by Romilly Dennys | Feb 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, the Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, launched the long-awaited Digital Strategy. This is an important Strategy and cannot be seen in isolation from the wider aims of the Government to spread...
by Romilly Dennys | Nov 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Following trips to Brighton, Cardiff and Newcastle, next stop was Liverpool… to hear first-hand from startups on the ground.. Debbie Edwards is a founder on a mission: “to create a world where the skills, career choices and life aspirations of girls and women are...
by Romilly Dennys | Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
When I joined Coadec as the new executive director, my main priority was to build our UK-wide community of tech startups, across every city and region of the country. Just as I meet startups face-to-face in London, I strongly believe there’s only one way to understand...
by Romilly Dennys | Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Home secretary Amber Rudd provoked outrage this week for suggesting that companies should list the number of foreign workers they employ. For many in the business community, it hit a raw nerve at a sensitive time. EU nationals that call the UK home and have set up...
by Romilly Dennys | Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Following Greg Clark’s speech yesterday at the IOD, a few thoughts on creating a forward-looking Industrial Strategy fit for a digital age: I have seen the future and Britain is not part of it.’ (George Osborne, 2006, Silicon Valley) Ten years after George Osborne...
by Romilly Dennys | Aug 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
A few days before the UK voted to leave the EU, I wrote a welcome blog as the incoming Executive Director of Coadec. On reflection and with the beauty of hindsight, I should have written a very different blog. But then it has been a truly extraordinary few weeks. The...
