WORCESTERSHIRE SHOWCASES 5G PROJECT AT NATIONAL EVENT

As part of the West Mercia Rural 5G (WMR5G) project, Worcestershire County Council and its partners shared their 5G experiences at an exclusive UK5G Showcase Event.

Stephen Ashton, Senior Project Manager at Worcestershire County Council, said: “The project is leading the way on investigating how to build 5G infrastructure quickly and efficiently in rural spaces as well as the impact 5G has on rural communities, specifically to support health and social care services.

“The Connected Worker project trials the use of a wearable connected camera which provides support and expert advice to care home staff, without the need to bring highly specialised GPs to the location.

“The second Health XR project is an experimental mobile application that maps the movement of a patient following a prescribed exercise for their physiotherapist to review. This event has provided an excellent opportunity to present our front-line 5G progress and experiences, with representations from WMR5G on the panels covering 5G in Health & Social Care and 5G in Rural.’’

The 5G network went live towards the end of 2021 to support the delivery of the trials, which are due to finish this summer.

Pentest People sees 65 per cent revenue increase

Cheltenham-based cyber security consultancy Pentest People is planning further expansion following its second consecutive year of rapid business growth, which saw revenues increasing by 65 per cent and headcount by 35 per cent over the past 12 months.

Pentest People’s cyber security experts test company’s websites, applications and IT systems for weaknesses that could allow cyber criminals to steal information, damage IT systems, or hold data to ransom.

Co-founder, Andrew Mason said: “We have opened a second office close to GCHQ in Cheltenham and launched an apprentice and graduate recruitment and training programme.

“We’ve also hired 13 women and are recruiting more female consultants.”

Pioneering Bristol-based automated credit control platform itsettled, has been announced as this year’s TechNation Rising Stars 4.0 FinTech Award winner.

Built on CEO Glen Morgan’s 28 years of experience in the credit management industry, itsettled integrates with a customer’s accounting software, allowing invoices to be pulled across with ease. With free access to credit reports and a debt collection guarantee, itsettled helps businesses get paid quicker and stress less.

Awarded by TechNation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, the Rising Stars programme is a competition for innovative, early-stage tech companies.

Cheltenham’s cyber network CyNam launches ecosystem manifesto

CyNam, Cheltenham’s cyber cluster, has launched a new manifesto aimed at turbo-charging its entrepreneurial cyber ecosystem.

Richard Yorke, Managing Director at CyNam and Chair at UKC3 – UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration, said: “It’s time for us to stop talking so much about CyNam and our ecosystem in the abstract and instead talk much more about the specific achievements of our start-ups and entrepreneurs.”

The manifesto states that Cheltenham must recognise its fast-growing success stories, such as Anatwine, Fasthosts, Immersive Labs and Aquilai and celebrate them.

These success stories are the high growth companies that are paving the way for other start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs in the region.