Ascent

Huge congratulations to the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Women Cricketers on their clean sweep of New Zealand in both the T20 and ODI series! 🏏👏 Ascent was delighted to support you at Lords last night for an entertaining and memorable series finale. The team's exceptional performance throughout the summer has been truly inspiring. What a fantastic series! Enjoy your well-earned celebrations and best of luck in Ireland. #Cricket #EnglandWomen #T20Series #ODISeries #Sport #PerformanceInsights #WeAreAscent

We’re excited to announce our return to the #EARLconference this September as Platinum Sponsor! Earlier this year, we proudly passed the event organisation baton to the talented team at Datacove, and we can’t wait to see what they have in store. Join us and our Head of Data Science and BI, Xinye Li, who will be delivering an insightful presentation on ‘R Centric End-to-End Solutioning’ that you won’t want to miss! It’s going to be a fantastic event, so don’t forget to secure your tickets – https://lnkd.in/emQk5itq #EARLconf #TechConference #Data #DataScience #DataAnlytics

🎉 Congratulations to the England Women’s ODI team on their clean sweep against New Zealand - again! 🎉 We can't wait for the start of the T20 series this Saturday. At Ascent, we are super proud to be the Official Performance Insights Partner to ECB Women’s Cricket and, as cricket fans as well as data and AI enthusiasts, we'll be out in force for the exciting series showdown at Lord's on 17th July!🏏 England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) we are continuously inspired by your success and can't wait to roll out some of the exciting developments we have planned for your Insight360 performance management suite. Here's to another great summer of England women's cricket! 🙌 [Image credit: ECB website] #bouch100 #womenscricket #weareascent #cricketinsights #techpartner

We are delighted to partner with Microsoft for their Intelligent Apps Webinar Series this month, featuring our webinar: "Architecting for Generative AI: A Platform Engineering Approach to Innovation." Are you keen to level up your platform engineering and AI skills or curious about AI's future in business? Join our CTO, Murray Foxcroft, as he explores the essential building blocks and techniques for harnessing advanced AI capabilities with Microsoft Azure cutting-edge tools. Date: Tuesday 25th June Time: 2:30pm BST Stay tuned for a live Q&A with Murray and our CDXO Simon Sear right after the session. Don’t miss out, register now: https://lnkd.in/ezkAHw3d #TechTalk #WeAreAscent #MicrosoftAzure #GenAI #PlatformEngineering

Today, we are delighted to announce another important milestone for Ascent as we invest further in cutting-edge design and software engineering. Deepening our capabilities in this domain will help customers revolutionise their businesses with AI-led solutions and immersive user experiences. We have acquired Parkside Interactive, a mature and experienced provider of software development, UX/UI and design-led advisory services that help innovative companies build, improve and scale digital products and platforms.  This acquisition not only doubles Ascent’s footprint in the DACH region but also significantly deepens our design capability, allowing us to deliver even more impactful and user-focused solutions to our customers. We can also announce that Christoph Platzer, Parkside’s CEO will be Ascent’s new Managing Director for the DACH region. Christoph and his exceptionally talented team bring a wealth of experience and creativity into the Ascent family, and we couldn’t be more excited about the effect this will have on our customers’ growth and innovation journeys. Willkommen im Team!  Read the official press release: https://lnkd.in/eZcq6bgR #WelcomeToAscent #DesignThinking #UX/UI #DigitalTransformation 

Are you ready to supercharge and modernise your scale apps with GenAI? Join us for an exclusive, hands-on half-day workshop where Ascent and Microsoft will demonstrate how to turn your AI aspirations into reality, whether you're working with a blank canvas or looking to elevate and modernise an existing application. Led by our CTO Murray Foxcroft and CDXO Simon Sear with a special keynote presentation by Microsoft, this session is designed for CIOs, CTOs and business function leaders with responsibility for scaling app and product success with AI. 👥 Business and function leaders, bring your tech talent; CIOs and CTOs, bring your product leaders: we recommend a pair approach that allows you to explore business and technical topics in parallel to deliver more value to you more quickly. What’s in it for you? 🔹 For business and function/ product leaders: Discover why platform engineering is fast becoming the preferred approach to building AI-led products and solutions. Better understand Responsible AI and its impact on your approach. Collaborative ideation to explore GenAI's impact on your apps: enhanced insight, optimised navigation and search, task automation, personalised experiences and more. 🔹 For CTOs and CIOs: Explore the ideal modern AI ecosystem, including architectural considerations and options. Practical examples of adding Generative AI to an existing application. Experience Generative AI scalability, simulated through live demos. Discover tools and techniques for boosting productivity and reducing risk when uplifting legacy applications. 🔹 Discover your eligibility for Microsoft funding to fuel your AI journey. The workshop is complimentary and includes a patisserie breakfast, refreshments and your choice of hot lunch. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to modernise and innovate at scale. Secure your seat today!   📅 18th June 2024 | 09:00 – 14:00 BST 📍 The Shard, London SE1   Head to our website to apply for your place https://lnkd.in/eneqViN9

Curious about the future of AI in your organisation? Join our CTO Murray Foxcroft on 30th May at 2pm BST for a webinar to explore essential building blocks and techniques for leveraging advanced AI capabilities through Microsoft Azure cutting-edge tools for AI. Don't miss out, register now! #GenAI #PlatformEngineering #MicrosoftAzure

Wrapping up a fantastic 2 days at the European Cloud Summit (ECS) in Germany last week, our CTO Murray Foxcroft reflects on the last 12 months of building Gen AI solutions for customers, running hands-on workshops for 150+ decision makers and further developing our strategic partnership with Microsoft which keeps us at forefront of innovation. Exciting times ahead as we continue to push the boundaries of AI and cloud tech! Find out more about Murray’s Gen AI learnings at ECS in the slide deck below. #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #GenerativeAI #CloudSolutions #AIInnovation

If you haven’t already, head to our website to catch our Chief Technology Officer, Murray Foxcroft, delivering his Tech Showcase session ‘Streamlining Success: Overcoming Process Debt for Agile Innovation’ at the Insurtech Insights 2024 conference in London earlier this year. Murray discusses how process debt affects productivity and shares strategies for boosting agility and innovation through a platform-thinking approach. Don’t miss out, watch it here : https://lnkd.in/eGF-kVVQ #TechTalks #ProcessImprovement #BusinessInnovation #DigitalTransformation

If you couldn't make it to Insurtech Insights in London back in March, you missed out on an insightful Main Stage discussion featuring our Insurance Lead and Principal Architect, Konrad Pfeffer, and Munich Re’s Chief Technology Officer, Martin Thormählen. Together, they explored the role of AI as a silver bullet for futureproofing business, offering vital strategies to navigate this evolving, complex landscape. Watch the full conversation on our website: https://lnkd.in/eMQgFeMV #InsurtechInsights #AI #InsuranceIndustry #GenAI #BusinessStrategy #Innovation