Internet of Things Launchpad 2: Suppliers Showcase

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Success in today’s interconnected world now, more than ever, relies on building cross-disciplinary teams. Winning teams no longer work in the same space and, better still, no longer need to be part of your own company.

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About the event

Working with established experts is a very cost effective way of tapping into knowledge and skills that you do not have in-house, but know you need. Join us for this exclusive event in Cambridge on 20 January 2015 and listen to the experts in legal, finance, technology, user experience, technology, providing advice on topics that really matter to scale up your business!

All starting businesses face similar issues when experiencing high growth. This one-day Cambridge event brings together a panel of experts to discuss solutions for companies active in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is an opportunity for you to quickly get answers from our expert led round table discussions focused on solutions in the legal, finance, commercial and technical areas.

In addition to quickly learning how to overcome the most common growth hurdles, this event is an excellent opportunity to meet potential customers, suppliers and like-minded start-ups that can support your growth ambitions.  Join us for a series of roundtable discussions and make those essential contacts that could prove key to the growth of your business.

  • Born global but died local - Kevin Coleman, Alliantus
  • Other sources of funding for your business - Clennell Collingwood, TTP
  • Fast tracking the development of useful and usable products and services - Leo Poll, Akendi
  • Hug a lawyer – it doesn’t have to hurt and it might just add significant value to your business - Antony Waller, Olswang
  • Build the foundations but don’t forget to look to the stars - Janet Henson-Webb, HR Consultant 
  • Big businesses are bad at innovation. That’s where you come in - Warwick Goodall, Director, Technology Strategy, Deloitte Digital
  • Getting beyond the prototype - Richard Sims, TTP
  • Support from IOT partners: what is on offer from Red Gate Ventures and Unilever

The Launchpad Competition supports innovative research projects centred on both Cambridge and London SME clusters and aims to stimulate this hotspot of ‘Internet of Things’ industries by enabling companies to go further or faster towards commercial success.

You can follow @cambwireless on Twitter and tweet about this event using #CWBusiness.

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Speakers

Clennell Collingwood - Senior Consultant, TTP plc

Clennell Collingwood is a Senior Consultant in the Medical Devices group at TTP, Europe’s leading independent technology and product development company. Previously, Clennell was an Investment Director in TTP Ventures, investing in electronics and telecommunications related businesses. He managed the investments in Alphamosaic, sold to Broadcom for $123m, and Displaydata. In addition, Clennell helped to establish the Carbon Trust – TTP Incubator, which supported start-up and early-stage businesses in the low carbon sector. He has first class BA and MEng degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has completed the year long Postgraduate Course in Design, Manufacture and Management (also at Cambridge).

Warwick Goodall - Director, Technology Strategy, Deloitte LLP

Janet Henson Webb - HR Consultant, JHW

Leo Poll - Director, Keen Design

Technically everything is possible, making it work for people is where the real challenges are. Addressing these challenges from an end-user perspective in a way that makes business sense is what drives Leo. With more than 20 years of experience in Innovation driven Experience Research and Design he is able to bring an ability of strong lateral thinking combined with broad domain knowledge of applications/markets and technical enablers. Previous to his role at Akendi, Leo worked for the mobile phone division of Philips in Le Mans, France, managed numerous international projects whilst employed by Philips Electronics UK, was a member of the global 'Connectivity Programme' board of Philips Research, (Co-)founded Ryppel Ltd, Eversfield Innovation Ltd, Galileo Software Adviesbureau v.o.f.

Richard Sims

TTP

Anthony Waller - Partner, CMS

Anthony Waller is a partner in the Corporate/M&A Team at CMS London. Anthony deals with all aspects of corporate work, including private company and business acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, schemes of arrangement, fundraisings, venture capital investments and IPOs, joint ventures and reorganisations. Anthony works alongside the firm's international Corporate team. Anthony has advised clients in the TMT sector for many years, advising established international companies on a variety of transactions and public company issues. His practice focuses on high growth technology companies, acting for both the companies themselves and investors into the sector.

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The Moller Centre, Cambridge

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