UCL Enterprise Awards 2013 - Audio

(Raphaela Heussen: final year CoMPLEX PhD) Beba Mtoto! will develop, produce and deal in carrying products and related accessories to cater to the quickly growing trend towards the natural parenting technique of babywearing. Beba Mtoto!s next generation carrier will incorporate all the ergonomic qualities and benefits associated with babywearing, whilst making the carriers easy enough to use to appeal to the mass market.

(David Greenberg: 4th year PhD Auditory Neuroscience) ComComm is a telecommunications platform that provides a robust solution for the impaired communication abilities of a rapidly aging population. By integrating voice-to-text software within existing home and mobile telecommunications hardware, ComComm provides the deaf and hard of hearing with access to the cues vital to successful communication.

(Teófilo de la Cerda: MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, Joshua Asar, MSc Technology Entrepreneurship ) CurrencyBird is a peer-to-peer currency exchange platform to alleviate the process of international capital transactions. CurrencyBird matches two individuals from different countries to exchange via local CurrencyBird accounts to skip the international exchange fees, therefore CurrencyBird can offer attractively low fees.

(Karoline Gross, MSc Technology Entrepreneurship) Smartzer is an iPad and web application enabling interactivity in video content. It addresses the needs of broadcasters and studios who are having to come up with innovative ways to make their content increasingly relevant and engaging to consumers. Smartzer works through an overlay that presents the content metadata, upon touching the screen. Products in the frame can be purchased, with home delivery.

As part of his research into early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease, Professor Nick Fox has developed innovative image-analysis methods. Recognizing the powerful potential of his techniques to monitor progression in therapeutic trials, he actively engaged with industry and his technique was adopted by dozens of commercial multi-centre trials, becoming the “industry-standard” for atrophy progression. Nick Fox established an internationally-renowned image analysis trials team at UCL which has brought major contracts to the UK and UCL (income exceeding £5m over last 5 years), including the analysis for the largest study of immunotherapy in Alzheimer’s disease (~8000 brain scans). He was also pivotal to the award of the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre at UCL, which is a major attraction to industry.

Professor Zangeneh’s research on computational methods to improve the performance of rotating machinery has fostered a long-term research collaboration with the Ebara Corporation of Japan that has resulted in over £1.2 million of research income for UCL and supported 6 post-doc researchers. Importantly the collaboration led to the development of the innovative inverse method of turbo-machinery design, with the IP providing the foundations for the establishment of UCL spinout company, Advanced Design Technology. In 2012, the turnover of ADT exceeded £1million for the first time and with a multinational customer base, the company is a global leader in turbo-machinery design software.

Pioneering efforts at KT champion and chair of the SLASH board to bring entrepreneurial spirit to the arts and humanities, through publishing (Norvik Press), capitalisation on new media (inc boot camps on apps), intercultural communication CPD and drawing links with PE activity.