Invented Podcast
#006 World firsts and worldwide impact with Paul Davison of SMD
April 10th, 2025
Welcome to the sixth episode of Invented by Horizon Works! In this episode, Samantha Vassallo, Managing Director of Horizon Works is joined by Paul Davison, Deputy CEO of Wallsend-based subsea engineering specialist, SMD. And in a first for Invented, this episode was recorded live at the Energi Coast Regional Supply Showcase in...
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#005 Joining The Dots In Offshore Wind with Dr Andrew Jenkins
March 11th, 2025
Welcome to the fifth episode of Invented by Horizon Works. In this episode, Horizon Works' Richard Holmes chats to Dr Andrew Jenkins, CEO and founder of Kinewell Energy. This Newcastle upon Tyne-based company leverages AI and advanced mathematics to reduce the cost of offshore wind, through inter-array cable layout optimisation, offshore transmission...
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#004 A Journey Beneath The Waves with Ian Armstrong
January 15th, 2025
Welcome to the fourth episode of Invented by Horizon Works. In this episode, our Managing Director, Samantha Vassallo, is joined by Ian Armstrong, Managing Director of Pulcea.... and they’ll be taking you on a fascinating undersea voyage, from the salmon farms of Scotland to the wind farms of the North Sea. Pulcea’s...
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#003 Making the Invisible, Visible with Professor Mark Birch-Machin and Jonathan Brookes
November 5th, 2024
How do we protect our skin health? In the third episode of the Invented Podcast, we put skin under the microscope, as we focus on Newcastle-based company Skin Life Analytics. Skin Life Analytics’ mission is to revolutionise skin health and it’s making the invisible, visible through the detection of the universally recognised...
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#002 A Space Odyssey with Ralph ‘Dinz’ Dinsley
October 8th, 2024
Welcome to the second episode of Invented by Horizon Works. In this episode, our Managing Director, Samantha Vassallo, is joined by Ralph 'Dinz' Dinsley, founder of 3S Northumbria. If you are fascinated by all things space - from what's really orbiting our planet, to the future of the International Space Station -...
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#001 The Rise of the DNA Nanorobots with Jurek Kozyra
September 10th, 2024
Welcome to the first episode of Invented by Horizon Works. In this episode, I’m joined by Jurek Kozyra, PhD, founder of Nanovery. Jurek specialises in DNA nanotechnology, DNA computing, and AI, and has seven years of experience at ICOS, a top UK synthetic biology group. He has developed algorithms for DNA sequences,...
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Launch of Invented
September 3rd, 2024
Welcome to Invented, a new podcast brought to you by Samantha Vassallo, managing director of Horizon Works. Our guests will be from pioneering, visionary companies who have created new, world changing products and services. We will be exploring how their businesses have invented ground breaking solutions, and what impact they are having...