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June is flying by and shortly we can be off for the summer time.
We’ve been busy engaged on some new concepts and excited to let extra about our plans.
Discover out what occurs behind the scenes at our household run good home-based business. This month is all about podcasts and widgets!
Fife Household Enjoyable Day
This was such a great occasion, nice to see so many guests excited about STEM and having enjoyable. It was a additionally very busy day for us as we had two stalls, one about good houses and one other about Chemical Engineering.
European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit
I’m tremendous excited that this occasion is staying in Scotland for subsequent 12 months. I offered at it again in March and it actually was implausible! So properly organised and many alternatives to be taught and community. Delighted that I can be concerned with the organising for subsequent 12 months and doing my greatest to trace down voice lovers throughout Scotland to be part of the occasion. I do know there are some wonderful tasks and consultants on the market who might share their experiences and showcase how fantastic Scotland is.
The Gray Hill
The brand new interactive theatre tales undertaking that we’ve been collaborating on went reside on Alexa. It’s a gentle launch in the mean time whereas we take a look at funding choices to proceed on with creating content material for the library and bringing in additional writers.
The primary story follows the principle character, Jake, who has lately cut up up along with his girlfriend and is confronted with discovering a brand new place to reside. You get to assist him navigate this new chapter in his life by serving to him to determine which landlady to maneuver in with. It’s each heartwarming and hilarious. I’ve such a deep empathy for Jake as not one of the selections are notably interesting!
In case you have an Alexa, you possibly can test it out by saying “Alexa, allow The Gray Hill”.
Girls in Information Science – Aberdeen
Earlier within the month I attended the Girls in Information Science convention in Aberdeen. Within the tech world it’s uncommon to expertise a day the place you get to hearken to a complete day of amazingly proficient ladies speaking about their work and it’s affect. In truth, in my entire life, I’ve by no means had an expertise prefer it. The shows had been actually inspirational, and I used to be honoured to be requested to contribute to one of many panel dialogue classes.
Royal Society Dinner
I had the honour of attending a Royal Society dinner in Aberdeen to speak about innovation technique and abilities gaps. It was a extremely attention-grabbing dialogue together with a broad vary of views from throughout the North East of Scotland. Within the North East, most of the companies are vitality targeted, so it was good to share a non-energy business perspective as properly.
Kindspace Podcast
Over on the Kindspace aspect of the enterprise, after a lot procrastination, we’ve kicked off our new podcast sequence. The primary episode is recorded and almost prepared for launch in early July. The podcast is an exploration of sort areas, the place we’ll share methods for bettering your wellbeing. It permits you a purposeful pause in your busy day to really feel calm and uplifted, able to tackle life. With every visitor interview, we’ll dive deeper into what creating a sort area actually means, exploring folks’s lived expertise and approaches to well-being and psychological well being. Our friends are actually stunning and can embody folks we’ve met on our journey into tech, wellness, and entrepreneurship. We hope that you’ll include us and proceed on our journey to create extra kindspaces, sharing your insights and asking questions as collectively we unfold kindness throughout the globe.
https://createyourkindspace.com/podcast/
Podcast Appearances
I recorded fairly a couple of interviews over the previous couple of months, which coincidentally got here out with comparable timings. Every one has a barely completely different focus although, and I share completely different insights into our background and a few of the initiatives that we’ve got been engaged on. Speaking about my previous and the way it has led me to the place I’m at present, is one thing I do wrestle with. Collaborating in discussions like these, are barely much less intimidating, particularly as I’ve had such pretty hosts (hoping I can do an equally good job on the opposite aspect because the interviewer!). Within the feminine founder one, I open up a bit about my experiences of rising up with a dad or mum who suffered from alcohol habit, anxiousness and melancholy. Maybe a few of what I discuss will resonate with you in the event you’ve had comparable experiences. One of many interviews I don’t have a hyperlink for because it was a part of a reside radio present.
What’s a Widget?
Thomas has been having plenty of enjoyable with the brand new Alexa widgets function! They’re designed to work on the Alexa gadgets with a display to pin your favorite features for fast entry. On the most important Alexa Show15 screens it creates a type of retro corkboard really feel, along with your appointments, buying lists and notes all immediately seen. As somebody who loves to remain organised, this does enchantment to me. Widgets had been lately made out there to builders like us, enable us to hyperlink them to Alexa apps. We’ve created one for Kindspace that provides you a shortcut to entry the check-in, suggestions and wellness actions. We’ve additionally created a particular stand-alone one which shows a Each day Affirmation, for inspiration and in addition one thing visually interesting to have in your display. This week Thomas has been making a Widget model of our pomodoro type timer, Phocus House, which I’m very excited to make reside, as I do know lots of people actually like this productiveness approach.
Kayla, our scholar, who has been working with us half time has been engaged on writing a useful How To information all about widgets, that can assist you get began utilizing them in your gadgets. We’re hoping to get this revealed on our web site very quickly.
Within the meantime, to entry the widgets all you might want to do is swipe from the right-hand aspect to the left of the display after which faucet on the button that claims ‘Widget Gallery’.
Is it too early to speak about December?
As an early heads up, we’re planning an even bigger occasion the primary week in December (the 4th to the 8th) in Aberdeen as we kindly have entry to an area within the ONE Tech Hub in Aberdeen as a part of their sequence to showcase the work that start-ups are doing within the native space.
Thus far, the tough plan for the week is:
- Day 1 – Hackathon Day
- Day 2 – STEM Future Expertise Day
- Day 3 – Espresso Morning, Help within the House Day
- Day 4 – Surroundings Day
- Day 5 – Festive Enjoyable Day
It could really feel very early to begin speaking about December, however in the event you’d prefer to become involved, maybe some college students who’d like to affix the Hackathon, have a faculty that you just suppose may benefit from a workshop session, or possibly you’ve gotten some good tech that wants fastened or questions on tech, we’re hoping to even have drop in classes via the week the place you and get assist from an skilled (aka Thomas).
We hope you’ve gotten a beautiful summer time and that you’ve got some good plans. We’re off to Shetland and looking out ahead to seeing the Tall Ships competition. So, our subsequent replace is more likely to be later in August when the children head again to high school.
