University of Essex: Business Innovation & Enterprise

💡 Are you ready to see what is possible through innovation? 💡   Like any piece of art, a business is never really finished. It can always be better. Smarter. Faster.   At the University of Essex, our team of researchers are ready to partner with you. Show you the way. And bring innovation into the light. Tell us about a business challenge you’re facing, and we’ll guide you through the funding opportunities to drive innovation and improvement. 📍 Find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dUEzSdNi 💻. Read all about our new campaign: https://lnkd.in/evFvvS9U #BusinessInnovation #innovation #Research #Business #Funding

📣 2 weeks left to apply! 📣 We’re looking for a ML/NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) to join the new partnership between the University of Essex and supplier of data cleansing and analysis software for law enforcement, government agencies and financial institutions, Chorus Intelligence Limited. This role is an exciting opportunity to develop AI / NLP functionality within the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS). ❗️Please note: The successful applicant will need to meet the requirements of a full security check and gain UK Security Clearance and NPPV Level 3, which requires 5 years residency in the UK. 🗓️ Post duration: 24 months, Fixed-Term, Full-Time 💷 Salary: £40,500 - £50,000 per annum 🌎 Location: Chorus Intelligence offices in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Interested in finding out more? Download the job pack and apply today 👇 📍 https://lnkd.in/eivRqqRH

We would like to wish a warm welcome to our newest KTP Associate Darren Smith! Darren has begun his new position with the University of Essex and Colchester’s oldest gallery The Minories in a project to develop a data-led and long-term strategic plan for the organisation to enhance their growth. Darren will work alongside Dr Misagh Tasavori and Dr Kholoud Mohsen from Essex Business School. Good luck to the whole project team and Darren in your new role! We are so excited to hear how you get on.

Read all about the University of Essex's Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Colchester's oldest art gallery The Minories below! 👇🏻

Applications are now open for our new coaching programme, Taming your Imposter: supporting female leaders in developing greater self-acceptance. Do you doubt your skills and competence? Do you set yourself impossibly high standards beyond reach? Or perhaps you credit your success to external factors, such as luck? Has this impacted your leadership and how you interact with your team? Everyone experiences impostor syndrome slightly differently, but if you have answered ‘yes’ to one or more of those questions, then come and explore how you can start to take some positive steps to free yourself from your imposter and develop a plan of action to live the life you deserve. Participants will work with a coach to gain self-awareness around their identity and begin to develop greater self-acceptance. Date: 3 March 2025 For more information, including how to apply, please visit: https://lnkd.in/ezmef8yU For any enquiries, please get in touch: summerschoolsandshortcourses@essex.ac.uk

We are excited to introduce our newest KTP Associate Tao Wu! Tao has started a new role with the University of Essex and importers of exotic and luxury fruit and vegetables Wealmoor Ltd, in a new partnership to develop and deploy novel approaches to global food supply chain management. Tao will be working alongside Essex Business School academics Professor Niraj Kumar, Dr Sahar Validi, Dr Debashree De and Dr Muhammad Farooque. Best of luck on the new role Tao – we can’t wait to see how you get on!

Read more about how our academics from The Institute for Analytics and Data Science and School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex are supporting businesses, organisations, and charities through AI below! 👇🏻 If you are interested in hearing more about how our researchers could help your business grow in this field - please email innovation@essex.ac.uk. 📩

We're very excited about the new PALLETS project, led by RoboK, aiming to revolutionise safety and efficiency in UK ports and warehouses through artificial intelligence. The initiative brings together the University of Essex, Finishing Line , Freeport East, The Bristol Port Company, Astron Fire & Security Ltd and Port of Dover. Read more about the project below. 👇🏻

It was great to be invited onto BBC News to discuss the government’s new AI Action Plan. I’ve been researching, innovating and developing AI technologies for almost 15 years and have always been passionate about it’s potential to transform every facet of our lives for the better, whilst being very mindful of the threats and issues that need to be carefully considered. Much of our work has been on the safety, regulatory compliance, legal and ethical aspects. Amidst the excitement of AI progress, be wary of those who have not put the hard yards in on this... I have seen the exciting possibilities of AI first hand. Our VirtTuri AI clinical informatics avatar platform is helping to deliver amazing results across healthcare, including 75% reductions in hospital admissions. This is being achieved through interactive AI avatars that engage across the entire population via 150 different languages, AI sign language, different interface ethnicity, age and gender, whilst cutting through neurodiversity and literacy barriers. Highly bespoke coordination and integration with amazing human orientated healthcare programmes is where we’re seeing the magic happen. Optimising, augmenting, or copiloting human capabilities as I see it. I have also been incredibly passionate about Suffolk and East Anglia being recognised as the UK’s leading location for AI research, development and commercialisation. We have more AI related patents generated in Suffolk than anywhere else in the U.K.. A truly amazing statistic. The National AI Awards were held in Suffolk last year with multiple winners coming from East Anglia, whose combined market cap was approaching £4 billion. Whilst East regional based academic institutions are world-beating in their AI research and business collaboration capabilities: University of Essex, University of East Anglia, University of Suffolk and University of Cambridge. This region truly can be a global hub for AI, and is an obvious candidate for the government’s designation of AI Growth Zones. The potential for better healthcare, personalised education delivery freeing up time for teachers, acceleration of green technology development (amongst infinite other possibilities) and the advent of a golden age of innovation driven by AI and quantum computing is tantalising. But, the question is can we fully grasp the opportunity and do that in a safe and sustainable way?  #AIActionPlan  #Innovation  #BBCNews  #AI  #Healthcare  #AIGrowthZones  #Suffolk

We’re looking to hire a Data Scientist, Ethical Marketing (KTP Associate) to join the new partnership between the University of Essex and ethical digital marketing agency, Climbing Trees. This role offers an exciting opportunity to develop a unique model, using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques, to create a daily visual performance dashboard derived from numerous datasets, to enable Climbing Trees to optimise the online performance of their clients. 🗓️ Post duration: 23 months, Fixed-Term, Full-Time 💷 Salary: £41,600 per annum 🌍 Location: Climbing Trees’ offices in Earls Colne (Essex). Interested in finding out more? Download the job pack and apply today 👇 📍https://lnkd.in/e9x373wP