Latest News and Events here at the EIC
You will surely have noticed the recent renovation work going on to revamp the reception area of EIC. The first stage has now been completed to remove the pod, and further works will continue in the coming weeks.
Plans have been drawn up by contractors and below you can view some of the proposed designs.
If you have any views or questions about the proposed plans, please do not hesitate to get in touch with management staff.
Training experts Imagine Training are celebrating 25 years in business in 2019!
As part of their celebrations, Imagine threw a party at their offices in the e-Innovation Centre, inviting friends and business contacts from the past 25 years. As well as food for everyone to enjoy, there was also some magical fun during the event provided by Colin Dorning MBE who performed close-up magic for the guests.
Training Director, Karen Turner said: “We’ve worked hard over the past 25 years to help hundreds of businesses save time and work more effectively using Microsoft Office software like Excel. We’re now launching a range of soft skills training courses including Leadership, Change Management and Customer Service.
We’ve trained thousands of delegates over the years and have kept all the evaluation comments so we could prove – if ever necessary – how great our service is. We have received 98% Total Satisfaction from our customers over the years.
We loved to hear stories from past delegates of how training has helped improve their work and how it has enhanced their careers as well as improving their employer’s bottom line.”
Imagine Training was also supporting The Ben Corfield Football Fund with their event. Ben Corfield is a local 7 year old boy who has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Donations from the day will be given entirely to this worthy cause, helping young Ben and others like him, and also the hospitals and specialist wards they rely on so much.
To find out more about Ben, you can follow his story here: http://thebencorfieldfootballfund.co.uk/bens-story
This month Richard Howells, CEO of Bronze Software Labs, was invited to meet the Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party in recognition of contribution to British Innovation.
Richard founded ‘The Tribe Project’, a digitally centred initiative to directly tackle national care inequality. Tribe uses geospatial datasets combined with machine learning to identify care ‘dark patches’ across the UK. These localities represent areas where it is no longer economically viable for care companies to operate and where thousands of vulnerable citizens are struggling to maintain a basic quality of life.
The Tribe Project up-skills people within care dark patches to become certified carers whilst simultaneously growing community social action. The technology provides an over-arching digital solution through which Local Government can commission help directly to vulnerable people seeking care. The Tribe Project has also won the ‘UK Social Impact Award’ from the Social Tech Trust.
Pictured is Richard at the garden party with his Mother Hazel Howells, who was the inspiration for starting the project.
Find out more about The Tribe Project at www.tribeproject.org
There has been great new addition to the modern and stylish furniture at EIC. Provided by Space Oasis, the new seating pod on the lower floor has given the informal meeting space another high-tech dimension.
The pod comes equipped with features including a 21-inch display screen – connectable to a laptop, as well as three-pin and USB power points and also walls and a table that act as a whiteboard!
Centre Manager Zoe Slattery said: “As part of the ongoing effort to improve the meeting and breakout areas around EIC, we are very pleased to have this new pod installed and it offers yet more innovative space in which our tenants can enjoy working.”