On June 3rd EIT ICT Labs Helsinki invites everyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship to the final of the European contest 'Idea Challenge: Smart Spaces'.
10 teams from across Europe are selected to pitch their ideas to a jury of experts. Winners will not only get up to 40,000€, but also coaching and mentoring from experts of the EIT ICT Labs Business Development Accelerator, plus office space for six months.
The EIT ICT Labs Idea Challenge is a European contest for startups & students with innovative ideas around eight topics, including Smart Spaces. The Smart Spaces final pitches and award ceremony are organised at EIT ICT Labs Helsinki Co-location Centre at the Open Innovation House, Aalto University Campus, Otaniementie 19, Espoo.
Come to check new ideas in ICT and Smart Spaces, meet startup teams, industry experts and like-minded people. Find out which innovative idea will get the jackpot. You could be next ;)
The Open Innovation House smart space will be open from 15.00 and the main program followed by the pitching competition will begin at 15.30.
Snacks, coffee and wine will be served throughout the event.
Agenda
15.00 | Welcoming refreshments |
15.30 | Opening words: Smart Spaces Action Line Leader Petri Liuha |
15.40 | Keynote speech |
15.50 | Pitches: Avansera, Mapnaut, InPict, Jukeboss, Qgo |
16.40 | Coffee break |
17.00 | Pitches: Lokkup, txtData, Uniqul, Homey, Workplace Environment Analytics |
17.50 | Jury deliberation |
18.00 | Winner announcement & feedback |
18.15 | Closing remarks & Information about other Idea Challenge finals |
18.30 | Dinner, wine & Networking |
Pitches 1-5
| Team | Pitcher | Description |
1 | Avansera (Finland) | Cormac Walsh
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2 | Mapnaut (Italy) | Damiano Gui
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3 | InPict (Germany) | Dominik Lahmann
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4 | Jukeboss (Sweden) | Germán Leiva and Carla Griggio
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5 | Qgo (Austria) | Jacob Schröger and Christinne Cuyugan
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Avansera provides advanced real-time consumer behavioral and product performance analytics in retail environments across all chains and geographical locations. Avansera provides the best and most effective marketing platform to communicate prices, availability, offers and product and store information to profiled consumers. Driving hyper targeted marketing with precision.
Mapnaut is a mobile app that allows users to create and share bookmarks on physical places (placemarks), and visualise them in a distance-based feed (the spaceline). By creating, commenting and re-saving placemarks, users can join contextual real-time conversations about any location, share media, visualise maps and interact directly with local stakeholders. Finally, there's life on maps.
InPict is a novel display device that enriches homes and offices with information in a beautiful and non-intrusive way. Accessing dynamic content becomes as simple as viewing a picture in a photo frame.
Jukeboss is an entertainment technology for engaging thousands of people all together in an interactive way. We are starting our interactive journey around the concept of music by letting the people vote for the songs that they want to listen.
In order to make our life more practical, every day, we use different kinds of services such as banks to save money or alternative sources of energy to save natural resources; however, we still have not found a solution to save the most important and fleeting aspect in our life – time! If I told you there now exists a system which can save yourself from the hassles of waiting in line, would you like to give it a try?
Pitches 6-10
| Team | Pitcher | Description |
6 | Lokkupp (Sweden) | Maria Lindström and Torbjörn Nordling
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7 | txtData (Germany) | Michael Kaisser |
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8 | Uniqul (Finland) | Oscar Tuutti |
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9 | Homey (Netherlands) | Stefan Witkamp and Emile Nijssen |
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10 | Workplace Environment Analytics (Finland) | Tomas Novotny |
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Lokkupp offers privacy preserving indoor positioning, instantly available at any populated venue in the world. The technology is based on groundbreaking research from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Lokkupp offer both a technical platform for indoor localization and end user services for specific verticals. We have the skills and passion to soon bring Lokkupp to a smartphone near you.
txtData's semantic technology automatically analyses text and determines for which locations it is relevant. This is interesting to publishers of content with a local relevance, e.g. city & travel blogs or local news, since it enables distributing their content in new ways, e.g. on a mobile phone via a location-based service app.
Uniqul is an access control system, which uses face recognition to identify users. Uniqul users do not need to use or bring any traditional means of identification, be it cards, mobile devices or passwords – getting access to a service or device will be a matter of just walking up to it.
Homey is speech-controlled home automation. Talk to your home to control everything: from lights to music, from climate to TV. Hear your mails, updates and important information like the weather forecast spoken by your home just when you need it, and let everything be controlled by an intelligent system that listens to your voice.
720° advances living through quantified workplaces, helping organisations to maintain healthy and productive indoors. The solution collects and analyses indoor environmental and occupational health data to communicate workplace quality to the occupants while providing the organisations with deeper insights and predictions in real-time
Registration
Please register to the event on following link: Registration Link
