Behind the Scenes – June 2023
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June is flying by and shortly we will probably be off for the summer time.
We’ve been busy engaged on some new concepts and excited to let you recognize 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 an excellent occasion, nice to see so many guests occupied with STEM and having enjoyable. It was a additionally very busy day for us as we had two stalls, one about good properties 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 yr. I introduced at it again in March and it actually was implausible! So nicely organised and many alternatives to study and community. Delighted that I will probably be concerned with the organising for subsequent yr and doing my finest to trace down voice fans throughout Scotland to be part of the occasion. I do know there are some wonderful tasks and specialists on the market who may 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 mushy 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 just 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 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 have an Alexa, you’ll be able to 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 take heed to a complete day of amazingly gifted girls speaking about their work and it’s impression. In actual fact, in my complete life, I’ve by no means had an expertise prefer it. The shows have 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 abilities 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, lots of the companies are power centered, so it was good to share a non-energy trade perspective as nicely.
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 practically 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 individuals’s lived expertise and approaches to well-being and psychological well being. Our company are actually 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 number of interviews over the previous few months, which coincidentally got here out with related 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 been engaged on. Speaking about my previous and the way it has led me to the place I’m as we speak, 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 of about my experiences of rising up with a father or mother who suffered from alcohol dependancy, nervousness and despair. Maybe a few of what I discuss will resonate with you should you’ve had related 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 a lot of enjoyable with the brand new Alexa widgets characteristic! They’re designed to work on the Alexa gadgets with a display to pin your favorite capabilities for fast entry. On the most important Alexa Show15 screens it creates a form of retro corkboard really feel, together with your appointments, purchasing lists and notes all immediately seen. As somebody who loves to remain organised, this does enchantment to me. Widgets have been just lately made accessible to builders like us, permit 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 selected stand-alone one which shows a Every 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 model 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 pupil, 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 gadgets. We’re hoping to get this printed on our web site very quickly.
Within the meantime, to entry the widgets all you must 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.
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 Residence Day
- Day 4 – Atmosphere Day
- Day 5 – Festive Enjoyable Day
It could really feel very early to begin speaking about December, however should you’d prefer to get entangled, maybe you recognize some college students who’d like to hitch the Hackathon, have a faculty that you simply suppose may benefit from a workshop session, or perhaps you might have some good tech that wants fastened or questions on tech, we’re hoping to even have drop in periods via the week the place you and get assist from an knowledgeable (aka Thomas).
We hope you might have an exquisite summer time and that you’ve got some good plans. We’re off to Shetland and searching ahead to seeing the Tall Ships pageant. So, our subsequent replace is prone to be later in August when the youngsters head again to highschool.
