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June is flying by and shortly we might 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 sensible home based business. This month is all about podcasts and widgets!
Fife Household Enjoyable Day
This was such a very good occasion, nice to see so many guests considering STEM and having enjoyable. It was a additionally very busy day for us as we had two stalls, one about sensible 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 improbable! So nicely organised and plenty of alternatives to study and community. Delighted that I might be concerned with the organising for subsequent 12 months and doing my finest to trace down voice fans throughout Scotland to be part of the occasion. I do know there are some wonderful initiatives and specialists on the market who may share their experiences and showcase how great Scotland is.
The Gray Hill
The brand new interactive theatre tales venture that we’ve been collaborating on went dwell on Alexa. It’s a gentle launch in the intervening 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 together with his girlfriend and is confronted with discovering a brand new place to dwell. You get to assist him navigate this new chapter in his life by serving to him to resolve 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 decisions are significantly interesting!
When you’ve got an Alexa, you possibly can test it out by saying “Alexa, allow The Gray Hill”.
Ladies in Information Science – Aberdeen
Earlier within the month I attended the Ladies 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 gifted girls speaking about their work and it’s influence. In reality, in my complete 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 periods.
Royal Society Dinner
I had the honour of attending a Royal Society dinner in Aberdeen to speak about innovation technique and expertise gaps. It was a extremely fascinating dialogue together with a broad vary of views from throughout the North East of Scotland. Within the North East, most of the companies are power targeted, so it was good to share a non-energy business perspective as nicely.
Kindspace Podcast
Over on the Kindspace facet of the enterprise, after a lot procrastination, we’ve kicked off our new podcast collection. The primary episode is recorded and practically prepared for launch in early July. The podcast is an exploration of variety areas, the place we’ll share methods for enhancing 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 house actually means, exploring individuals’s lived expertise and approaches to well-being and psychological well being. Our company are really lovely and can embrace individuals 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 totally different focus although, and I share totally different insights into our background and a number 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 the moment, is one thing I do battle with. Collaborating in discussions like these, are barely much less intimidating, particularly as I’ve had such beautiful hosts (hoping I can do an equally good job on the opposite facet because the interviewer!). Within the feminine founder one, I open up a bit of about my experiences of rising up with a mum or dad who suffered from alcohol dependancy, nervousness and melancholy. Maybe a few of what I discuss will resonate with you when you’ve had comparable experiences. One of many interviews I don’t have a hyperlink for because it was a part of a dwell radio present.
What’s a Widget?
Thomas has been having a lot of enjoyable with the brand new Alexa widgets function! They’re designed to work on the Alexa units with a display screen to pin your favorite capabilities for fast entry. On the most important Alexa Show15 screens it creates a type of retro corkboard really feel, together with your appointments, procuring lists and notes all immediately seen. As somebody who loves to remain organised, this does enchantment to me. Widgets had been lately made obtainable to builders like us, permit us to hyperlink them to Alexa apps. We’ve created one for Kindspace that offers you a shortcut to entry the check-in, ideas and wellness actions. We’ve additionally created a particular stand-alone one which shows a Day by day Affirmation, for inspiration and in addition one thing visually interesting to have in your display screen. This week Thomas has been making a Widget model of our pomodoro fashion timer, Phocus Area, which I’m very excited to make dwell, 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 helpful How To information all about widgets, that can assist you get began utilizing them in your units. We’re hoping to get this revealed on our web site very quickly.
Within the meantime, to entry the widgets all you want to do is swipe from the right-hand facet to the left of the display screen 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 collection to showcase the work that start-ups are doing within the native space.
To date, the tough plan for the week is:
- Day 1 – Hackathon Day
- Day 2 – STEM Future Expertise Day
- Day 3 – Espresso Morning, Assist within the Dwelling Day
- Day 4 – Surroundings Day
- Day 5 – Festive Enjoyable Day
It could really feel very early to begin speaking about December, however when you’d prefer to become involved, maybe some college students who’d like to hitch the Hackathon, have a college that you simply assume may benefit from a workshop session, or possibly you’ve got some sensible tech that wants mounted or questions on tech, we’re hoping to even have drop in periods by way of the week the place you and get assist from an professional (aka Thomas).
We hope you’ve got an exquisite summer time and that you’ve 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 highschool.
