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Cognicity Wrap Up – The Result

Cognicity Wrap Up – The Result

Firstly, congratulations to Voyage Control & PolySolar on winning Cohort One of the Cognicity Challenge.     The thing is, even though KnowNow has not won the competition I can safely say we are already a Cognicity winner.  How come?  Simply having been part of...

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KnowNow Final Pitch for Cognicity

KnowNow Final Pitch for Cognicity

Week 12 @ Cognicity - Pitching time The kn-i Pitch After 11 weeks on a start up challenge.   One of the net results is a better pitch on what your product does and how you better sell yourself and what you do.    On the 13th April, David & I got the chance in 5...

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Week 8 to 11 @ Cognicity – Final Countdown

Week 8 to 11 @ Cognicity – Final Countdown

Final Countdown Apologies for the break in the blog cycle and the jump to week 11 from the last update way back on week 7.  A personal saga has been my prime focus. However,  lots has happened and we are now on the final stretch of Cognicity. Week 8 was all about...

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Flooding & WUDoWUD. What’s in a name?

Flooding & WUDoWUD. What’s in a name?

Flooding and WUDoWUD Our WUDoWUD project has seen significant progress over the last few weeks thanks to the tireless work of the team from the STFC and IBM. Our approach to the project has been to use historic data to help predict which areas would be susceptible to...

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Week 7 @ Cognicity

Week 7 @ Cognicity

KnowNow's 7th week at Cognicity Waterloo Sunset I am lucky in some respects in that I have seen some cracking sunsets.  With the evenings getting longer photos like the one above will have to be taken later and later.  Which is what I am expecting as KnowNow nears the...

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National Apprenticeship Week

National Apprenticeship Week

As it is National Apprenticeship  Week we asked our apprentice, Connor Moore to write a few lines about his experience of working with KnowNow over the last 6 weeks. Connor is undertaking a Tech Industry Gold apprenticeship via Highbury College, and is KnowNow's first...

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Week 6 at Cognicity – Reflection

Week 6 at Cognicity – Reflection

Reflection now we are halfway through… The highlight for KnowNow on week 6 at Cognicity had to be the superb PR & marketing workshop. Yet again the high standard of workshops delivered by Cognicity is maintained. The other news was on the interoperability front,...

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Week 5 @ Cognicity = Focus

Week 5 @ Cognicity = Focus

FOCUS IS THE KEYWORD This week's blog is a highlight of two really excellent workshops and some great mentor feedback.  Plus,  for the first time, the whole KnowNow team (that is all 3 of us) spent the day in Canary Wharf, more on that experience later.   Level 24 was...

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Week 4 @ Cognicity

Week 4 @ Cognicity

That Was the Week That Was The 4th week at Cognicity KnowNow saw us receive a number of visitors to our Level 24 office.  This amongst the many highlights led to a more developed cultural use case for the Docklands Museum.    Plus we participated in a great product...

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Week 3 @ Cognicity

Week 3 @ Cognicity

Cognicity and KnowNow in The News KnowNow was pleased to be in its local rag the 'Portsmouth News'   this week which was great coverage for KnowNow and extends awareness of Cognicity down to the South Coast.  Our 3rd week at Cognicity started with a highlight - a...

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One Year Old: KnowNow’s Lessons for Entrepreneurs

One Year Old: KnowNow’s Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Last week was very special.  KnowNow has been trading for one year now.    Phew, David & I survived our first year in business.  Not only that we are cash positive and we have a growing pipeline of new opportunities.   Yippee.   Plus, I can see the marketplace...

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Portsmouth News Article

Portsmouth News Article

Portsmouth News article about KnowNow at Canary Wharf Today, Tuesday February 10th, the Portsmouth News features an article about our involvement in the Cognicity Canary Wharf Project.   Portsmouth News coverage We are hoping to take the learning from Canary...

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KnowNow @ Cognicity Week 2

KnowNow @ Cognicity Week 2

Getting into a Cognicity Groove The second week of Cognicity at Canary Wharf has followed two main themes.  The first has been a settling into a groove aspect.   Especially from the perspective of gaining a better handle on exactly what we are going to show off in 11...

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Cognicity – KnowNow’s first week

Cognicity – KnowNow’s first week

kn-i@Cognicity I spent most of last week at Level 24, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf.   I was there because KnowNow has been invited to be one of the 12 start ups in the Cognicity accelerator hosted by the crew at Level 39.  Level 24 is a new high growth start up space...

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Apprentice Connor Moore joins!

Apprentice Connor Moore joins!

New Apprentice joins KnowNow Information. Today is a very momentous day for us here at the Innovation Space. We welcome our apprentice Connor Moore to the company. Connor has joined as our Assistant Engineer and will be responsible for the build and deployment of our...

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