Podcast: Making a home in IC7 - Keele’s Digital Society Institute HQ

This week Keele's brand new Digital Society Institute (DSI) was officially launched, to both address the challenges and make the most of the opportunities created by the digital revolution.

Managing director David Watson talks to Raphael Hirschi, Director of the Digital Society Institute about why we chose to move to IC7 on Keele University Science Park and become part of the DSI.

Raphael also outlines the vision for the Institute, and the impact it will have going forward. 

You can listen here via SoundCloud or via the embedded players below:

Transcript 16:34-17:50

Interviewer: You’re the first external company to move into DSI – why?

David: There’s a multitude of factors… the main reason is we want to take advantage of the talent Keele is producing, particularly students specialising in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

That aligns with our plans to grow our solution offerings which we can present to our large corporate customers. We predominantly work with the office of Finance, so solutions around financial reporting, budgeting, planning and forecasting, and the data analytics around operations. 

We specialise in converting data into information that allows our customers to make meaningful business decisions. So, with the emerging technology that the University is investing in, for example through the masters programs, that very much fits with our strategic goals. 

We are really pleased with the space, it’s an attractive place to work, so hopefully it will attract more students to come and join our team. We have taken on three graduates so far and we are taking on a couple more by the summer.