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Brought to you by Technology Connected, Wales Tech Week showcases Welsh technology and champions the industry on the global stage. It connects, promotes, and develops Wales as a centre of expertise for enabling and emerging technologies and their applications for today’s business and society. Wales Tech Week 2025 will be an international tech summit held at the International Convention Centre Newport, from 24 to 26 November 2025, bringing together some of the world’s best tech...
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Learn how to spot the signs of child exploitation with free resources specific to tourism businesses. Camping, Caravan parks, self-catering accommodation, and Bed and Breakfasts, are often used as a place to exploit and abuse children and young people. There are criminal offences aligned with child sexual and criminal exploitation which could have damaging consequences for a hospitality business, including a possibility of prosecution, action being taken against a premises, their licence and reputational and/or...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to increase the global ransomware threat over the next two years cyber chiefs have warned in a new report published. The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat assessment , published by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, concludes that AI is already being used in malicious cyber activity and will almost certainly increase the volume and impact of cyber attacks – including ransomware –...
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As climate change accelerates the frequency and severity of weather events, not only in Wales but around the world, you need to make plans to ensure your business and whole supply chain is resilient. By reviewing and risk assessing potential vulnerabilities, your business can build resilience and take a proactive, climate conscious approach to your current and future operations and supply chain. By joining this valuable free training, you will gain knowledge, management techniques and...
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Celebrating the best food and drink Businesses in Wales, 2024 will be the awards third year, this time hosted in Swansea and gives companies from farm to fork a great opportunity to show case their brand, products, plans and people, highlighting what makes them stand out from the competition. To be eligible to enter, businesses must: Have started to trade on or before 9 May 2023 Be a business based within Wales Pay business rates...
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The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has launched a period of public engagement to seek views on how the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) can remain a ‘gold standard’ trade agreement. The UK signed up to the vast CPTPP trading group last July, kickstarting the UK’s membership of a trade deal spanning 12 economies across Asia, the Pacific, and Europe when the UK accedes. DBT are now seeking views from businesses...
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From April 2024 building inspectors and building control bodies will be required to comply with standards, codes and rules under changes to the Building Act 1984, as inserted by the Building Safety Act 2022. The Building Safety Act 2022 introduced new requirements about registration and licensing for building inspectors and building control approvers. Welsh Ministers have appointed the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to oversee and enforce new requirements from this legislation. Registration for those who...
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A recently formed team at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is set to inspect over 800 farms in 2024 to mitigate the impact of agricultural pollution. The initiative, funded by the Welsh Government, involves thorough assessments of farms throughout Wales to ensure compliance with the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations (CoAPR). The inspections cover all aspects of CoAPR including the construction standards and capacity of silage, solid manure, and slurry structures, required calculations, risk maps, nitrogen...
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Safer Internet Day 2024 will take place on 6 February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Created in consultation with young people across the UK, this year Safer Internet Day will be focusing on change online, this includes covering: young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology using the internet...
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The UK Government have announced 12 winners from the Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan competition, who will each benefit from a share of up to £6 million to develop plans for a low carbon future. This funding will give winning businesses and partners the chance to work together on plans to cut their emissions, learning from each other while also having access to technical advisors to prepare for adopting measures such as using hydrogen or carbon...

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