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For International Women's Day 2023, we asked eight women working across our business to share their personal and unique journeys into tech – including the journey that brought them to Opencast. Featuring contributions from: - Emily Allinson - head of user centred design - Manon Clech - senior user research consultant - Blessing Oziegbe - business analyst - Cate Kalson - chief people officer - Charlotte Ombler - user researcher - Carla Savelli - senior user research consultant - Ute Schauberger - service designer - Amanda Wowk - content designer
Opencast has been named as the winner of the 2022 In House Recruitment Award for best recruitment team for a scaling business. The winners of the national awards were unveiled on 30 November at a black tie dinner for over 500 at the Park Plaza Hotel in central London.
Opencast has reached a milestone on its rapid expansion journey with the recruitment of its 400th employee. A clutch of new employees who started with the Newcastle-headquartered business takes the number on its team past the 400 mark.
Global news publisher Newsweek has announced its first-ever annual rankings for the UK’s Top 100 ‘Most Loved Workplaces®’ list – and independent technology consultancy Opencast is ranked at 19 on the list.
Tyneside-headquartered tech consultancy Opencast has been ranked 20th in a list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the English North East.
Independent tech consultancy Opencast has been named as the winner of the ‘growth explosion’ category at the 2022 Dynamites awards.
One of the fastest-growing companies in England’s North East has appointed a new chief financial officer to help manage and further accelerate its expansion.
Mike O’Brien, co-founder of independent Tyneside tech consultancy Opencast, has been named as the Entrepreneur of the Year in the prestigious annual Entrepreneurs' Forum Awards. EF’s Entrepreneur of the Year award recognises an experienced entrepreneur "who has shown incredible resilience and strength, particularly this past year, to lead their business to outstanding success through innovation, teamwork and leadership skills". Commenting on Mike's award win, the Entrepreneurs’ Forum said: "Mike co-founded Opencast in 2012 and has grown the business into one of the largest tech companies in the North East. Opencast has been named in the GP Bullhound Top 100 list no less than five times in the award's nine years and is on track to become a future FTSE 250 company."
Opencast has become certified as a Most Loved Workplace, following research and analysis of our data from the respected Best Practice Institute. Opencast’s Most Loved Workplace certification follows a comprehensive look at workplace sentiment, and analysis of its engagement data shows that Opencast people are happy and satisfied at work. The BPI research used information provided by Opencast about employee satisfaction and sentiment, including the level of respect, collaboration, support and sense of belonging they feel inside the company.
Opencast has confirmed the names of 10 charities it will support in this its 10th anniversary year following a vote by people working across the business. The donations from Opencast’s latest profits total £55,000 – taking the amount donated so far to charities by the fast-growing business past the £100,000 mark – and are part of the company’s ‘10 good things’ initiative marking the company’s 10th anniversary. The 10 charities were chosen by Opencast employees after a vote across the company, and include a range of non-profits working in the North East, UK wide and also internationally. Beneficiaries, which are all UK-registered charities, include a rape crisis centre, two housing and homelessness projects, a tree planting charity and a UK-wide suicide prevention agency. Opencast’s people voted to support charities working to address four key causes that mattered most to them: poverty and inequality; housing and homelessness; environment and sustainability; and health and medical.
