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2023

The Resonate Podcast

June 2023

Aideen Ni Riada is an Intuitive Voice Coach, Confidence Coach and Mentor who helps professionals feel safe to be seen and heard. She started The Resonate Podcast to explore approach to finding confidence in your voice with vocal practitioners from all over the world.

Abbey Road Studios - Women Do Tech Panel

March 2023

Designed to inspire and empower young women aspiring to a career in music, Abbey Road Equalise was borne out of the studios’ ambition to encourage more women to consider engineering and production as a credible career path, given less than 5% of producers and engineers are female.

Hear from some of the music industry’s leading women and most exciting rising female talent about how they got started and their essential tips for success.

 

Open Journal

March 2023

Open Journal BlogCast focuses on mental health, illness, wellness, stigma and support. Episodes range from rambling with Mike, collaborations with other podcasters and importantly (and mostly) the shared stories of people with lived experience of mental health illnesses or a passion of mental health conversations, awareness and education.

Techstars - Demo Day

February 2023

Mobile technology has long been used to curate global accessibility to many educational subjects (think language learning, maths, and reading comprehension) but equally to programmes that provide wellbeing value (such as meditation, mental health, neuroplasticity).

Cambridge - Marketing & Communications Talk

January 2023

Thank you to #AccelerateCambridge for having me come and speak to the new cohort about Marketing and Communications. It was great meeting all of the new founders; these sessions always give me a solid opportunity to reflect on how I do things and what my strengths are (which was a big portion of today’s chat). Founders are busy folks! So, how do we know what to focus on?

Hotbed - Demo Day

January 2023

Thank you Perdie Alder and Margaret Anne Coyle for the opportunity to pitch Biiah at the Hotbed Overrules Demo Day alongside 5 other incredible #femalefounders. What an inspiring community! ✨

Tech Nation - Rising Stars (City Winner)

January 2023

The ultimate pitch competition designed for innovative early-stage tech startups.

2022

music :) ally SI:X - category winner

December 2022

New global showcase, contest and mentorship support program for music/tech startups. Category winner for music education.

Music Teacher Magazine

June 2022

Mobile technology has long been used to curate global accessibility to many educational subjects (think language learning, maths, and reading comprehension) but equally to programmes that provide wellbeing value (such as meditation, mental health, neuroplasticity).

Opera Now

April 2022

What is it about the human voice as it sings that we find so moving? It can be the work that is being sung, or a moving performance; at other times it’s a sense of nostalgia – a song that pulls us back to another time…

Cambridge Independent

March 2022

“It’s an adult market very similar to Duolingo [online language learning]; it’s for people who always wanted to sing but hadn’t had time or the confidence to sing in a band or choir – it creates a support mechanism.”

music :) ally - Startup Files by Stuart Dredge

January 2022

In perfect harmony? Actually, don’t get hung up on the ‘perfect’ part. The Choral Hub wants to encourage people to sing who may have avoided it before through embarrassment or a lack of confidence in their own abilities.

Based in the UK, its first product is an app called Tchzant (pronounced: chant) which you could describe as Yousician meets Duolingo, but for your voice.

2021

Music Tectonics - Audience & Jury Winner!

November 2021

Spotlighting creative startups through this competition is one of the ways the Music Tectonics conference focuses on music innovation—wherever it’s shaking up the industry!

Jury: Meng Ru Kuok (BandLab CEO); Bob Moczydlowsky (Techstars Music MD); Arabian Prince (Investor & NWA founding member)

Cambridge Judge - Ignite Panel

October 2021

Ignite was an intensive, four-week entrepreneurship training programme for aspiring entrepreneurs and corporate innovators to trial and prepare business ideas for the commercial environment.

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