Tag Archives: West Midlands Cyber Cluster

Founders, Stewardship, Stepping Back, and Moving Forward

Writing about Charles Jordan MBE, preparing for his funeral, and just after taking stock of everything we have built around the West Midlands Cyber Hub, made me think about founders and stewardship. The Hub and Cluster are entering a new phase. Andrew Horkan will take the lead, and I am going to concentrate more of my time on Cyber Tzar, Psyber Inc. and WARP Labs, and the exciting future that awaits.

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West Midlands Cyber Hub Diaries: I Went Quiet. The Work Didn’t.

Success, autistic burnout, the West Midlands Cyber Hub, and what comes next. I have been unusually quiet online while the Hub has expanded, secured its long-term home and begun evolving into the West Midlands Cyber Cluster. More importantly, we are discovering that the community around it represents a substantial indigenous cyber economy hiding in plain sight: established, revenue-generating SMEs with far more collective commercial weight than the region has historically recognised.

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