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I had the opportunity to attend SXSW (South by South West) in Austin, Texas this year. Here, I highlight my key takeaways from this 6-day, action-packed Texan affair and my top tips if you’re thinking of heading there for the first time next year.

Trust in digital is broken. The challenge for brands is to regain user trust, fast. To share his ideas on how brands can try to earn user trust back, our CEO & Founder Danny Bluestone is heading to SXSW in March 2019.

In 2018, Cyber-Duck developed several proof of concepts, including a new real-time sales tracking tool: the Tomometer. Combining Pipedrive with a motorised meter held within the Cyber-Duck office via a Laravel-based API, we brought a personal touch to financial tracking activities. Find out more in this article.

At the annual Quack Hack, team Quacky Trips worked together to develop a travel itinerary with virtual reality (VR) integration geared towards walking holidays. HappyTrails is the result: a unique app that is designed to enhance the user experience of planning a walking holiday through VR.

Quack Hack 2018 saw the adoption of many of the latest technologies, including facial recognition software. Our team wanted to create a secure file-sharing platform, bolstered by biometric verification techniques. Here's our story from the hackathon.

At our annual hackathon, we put together a proof of concept (PoC) in 36 hours to tackle the challenges of EHR. The project was called 'A State of You'.

The nominations for awards keep flooding in: Cyber-Duck has now been shortlisted for the UXUK Awards and as a finalist in the Drum Agency Business Awards. This is a major achievement for Cyber-Duck this year – we’re so proud of all our staff who made this possible.

Following our new expansion into one of the UK’s hottest tech hubs, Leeds, we were invited by the University of Leeds to judge their second annual hackathon. With Yorkshire Building Society and PwC setting challenges, the hackathon had a distinct financial services angle. We sent New Business Manager Tom Millson, also our FinTech sector expert, to support and tutor the students.