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EIT Manufacturing BoostUp! 2023 – IRELAND Edition will select and support spin-offs, early-stage and mature Irish startups to internationalise and scale up their business in Europe.
On 20 June, the finalists will pitch their solutions to solve some of the challenges faced by manufacturing companies. Join the event at Irish Manufacturing Research, Mullingar for the pitches, inspiring talks and networking!
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from lighthouse manufacturing companies and how collaboration with EIT Manufacturing has created windows of opportunity to progress their green and digital transition.
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Join us for the BoostUp! 2023 – IRELAND edition final at Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) in Mullingar!
If you have no plans for the evening of 19 June yet, our network partner atim cluster is organising a networking session you are very welcome to join as well.
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Agenda
9:00 Welcome tea & coffee
9:30 Opening
- Caitríona Mordan, Advanced Technologies in Manufacturing Cluster (ATiM) Cluster
- Barry Kennedy, CEO Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR)
9:45 Welcome address
- Christian Bölling, Director, EIT Manufacturing Central
- Kevin Lenehan, Director, Business Creation, EIT Manufacturing
10:15 Keynote
“The changing factory floor: unlocking opportunities for growth and innovation through collaboration”, Shane Geary, Vice President, Internal Manufacturing and General Manager at Analog Devices
11:00 First pitch round, moderated by Silva Grätz, Business Creation Manager, EIT Manufacturing
- Peter Blennerhassett presents Blynksolve
- Paul Byrnes presents DataMinfo
- Stephen Nolan presents Robotics & Drives
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Second pitch round, moderated by Wolfgang Kniejski, Senior Business Creation Manager, EIT Manufacturing
- Geoffrey Allen presents Mersus Technologies
- Andrew Dickson presents Infraprint Technologies
- Niall Walsh presents Xpanse AI
12:30 Fireside chats: EIT Manufacturing: Creating windows of opportunity for sustainable and competitive growth, moderated by Silva Grätz
- “Addressing challenges in digital manufacturing environments”,
Manuel Fischer, ABB General Industry
Moderated by Ronan Berry, TUS & Midlands 103
- “A world with Robots & Rebar – the future in Fabrication”, Tony Woods, Midland Steel and Brian Cooney, KUKA Ireland
Moderated by Christian Bölling
“Aspects of Innovation Financing – a discussion on the HORIZON EUROPE proposal on Manufacturing as a Service”, Prof. Denis Dowling (UCD) and Donatas Ditkus (GND Partners)
13:30 Award Ceremony
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Tour of Irish Manufacturing Research
16:00 Close
Meet the finalists!
The purpose of Blynksolve is to accelerate medicine to market. The innovative digital twin enables the centralised design and collaboration of complex pharma manufacturing processes. This speeds up and derisks the setup of commercial pharma manufacturing.
At DataMinfo we build data driven solutions to help manufacturers increase plant capacity. We have developed a platform for manufacturers that can replace data complexity with actionable insights. Our off-the-shelf non invasive machine monitoring system empowers our customers to address production bottlenecks in real time through our live shop floor displays and automated decision making.
Robotic and drives is a robotic solutions provider based in Ireland, serving the med-tech, food and beverage and GI industry both nationally and internationally. Robotics and drives collaboration opportunities include use of state-of-the-art technologies, roll out and implement robotic solutions, train the teams and uncover opportunities for innovation.
Mersus’ Avatar Academy platform is automating the creation of Virtual Reality experiences in a ‘Drag & Drop’ format. Award-winning graphics combine with unparalleled technical performance on hand-tracking mobile VR hardware. What is unique is how it captures the data generated allowing regulators assess/trace trainee performance/progress. The approach makes it a ‘Fitbit’ for Industrial Training!
Infraprint Ltd is a contract manufacturer for advanced polymers and composites via Additive Manufacturing, utilising IP developed at University College Dublin and the experience of our founding team to produce high strength components for the aerospace and space sectors.
The Xpanse proposition is to enable the rapid, scalable, and low-cost delivery of AI, ML, and advanced analytics solutions. The Xpanse team has built a unique set of technologies that they use, or that can be used by other data teams, to build and deploy tailored ML and visualization solutions within the manufacturing, IoT, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 environments. Xpanse has considerable experience and expertise in delivering multiple high-impact use cases in the areas of yield, energy and waste optimization, predictive maintenance, as well as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and asset optimization solutions.
About BoostUp! 2023 – IRELAND edition
EIT Manufacturing’s startup competition BoostUp! 2023 – IRELAND edition will select and support spin-offs, early-stage and mature Irish startups to internationalise and scale up their business in Europe. The competition shines a light on what the future of technology holds for the manufacturing industry. Together with our contributing partners, we are building a unique interconnected event for startups, investors, tech enthusiasts, creatives and visionaries.
All finalists will receive an exclusive invitation to access manufacturing customers and/or investors in Europe and the top 3 winning applicants will receive a prize to support their go-to-European-market strategy.