
XpoNorth Podcast
These podcasts have been curated by XpoNorth to highlight different ways that you can potentially generate new ideas, products, services and income, during what is a very difficult period for most businesses and organisations.
Episodes
22 episodes
XpoNorth Podcast #022 – Ryan Aitken, founder CDCorp – use of NFTs in the Whisky Industry
Ryan Aitken is the founder and Managing Director of CDCorp a Scottish based crypto consultancy which has been leading in the use of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTS) in the Whisky sector. Show Highlights:Ryan explains wh...
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55:33

XpoNorth Podcast #021 – Creativity, story telling and funding with Ken Gordon, European Space Agency
Ken Gordon is the European Space Agency’s Business Ambassador for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Part of Ken’s mission is to promote and encourage people to apply for the European Space Agency’s funding programme. He talks to Dougal Perman abou...
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1:01:26

XpoNorth podcast #020 – Michael Rueger, Creative Director of Innovation Lab, Ravensburger – Innovation, creativity, technology
Michael Rueger is Creative Director, Ravensburger Innovation Lab in Germany. We discuss what makes innovation distinctive from creativity, how Michael integrates this with a long-established brand and product set such as Ravensburger, the role ...
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Episode 20
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1:03:44

XpoNorth Podcast #019 – Sadie Dixon-Spain of The Walking Theatre Company – sense of place in performance
Sadie Dixon-Spain is artistic director and founder of The Walking Theatre Company. Based in Argyll, Sadie founded The Walking Theatre Company based on a love of movement, storytelling, history and the environment. She talks to Dougal Perman abo...
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1:19:41

XpoNorth Podcast #018 – Emma Neilson, changing workplaces - from music festivals production to project manager at Wasps
How do you take those golden moments when the sun breaks through the clouds in a muddy field while the beats keep the crowd’s feed stomping, to a beautiful bespoke new workspace in Inverness? Emma Neilson has been on that journey; having worked...
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53:39

XpoNorth Podcast #017 – Nick Wyness of The Tank Museum discusses digital and the benefits of their patronage scheme
Museums are making ever more sophisticated use of digital technologies. This might be simply extending their reach, opening access to the collection, enhancing exhibits or harnessing the crowd to co curate. The Tank Museum is a world leading co...
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47:39

XpoNorth Podcast #016 – Epi Ludvick looks at how crowd sourcing creates value
Crowdsourcing is an increasingly important activity to a range of sectors, Disrupting and changing the way we consider creating value it is enabled through the availability of low cost high speed low friction communications. The creative Sector...
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Episode 16
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40:19

XpoNorth Podcast #015 – Case study – creating a successful podcast series – Stories of Scotland
In a series of posts on the topic of podcasting, there is nothing to beat a case study. And so here we have an award-winning case study no less! Stories of Scotland is exactly that, an award-winning podcast, create and hosted by Annie MacDonald...
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Episode 15
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37:22

XpoNorth Podcast #014 – Johnny Lynch, Lost Maps, Isle of Eigg – running an island music business and creating value
Record label manager, musician and promoter, Johnny Lynch runs the Lost Map record label from the Isle of Eigg. He also makes music as The Pictish Trail and promotes wonderful parties on and off the island. Johnny spoke to Dougal Perman about c...
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55:09

XpoNorth Podcast #013 – Opera singer and author, Reut Barak, talks creativity and entrepreneurship
Following a short stint in the military, Reut Barak graduated as a trained Opera Singer from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and then worked in Berlin, singing church music by Mozart, Haydn and Bach. While arranging concerts i...
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Episode 13
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44:35

XpoNorth Podcast #012 – David Brice of Envato discusses digital skills – code, content and expertise
As more of our business, personal and creatives lives move on line so to does the demand for digital resources. Building websites, creating advertising and marketing campaigns to rounding out any creative project requires a variety of digital s...
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Episode 12
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25:27

XpoNorth Podcast #011 – Managing information and news with Catalina de Leon, designer at Feedly
Dealing with information overload is a challenge. Feedly is a tool that helps manage information and news by acting as an aggregator and utilising AI to enhance the feeds accuracy.Catalina de Leon is a Product designer at Feedly. An Expe...
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28:48

XpoNorth Podcast #010 – Sandra Murray, on why her bespoke fashion design business is in the Highlands
Sandra Murray a unique couturier and artist based in Inverness, who for over 40 years has built a bespoke personal design service offering unique designs for a private client world-wide.Show Highlights:Inspira...
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Episode 10
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42:00

XpoNorth Podcast #009 – Singer/songwriter Chagall on making music with wearable technology
Chagall is a singer-songwriter, performer and electronic music producer based in Amsterdam. Her performances incorporate gesture based music making using the cutting-edge MI.MU gloves and a custom-made full body sensor suit. She also works in v...
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50:59

XpoNorth Podcast #008 – Award winning music producer, Giles Perring of Sound of Jura, talks collaborations
Giles Perring is a musician, composer and producer who runs the Sound of Jura studio based on the Isle of Jura off the coast of Argyll. Giles is a musical maverick who has involved creative collaboration in his music through remote participatio...
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XpoNorth Podcast #007 – Trend Bible founder, Jo Feeley on bringing together art, culture music, consumer behaviour and psychology
Jo Feeley is the Founder of Trend Bible, the lifestyle trend prediction agency, working with global brands, helping them understand what the consumer will think, see and do. Trend prediction is a fascinating mix bringing together influences fro...
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32:31

XpoNorth Podcast #006 – John Maher from Buzzcocks drummer to Western Isles photographer
It is not everyone that can say they first got into photography on their first tour to the US, but John Maher can. As drummer with the Buzzcocks he did exactly that back in 1979. What was at first a hobby is now a serious business as John has c...
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50:24

XpoNorth Podcast #005 – Illustrator Astrid Jaekel, takes her art from books to an entire street
What makes an illustrator distinct form an artist? How can you take creativity from small formats like book illustration to the scale of decorating houses or entire streets?Astrid Jaekel knows the answers to these things. As an illustra...
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38:55

XpoNorth Podcast #004 – Harriet Smart, author and co-founder of a software company
Harriet Smart is both an author and co-founder of a software company. As a writer Harriet is known for her historical fiction notably the Northminster Series.The software company she co founded with her husband is called Anthemion and h...
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41:41

XpoNorth Podcast #003 – Fantasy novelist, Tom Welsh looks at how his writing moved into games and journalism.
Tom Welsh is a Scottish Fantasy author known for his Metiks Fade Trilogy. He is also known for his work in writing for games and we wanted to understand how Tom developed his skills as a writer and how he took them from pure fiction into the wo...
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Episode 3
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35:00

XpoNorth Podcast #002 – Artist, Sarah Burns looks at the power of communities to support your work.
Sarah Burns is a Scottish based Landscape Artist and photographer. She has created an online community that follow her work and participate in creative activities and learning opportunities with her. For the last five years she has been using P...
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Episode 2
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28:10

XpoNorth Podcast #001 - Eric Turnnessen, CEO of leading membership management tool, MemberMouse.
Eric Turnessesn is founder and CEO of MemberMouse a leading membership management tool used widely by creatives to manage communities of interest in their creative work. Eric talks about the origins of MemberMouse. The opportunities that member...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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