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Welcome to The Digital Forge Podcast - where expertise and ideas collide.Hosted by David Richards MBE, this is not another polite chat. It is raw, unscripted debate with the investors, technologists and industry leaders who are shaping the new industrial age.If you want platitudes, look elsewhere. If you want to know where technology and manufacturing are really headed, step into the Forge.Find out more at www.forgedforgrowth.com
The Digital Forge hosts The Digital Forge Podcast, a business show with 18 episodes published.
Richard Stubbs believes Britain has been looking at health the wrong way. Not as an economic engine. Not as productivity infrastructure. Not as one of the great determinants of national prosperity. Too often, we treat th
Richard Stubbs grew up in Maltby, in a mining family shaped by the strike, Orgreave and the long shadow of deindustrialisation. His father fought the state on land that would later become the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
Naomi Timperley built her career on visibility. Then it became a threat. In Part Two of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Naomi to explore a stalking ordeal that lasted four years, escalated across mul
Naomi Timperley did not come through the front door of the tech industry. She built her own way in. In Part One of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Naomi to trace a journey that begins in army towns a
Simon Biltcliffe did not enter politics because business failed him. He entered because business showed him what failure really looks like when systems are wrong. In Part Two of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE move
Most founders talk about values. Simon Biltcliffe built them into systems. In Part One of this two-part episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Simon Biltcliffe, founder of Webmart, one of the mos
Most founders never talk about the moments that nearly ended them. Ashley Tate does. In Part Two of this two-part episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE returns with Ashley to trace the comeback story. After tw
Ashley Tate built his first business before most people finish school. In Part One of this two-part episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Ashley to unpack the early years of a career shaped by i
Part Two of the Volker Hirsch story begins where most careers would have ended. Fresh from being arrested and held in a Maltese jail in the collapse of a dot-com era mobile incubator, Volker Hirsch had a choice. Retreat
Volker Hirsch has lived several technology lifetimes in one career. In Part One of this two-part episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Volker to trace an extraordinary journey that begins in Ger
Tim Craggs is building technology that could change how we understand disease. In this episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Tim Craggs, founder and CEO of Exciting Instruments, a University of
In this episode of The Digital Forge Podcast, David Richards MBE sits down with Dan Ridsdale, Head of Technology, Media and Telecoms at Edison Group, to get inside the mind of the modern tech investor. After more than 25
Bruce Katz is one of the most influential thinkers on cities and metropolitan economies. He has advised US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, shaped national policy, and helped city leaders around the world rebuil
In November 1983, six armed men broke into a Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport and stole three tonnes of gold bullion worth £26 million. Led by Brian Robinson and Micky McAvoy, the gang thought they were taking
Inside a quiet building in Sheffield, every piece of precious metal, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, still carries a mark that has defined trust for more than 250 years. The Sheffield hallmark. In this episode of
Inside a quiet building in Sheffield, every piece of precious metal, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, still carries a mark that has defined trust for more than 250 years. The Sheffield hallmark. In this episode of
For decades, Britain has talked about innovation while letting its factories fall silent. Now, from a cluster of hangars and labs on the edge of Sheffield, a new industrial revolution is taking shape. In this episode of
In this episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE sits down with Louisa Harrison-Walker OBE, Chief Executive of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Louisa speaks with rare honesty about reaching breaki
Host David Richards sits down with Adam Pollock to explore his journey from barrister and private investigator to broker and investment banker. Adam breaks down what investment banking is really about, why the UK doesn’t
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