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My friend Krishna Vijayvargiya sent me a reel about Dognosis and I can't stop thinking about the first Dognosis pitch meeting. India has a cancer-screening problem. Normal person ideas: cheaper tests, more screening camps, better imaging access, maybe a low-cost liquid biopsy. Then, by the looks of it someone said: Nah, dogs as labs (not Labradors.) Think about it for a sec- Not dog as mascot. Dog as diagnostic infrastructure. That sounds ridiculous, till someone explains it. Cancer changes the body’s volatile organic compounds. Dogs are absurdly good at smell. Breath is easier to collect than blood. A mask can be shipped to a lab. A controlled lab can present the sample to trained dogs. Software can convert the read into a clinician-facing risk score. Now the weird idea starts looking like a workflow. That is why Dognosis is interesting. Not because “dogs can smell cancer” but because someone is trying to take a strange biological capability and turn it into a low-cost screening layer. Very India problem. Very non-obvious wedge. And the timing matters. India is already being described as a future cancer capital. ICMR/NCDIR estimated 14.61 lakh new cancer cases in India in 2022. The burden is expected to keep rising. So early detection is not some nice-to-have healthcare upgrade. It is infrastructure that can make a lot of difference. Now, obvious caveat. A good Phase II study is not the same as population-scale proof. This still needs prospective validation, regulatory clearance, clinician trust, sample logistics, follow-up pathways, and probably a hundred boring operational fixes. But that is exactly what makes the company worth tracking. The demo is weird. The problem is real. The bet is that India’s next serious AI-healthcare story may not begin with a chatbot. It may begin with a dog sniffing a mask in a lab.

First confirmed AI-built zero-day exploit, used in the wild: it will be an interesting world

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Excited to be at the All-Energy Exhibition & Conference (13–14 May) - especially in its 25th year! As a proud Glaswegian, it’s fantastic to see this world-leading event continue to call my vibrant city home for more than a decade - and for many more years to come 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I have had the privilege of serving on the All-Energy Strategic Summit Committee alongside some brilliant industry leaders. A programme focused on one of the biggest challenges of our time: delivering the UK energy transition at pace. Looking forward to hearing from leaders across government, networks, investment and industry including Michael Shanks , Susan Aitken , Fintan Slye , Julian Leslie , Chris Stark CBE , Nicola Connelly , Paul Leddie , Ewan Rabey MRICS , Christianna Logan , Juergen Maier CBE FRS FREng , Darren Davidson , Keith Bell , Matthew Knight and many more. Proud to also see Deloitte colleagues contributing to the conversation with leaders across our sector: ⚡ Financing the UK energy transition (12:40 - 13:40, Hall 1) Netti Farkas-Mills Shaun Reynolds Tara Schmidt Charles Langan Chris Elder ⚡ Grid digitalisation, automation & cyber security (16:30 -17:00, Fute Grid Show Floor Theatre) Andrew Barroso Johnny Awad Thank you again to Judith Patten MBE for introducing me to this fantastic forum! If you’re attending All-Energy, send me a message - would be great to catch up in Glasgow. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ers5uGZP Kirsty Davis | Samantha Gerrard | Lorraine Mackin | Angela Mitchell | Bia Bedri | Daniel Grosvenor | Thea Gibson | Gavin Hood | Robert Jamieson | Will Macleod | Merlyn Gregory #AllEnergy #EnergyTransition #NetZero #Infrastructure #Renewables

On the stickiness of human to human interaction in B2B, and probably on the necessity of allocation of responsibility in the same cluster of industries

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This is Engineering - and why it matters more than ever In June 2026, the Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary: 50 years of engineering better lives. One of the strongest examples of that mission in action is the This is Engineering campaign. So I was delighted to receive an invite to today’s celebration lunch. Launched in 2018, the campaign set out to tackle a major challenge: 👷♀️ changing outdated perceptions of engineering 🌟inspiring young people 🌍showing that engineering is about creativity, impact, collaboration and solving real-world problems The impact of the campaign has been remarkable: 🟢 77+ million film views 🟢 761,000 website visits from aspiring engineers 🟢 10+ million image downloads 🟢 78% of teenagers took action after seeing the campaign 🟢 69% would now consider engineering careers - a 77% increase since launch 🟢 More than 1.6 million young people prompted to consider engineering careers 🟢 50% of students choosing engineering said the campaign influenced them 🟢 Growing interest among girls studying engineering-related GCSEs and A-levels But what stood out most in today’s discussion was Engineering is no longer just competing on passion and purpose. Young people are increasingly looking for: 🟣 Stability 🟣 Security 🟣 Meaningful careers 🟣 And the opportunity to shape the future Engineering delivers all four. I’m optimistic about what the next 50 years could look like for the engineering profession - especially if we continue expanding the conversation to include: 🔵 Earlier engagement in schools (nursery) 🔵 Career retention 🔵 Career switchers 🔵 Small and Medium-sized Entreprise engagement 🔵 Industry-academic partnerships experiential learning Because attracting people into engineering is only part of the challenge. Creating pathways where people can thrive is the bigger opportunity. 🔗 Campaign: https://lnkd.in/egUYykTg Huge thanks to the presenters and organising team: Tamara Finkelstein | Jo Trigg | Kiran Anderson | Rebecca Lindsay And great to reconnect and meet with: Christopher Smith | Carmen Santos | Andrew Everett | Maria Long | Susan Robson MBE | Elisabeth Eweka | Virtue Igbokwuwe | Campbell Booth | Qiteng Hong Women's Engineering Society | The James Hutton Institute | Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | University of Strathclyde

The next enterprise security headache might be an identity nobody hired (and all of us are excited about it). It's agents. Think about it. Everyone and their grandmother is talking about AI agents boosting productivity, with some companies counting them like headcount (do NOT get me started on it). Needless to say, while the picture is shiny on paper, the common problem is ugly and practical. Agents do not act in a vacuum. They use credentials. They access systems. They trigger workflows. They inherit permissions built for older software and human users. That is fine when usage is small. It becomes dangerous when every team starts spinning up agents that can read, write, approve, move data or call tools across systems. And product companies have started preparing for this. ServiceNow expanded AI Control Tower to discover, observe, govern, secure and measure AI systems, agents and workflows across the enterprise. Its Autonomous Security & Risk push with Armis and Veza adds asset intelligence and identity governance for humans and non-humans. Cisco , separately, announced intent to acquire Astrix Security, focused on non-human identities: API keys, service accounts and OAuth tokens. Security teams will need answers that most org charts are not ready for: Which agents exist? Which identity is each one using? What can it access? What did it change? Can it be stopped in real time? Can audit reconstruct the chain later? The agent demo will get copied fast. The governance layer will be slower, more expensive and harder to fake.

I love sharing the annual impact report from Deloitte Middle East. Its a reflection of how we continue to show up for our clients, our communities and each other. As we celebrate 100 years in the Middle East in 2026, this is also a reminder on what we can achieve together #ImpactThatMatters #DeloitteMiddleEast #SocietalImpact #TogetherMakesProgress https://lnkd.in/eYuTw8Ev