IOTICS Podcast Special Episodes! -
GBIP, South Korea.

IOTICS is heading out to South Korea with Innovate UK as part of the Global Business Innovation Programme.

On these special edition episodes of the IOTICS podcast, Ali Nicholl took the chance to speak to six of the nine organisations that will be head out to South Korea to learn more about their innovative companies, visionary approaches and hopes for collaboration with organisations based in South Korea.

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Season 2 - Episode 11: Aidan Donnelly, SmartWorkPlus

‘It’s not tech for tech's sake, it’s a case of...we have made a product to address a need we have identified’

Ali Nicholl speaks with Aidan Donnelly from SmartWorkPlus about the challenges involved in implementing Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they prepare to travel to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 12: Alex Barter, B4T

‘We have just got to get that data, think about who is using it at the end and what is it we are trying to achieve in terms of outcomes, and shape the delivery of that data to make sure we can hit those objectives’ 

Ali Nicholl talks to Alex Barter from B4T about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 13: Manveer Sidhu, Kestrel Radar Sensors

‘It’s about Thoughtful design, it’s that taking a step back and saying, actually, you got a problem here, but what do you need to solve that problem, do you need to go that far? Maybe you can simplify it and it’s a matter of thinking about the problem holistically.’

Ali Nicholl talks to Manveer Sidhu from KESTREL RADAR SENSORS LIMITED about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 14: Julian Mensah, Voltric

‘We are working to bring mobility together in a sustainable manner. Our long-term vision is to integrate a series of transport solution into a single service on demand’

Ali Nicholl talks to Julian Mensah at Voltric about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 15: Reuben McQueen, OpenKit

‘There are areas this tech (AI) is very good at, like that fast analysis but there are areas where human experts are still very important’

Ali Nicholl talks to Reuben McQueen from OpenKit about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 16: Dennis Silin & Max Silin, Exodus Orbitals

‘Cities are very complicated objects; to collect and generate the data it is hard to use only underground sensors and drones. Satellite capabilities provide another way of assembling this information’.

Ali Nicholl talks to Max Silin and Dennis Silin from EXODUS ORBITALS about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.

Season 2 - Episode 17: Sarah Hildersley, Innovate UK

‘Increasingly, the Koreans are conscious that they need to decarbonise their city centre, and we know that the UK has a lot of strength in developing technologies that support decarbonisation of urban centres.'

Ali Nicholl talks to Sarah Hildersley from Innovate UK about how they can address some of the challenges around Smart Cities and their aspirations for the future as they head out to South Korea.