E247 Punchline Talks! With Chris Nelson PCC, Dorian Wragg, Claire Seed, Rob Stemp and Mark Owen

Punchline Talks! The Business Breakfast Briefers are back - this week we're talking Ai, Gloucestershire Policing, commercial and retail property, first aid, defibs and a government in meltdown. Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses. The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors. The panel of guests today are: Chris Nelson - Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire constabulary are the counties 4th largest employer with over 2,400 employees and a budget of approx. £180million. The police have never been under so much financial strain. The PCC looks after the budget. Now the government has called time on all PCCs across the county, what’s the plan to replace him and are they still looking at Gloucestershire’s force joining Wiltshire to make up a new super force? Rob Stemp - CTO of DeepMinds. DeepMinds is a cyber security and AI consultancy based in Cheltenham focusing on how companies can adopt AI safely. He is also the chair of the University of Gloucestershire Technology Industry Advisory Group and co-chair of the Gloucestershire County Council Business Board. Where’s the starting point for AI and why aren’t more businesses using it & what should we all be doing? Dorian Wragg - partner - Bruton Knowles chartered surveyors. BK has a 180 staff and a turnover of circa £15million. Dorian is a commercial property guru. We’ll find out what’s the national picture is looking like compared to Gloucestershire’s and how is the counties commercial and retail property sector doing? Clare Seed – operations of Tidal Training Ltd. A Cheltenham company, specialising in national health care training. She is also co-founder of the Public Hearts Defibrillator Campaign CIC, a community scheme focused on increasing public access defibrillators in Cheltenham and has currently fitted 120 across Gloucestershire. So, where’s next and how do you go about getting a defib on your building or businesses or school? And so much more, including: John Healey & Al Carns resignations, Benedict's Law, Patch, Cheltenham BID, The Shirt Factory & Tom's bum, youth advisory board. It’s all here in the Punchline!! if you enjoyed the show please LIKE, share, SUBSCRIBE. SPONSORED BY HAZLEWOODS. #gloucestershire #businessnews #stroud #cheltenham #cotswolds