Open Tech Calendar

Startup Grind Hosts Tom Walkinshaw (Alba Orbital)

Tom Walkinshaw is a Scottish entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Alba Orbital Limited (PocketQube Shop), a Kickstarter-funded company specializing in the production of PocketQubes. Alba’s first satellite, Unicorn-1, was built for the European Space Agency. The satellite is a 2p (double PocketQube) and will trial the world’s first Leo-Geo intersatellite link on a Picosat with Avanti Plc. Unicorn-2, another ESA project, advanced the technology further. Alba Orbital was featured in CNN's 2015 top 10 start-ups to watch and he was named in Forbes 30 under 30 for Technology in Europe. Tom holds a degree in Business from Glasgow Caledonian University.

https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-glasgow-presents-tom-walkinshaw-alba-orbital#/

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Wed 28th Jun 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 28th Jun 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Startup Grind Glasgow Hosts Lynne Cadenhead

A serial entrepreneur, Lynne has over 20 years investment experience, investing in, mentoring and nurturing a range of early stage technology and retail companies throughout the UK. She has worked with a wide portfolio of technology companies – from pharmaceuticals and polymers to prosthetics and optics – and has also managed two early stage technology venture capital funds, served on over 30 boards and started up her own games company.

Lynne served as a member of the Scottish Executive Scottish Industrial Development Advisory Board (SIDAB) for eight years and was previously Chairman of Connect, the Scottish technology networking organisation. She was also an early investor and first Chairman of Touch Bionics, the world-leading upper limb prosthetics company, recently sold for £27.5 million.

Currently, Lynne is the CEO of a start-up company developing unique biometric security software which fuses advanced biometrics and AES256 encryption to create the world’s first Person to Person (P2P) Secure Email Tunnel. Simple, safe, secure global email communications with applications in defence, finance, and healthcare.

Lynne is an investor and Director of Emotional Sciences, an artificial intelligence company using computational linguistics to detect emotions and the causes of emotion. The products enable people to read between the lines of what is being communicated and determine what people are really feeling at an emotional level.

There are multiple applications, including wellness in the workplace and cyber security. She is also a long-standing member of the Edinburgh Napier University Campaign Board, Chairman of UNICEF Scotland Advisory Board and Chairman of Women's
Enterprise Scotland, the community investment company which works to unlock the economic potential of women in business.

https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-glasgow-presents-lynne-cadenhead-serial-entrepreneur-investor

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Wed 31st May 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 31st May 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Chris van der Kuyl is an entrepreneur whose expertise covers the technology, media and entertainment sectors. Chris is the Founder, Owner and Chairman of both the Tayforth group and 4J Studios - one of the UK’s most successful videogame developers, responsible for the multi-million selling and multi-award winning Minecraft Console editions. Minecraft is a global phenomenon and is currently on track to become the most successful videogame of all time.

In his role as founding Chairman of Entrepreneurial Scotland he not only continues to lead and inspire in his field but also to develop entrepreneurial behaviour in all Scotland’s people.

Chris Van Der Kuyl (4JStudios)

Chris van der Kuyl is an entrepreneur whose expertise covers the technology, media and entertainment sectors. Chris is the Founder, Owner and Chairman of both the Tayforth group and 4J Studios - one of the UK’s most successful videogame developers, responsible for the multi-million selling and multi-award winning Minecraft Console editions. Minecraft is a global phenomenon and is currently on track to become the most successful videogame of all time.

In his role as founding Chairman of Entrepreneurial Scotland he not only continues to lead and inspire in his field but also todevelop entrepreneurial behaviour in all Scotland’s people.

https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-glasgow-presents-chris-van-der-kuyl-4jstudios#/

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Wed 26th Apr 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 26th Apr 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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