The Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce (TVCC) are probably the most influential of business groups galvanising support for Buckinghamshire and other counties in the area.
Our deepening engagement with the business and academic communities together with the need to understand what demands might be placed on community healthcare meant that Scannappeal needed to be there!
And so, at Syngenta’s research establishment at Jeallott’s Hill near Bracknell, over 100 attendees gathered to discuss the key questions around:
- The Future of Business – people and the workplace
- Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology – raising productivity and smarter working
- Future and Current Business Priorities
Apart from meeting up with businesses who attended the first Scannappeal Business Breakfast including reps from TVCC, the guest panel also included the Vice Principal of Buckinghamshire New University talking about how academia and business need to be even closer in sync to ensure the skills requirements of the future were met, and the Professor from the Henley Business School talking about business risk.
What were our key takeaways from a Scannappeal perspective:
- Given the existing and future predicted skills shortage (2/3rds of existing companies have shortages), our work in providing improved diagnostic and treatment times is critical in supporting the working population.
- Our charitable work underpins business productivity and helps reduce the level of workforce instability.
- Given that the population is living longer, the demands on healthcare will increase even further, and therefore providing early diagnostic equipment together with improved education about healthy living is crucial.
- That even we perhaps underestimate the aggregated economic and social impact that Scannappeal has had since 1987 on our communities.
- That Artificial Intelligence may enable Scannappeal to undertake further activities without necessarily increasing the resources deployed.
Scannappeal is proud to support and be part of the local business community – there is a strong reciprocal relationship that really does help each other.