London based tall person, consultant & coach. Interested in innovation, charity, tech, healthcare and finance worlds. Even more so when those worlds combine.
Aid workers support communities in crisis across the world.
They must be able to carry out their vital work safely.
The UK supports efforts to pursue a declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel.
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London has been named the leading European region for investment, according to the latest ranking by @EYNews. The UK capital attracted 359 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2023 an increase of 20% on 2022. https://t.co/AR6K3zuKAK
#startups#investment#innovation
At the #LCAW2024 Climate Politics Forum, @SelwinHart highlighted 15% of clean energy investments reach EMDEs outside of China, despite comprising 2/3’s world population. This must change to keep the 1.5°C target. #ClimateEmergency#CleanEnergy
This is the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan.
The 16-storey office building has a highway running through the middle of it (floors 5-7).
Its wild design is due to a legal battle in the mid-1980s between real estate developers and the local government.
The landowners planned to redevelop the area but Osaka’s government had designated part of the site for a ~150 mile network of highways called the Henshin Expressway.
Neither party budged and a 5-year negotiation ensued. In 1989, Osaka — which is Japan’s 3rd largest city by population (Tokyo, Yokohama) — revised various development laws and building codes to let a highway pass through a tower.
The Gate Tower Building was finished in 1992 with the following compromises:
▫️The Expressway is the official tenant of Floors 5-7
▫️ Office building elevators skip those floors (only go to 1-4 and 8-16)
▫️ The highway is its own structure and held up by separate pillars (doesn’t touch the building)
Gate Tower is surprisingly un-noisy because the floors and windows and are sound proof.
In sum: Japan’s land use game is next level.
Our Board of Trustees is being complemented with two new additions, Daniel de Wolf and Luisa Messina, @LuisaMessina1. They bring excellent knowledge and skills to our Board with coaching, strategic planning, partnership development, knowledge of the third sector in #Hammersmith.
Raising Capital For Your Startup Business - With @Dandwlf
In this episode, Jane and Daniel discuss the challenges and excitements of starting a business and raising capital for it to grow.
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47 of the top 100 Startups to work with are the fintech world. It continues to be a strength area for London.
Via: Sifted
#startups#fintech#london
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Interesting to see how this plays out, with Telegram and Signal spiking with new users will Whatsapp alter the terms or cancel them altogether?
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update https://t.co/2q45CxUhw3
Thank you! I would be nowhere without the women whose footsteps I dance in. While reciting my poem, I wore a ring with a caged bird—a gift from @Oprah for the occasion , to symbolize Maya Angelou, a previous inaugural poet. Here’s to the women who have climbed my hills before.
The first @elevated_pitch episode of 2021 is live! We talk to @hearangeltech founder Stephen Wheatley to talk about the teams journey to get here and how they’ll be pushing on in 2021.
Can your startup become a super-performer by implementing frontier technologies, such as AI, Blockchain or 5G?
Apply to the @eden_base competition using the link below for a chance to win up to £145K funding, desks and tech transformation services
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