Award winners and finalists

Ascalia uses AI and IoT to help factories increase productivity, reduce waste and address quality issues. The solution is tailored for the manufacturing industry, addressing directly the main sources of inefficiencies, while offering factories a one-stop-shop solution for the adoption of industry 4.0. At its core, Ascalia is an integrated end-to-end industry4.0 system aimed at manufacturing factories giving them process traceability and optimization, predictive maintenance and AI-enabled quality control capabilities securely and without a large capital investment.

• ascalia.io
• @ascalia_io
• Ascalia

Charisma is a platform for creating interactive stories with believable virtual characters. They create virtual story worlds that entertain and educate a new generation of audiences. Charisma are building the future of entertainment by combining creative artificial intelligence with storytelling creativity.

• charisma.ai
• @AiCharisma
• CharismaEntertainment

Forest Tribe is a carbon-negative company offering new immersive entertainment for live events that is inclusive, diverse and supports health and wellbeing. Their approach is purely artistic-led to create risk-taking and disruptive immersive experiences that have an inclusive offering. Forest Tribe stands out as they firmly believe in making high-quality immersive entertainment accessible to all.

• forest-tribe.com
• @ForestTribe_
• Forest Tribe Theatre

Fracture Reality helps users across several sectors leverage VR and AR technology to collaborate better around their complex 3D data. Their virtual meeting platform, JoinXR, lets non-expert users browse, manipulate and discuss data such as building plans, product designs or 3D scans in an intuitive 3D environment.

• fracturereality.io
• @FractureXR
• FractureReality

Greyparrot uses AI-powered computer vision to rapidly recognise, audit and sort large waste flows at scale. It analyses waste streams, monitoring and automating operations in sorting facilities to help drive efficiency and profitability for waste managers. The solution can be incorporated into smart systems and hardware, such as sorting robotics​​. They automate and optimise recycling processes to ultimately unlock the value of waste, increase recycling rates and accelerating the transition to a circular economy.

• greyparrot.ai
• @greyparrotai
• Greyparrot

Keyless is a deeptech cybersecurity company building privacy-preserving biometric authentication and a personal identity management platform. The technology combines multi-modal biometrics with advanced cryptography, leveraging a distributed cloud architecture to enable passwordless authentication. Keyless biometric technology provides employees and consumers with a secure, privacy-first, intuitive and consistent authentication experience, while reducing risk and exceeding regulatory compliance for organizations.

• keyless.io
• @KeylessTech
• KeylessTech

Alice Camera is an AI camera built for content creators that has the experience of a smartphone with the quality of a DSLR and allows users to share content seamlessly. The Alice camera works with smartphones to shoot and share better content in a fraction of the time. Allowing content creators to capture crystal clear 4K footage straight out of the camera and share it instantly with their followers.

• alice.camera
• @thealicecamera
• AliceCamera

Alice SI Ltd allows organisations to see the impact of their work, in their data. For any impact-driven project Alice analyses, visualises, and matches your data with the impact measurement framework of your choice. Alice is the simplest impact analytics tool, that organises and visualises impact data of any complexity.

• alice.si
• @alice_si_

Arcade is The Spatial Agency™, an award-winning digital practice that specialises in using immersive technologies to create more meaningful connections between people and the spaces, places and objects around them. Arcade is on a mission to 'connect people to place through play', working with heritage, arts & culture, visitor attractions, sports, brands, retail, events and more, helping them tell their stories and engage their audiences in new, immersive, three-dimensional ways.

• arcade.ltd
• @ArcadeLtd
• Arcade

DeepReel is an AI-VFX company using artificial intelligence to automate VFX technology for filmmaking and localisation. DeepReel is on a mission to democratise access to VFX technology and enable independent filmmakers and dubbing companies to use visual effects technology. DeepReel is one of the first companies in the world to automate VFX production reducing the reliance on time-consuming manually produced visual effects.

• deepreel.com
• @DeepReel_AI
• DeepReel

EHAB is a SaaS business selling to the construction industry. EHAB offers a weather intelligence platform that enables every construction project to model weather risk, plan more effectively, optimise their risk-sharing agreements and be proactive in the way they deal with weather risk. They have developed the first use of smart contracts for the construction industry. Their solutions combine modelling with a planning tool and integrates insurance into this setup, which is a first for construction.

• ehab.co
• @ehabplatform
• EhabPlatform

Fat Red Bird is a film and immersive production company focused on storytelling. They work on live-action and animation and have a penchant for positive impact storytelling. As a film and immersive company, they have a solid foot in each, with an understanding of the tech and storytelling tools needed to make the best possible experiences.

Fat Red Bird creates innovative & thought-provoking content. Their team started out making award-winning short-form films, and creating in-agency branded content for clients such as the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, Mandarin Oriental, Eurostar and BA and have now launched into innovative immersive experiences.

• fat-red-bird.com
• FatRedBirdLtd.

Birmingham-based Fine Energy developed its Osmium service to retro-fit internet connectivity to hitherto unconnected electrical installations, allowing owners of these assets to have a better grasp of how they are performing and, when things go wrong, how to fix them. Its Osmium service was developed to monitor remote wind turbines, embracing the retro-fit and right-to-repair movements.

• fineenergy.co.uk
• @fineenergy
• FineEnergy

Luffy AI has developed adaptive neural networks that allow learning and adaptation at the edge. Vehicles and robots operating in the real world are exposed to constant change in the environment and their bodies. Luffy AI has developed adaptive neural control systems for autonomous systems in dynamic environments. Their first products include an adaptive AI flight controller for UAVs and an intelligent actuator controller for robotic joints. Their customers are OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers building autonomous systems. They are uniquely placed to open up AI applications in new sectors and a new class of AI companies.

• luffy.ai
• LuffyAI

Riscon Solutions brings together the best minds in physical engineering and digital technology, to solve information management problems in complicated engineering scenarios. They deliver information and knowledge management solutions for complex engineering scenarios. Their latest project is looking at remote water quality monitoring for Northumbria Water Limited.

• riscon.solutions
• RisCon Solutions

WILD.AI exists to create technology that elevates the capabilities of the female body, starting with an AI coach, to increase the physical potential of 1mn women by 2023.

• wild.ai
• @wild_ai_coach
• Wildai

VRM Tech is a software firm specialising in the monitoring and measurement of energy networks in the built environment, specific to public and private sector housing. VRM has developed a central dashboard for multiple utility monitoring and building performance in mould risk and air quality.

• VRM-technology

Volta is a new user interface for music production and performance. A XR application for producers and performers. Replacing knobs, buttons and sliders with space, interaction and movement to make audio production physically expressive, performative and artistic and make creating spatial audio efficient and intuitive.

• @VoltaAudio
• Voltaaudio

Smartia provides scalable artificial intelligence solutions that drive value from operational data by digitising industrial assets. Its unique AI and Data platform MAIO, helps unleash the value of data through machine learning to optimise production processes for any size of industrial company.

• Smartia.tech
• @Smartia_tech
• Smartiatech

Ori Industries is building the next generation of the cloud. Its edge technology solutions empower developers and networks to build future applications and deliver premium, innovative experiences.

• ori.co
• @ori_edge
• ori-edge

Metro-Boulot-Dodo brings stories to life using a blend of art and technology, it creates immersive and emotive experiences and tells compelling stories from our past and present to create a bright future.

• mbd.limited
• @mbdtweet
• mbd-metro-boulot-dodo

Meterian aims to become the go-to platform for small and medium sized businesses’ continuous application security. Meterian’s platform secures open source components to prevent critical loss of basic functionality and security so that companies can ship software without vulnerabilities.

• meterian.io
• @MeterianHQ
• meterian

Kagenova is developing deep tech to engineer realism and interactivity at the same time and scale. These new immersive technologies are powered by Kagenova’s novel artificial intelligence (AI) methods, which are tailored to virtual reality.

• kagenova.com
• @kage_nova
• kagenova.com

HoloMe is the world leader in deploying AR humans over mobile, and its mission is to revolutionise communications, e-commerce and social interaction. Its tech is proven to enhance the impact of any person-driven content thanks to the greater realism and tangibility viewers experience over ordinary video.

• holo.me
• @holometech
• holome

East City Films is the innovative production company responsible for numerous award-winning VR and AR experiences. Working with broadcasters, brands and charities, East City Films uses story-telling and new technologies to reach new audiences and transform emotions.

• eastcityfilms.com
• @EastCityFilms
• us3-productions

DARKFIELD is a multi-sensory sonic theme park. Behind the doors of each shipping container a strange world unfolds. Its work is at the forefront of technology and theatre, using a variety of sensory effects to situate each audience member at the centre of intense evolving narratives.

• darkfield.org
• @darkfield_org
• darkfieldorg

Cyan Forensics transforms investigators’ ability to find evidence fast and share contraband data by providing software built on new science in digital forensics. It is working towards making the world a safer place, by aiding law enforcement in catching paedophiles and terrorists.

• Cyanforensics.com
• @cyanforensics
• Cyan-forensics

ChAI helps mitigate the negative impacts of price volatility for buyers and sellers of raw materials by using Artificial Intelligence on both traditional and alternative data (including satellite, maritime shipping and text data) to forecast commodity prices.

• chai-uk.com
• @chai-uk

A story first production company on a mission to inspire curiosity and encourage the art of play. Boom Clap Play work across television, gaming and VR using design, animation and audio to create stimulating experiences for your eyes, ears and brains.

• boomclap.co
• @boomclapplay
• boom-clap-play

All Seeing Eye is a creative technology design studio developing multi-sensory narrative experiences. It is a unique combination of designers, artists, and engineers adept in graphics, technology, performance, and storytelling, creating unparalleled immersive works for audiences worldwide.

• allseeingeye.co
• @allseeingeyeltd
• all-seeing-eye-ltd

Also Known As creates immersive story worlds that respond to how audiences feel. Using biometric data and human-centred design it is creating the next generation of training tools for high-risk jobs and developing algorithms that make interactions seamless and intuitive.