Oslo Innovation Week, on the behalf of The City of Oslo and Innovation Norway, is proud to announce warm technology startup, No Isolation, as the recipient of the 2020 Oslo Innovation Award. Presented during the final day of Oslo Innovation Week, the Scandinavian city’s annual week-long technology festival, Karen Dolva, Co-Founder and CEO of No Isolation, collected the award from head juror, Per L. Saxegaard, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Business for Peace Foundation.

The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the lead government agency in charge of industry development, is now on the hunt for innovative, cutting-edge tech solutions and ideas for major organisations in the region. If you're based in Europe, you could be given the chance to pitch and gain access to decision makers of leading Asian organisations like CapitaLand, JG Digital Equity Ventures, Singapore Airlines, Singtel, StarHub, ST Engineering, Olam, Sembcorp, Singapore Post and the Singapore Tourism Board. In order to qualify and enter the pitch event free at the Singapore x Europe Innovation Partnership Forum (SEIPF) on 9-13 Nov 2020 please submit your details via the website here. The deadline for applications is October 2nd 2020.

Online conferences and events aren’t new, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought them from a niche activity to a mainstream channel. In the absence of in-person events and conferences, online ones are providing one of the best ways for startup founders to meet one another, learn from each other, and gain inspiration for building their businesses in a safe, socially distanced manner. 

For years now, there has been a huge demand for developers, all with different skillsets, from coding specialisations to full-stack backgrounds. And this is unsurprising, as until recently, many startup accelerators and incubators were hesitant to accept companies without technical co-founders or a built MVP.

As we move into Autumn, and continue to adapt to new ways of working, Wiley have put together a list of some recent and forthcoming titles.

This week saw the national final of Santander's Emerging Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship Awards 2020. Since May, 81 businesses from Santander’s network of 85 partner universities have been put through their paces during a series of expert-led online workshops and webinars, covering a range of topics under four key themes – money, management, marketing and motivation.  

LawtechUK, the government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, whose aim is to help transform the UK legal sector through technology, has chosen five new members to join its advisory board (known as the LawtechUK Panel).

A new survey conducted by Quin, a pioneering, female-founded, digital health startup, found that 26% of the UK public would rather use health apps than visit a GP or hospital, and that usage of health apps has increased by 37% since the pandemic began.

IriusRisk, the threat modeling platform for Application Security has announced the closing of its $6.7m Series A fundraising. Global cyber investor, Paladin Capital Group led the round, with participation from 360 Capital Partners and existing investors Swanlaab, JME Ventures and Sonae Investment Management.

Representation Plus has launched its new virtual events platform 'ezy' with the highly successful 'ANTOR Meets the Media' event; a small virtual networking event for over 100 media, 17 exhibitor stands and individual meeting rooms for 1-to-1 meetings and press conferences, the BYO Café for casual chats, the auditorium for welcome speeches and the essential helpdesk.

It should come as no surprise that a strong environmental ethos within an organisation is a driving factor for many jobseekers when choosing where to apply for work. However, a recent report has detailed just how important sustainability aligned with social responsibility really is in terms of recruitment.

Working at home but don’t have a study? From the kitchen to the bedroom, flexible office specialist, Workthere, has shared top tips on how to create a practical workspace in any room of your home.

Worldline has announced a technology partnership with eCommerce payment orchestration innovator, BRIDGE. The partnership will initially focus on integrating the eCommerce payment consolidation and control features of the BRIDGE payment orchestration platform into Worldline’s UK rail eCommerce platform.

Attending an online event feels novel for many but since the outbreak of COVID-19, it’s becoming mainstream. As an organiser of in-person, and now online conferences, I have found that there is an art to attending and maximising an online event, which is quite different to the in-person experience. 

UK energy leaders are accelerating change to their employees’ working practices in response to the COVID-19 crisis and this can support the development of the talent and skills needed for the energy transition, a new report published today by POWERful Women reveals.

The world of online retail has progressed significantly since the launch of eBay and Amazon in 1995 and online channels are now a key source of revenue for retail businesses. As customers increasingly move to shopping online, rather than in physical stores, retail startups evermore question the need for a physical store to sell their products.

Jason Brand, Regional Sales Manager for Mass Market customers in North East Europe and South Africa, at Texas Instruments, discusses why startups are critical to future innovation, and what the semiconductor company is doing to maximise their potential.

There has always been debate as to what the optimal number of co-founders is for a startup. Some people prefer to go solo, while others choose to work in teams of two or three. It’s certainly an interesting question - products can pivot and evolve, funding can often be found somewhere, competitors will come and go, and the market will always fluctuate, but through it all it is the team of founders that hold the company’s DNA.

The Home Office has launched a new campaign to ensure businesses are ready for the introduction of the UK’s new points-based immigration system as free movement ends.

Small businesses are heralding accountants’ increasingly critical role in keeping them running since COVID-19 arrived, considering them to be among the ‘key workers’ of the post-pandemic economic recovery according to new research.