Notes from Meetup #19: Festival Special - Startup Showcase
Could it be that the Covid-19 pandemic and the era of lockdowns and social distancing is truly over??
Well, we all hope so and are working very hard to reestablish our bimonthly schedule of meetups, starting with edition number 19 which was held during the Sheffield Digital Festival on Monday the 9th of May at the Electric Works!
The theme for this edition was showcasing local smart city startups, and we were delighted to shine a light on four entrepreneurs who are transforming our city in using a variety of new technologies:
Mohamad Matbouli from GoParkly on "How Parking Creates Connected Cities".
Neal Byers from WorkfromHub on "Re-imagining underused spaces".
David Dixon from Future Greens on "The Future of Farming".
Katie Steel from Cheribim asked: "Can an app for churches enable BIM for historic buildings?"
And this was followed, as always, by yours truly, Chris Dymond, who presented the latest local smart city news in rapid-fire fashion.
You can watch their videos below, however I must apologise for the poor sound quality on Mohamad, Neil and David’s presentations - it turns out the radio mic connection was just a bit too tenuous when speakers were the other side of the projection screen, which didn’t happen during the sound check. Many apologies to those speakers, but I hope their words can still be understood, and we’ll endeavour to edit the subtitles where it’s not translating correctly.
Many thanks to the folks at the Electric Works and Creative Space Management for hosting and catering the event and of course to all of our regular sponsors Arup, Pitch-In and Sheffield Digital.
Many thanks also to everyone who came along, it was absolutely fantastic to see everyone in person again, and as event organisers there’s nothing better than hearing the hubbub of conversation and seeing so many people engaged with each other and enjoying themselves!
The next SmartSheffield meetup is already scheduled for Monday the 11th of July at Arup, make sure you book your tickets asap as places are limited!
Mohamad Matbouli from GoParkly
“How Parking Creates Connected Cities”
Mohamad is the founder of GoParkly, a smart parking startup that uses cheap machine vision to identify and report vacant parking spaces both in car parks and on-street.
Neal Byers from WorkfromHub
"Re-imagining underused spaces"
Neal is the founder of WorkfromHub, a startup that provides small office pods that can be booked by the hour to support flexible and hybrid working in the new post-Covid era.
David Dixon from Future Greens
“The Future of Farming”
David is the co-founder of Future Greens, along with Gabrielė Barteškaitė, which is an urban farming startup that is growing a range of produce grown in an innovative substrate of their own design, and supplying local retailers in Sheffield.
Katie Steel from Cheribim
“Can an app for churches enable BIM for historic buildings?”
Katie is the founder of Cheribim, a tech startup that is revolutionising the management and maintenance of church buildings and other heritage assets, while also compiling body of training data to enable AI-assisted auditing.
Chris Dymond from Unfolding
SmartSheffield News for May 2022
As always, I presented the most recent smart city-related things that have crossed my radar recently, this month highlighting the following:
South Yorkshire Mayoral Elections
WhoIsMyCouncillor.co.uk
Its Our City campaign
City Centre Consultation
Fargate Events Central
Fargate Hub
Debenhams planning pre-approval
Henderson's Factory planning approval
Rotherham Solar Farm
Rotherham Smart Bin accident
Rotherham Public Wifi
AWRC Health & Wellbeing Accelerator
Felling documentary
Park Hill Residents Parking
Netheredge Active Neighbourhood
SHU Civic University Agreement
local-heritage-list.org.uk
South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre
"Space for Cycling" campaign
Electric Buses
Sheffield Digital Festival
The Things Network Sheffield
Please do get in touch if you have anything you would like me to share with the SmartSheffield community either at a future event, or via our mailing list and social media!
Email me at info@smartsheffield.city, or get in touch via Twitter @SmartSheffield.
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As I said, the next meetup is on the 11th July, so we’ll hopefully see you then! Unless that is now way in the past, obviously. Maybe one day I will return to remove this note. Well done for reading this far anyway, and don't forget to scroll to the bottom and sign up to the mailing list to be notified of future events!
Chris Dymond - Unfolding
