BEYOND THE CAPITAL
SuperTech’s Podcast takes a look at ProfTech innovation and success across the regions to inspire, share best practice and build on best practices across the ecosystem.
Beyond the Capital is the UK’s first podcast dedicated to showcasing professional services technology (ProfTech) outside of London, with each episode exploring how ProfTech industries and professionals can thrive beyond the capital.
Hosted by Hilary Smyth-Allen, Professional Services champion and Executive Lead for SuperTech, this free to listen to podcast features experts in the fields of FinTech, LawTech and all other ‘Techs’ in the professional services sector. We speak to thought leaders from around the world to hear their views, gain insights on future trends, and look at how the landscape of professional services has changed since the pandemic.
Whether you’re part of a FinTech start-up, an established law firm, a policy-maker or a techy entrepreneur dabbling in real estate; this series is designed for anyone interested in the future of professional services and the role of technology.
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Changing Minds, Changing Audits: Armstrong Watson's Tech Journey with TiPS
This is the final episode of a four-part mini-series of Beyond the Capital from SuperTech WM, in partnership with the TiPS Accelerator—a programme helping regional law and accountancy firms adopt new technology.
This episode explores how regional accountancy and audit firm Armstrong Watson navigated the cultural, technical, and client-facing challenges of adopting new audit technology through the TiPS accelerator programme.
Host Hilary Smith-Allen is joined by Steve Preston and Lucy Hughes, who share their experience implementing data analytics tools across Armstrong Watson’s offices, managing team engagement and collaborating with both clients and suppliers.
They discuss how a mindset shift—at board level and across teams—was essential to success, how change management workshops helped guide the process, and why rolling out the pilot at scale made all the difference.
Service Design, AI and Cultural Change: Inside Thorntons' TiPS Journey
This is the third episode of a four-part mini-series of Beyond the Capital from SuperTech WM, in partnership with the TiPS Accelerator—a programme helping regional law and accountancy firms adopt new technology.
This episode features leaders from Thorntons Law LLP, a full-service Scottish law firm, who speak to host Hilary Smyth-Allen about their journey through the TiPS Accelerator.
Sarah Blair, Jane McCance, and Lewis Quinn unpack how the firm used service design thinking to drive digital transformation, build AI literacy, and surface the real human challenges behind legal tech adoption.
From co-creating solutions with colleagues to embracing “messy” innovation, they share a deeply people-first approach to change—and how that’s shaping a new internal transformation programme for the firm.
Building Trust in Legal Tech: Weightmans and the TiPS Challenge
This is the second episode of a four-part mini-series of our Beyond the Capital podcase, in partnership with the TiPS Accelerator—a programme helping regional law and accountancy firms adopt new technology.
In this episode, host Hilary Smyth-Allen speaks to Dr Catriona Wolfenden, Director of Product and Innovation at Weightmans, a top-40 UK law firm. She shares insights from Weightmans’ participation in the TiPS accelerator programme, focusing on how trust plays a pivotal role in the successful adoption of legal technology, especially emerging tools like generative AI.
How the Technology in Professional Services Accelerator (TiPS) is helping law and accountancy firms adopt tech
In this episode of Beyond the Capital from SuperTech WM, we find out about the TiPS Accelerator - a programme helping regional law and accountancy firms adopt new technology. Hilary Smith-Allen is joined by the research team at Oxford Brookes Business School.