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Nightingale HQ joins Microsoft Cloud Accelerator

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News
Mar 11, 2021
Updated Mar 6, 2026

We are delighted to announce that Nightingale HQ has been selected to be part of the Women in Cloud (WiC) Microsoft Accelerator 5.0. The 6 month programme has been designed to accelerate women-led tech businesses to co-build, co-market and co-sell with Microsoft.

Microsoft Ignite 2021 announcements for manufacturers

Steph Locke
Archive
Mar 2, 2021
Updated Mar 4, 2026

Microsoft Ignite is kicking off and as usual it's packed with announcements. This post gives folks in manufacturing a quick run down of the most important stuff they need to read about. Enjoy!

Inspiring women in UK manufacturing

Steph Organ
News
Jan 6, 2021
Updated Mar 4, 2026

CEO Steph Locke was listed among 30 inspiring women leading the way for youngsters of all genders to get involved in manufacturing. But why are there so few women in manufacturing, and why should we care? It all boils down to what happens when an industry is run predominantly by one demographic.

Artificial Intelligence for Marketers

Ruth Kearney
Archive , Learning
May 8, 2020
Updated Mar 4, 2026

Yesterday, we delivered the AI for Marketers webinar as part of our AIFightsBack series. Here, you will find the resources (slides, recording, information, and links) from the talk. As a sector, marketing is ripe for AI adoption due to the volume of data insights available. It's transforming how companies market their products and services to other businesses, streamlining processes at all levels of the sales funnel. Broadly speaking, AI can help to improve the customer journey and improve your ROI on campaigns. But how exactly?

No code. No data. No servers. How Marino Software became a ML company.

Ruth Kearney
Archive
May 4, 2020
Updated Mar 4, 2026

Marino Software are one of the longest standing software consultancies in Ireland with almost 20 years under their belt they have seen their fair share of ups and downs. As part of our AIFightsBack webinar series CEO Keith Davey talks candidly about how they have morphed into a machine learning company helping their clients deliver exceptional customer experience. They have a pretty impressive list of clients who are testament to this service and it includes telcos, banks and retailers. Both slides and the webinar are available below.

Rising Stars

Ruth Kearney
News
Mar 30, 2020
Updated Feb 19, 2026

Technation.io Company Nightingale HQ helps SMEs identify cases for artificial intelligence within their business and provides the tools and support required to help them to successfully adopt and deploy AI and specific AI projects.

Stem Awards Wales 2020

Ruth Kearney
News
Mar 30, 2020
Updated Feb 19, 2026

Stem Awards Wales 2020 Describe your business Nightingale HQ is a complete AI platform that helps businesses get AI-Ready by providing content, training, and ultimately, connections. We offer three products, AI Learn, AI Direct and AI Connect. Through AI learn, companies can get training to get their teams AI ready. Through AI direct, we can help businesses asses their potential and build an AI strategy. Finally AI connect helps connect organisations with the worlds best AI experts, taking the pain out of finding an AI specialist and providing one simple point of contact to manage all projects.

How to use Azure Cognitive Services to make voiceovers for your videos

Mia Hatton
Archive
Mar 10, 2020
Updated Mar 4, 2026

In this post, we take you through how to use Microsoft's Cognitive Services to generate voiceovers for your videos. In practice, this technique for generating speech from text can be used in a wide range tasks but one of the ways we're using it at Nightingale HQ is to support our marketing team.

How to score your first AI quick wins: Intelligent Insights

Steph Organ
Archive
Feb 4, 2020
Updated Mar 4, 2026

There’s no doubt that going ahead with Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be risky. We’ve seen numerous AI fails from major companies including IBM, Amazon and Microsoft which landed them in hot water, something big companies can often bounce back from, but could be more of a problem for the smaller players. The trick to getting started with AI is to start small, which is where our quick win AI projects come into play.

Industry IoT, smart factories and AI in manufacturing

Steph Organ
Archive , Blog
Jan 29, 2020
Updated Mar 9, 2026

The world of manufacturing is on the brink of another revolution due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Aside from clear use cases like robotics and automation, big data applications are coming into play, thanks to industrial time series data collected by data historians. Thriving on all this data, AI systems can be built to send early warnings, optimise processes, predict maintenance and enforce quality control. By collecting the right data, manufacturers can get really creative with their AI solutions, and it can set them apart from the competition.