Sir Nigel Shadbolt, co-founder of the Open Data Institute and expert AI researcher handed out three awards to an entrepreneur, a start-up and a data provider who all took part in the Data Pitch accelerator.
Data Pitch was a European accelerator funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme to help start-ups and corporates share data and build sustainable businesses which drew to a close in September 2019.
The Corporate Innovation Award went to Greiner Packaging International for being a data provider that demonstrated the greatest support for the growth of the data economy through collaboration with five different Data Pitch start-ups.
Christian Mittermayr, Project Manager for Greiner, said: “Our motivation in joining Data Pitch was to find new applications for our data, and a lot of startups have very good ideas. Just looking at the data in new ways has helped us view our standard procedures in a different way. It was a unique opportunity to learn, and we would definitely recommend similar programmes to other companies.”
The Start-up Impact Award went to Recognai, a Spanish start-up which creates AI tools to tackle information overload within companies. Recognai worked with German Data Provider Uniserv to help improve its customer data management systems, using machine-learning. A year after taking part in Data Pitch, Recognai has continued to work with Uniserv and several of its clients.
Daniel Vila Suero, CEO and Co-Founder of Recognai, said: “Thanks to Data Pitch’s challenge, we found a real application for our technology, and we are carrying on working with Uniserv, which has been testing our model with a view to using the product for some of its clients. Recently, we started a project with DZ Bank, a large German bank, for Uniserv. We both see a lot of potential in working together in the future to roll-out the solutions we are co-developing.”
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