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NHQ attend Databricks's Data + AI World Tour

NHQ attend Databricks's Data + AI World Tour

We were invited to attend Databricks’s “Data + AI World Tour” event, held at the ExCel in London, UK, on 11th Sept 2024. The data platform Databricks has been an increasingly valuable tool for Nightingale HQ’s software development.

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NHQ to speak at Northern Ireland Manufacturing Conference

NHQ to speak at Northern Ireland Manufacturing Conference

Our CEO Ruth Kearney will give several talks at this year’s Northern Ireland Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition happening in Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast on 12 September.

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Whitepaper on Sustainable Serverless Computing for Manufacturers

Nightingale HQ has released a technology whitepaper that investigates the landscape of sustainable serverless computing for manufacturers. Titled ‘Serverless Cloud Architectures for Sustainable Manufacturing Compute" the paper provides a detailed blueprint for leveraging serverless computing to drive environmental sustainability in manufacturing processes.

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Wales tech scale-up collaborate with steel manufacturers to make production greener

Wales and Ireland-based technology business, Nightingale HQ (NHQ) has supported a major UK & EU consortium as it looks to make reinforcement steel manufacturing greener. The collaboration includes steel manufacturers Midland Steel and Bastal AS, Kuka Robotics, civil engineers OCSC and research partners VTT. The project is funded by EIT Manufacturing and Innovate UK.

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NHQ joins consortium to make steel industry greener

NHQ joins consortium to make steel industry greener

Technology business Nightingale HQ have won funding with a European consortium to make steel manufacturing greener.

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It's competition time with EIT BoostUp - Irish Edition

It's competition time with EIT BoostUp - Irish Edition

This week the NHQ team head to the IMR to attend EIT Manufacturing BoostUp competition.

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Manufacturing Solutions Conference 2023

Manufacturing Solutions Conference 2023

Next week the NHQ team will be panelling and exhibiting at the Manufacturing Solutions Conference on 14/15 June in Technological University Of The Shannon (TUS) in Limerick.

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NHQ embracing manufacturing conferences this summer!

NHQ embracing manufacturing conferences this summer!

Attending conferences has its opportunity-cost, but I usually find them productive and worthwhile. I’m no stranger to the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference held in the RDS every year and find that there is a good networking opportunity with strong representation of both manufacturers and vendors from all over the world.

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Umbraco London, Global Azure Day and Microsoft Reactor

Umbraco London, Global Azure Day and Microsoft Reactor

This week, Richard Jackson (Cloud Software Engineer) visited London for two sessions at Microsoft Reactor, and to present a talk at Umbraco London.

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