Yorkshire Humber 2026

Meet our 2026 Yorkshire and Humber regional awardees

Gregory Meyers

CEO of TreeStock

Current tree survey methods are too slow, expensive and inaccurate to keep pace with the escalating threats from pests, diseases and climate change affecting billions of trees. TreeStock uses remote sensing and AI to create digital twins of individual trees at forest scale, delivering accurate and actionable data on every tree.

Danny Ballam

Co-founder, CEO of Entropica

Gas is going, but heat pumps bring new challenges, including high install costs and installation disruption, which are limiting the pace of deployment. Entropica is developing a flexibility-first sustainable heating system that cuts costs and carbon, solves multiple secondary challenges, and is designed for scale.

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Camille Sainsbury

Founder of SAFE Space Labs Ltd

Empowering neurodiverse young people with digital tools that help them thrive in real world situations.

James Davidson

Founder & Director of EngineeringPals Ltd

Mechanical testing underpins safe, reliable products, yet current machines are bulky, hard to adapt and prohibitively expensive for anyone outside large, well-funded labs. OpenTensile™ is a compact, modular mechanical-testing platform that makes lab-grade testing easy to use, adaptable and affordable for startups, SMEs, students and independent makers.

Aidan Corkett-Beirne

Director at Bump BPM

Bump is solving the problem of inaccessible, impractical and intimidating music technology. It creates easy-to-use, high-quality music technology hardware and AI solutions that help people to learn, practise and perfect music production and DJing.

Katy Deacon

Founder of Towards Belonging Ltd

BelongifAI aids architects and designers to create lifetime homes for everyone.

Devon Page

Founder of Work Flow Maps

Small businesses waste thousands on inefficient processes but can't afford expensive consultants to identify and fix them. WorkflowMaps trains and certifies Virtual Assistants to deliver affordable process mapping services using AI-powered software that quantifies savings.

Uzair Syed

Founder of NexCAD.ai

Engineers waste 25% of their time in checking drawings for errors and mistakes. NexCAD automates the checking process.

Kevin Hallas

Founder, Managing Director of Neospire

Neospire is solving the problem of testing slip resistance for footwear. The solution is a validated bench-top tribometer for measuring coefficient of friction.

Yorkshire and the Humber awardees 2026