EEAEC to host
inaugural food event
The East of England Arena and Events Centre (EEAEC)
has announced it will be the venue for the inaugural
Cambridgeshire Food and Drink Festival, June 23-24,
2018, organised in conjunction with organiser Events By
B3.
The event aims to attract up to 15,000 visitors to the
EEAEC with a combination of culinary events, family
fun and camping, and to create a food festival with a
difference.
Celebrity chef headliners, The Hairy Bikers and James
Martin, will be hosting cookery demonstrations, but as
Louise Rhodes, Events By B3’s events manager, explained,
the festival is aimed at whole families, and not just food
and drink enthusiasts.
“We want this to be much more than just a food
festival,” said Rhodes, “so we’ve taken care to create an
event that caters to everyone. In addition to over 250 food
& drink exhibitors, local and celebrity chef demonstrations
and culinary workshops that will showcase the best of
local food and drink, there will also be feasts for the ears
and eyes in the shape of live music, a vintage funfair and
dozens of other attractions.”
The festival will be based on the successful Yorkshire
Dales Food and Drink Festival, also organised by Events
By B3, as Ryan Moroney, EEAEC’s operations manager,
explained, “We wanted to replace our annual Autumn
Country and Food fair with an event that had broader
appeal, and the Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival
proved to be an excellent template. With our agricultural
heritage, the ‘farm to fork’ movement is important to us,
and it’s clear that Events By B3 shares our enthusiasm for
supporting local food producers. Our links with national
and regional businesses enable us to offer additional
benefits, including 10% discounts at nearby hotels on
standard room rates, up to 30% off advance purchase fares
on Virgin Trains services to Peterborough and transport to
the festival from the station.”
AI festival returns to London
AI Festival CogX returns for second year, with
SoftBank Investment Advisers as Headline
Sponsor.
CognitionX has announced that SoftBank
Investment Advisers, which manages the
SoftBank Vision Fund, will be the headline
sponsor for CogX 2018, the Festival for All
Things AI.
The event, now in its second year, will take
place from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 June at the
historic Tobacco Dock, during London Tech
Week.
CogX 2018 will bring together 4,000
attendees and 300 speakers across five main
stages, more than doubling the size of the
acclaimed inaugural 2017 event.
The event will feature an expanded agenda
discussing not only The Impact of AI on
Industry, Government and Society, but also the
pressing question for executives of How To Get
From Lab to Live and at the same time deploy
AI responsibly and ethically.
Along with this, CogX will explore how
AI Intersects With Emerging Technologies
including Blockchain, IoT and 5G telecoms, VR
and AR, as well as the future of transportation,
health and education.
Confirmed speakers include: Hermann
Hauser, director at Amadeus Capital Partners;
Baroness Joanna Shields OBE, former vice
president EMEA at Facebook and managing
director of Syndication, business development
and partnerships at Google; Frank Chen,
partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Charlie Muirhead, founder and CEO,
CognitionX said: “My co-founder Tabitha
Goldstaub and I launched CogX last year with
the goal of creating the most informative event
in AI and to move the conversation forward.
CogX 2018 is set to be our biggest, most
ambitious event yet, and a true festival of AI.
We’re honoured to have SoftBank Investment
Advisers on board as headline sponsors.
Laura Citron, CEO London & Partners
said: “London is a global leader in artificial
intelligence. With a diverse international
tech talent pool and some of the world’s top
universities, London is home to some of the best
minds in the field of AI and development. 2017
was a record year for investment into London’s
AI companies, offering further proof of the
global allure of the city’s AI offering. CogX 2018
will bring together some of the best AI experts
and businesses from London and the rest of the
world. We are delighted that it will be part of
the London Tech Week 2018 programme.”
TSG and Definitive Security gain ACS nod
TSG and sister brand Definitive Security
have won Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS)
accreditation, the set of standards overseen by
the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
Independently monitored, the ACS
endorsement process examines how well an
organisation is managed, how effectively it
services its customers and how well it treats its
employees.
Companies are judged across nine categories
including Strategy, Commercial Relationship
Management, Resources, People and
Leadership.
TSG achieved ISO 9001 for a second
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successive year in December, but ACS,
recognised by clients/potential clients and the
police, is another marker for the agency.
A spokesperson for the SIA said: “Approved
contractors are committed to customer service
and the compulsory licensing of their staff. This
means their customers can rest assured that
every private security operative deployed on
their premises will be working within the law.”
TSG managing director David Boswell,
added: “It is a great feeling to achieve
Approved Contractor status. It allows us to
engage prospects, which might otherwise
have been unable to consider deploying our
resources. Now, any organisation that wants to
can bring our solutions into their security and
safety plans.”
Built on a platform of relevant industry codes
of practice, the SIA’s Approved Contractor
Scheme is a universally recognised mark of
quality for private security suppliers, designed
to raise performance standards and to assist in
developing new opportunities.
Developed in consultation with
representatives from across the industry, ACS
specifically covers the elements regulated by
the SIA and the Private Security Industry Act
2001.
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