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10th December 2015 Stockholm, Sweden

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by Daniel Cartridge

Head of Science & Innovation Nordics

Celebrating Success in Stockholm – the Nobel Prizes

On arrival at Stockholm Arlanda airport is a large sign welcoming visitors to the Swedish capital.  Nothing unusual in that of course.  But what makes this sign different is exactly who the sign is welcoming.  Holidaymakers back from Thailand?  Weary business people from the US?  Neither.  The sign says ‘Welcome Students and Researchers.’ Anyone who […]

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23rd November 2015 Vancouver, Canada

Rupert Potter

by Rupert Potter

British Consul General, Vancouver

Climate 2050 – Why Paris is the Next Beginning

You may remember the 1970s and ‘80s like they were yesterday. Or perhaps they seem like ancient history, an era long before you were born. It was a time of Punk and New Romantics, the Marlboro man and heavy glass ash trays, big hair and bad cars (or bad hair and big cars). Vehicles drank […]

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13th August 2015 Toronto, Canada

DementiaHack2015: Solving the challenges of living with dementia

Few people underestimate the scale of the challenge presented by dementia. The latest numbers are so large and terrifying that they start to lose meaning: 44 million people living with dementia worldwide, double this amount by 2030; a societal cost of £26 billion in England, treble this by 2030; 25 % of hospital beds in […]

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5th June 2015 Beirut, Lebanon

Tom Fletcher

by Tom Fletcher

Former British Ambassador to Lebanon

TECH, TALENT, A BROKEN TREADMILL (AND MAJOR TOM)

Last month, we launched the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. You can see a clip of a drone delivering my speech – for the first and last time, I can suggest that Enrique Iglesias take note. I normally try to write speeches while running. Jogging with bodyguards makes me look like the poor man’s slow Madonna, […]

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14th July 2014 Washington DC, USA

by James Illingworth

Military Attached and Head of the British Army Staff – United States

Testing new technologies for the battlefield

The following is a guest post from Captain Graham Henderson, Plans Staff Officer within the Headquarters of the UK’s 1st Mechanized Brigade who participated in the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE). Heavy wind gusts and unforgiving terrain set ideal conditions for testing new equipment in a joint exercise known as the NIE. The Network Integration Evaluation […]

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