Joseph Spear, Director of Communications at Mvine Limited

Conference Talk!

At our TFNetworkSpring21 conference on "Creating Value for Economies: Collaborate - Innovate - Educate". 

No stranger to Adastral Park or to Tommy Flowers Network, Joseph Spear is recognised by many in his present role as director of communications at Mvine Limited. 

He has over 35 years track record in communications mainly for high tech businesses. During his career he has acquired a bit of a reputation as someone who knows how to bring technology innovation out of the labs and into mainstream profit centres. Having done that several times over, Joseph is presently focused on high-growth areas of cyber security, particularly the identity of people and the identity of things, industrial scale internet of things, and Industry 4.0. 

He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) awarded by University of Essex and University of East Anglia as well as a Bac+4 from ICSV-CNAM in France. He is a member of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (The ITP) and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. 

A fun fact:  Joseph was once told “Your Hired” in The Apprentice but not in the UK. 

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Synopsis
How do you prove something about you is true without giving out personally identifiable information to somebody you don’t know? That was one conundrum that had to be solve when in 2020 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) awarded British eight tech firms £450,000 public funds to develop an innovation for Covid-19 test result status certificates.

Only one project succeeded. And among 850 UKRI projects was the first to complete.

In this short-form presentation, Joseph Spear from Mvine will outline how it was solved. And then how with the collaboration of the University of Lancaster the innovation was offered for trials within primary care, social care, education, travel and hospitality sectors.

Spend 10 minutes listening to Joseph tell the story about how amazing things happen when academia and industry work together, and about the power of innovation.

Attendees to this session will be able to away and include these key lessons in their own research and apply techniques to their projects. Ahead of the session, as scene setter, you can do a web search on “vaccine passports” which has seen considerable coverage in the press, particularly since 12 January 2021. If you want to know why, join this session starting at 10.35am.