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Calvium's Jo Reid shortlisted for National Technology award

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Congratulations to Studio resident Jo Reid, Creative Director of Calvium who has been named as a finalist in the National everywoman in Technology Awards. Jo has been shortlisted in the Innovator of the Year category, largely for her work in designing the mobile app development software platform AppFurnace, which makes it more affordable and easy for small businesses to make their own apps.

Jo says “We created AppFurnace because of our passion for helping people in the creative industries. Its an innovative product that inspires innovation in others.”

Jo has been involved with the cutting edge of technology throughout her career, starting out on novel ways to design copier interfaces at Xerox, through expert systems for computer aided software engineering tools at Texas Instruments and penultimately working on applications of pervasive computing technologies at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories.

Jo is currently responsible for consultancy, sales and marketing. In this role she runs training courses and applies her expertise in mobile experience design and her knowledge of location and context aware applications to help customers create history inspired located games, community story telling walks, trails, hunts and quiz games as mobile apps.

For more information about AppFurnace and upcoming workshops have a look at www.appfurnace.com.