Photo: Chatbot Club with Japeto CEO Ingrid Folland (middle row, 3^rd from left) and College staff from the Games Design course

A cohort of ambitious Games Design students at Harlow College have partnered with Harlow-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers Japeto to form the Chatbot Club, with the aim of developing a chatbot based on a brief created by the College’s Safeguarding team.

49-year-old Ben Walker from Bishops Stortford has embraced a new challenge after facing redundancy from his long-time job in the print industry. Just as the pandemic struck. Ben was working for Rupert Murdoch’s former company News International when he learned of his redundancy and it was shortly after that he decided to try his hand as a carpenter by undertaking an apprenticeship.

Project Community is a new initiative uniting essential services across Harlow to provide support for the local community.