Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 08/09/2023.

Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 08/09/2023.
The convergence of VR and AR and the inception of the Metaverse could herald a new age of working collaborative virtual spaces all businesses could benefit from. But what are the challenges to and use cases for these spaces and do they have practical value for enterprises?
Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 01/09/2023.
The metaverse is predicted to have the potential to help UK executives ‘move the needle’ on DE&I initiatives, according to research released by EY. As adoption increases and business use cases solidify, bedding in DE&I best practices early on will help UK businesses seize this opportunity.
The Metaverse, VR and AR offer visual immersion into virtual spaces. How can other senses be recreated in the virtual environments business are building?
Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 18/08/2023.
What are the key advantages or benefits that AI brings to MedTech, and how does it enhance patient care and outcomes? And what are the challenges or limitations associated with implementing AI in MedTech, and how can they be overcome?
What are the main security risks and vulnerabilities associated with the Metaverse, AR, and VR technologies?
In this Head-to-Head interview, Tara McGeehan, President, CGI UK and Australia discusses the current state of the Metaverse and whether business leaders should be paying more attention and investing in these technologies.
With generative AI grabbing the headline and massive investment, has the Metaverse become yet another technology that failed to find an audience?
How has telemedicine evolved in recent years, and what impact has it had on healthcare delivery? And what are the key advantages and benefits of telemedicine for patients, healthcare providers, and the overall healthcare system?
What is the current state of MedTech? Across the MedTech landscape where are the most transformative innovations making a tangible difference to patient care? And what does the future of MedTech look like?
Recent reports assessing the value of generative AI in healthcare are often conflicting with their conclusions. Against this background, what does this mean for the development of chat-based medical services?
In the latest Silicon Insight interview we are considering the current state of MarTech and how this will evolve into the future with our special guest Michele Reale, Executive Media Director at twogether Creative.
Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 21/07/2023.
Healthcare was one of the three most attacked industries in 2022, with the average cost of a breach exceeding $10 million. Alongside the onslaught of COVID-19 and a series of economic difficulties, the latest barrage of cyberattacks is leaving the healthcare sector facing one of its biggest challenges in decades.
Learn what challenges or barriers may prevent the adoption and implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in the supply chain. And how does the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies affect supply chain collaboration and partnerships?
The European Parliament is preparing the world's first comprehensive law on AI. What will this pioneering regulation be like? What 'red lines' does it mark? And what benefits will it bring?
As wearable MedTech continues to evolve rapidly, does there continue to be a business case to develop this technology, and how will organisations like the NHS embrace digital healthcare in the future?
Additive manufacturing has been rapidly evolving. Is this technology revolutionising manufacturing, or will it remain a specialist production technique?
Welcome to Silicon UK Pulse – your roundup of the latest tech news and developments impacting your business for the week ending 07/07/2023.
Learn how industry 4.0 is paying close attention to its sustainability credentials. Discover the key factors that determine the environmental impact of Industry 4.0 technologies and practices.
More organisations are protecting Microsoft 365 data than ever before, is yours one of them?
Rumor has it that cloud native technologies will catapult the IT industry into a new era of innovation. No code and low code platforms are accelerating release velocity and enabling organizations to ramp up their digital transformation programs in a way that simply isn’t feasible with traditional approaches to application development.
Significantly, one area of employee experience that employers are increasingly focussing on is the role of technology, and more specifically, applications and digital services, within the workplace. Whether it’s the applications they use to perform their work and communicate with colleagues and partners, or those they use to access benefits and wellbeing services, employees are reliant on applications for pretty much everything to do with their job. And therefore, there is a growing recognition among HR leaders that applications have become the foundation of every aspect of the employee experience.
As additive manufacturing, automation, IIoT and data analytics continue to evolve at pace, what does the factory of the future look like, and how can businesses take advantage of these new technologies?