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Earlier this week, CEO Steph Locke was named as one of the UK’s 100 most inspirational female entrepreneurs by Small Business Britain’s ...

CEO Steph Locke was listed among 30 inspiring women leading the way for youngsters of all genders to get involved in manufacturing. But why are there ...

What better way to round off 2020 than with a review of our most popular content as read by you. We've selected just 6 of your most enjoyed articles ...

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Be The Change is an event series run by Tramshed Tech that aims to highlight partners who are advocating change, support collaboration for ...

The skills and knowledge associated with STEM are the driving force of innovation in many businesses, which is what makes STEM so important to the ...

We're one of Wale's Rising Stars of Tech Nation

Over the last week, Tech Nation have been announcing the regional winners of their 3rd Rising Star competition and we are honoured to be one of the ...

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Major crises cause economic and social damage but they also inspire innovation. This was a major theme Digital Manufacturing Week, who themselves had ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been heating up for several years, and the recent challenges imposed by COVID-19 have accelerated efforts to get ...

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European DIGITAL SME Alliance have come together to set up a focus group on AI which ...

World-class manufacturers will take the virtual stage at the 2020 Digital Manufacturing Week happening from 9 - 12 November. The Originator of ...

Industry 4.0 has been budding over the last decade and has a long way yet to mature, however, the onset of the Covid-19 global pandemic has presented ...

There is no doubt that AI has enabled major efficiencies in predictability and capacity across the supply chain in manufacturing. The global pandemic ...

There is no doubt that contact tracing apps can play a key role in crisis management especially as social distancing measures are lifted in countries ...

What do you do when a global pandemic hits and messes up your 2020 business plans? We decided to run 18 weeks of webinars. As our pipeline slowed we ...

Our last webinar in the GoSmarter webinar series was about automating the processing of received invoices to eliminate the cost and hassle of errors, ...

For the penultimate session in our #GoSmarter webinar series, Data Science Apprentice Mia Hatton takes us through various tools for hosting online ...

As part of our #GoSmarter webinar series, Mia Hatton, Data Science Apprentice for Nightingale HQ and founder of a small business, talks to us about ...

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Getting your own chatbot up and running is not as tricky as you may think. In fact there are many no-code options available and you can be setup in ...

Automation and Artificial Intelligence can support the sales team to make bigger, better sales. AI in sales and marketing can be particularly ...

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For companies that have survived thus far through the global pandemic, the next huge challenge they face is getting back to normal. Numerous factors, ...

Our latest webinar was on social listening. Social listening is monitoring social media for feedback, mentions, or relevant chatter to gain insight ...

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GoSmarter contains six AI-powered tools that help SMEs automate tasks and processes saving precious time and helping increase productivity. Our new ...

Going digital and using automation has never been more important to small businesses than it has been since COVID-19. Here's some stats you may not ...

SMEs are the backbone of our economy, but they have been worst hit by the pandemic. The lockdown has forced many of them to change how they operate ...

GoSmarter - bringing automation to business

This week on #AIFightsBack, Steph Locke, CEO of Nightingale HQ, talked about the new GoSmarter automation toolbox, funded by Innovate UK and free ...

Guest contributor on our #AIFightsBack webinar series was Dr. Iain Keaney, Data Scientist and Founder of Skellig.ai. Iain took on the world of ...

Guest contributor on #AIFightsBack last week was CEO of Mockingbird Consulting Matthew Macdonald-Wallace. Matt shared how the impact of ...

Everyone is an expert and each one is allowed to do their own part separately but when we come together the magic happens. The team lead, along ...

Guest contributor on #AIFightsBack last week was Technologist Clare Dillon. She presented A Journey to Trustworthy AI from an economic, social, ...

It’s no secret that the disruption of Industry 4.0 and the challenges presented by Covid-19 have been a push for manufacturers to evaluate digital ...

AI for manufacturing has huge potential. As well as clear AI use cases like robotics and automation, the wealth of data being consolidated into ...

Yesterday, we delivered the AI for Marketers webinar as part of our #AIFightsBack series. Here, you will find the resources (slides, recording, ...

Marino Software are one of the longest standing software consultancies in Ireland with almost 20 years under their belt they have seen their fair ...

Yesterday, we ran our first AI in Manufacturing webinar, in association with the Irish Centre of Business Excellence. You can grab the slides, read ...

We are delighted to team up with Irish Centre for Business Excellence Network (ICBE) Advanced Productivity Skillnet to bring three webinars on AI in ...

Last week we kicked off our #AIFightsBack series to help businesses understand how AI can be used to support a safe and productive business during ...

We've written previously about how there are opportunities to integrate AI into people's work day to make things more accessible, uncover trends, and ...

McKinsey's Notes from the AI frontier: AI adoption advances, but foundational barriers remain Exhibit 3

The top blockers to effective AI use in businesses aren't technical issues. They're people problems.

In this post, we take you through how to use Microsoft's Cognitive Services to generate voiceovers for your videos. In practice, this technique for ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have burst into the spotlight in recent years getting attention from businesses and all levels ...

This is not the first time AI has been all the rage in the business world. In particular, AI was big in the eighties with solutions called expert ...

There is no shortage of possible applications when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the public sector, but while the UK government is ...

If there’s one thing that our CEO Steph Locke is passionate about, it’s data. Getting businesses’ data AI-ready, sharing knowledge around data skills ...

Could education be the industry that has seen the least change over the years? While we’ve seen big changes in the accessibility of education, there ...

Two of my favourite pyramids are the Data Science Hierarchy of Needs and the Minimum Viable Product. Combining them helps us build effective ...

Manufacturers have been facing continual pressure to improve their technology base, reduce costs, and improve quality since the Industrial ...

The world of manufacturing is on the brink of another revolution due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. ...

Healthcare has always been a data-rich area, but with new technologies for processing and structuring, and new ways of collecting data, such as using ...

This week we spoke to Dr. Leila Etaati, co-founder, data scientist, consultant and mentor at RADACAD, about what she thought was the key to success ...

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Marketing is a ripe area for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption, with all the data and the insights, but how do you make the jump into the AI pool ...

When you choose to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your organisation or department there can be a lot of resistance and uncertainty, which ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already beginning to transform several industries, and it continues to divide opinions on whether it will transform ...

If your business has a Facebook page, and you and your staff often find yourselves answering the same questions repeatedly via Messenger, you can ...

As the decade turns to 2020, you may be wondering what’s in store for the FinTech industry. Although threats from cybersecurity have seen a sharp ...

How much time is spent taking and distributing minutes in your organisation? How often are your staff impacted by miscommunications, forgotten action ...

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We want to help more than one million businesses adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in the next five years. To do that we need your help. We're ...

Making big changes in your organisation or department such as kick-starting Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a risky move if things don’t go to ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can come across as a make or break move, perhaps a risky step, particularly if you don’t have disposable resources, ...

Yesterday Nightingale HQ had the pleasure of sponsoring the first Wales Data Confex: Artificial Intelligence and Big Data 2019, held in Cardiff, ...

How quickly could you answer the question, "How's your business doing?" if it was asked right now? How detailed would your answer be, and how ...

With AI set to expand and evolve over the coming years, with 61% of businesses already implementing some form of AI, you may be beginning to wonder ...

#AIFightsBack webinar Augmenting Customer Service with Chatbots 16 April at 15.00 is now over. Check out our video and slide here Taking on ...

It is difficult to deny that humans make biased decisions. Unconsciously we all make choices that are based on prejudices and flawed associations. ...

At the end of 2018, Salesforce reported that adoption of AI by marketers had grown by 44% last year, and that adoption rate is unlikely to slow ...

If anyone has raced ahead with AI adoption, it’s the finance industry. The rise of AI goes hand in hand with the wave of FinTech services and ...

According to research by MMC Ventures, demand for AI talent has doubled in 24 months, faster than the talent pool can keep up. As of 2019 there was ...

To reveal the tactics and behaviours of companies that are getting the most out of AI, MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consultancy Group ...

As the powers and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) expand and evolve, the same cannot be said for the general understanding of the topic. ...

Last year the Guardian reported that AI is 'equal to humans in medical diagnoses' when interpreting images, referring to a study published in Lancet ...

Data analytics has taken off but not everyone is on the same page. While some companies are already making waves with data science, others are still ...

Implementing AI at scale in an organisation can yield a wealth of benefits, from improving profit margins to saving workers' valuable time. But ...

As an executive with an influence over whether your company implements AI and which projects it embarks on, there’s a lot of pressure on you to be ...

All businesses generate data. Even the smallest business has access to hundreds, if not thousands, of interesting data points that they could ...

Enterprise cognitive computing is the application of AI to enhance business operations. It has a wide range of applications including call handling, ...

Many may think of Florence Nightingale as the incredible woman who reformed healthcare in ways that still impacts the industry today, but at ...

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