Supporters and Partners
Partners
The Technology Strategy Board is a business-led government body that works to create economic growth by ensuring that the UK is a global leader in innovation. Sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) the Technology Strategy Board brings together business, research and the public sector, supporting and accelerating the development of innovative products and services that meet market needs, tackle major societal challenges and help build the future economy. For more information please visit www.innovateuk.org
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the British government organisation that helps overseas companies bring high quality investment to the UK and also helps UK-based companies succeed in an increasingly global economy. UKTI provides a range of expert services, individually tailored to maximise a company’s international success. These services are offered through a network of international specialists in British Embassies and other diplomatic offices around the world, as well as key experts in government departments across the UK. For more information please visit www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk
A global law firm, Orrick provides the highest quality legal advice on complex transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. The firm acts for more than half of the Fortune 100, the world’s leading financial institutions, emerging companies and government entities. It is particularly well known for its strength in the technology, energy and infrastructure and financial services sectors. Law 360 recognises Orrick among its “Global 20,” a list of the most successful international firms, and the Financial Times includes Orrick among the top five “most innovative U.S.-origin law firms” in its 2011 report. The 2011 Chambers Global profiles Orrick’s expertise across 37 practice areas and 11 markets, and names 60 Orrick lawyers worldwide as leading practitioners. Orrick is also well recognised for offering its clients and its people the benefits of its distinctive culture of collaboration and innovation. For more information please visit www.orrick.com
CoSpA (the Co-Sponsorship Agency) delivers cross-sector projects that make money and make a difference. We work with brands, causes and governments to create on-the-ground activity. From people fixing their own community buildings (with Wickes), to inspiring thousands of schools to make films (with Apple and MTV), we bring people together in interesting ways. Oli Barrett will be joining the Clean and Cool Mission. He is a co-founder of StartUp Britain and started ‘Tenner’ (a challenge to 60,000 school pupils to see what they can turn £10 into in just one month). For more information please visit www.cosponsorshipagency.com
The Long Run Venture is a purpose-driven, for-profit business that helps organisations and technologies deliver long-run returns and impact today. We combine three capabilities: Data and Intelligence – through partnerships with world-leading technologies and institutions to anchor long run thinking. Storytelling and Behaviour Change – leveraging award winning campaign experience to build long run purpose and mobilise people-led change. Finance and Business Model Innovation – fostering multi-disciplinary collaboration to accelerate growth for early-stage businesses through to MNCs. For more information please visit www.thelongrunventure.com
Supporters
Since 2002, the Cleantech Group has been providing Fortune 1000 global corporations, investors, entrepreneurs and policy-makers with the latest industry market intelligence through subscription-based research, global industry networking events, and world-class custom research services. By focusing entirely on the companies innovating in clean technology, Cleantech Group helps its clients make critical business decisions that foster growth, reduce cost, and meet consumer and government demands for improved environmental quality. For more information please visit www.cleantech.com
Making informed business decisions now requires navigating through a sea of data to find the pearls of valuable content relevant to you. Polecat’s MeaningMine platform is the most flexible and customizable market intelligence engine available capable of mining the mountains of online activity to find the golden nugget of information that is meaningful and relevant to answer your question. As a founder of the Missions, Polecat has successfully used MeaningMine to identify and monitor the online discussions, topics, trends, key people and organisations active within specialist technology areas so that each Mission was represented the very best of the UK’s, cutting edge and high growth potential innovators. For more information please visit www.polecat.co