aql sponsors and Announces Prize at Child Friendly Leeds
As well as sponsoring the event, our VP Product & Development Andrew Morris attended Child Friendly Leeds, awarding Freedom4Girls with the “Overall contribution to making Leeds a child friendly city” award.
Professor Adam Beaumont Attends Latitude 59
Professor Adam Beaumont attends Latitude 59, the flagship startup and tech event of the world’s first digital society, Estonia, in his capacity as both aql chairman and founder and Honorary Consul to the Republic of Estonia.
aql Featured Speaker and Judge at the 2024 Digital Leaders’ Impact Summit
aql were invited to speak, judge, and give awards to the winners at the 8th annual
Digital Leaders Impact Summit Awards event.
aql attend DCN Annual Conference 2024
aql’s chairman and founder Professor Adam Beaumont invited to the District Council Network’s annual conference to talk about aql’s work in the innovation space.
aql attend MWC Barcelona
aql’s chairman and founder Professor Adam Beaumont attends the 2024 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
aql Chairman Invited to Deliver Keynote at University of York PET School Opening Event
aql founder and chairman Professor Adam Beaumont was recently invited to the launch event for The University of York’s new School of Physics, Engineering and Technology as a representative of aql in its partnerships with the University of York for the DSIT government schemes YoRAN and REACH
aql deliver keynote speeches at Transformation Innovation Event
aql’s founder, Professor Adam Beaumont, and VP Product & Development, Andrew
Morris, deliver speeches to delegates at the Transformation Innovation Day in
Halifax, North Yorkshire.
aql IoT hackathon event held at White Rose Park
An IoT Hackathon event was held in collaboration with White Rose Park, Fyma. and
Nexus to showcase our Core IoT platform
Professor Adam Beaumont Attends Anthropy 2023
Professor Adam Beaumont attends the 2023 Anthropy gathering at the Eden Project, Cornwall. aql provides a 5G network and our IoT capabilities to the Eden Project through the government-funded Eden Universe programs as one of the DSIT projects.
Beaumont Awards and Digital Leaders joint event held at Salem Chapel
A collaborative event between Beaumont Award winners and DL100 nominees to celebrate
the DL100 awards ceremony being held outside of London for the first time in its
11-year history was organised and sponsored by aql.
Beaumont Awards Held for the 6th Year
The Beaumont Awards continues to celebrate excellence in undergraduate research, with
10 exceptional students from Leeds University selected as Beaumont Award winners by
a panel of academics including aql’s very own CEO Professor Adam Beaumont and Chief
Scientist John Mama.
Professor Adam Beaumont celebrates launch of BlueWave’s 5G network
Professor Adam Beaumont visits BlueWave’s Carnane site on the Isle of Man to celebrate the launch of their 5G capabilities. Accompanying him is Isle of Man Chief Minister Alfred Cannan and Morecambe MP David Morris.
Professor Adam Beaumont speaks at sTARTUp Day, Estonia.
aql’s chairman and founder was invited to one of Estonia’s largest expos to speak
with tech industry voice Anisah Osman Britton on UK-Estonia partnerships and future
opportunities between the two nations.
aql Chairman Attends Starship’s Leeds Launch
Professor Adam Beaumont attends the launch of Starship delivery robots in Leeds. The launch took place at the Co-op, one of Starship’s delivery partners, in Kirkstall. aql provides Starship’s robots with connectivity through our MNO SIMs.
UK 5G Showcase
We recently demonstrated our 5G project work at The UK’s 5G Showcase hosted by DCMS
and UK5G in Birmingham. It was an excellent opportunity to not only discuss the
real-life use cases and benefits that are emerging from 5G Testbeds & Trials
Programmes, but also the opportunities to accelerate the drive towards our 5G
Future.
aql hosts FinTech North.
On the 17th of March 2022, aql hosted FinTech North and around 200 delegates.
FinTech North is an open and collaborative platform for sharing ideas, challenges and best practice, for showcasing innovative start-ups and scale-ups and for facilitating the connections and collaborations which create real value for businesses and consumers. Their aim is to continue to bring the Northern FinTech Community together.
aql and Jisc – the next half decade and beyond.
aql renews its longstanding and successful partnership with Jisc, the UK’s digital body for tertiary education and research, for a second five-year term of the Shared Data Centre framework, further securing the digital infrastructure available to the UK’s education and academic community.
The partnership enables eligible institutions to deploy sustainable, scalable, and secure housing of their digital systems and services.
aql further champions 5G innovation.
5G is positively impacting industries globally, unlocking a broad range of opportunities from driving better decision making to creating outstanding user-experiences.
Now in its second year, the aql sponsored Digital Leaders 100 Awards ‘5G Innovation of the Year’ exemplar award champions those projects, initiatives and teams that are leading the way in 5G and demonstrating the wide possibilities and opportunities this future technology enables.
aql’s Senior Vice President (SVP) Group Operations, Shelley Langan-Newton presented the award to Liverpool 5G Create alongside former BBC technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones during an exclusive awards ceremony at London’s Aqua Shard venue.
Mary Portas embraces the Kindness Economy at aql’s Salem Chapel.
aql believes that collaboration, partnerships and working together will drive positive impactful changes and support the movement to be “less bad” and seek to be “more good”. People and the planet are at the centre of everything we do and this has given us the opportunity to give back as much as we can from free wifi in the centre of Leeds to our Sensing Change project that started life as an experiment to see if we could drive down the use of disposable plastic bottles.
“Think People, Planet, Profit – in that order.” This thinking aligns closely with aql’s mission and was one of the key takeaways from the Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2021 ‘In conversation with Mary Portas’ event that we were privileged to host.
aql partners with Network Rail to build a data “Express Service” between Leeds and Manchester.
aql launched its new wavelength service between Leeds and Manchester. The new service further strengthens the Northern Powerhouse’s super connectivity and global competitiveness and makes use of Network Rail’s high-capacity trackside fibre, offering organisations unconstrained bandwidth for maximum speed and reduced traffic congestion, with the capacity to deliver against growing data demands.
The managed wave service offers a 24/7 first line network operations centre (NOC) to monitor network performance, rectify equipment faults and troubleshoot potential issues. It delivers unconstrained bandwidth with output speeds of 1, 10, 40, 100 Gb/s or faster.
aql provides cornerstone to UK 5G projects to drive a better connected society.
aql group’s Mobile Operator division lands multiple 5G projects via Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) 5G Create.
As part its participation in five of the 5G Create Testbeds and Trials Programme consortia funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), aql will provide the 5G delivery to each project that aims to explore and develop new use-cases and 5G technical capabilities.
aql’s ethos is founded in building collaborative partnerships and strong teamwork. This has been recognised by the award of multiple projects to deliver enabling technology to support the solid engineering fabric and future success.
aql’s Founder & Chairman, Professor Adam Beaumont wins 2020 Digital Leaders 100 Founders Award
It is with great pride that aql announced Founder & Chairman, Professor Adam Beaumont was awarded the coveted Digital Leaders 100 Founders Award for 2020.
The award recognises Adam’s continued entrepreneurial and angel investor efforts that have seen him drive digital transformation across the UK with his companies aql, BlueWave and NorthInvest. It also acknowledges his support and co-investment in some of the most ground-breaking tech start-ups across the north of the country that include jet-suit company Gravity and self-powered Internet of Things (IoT) connected hand sanitiser business, Handi.
aql welcome LGBTQ+ Alliance to headquarters for conference.
aql highlighted its personal commitment to promoting the culture of inclusivity within the workplace for the LBTQ+ community by hosting the LGBTQ+ Business Alliance.
Founder & Chairman, Professor Adam Beaumont gave the opening address, reinforcing to delegates his belief that equal opportunity within the field of innovation is in everyone’s interests and to draw attention to the measures in place at aql to make sure that an inclusive culture becomes the norm – not just a movement.
The main aim of the event was to promote the purpose and importance of the business alliance, and to encourage businesses, not just LGBT+ staff, to support LGBT+ employees and communities.
