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2. Christopher Jackson Flexisolar

3. Construction of solar car parking and EV charging systems. Led over £2.4 million in UK/EU projects SME 20 employees Christopher Jackson, Director e: christopher@flexi-solar.com t: 07561 330 470

4. 1. Your Project idea Dual purpose PV/EV inverter for Vehicle to Grid (V2G) applications 2. What’s innovative about it? Cost reduction opportunity by removing components 3. The services you can offer? Design, Manufacture & Build Commercialisation & Route to market 4. The partners/services you seek? Power electronics & EV charging Christopher Jackson e: christopher@flexi-solar.com t: 07561 330 470

5. Sharp Ivan Castro

6. Sharp Laboratories of Europe About your company Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational technology company that designs, develops and sells electronic products, including consumer goods and OEM components Sharp Laboratories of Europe (SLE) is Sharp’s European R&D centre, based in Oxford SLE is currently ~80 scientists and engineers developing new technologies, products and services for the European market, including domestic battery storage and home energy management systems We are defined as a Large Business under Innovate UK rules We have developed technology which coordinates our domestic battery products to create a highly flexible demand response resource Contact details Iván Castro ivan.castro@sharp.co.uk 01865747711

7. 1. Your Project idea A field trial to enable autonomous and distributed grid support via aggregated ‘behind-the-meter’ energy storage systems and/or home energy management systems (HEMS). Develop optimisation and control strategies to maximise grid reliability and energy sustainability in a cost-effective fashion. Evaluate ‘prosumer’ use cases and business models. 3. The services you can offer? Domestic battery and/or HEMS provider and developer. Domestic virtual energy store and demand response platform. System design and integration. Software and algorithm development. Experience of leading and collaborating Innovate UK projects. 4. The partners/services you seek? Suppliers or DNOs (DR customers) Universities (cyber-physical systems and operations research). Customer engagement specialists (recruitment of trial participants). Housing associations / developers, councils, ESCOs, community energy projects (pilot sites). Others? (complementary ideas/applications). 2. What’s innovative about it? Gateway to control in real-time multiple energy appliances in the home for demand response. Operation is transparent to the consumer. Platform for community energy trading. Improve ROI on domestic battery systems and/or HEMS by reducing energy costs for consumers. Availability for integration with other energy systems. Sharp Laboratories of Europe Contact details Iván Castro ivan.castro@sharp.co.uk 01865747711 Contact details Iván Castro ivan.castro@sharp.co.uk 01865747711

8. Michael Holroyd Inventya

9. About your company Inventya is a commercialisation consultancy that works with science and technology businesses, helping them to take their innovative ideas successfully to market and revenue We work with science & technology businesses, offering services including funding strategy, funding and grant opportunities, advice and preparation of applications, commercialisation studies, including commercial feasibility, market research, dissemination and marketing plans Inventya is an Enterprise Europe Network providing SMEs in the North West free tailored support to internationalise in 64 countries, advise on IP, find distributors, offer innovation support to create export opportunities Inventya is a SME business based in Birchwood, Warrington Contact details Michael Holroyd, Managing Director m.holroyd@invnetya.com 07824 161096

10. Alex Ross Independent

11. Alexander Ross  My Involvement in the Nuclear Industry  Theorist and Inventor  Discovered Complex Quantum Mechanics  Invented the Emergency Roofing System for Nuclear Reactors  An individual on a “Good Will & Get to Know You” mission to remove any reservations in the industry.  Contact details Mr Alexander Scott Ross PGCE BSc (Hons) alexross53@hotmail.com 07999 58 70 20

12. 1. Your Project idea Have exciting Theoretical and Ground Breaking Research Work Emergency Roofing is the biggest safety advance for Fission Reactors for some time. 2. What’s innovative about it? Theories advance Classical Quantum Mechanics while no other advance stands scrutiny. No-one has thought of creating an Emergency Replacement Roof 3. The services you can offer? My main purpose is achieved in attending. I have prepared two Power Point slides of about 40 and 60 slides long – Too long and advanced to present here - Sorry 4. The partners/services you seek? The appropriate channels to assist the industry without create alarm!

13. Sergio Campobasso University of Lancaster

14. Lancaster University Computational Fluid Dynamics Group About your company Leading multidisciplinary Renewable Energy group Research and Higher Education Engineering-LUREG: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lureg/http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lureg/ Lancaster Environment Centre: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/ Contact details Dr. M. Sergio Campobasso M.s.Campobasso@Lancaster.ac.uk 01524 594673

15. 1. Your Project areas Wind/Tidal turbine/arrays fluid and structure mechanics. Oscillating wings for tidal power. Wind energy in built environment. Interaction of fluid machinery and environment complexity. 2. What’s innovative about it? Variable-fidelity ranging from conceptual studies to realistic multi- scale simulations using high- performance computing (HPC). Probabilistic analysis/design optimisation framework. Highly multidisciplinary approach. 3. The services you can offer? Analysis and design of renewable energy fluid machinery. Optimal machine/environment integration (e.g. wind energy in built environment). HPC in support of our services. 4. The partners/services you seek? Industrial partners in offshore and onshore wind energy (e.g. turbine and wind farm developers and stakeholders). Industrial partners in marine energy and hydropower.

16. Bill Courtney Latent Power Turbines

17. Latent Power Turbines Ltd Contact details for Bill Courtney, technical director Email: billcourtney@lineon.net Tel: 0161 980 5191billcourtney@lineon.net Dedicated web page: www.cheshire-innovation.com/Sky%20Tube.htmwww.cheshire-innovation.com/Sky%20Tube.htm Heat from atmosphere in Electricity out Incorporated in December 2010 We own the IP rights, knowhow and test rig.

18. 1.Proposal Latent Power Turbines Are based on an Innovate UK award winning thermodynamic cycle. Deliver green electricity 24/7 D eliver FREE air cooling 2. What’s the innovation? Our power generator is based on the thermodynamics of hurricanes. Theory supported by research. 3. Product offer 4. We are seeking An engineering partner with turbine design expertise Investment A company to buy us out

19. Michael Kavanagh Omniquip

20. Omniquip Ltd About your company Omnequip Ltd. I am an ex. Marine Engineer promoting a Tidal Power System I have patent rights to. I am a one man operation. Contact details Michael E. Kavanagh mepkav@me.com 0161 7634535

21. 1. Your Project idea To take power from the tides without blocking off the rivers/estuaries and creating Real Estate while doing so. 2. What’s innovative about it? Its cleanliness Its size and multi-use prospects 3. The services you can offer? I am a lifelong engineer. Starting as a Tool Maker becoming a Merchant Navy Engineer Officer for eight years and then a Stationary Plant Engineer abroad for twenty years. 4. The partners/services you seek? Large engineering affiliated concerns with knowledge of how to access funding and/or perhaps to buy out the system.

22. Simon Navin Ordnance Survey

23. About your company OS is Britain's national mapping agency, with a world-class reputation for geospatial expertise. We maintain the geospatial framework that underpins much of our national infrastructure We are a large business; a limited company wholly owned by the UK government. Contact details Simon Navin, Projects Lead, Smart Practice Simon.Navin@os.uk 07825 063378

24. 1. Your Project idea We want to participate in projects in which we can help build geospatial innovation for future infrastructure solutions. 2. What’s innovative about it? We are keen to co-develop smart approaches to solving infrastructure challenges, utilising location intelligence to power data-driven decisions. 3. The services you can offer? Extensive client base World-class geospatial expertise Authoritative content, available at zero cost Strong R&D capability with extensive university links Business incubation facility 4. The partners/services you seek? Opportunities to support a new generation of smart infrastructure, with particular interest in projects based on: Predictive analytics Internet of things Intelligent mobility 5G communications

25. David Slee Reece Innovation

26. RMEC and Reece Innovation: Distributed Sensing Technology About us: RMEC is Dave Slee - 26 year track record of “doing it”: Offshore energy, RD&D management, wind farm development, technology due diligence, training RMEC: SME consultancy with deep market knowledge and connections, engaged by: Reece Innovation: Medium sized Commercial R&D house: Access to distributed sensing technologies at TRL4 in this market Contact details David Slee, Director, RMEC, Old Tavern House, Riding Mill, Northumberland. NE44 6DX E-Mail: dave.slee@rmec.co.uk Phone: +44 (0)7905 909102

27. 1. Your Project idea  Cable/pipe fibre optic distributed vibration sensing (DVS).  Phase I: Expert system software with under-water cable knowledge  Phase II: Integrate with DTS, other wind farm sensors 2. What’s innovative about it?  Potential for a £1bn/-2% LCOE quick win  Solves the “big data” problem  Determines if safe to “limp through”  Scalable vulnerable asset security to onshore networks of all types  Cable tracking/location 3. The services you can offer?  Sensor technology hardware and software platforms  Offshore cable & pipe expertise  Commercial RD&D “drive” & “brain- power”  Established route-map for follow-on RD&D to additional markets 4. The partners/services you seek?  Deployment opportunities to train the expert system – offshore trials.  Development of SM fibre placement in cables/assets – onshore laboratory  Stakeholder: Owner/Investor/Utility e.g. DONG, EDF, SPR, Vattenfall, National Grid…

28. Steve Hilditch Thales

29. www.thalesgroup.com OPEN A large multinational with global transportation and security businesses Thales Transportation UK supplies signalling, control and information systems to the largest transport infrastructure providers: TfL, Highways England, Transport for Greater Manchester and Network Rail Thales invests heavily in research, innovation and development STEVE HILDITCH STEVE.HILDITCH@THALESGROUP.COM 07967 190208 STEVE.HILDITCH@THALESGROUP.COM

30. 30 OPEN 1. I nterested in transportation aspects Balancing transportation peak demands through innovation, intermodal transport. improving network capacity, efficiency & operational cost Smart, resilient, integrated infrastructure for: better intelligence, functionality, productivity, security, flexibility, capacity & performance 2. What’s innovative about it? Operations too often arranged in modal stovepipes Operations too often involve conversations rather than joined up systems Join up the operational partners 3. The services Thales can offer? Transportation data knowledge in multiple modes, timetables & operations Asset management of mechanical & electronic transport systems Systems integration for a consortium Data analytics / complex systems reasoning / decision-support solutions for critical national infrastructure & urban systems Security – cyber, digital & physical assets; critical national infrastructure & urban systems 4. The partners/services Thales seeks? Innovative ideas from SMEs which are transport-related Critical national infrastructure operators/city authorities Thales and the Infrastructure Competition

31. Adam Webb Digital Catapult

32. About us Not-for-profit company, funded by Innovate UK Our mission is to accelerate economic growth in the UK We work with SME’s to help them grow and scale faster, and larger companies to digitally transform Undertake CR&D on large-scale digital challenges to help open new markets We work across a range of technology areas: Next generation Internet: Internet of Things, distributed ledger technologies, decentralised web, 5G and low powered wide area networks Data-driven: trust, privacy, identity and security Intelligent: machine learning and artificial intelligence Adam Webb, Manager – R&D Collaborations Adam.webb@digicatapult.org.uk 07772 545276 | www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk

33. 1. Your Project idea 2. What’s innovative about it? 3. The services you can offer? IoT expertise, including LPWAN testbed 5G Data sharing and analytics Machine Learning Cyber Security Distributed Ledger Technology 4. The partners/services you seek? We cannot lead applications Looking for SME’s to work with Happy to work on any area where we can be useful Digital Catapult

34. Vladimir Stoiljkovic Satellite Applications Catapult

35. Independent, not-for-profit research and technology company; Established in May 2013 by Innovate UK; A gate-way to organisations involved in satellite technology (universities, start-ups, SMEs and large organisations); Specialise in Earth observation (EO), seamless telecommunications, positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and data analytics; Vladimir Stoiljkovic Vladimir.Stoiljkovic@sa.catapult.org.uk 01235 567 999 07867 490117

36. We offer: A gate-way to organisations involved in satellite technology (universities, start-ups, SMEs and large organisations); In-house expertise in EO, telecommunications and PNT (e.g., GPS); Facilities (a cloud computing network, telecommunications lab, video wall); Network of our regional Centres of Excellence for better access to local organisations; We are looking for: Innovative organisation willing to develop applications involving satellite technology;

37. Nick Anderson Transport Systems Catapult

38. Contact details Nick Anderson e: nick.Anderson@ts.catapult.org.uk t: 0777 556 8118 www.ts.catapult.org.uk The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) was established to provide an impetus for the Intelligent Mobility market. Its role is to help stimulate growth and jobs, support businesses to increase the UK share of a global market, improve journeys, provide leadership and build sustainable businesses. We aim to support the Intelligent Mobility community by working with them to develop and then exploit shared know-how and experience:  Building Relationships – facilitating communication and collaboration between UK Government, industry, transport providers, SME’s and academia;  Technology – providing opportunities to de-risk new Intelligent Mobility technologies, products and services;  Commercialisation – providing support for the creation and development of new businesses, as well as scaling up existing ones.

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40. Tomoaki Lio IHI

41. IHI Corporation About your company Japanese Heavy Industry Company Provide products and services for 4 business fields (1. Resources, Energy and Environment, 2. Social Infrastructure, Offshore Facilities, 3. Industrial Systems, General-Purpose Machinery, 4. Aero Engine, Space and Defense) Large business Contact details Tomoaki Iio t.iio@ihieuro.co.uk Tel: 020 7481 8180 Mobile: 07801 046236

42. 1. Your Project idea “Smart junction System” which provide Driving Safety Support, Traffic Management, and Traffic Enforcement 2. What’s innovative about it? Provide multifunction by a sensor Integrate big data Efficient Human Machine Interface 3. The services you can offer? 3 Dimension Laser Sensor for infrastructure Software for the Sensor Human Machine Interface for Driving Safety Support 4. The partners/services you seek? Communication for traffic Traffic data integrator Traffic management service provider

43. Zulf Choudhary Sparta Digital

44. About your company We are SME based in the Northern Quarter, spin out of Manchester University Providing IoT solutions with data analysis plus consultancy in other software applications from mobile to online platforms. We are small SME with 12 staff Contact details Zulf Choudhary Zulf.c@spartadigital.co.uk 0161 478 6767

45. 1. Your Project idea Making urban environments safer using devices and sensors Making transport cost effective to deliver for providers and users 2. What’s innovative about it? Using IoT to understand processes Using Sensors to improve processes Ease the users journey with sensors 3. The services you can offer? Making big data available to sme’s Helping to reduce costs of services To understand processes better 4. The partners/services you seek? Large partners with big data Partner looking to improve delivery using cutting edge tools and systems

46. Andy Nash Becotix

47. . A start up focused on changing pubic transport ticketing and travel Technology – Software A micro business with large ambitions Contact details Andy Nash andy@becotix.co.uk 07891136555

48. 1. Your Project idea Oyster style travel utilising beacons and smart phones Provides best value travel Can be used in multimodal travel 2. What’s innovative about it? Places all the fare information in a back office, not at point of sale Just tracks travel, removing the complexity of handling money Opens up a real dialogue with the customer 3. The services you can offer? Transport knowledge and expertise Development services Experience of working with beacons Prototyping 4. The partners/services you seek? Installation of citywide infrastructure Contacts in the transport industry Using beacons marketing or retail env Experience of working with the shared economy