Meet our 2026 North East Regional awardees
Stuart Armstrong
Stuart Armstrong
AgriTrack
AgriTrack is developing a tag and twin of the farm for full visibility and automation of processes, bringing asset security and digitisation.
Chirag Kumar
Chirag Kumar
Co-Founder of Lumion
Grid scale battery owners face structurally inefficient dispatch and revenue uncertainty because they cannot continuously optimise operations across volatile US and UK electricity markets. Lumion provides an optimisation platform that autonomously determines and executes the highest value market actions for each battery asset in real time to maximise revenue.
Alex Ventisei
Alex Ventisei
CTO of Floe
Carbon reporting can be expensive and inaccessible for businesses. Floe is solving this problem by automating the service.
Laura Richards
Laura Richards
Founding Director of BrandScribe
Small business owners have expertise worth sharing but lack the time, budget, or writing confidence to turn it into marketing content. BrandScribe uses voice-first data capture to build personalised AI-powered content systems, that sound like the business, not AI.
Jari Pallari
Jari Pallari
Founder & CEO of Additive Intelligence Limited
Compliance with treatment for sleep apnea is often low (usually continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, using a machine and delivered through a mask). Additive Intelligence is developing bespoke interfaces to CPAP machines to increase compliance.
Stephen Carr
Stephen Carr
Co-Founder of Mars Projects Group
MARS is developing a depth and perception sports training solution.
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