth is, what will affect travel the most in future is what will affect virtually every other industry: the rapid development of the digital world and the vast increase in mobility. Simply put, travellers are now more connected than …

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Is it possible to regenerate a city whilst being sympathetic to existing architecture? We caught up with Dan Mullen of Bedrock, whose work in Detroit is doing just that!


It is absolutely possible to regenerate a city while paying homage to its past. Adaptive reuse is a significant part of our strategy here at Bedrock. The majority of our 95+ building portfolio consists of historic structures and we strive …

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‘Christmas sales figures could be just the start of the bad news. A toxic cocktail of rising costs and inflation is set to hit stores and online retailers’ (Sunday Times 1 Jan 2017). Andy Berg,Co Founder of global digital agency Born, on the future of retail and his entrepreneurial journey!


I’ve always had a fascination with technology and thanks to growing up in an entrepreneurial media family, was privy to the latest innovation & technology from an early age. Take that and my curiosity to understand how everything works, it’s …

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