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What your autistic colleague wished you knew …

Gemma Higgs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:54:50 +0000

Autism isn’t always visible, and many of the challenges that neurodiverse workers deal with aren’t obvious from the outside. This post tries to explain some of the behaviours at work that might be interpreted the wrong way if you’re neurotypical. I hope this gives a better understanding of what’s going on beneath the surface — […]

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Part 3 – Celebrating Neurodiversity Week – Paula McDevitt

Gemma Higgs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:26:16 +0000

Paula McDevitt, Head of Managed Database Services – Being a Neurodiverse DBA and Why the Right Tools Matter I have dyslexia. For most of my career, that was simply something I worked around quietly. I learned to double-check everything, to read more slowly than others, and to build little safety nets into the way I […]

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Part 2 – Celebrating Neurodiversity Week – Mary Hughes

Gemma Higgs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:17:43 +0000

Mary Hughes, Senior Data Platform Tech Lead at Coeo – Discovering Neurodivergence Like many neurodivergent women, I didn’t find out that I was Autistic and ADHD until my mid-thirties, and after I’d spent 20 years being treated for ‘general anxiety’. I didn’t know much about neurodiversity at this point in my life but read an […]

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Part 1 – Celebrating Neurodiversity Week – Ben Goode

Gemma Higgs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:16:44 +0000

Part 1: Introduction to the Coeo Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group (ERG) As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2026, the Coeo Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group (ERG) wanted to take a moment to share insights, reflections and personal experiences of neurodiversity in the workplace. The Coeo Neurodiversity ERG is a community of colleagues who identify as neurodivergent, […]

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Microsoft Fabric and Databricks: How to Use Both for Modern Data + AI

Gemma Higgs — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:12:00 +0000

Many organisations evaluating modern data platforms hear two competing messages:“Go all-in on Microsoft Fabric” or “Standardise on Databricks.” In reality, many enterprises benefit from understanding where each platform excels and how they can complement each other within a modern data architecture. In this panel session, Rob Carrol, our Fabric specialist and Terry Russell, our Databricks […]

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