Saffron Gee

Review of British Telecom (Martlesham He...

Fabulous innovation centre filled with lots of int...

Fabulous innovation centre filled with lots of interesting and exciting technology ideas. We were hosted in the Halley 1 suite just a shirt walk from reception. Comfortably seated 20 of us. Large display screen for PowerPoint presentations along with large conference table. Room was light and airy. Through the doors were tea and coffees and a small lunch selection provided.
We were given several talks from a few different representatives before being taken on the showcase tour after lunch.
Theres a lot to take in initially. Rooms/locations are set up in a "studio" like effect (similar to IKEA if you've ever been) including home, hospital,banking,industry, door security and shopping. These were the areas we were shown but looked there were a few more.
Felt the tour could have incorporated a more hands on approach as was just talked to about the products rather than testing them ourselves.
The tour is flat all the way round making it suitable for wheelchairs and there are wheelchair accessible toilets.
Parking was a small visitor parking area, arriving at 09:00 and there were still spaces and we had to register for a visitors badge on entry.
Overall insightful place to visit and is hosted well by BT.
It gave our teams lots of food for thought.