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C2i Awards 2024 Shortlist

5
Aerospace & defence

Sponsored by



ASCEND - Aerospace and Automotive Supply Chain Enabled Development, GKN Aerospace

DragonFire, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Kratos, Solus Power

Project Skymast, Hydrogen Aircraft Services Limited trading as SPL and Stratospheric Platforms.

Smarter Testing - Data-driven Virtual+Real testing platform, Airbus Operations Ltd.

4
Automotive



eVITA – an inclusive electric wheelchair accessible vehicle (eWAV), Motability Operations

Project Jolt, Centre for Sustainable Road Freight

Secondmind and Mazda accelerate engine calibration with advanced AI, Secondmind

Solus Power, Solus Power

6
Energy & environment



Aftrak – a scalable, affordable, reliable microgrid solution to revolutionise energy access and agriculture in Africa, Loughborough University

AGRI-SATT (Agricultural Growth using Remote-sensing, IoT, Satellite and Autonomous Telecommand Technology), Brilliant Planet

HARRIER – towards constant beamed energy from space, Space Solar

Hyperuniform Disordered Metasurfaces for Selective Absorbers, University of Surrey

PRISMA; Advanced Liquid Air Energy Storage technology, Innovatium

Solar-Powered Air Conditioning System Using PCM Energy Storage (PCM-ACStore), University of Nottingham

5
Healthcare & medical

Sponsored by


Development of technologies for single and sub-cellular biomarker analysis, University of Surrey, Professor Melanie Bailey

Musculoskeletal conditions – from research to solutions, Imperial College London

Nura Stroke Rehabilitation sleeve, Brunel University London & Reneural

SimLevator™, Brunel University London

The Children’s Adaptive Deep brain stimulation for Epilepsy Trial (‘CADET’), Department of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital

6
Information, data & connectivity



Deployment of ZOE - AI enabled search, detection and tracking technology for the maritime domain, Zelim

Mine Water Heat Project, The Coal Authority (Now known as the Mining Remediation Authority)

Neural Network IP Protection through Functionality Locking, Synoptix Limited

Project Jolt, Centre for Sustainable Road Freight

Project Skymast, Hydrogen Aircraft Services Limited trading as SPL and Stratospheric Platforms.

Smarter Testing - Data-driven Virtual+Real testing platform, Airbus Operations Ltd.

5
Manufacturing technology



AVA Bridge & Lift System, AVA Consortium

Cement 2 Zero, Cambridge Electric Cement

Crafting the Indivisible, Revealing the Invisible: Porotech and NPL's High-Throughput and Multi-Scale Metrology Solution for Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing, Poro Technologies Ltd (Porotech)

H1perChain, Hyperbat

Securing Aerospace Fasteners Manufacturing in the UK, The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

3
STEM Initiative



Increase STEM in Apprenticeships, Weston College

REIMAGINE, Ceres

The CIBSE Flush Challenge, CIBSE

6
Wild card



Advancing the Circular Economy in Conveyor Belts: Harnessing Tech Innovation for a Sustainable Future, Ecobelt Ltd

AGRI-SATT (Agricultural Growth using Remote-sensing, IoT, Satellite and Autonomous Telecommand Technology), Brilliant Planet

AVA Bridge & Lift System, AVA Consortium

Babcock Immersive Training Experience, Babcock International Group

Deployment of ZOE - AI enabled search, detection and tracking technology for the maritime domain, Zelim

Risk reduction Of gloveBox Operations (RrOBO), AtkinsRéalis

3
Young innovator

Sponsored by



dotFlow - A Refreshable Braille Display, Mohammad Alim, Nizar Abdelhannane - Yr 12 Featherstone High School

EcoChroma, Gurdit Singh

Green Pot: Growing the future, Keon Robert


The Impact Award for Innovation Excellence

Sponsored by


Sir David McMurtry – Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Renishaw

Prof. Paul Newman CBE – BP Professor of Information Engineering - Oxford University, Head of Oxford Mobile Robotics Group,; Founder and CTO of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica)

Dr Caroline Hargrove CBE – CTO Ceres Power