This Years Biztech BrightSparc Awards was held at the MK e-Spark venue in central Milton Keynes. The Biztech BrightSparc Awards celebrates all that is great about local innovation in tech, awarding young students and seasoned businesses with the accolade of recognition of their achievements. CityLabs has a strong connection with Biztech – the forum for tech business in the MK area. Together we have the opportunity to build a strong connected network of SMEs and to offer a programme of support for tech companies. Biztech provides a platform for knowledge exchange and insight into tech innovation, CityLabs can provide SMEs with a programme of PATHWAYS through the tech innovation.
This years winners were:
- GoCode Academy who won the Espark award for best start-up technology business in the MK and SEMLEP region.
- Visual Realms won the best new B2C technology innovation in Milton Keynes and SEMLEP region.
- Telematics Pro, with Greenroad, TomTom and Quartix won the award for best technology collaboration in MK and SEMLEP area.
- Akeman Solutions won the award for best B2B technology innovation in MK and SEMLEP region.
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Another fantastic meeting with academics at the @OpenUniversity this morning as part of the @CityLabsProject. Some fantastic work going on behind the scenes on our latest innovation project. An honour to work with such talented individuals. #innovation #thinkingoutsidethebox 💡
4SME in the IT industry? @IoCoding is running a second workshop to work with Industry and communities to help in understanding the employability gap and skills needed to support current and future businesses and communities. Learn how here >> http://ow.ly/pRWw30nFsn1
The @CityLabsProject Innovation award for Milton Keynes went to @LivingWell_UK - more about the #BrightSparc Awards here: https://buff.ly/2BrPeg5 #BiztechEvents
We are delighted and honoured to have won TWO awards at the @MKBiztech #BrightSparc2018! ‘Best startup technology business’ and ‘Best technology collaboration’ working with @uniofbeds and @OpenUniversity. Utilising innovative #opendata tech to revolutionise education recruitment!
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#BrightSparc2018 awards are go! Check out #biztech for full list of winners