Smart Nano NI

 

 

Without Digital Catapult’s programme, we would have never been able to have access to William at McColgans and his factory. Being able to test our proof of concept on a large food production factory such as McColgan has been key for us, and it’s made the programme worthwhile. The help and guidance from the Digital Catapult team has also been brilliant. We’ve benefitted from direct access to industry leading technologists but also enjoyed insights into product design thinking and even advice on go-to-market strategies. We have gone from initial concept into full development of a new product with the potential to solve some of the food production sector’s most common challenges.

Jason McDevitt Aeroblue Software

 

 

For the four years that I’ve been here, I’ve been wanting to gather more data and be able to deploy advanced IoT and analytics technologies in order to improve the business. It’s been very challenging finding the right partner and with the right skill set to investigate these problems with us. Digital Catapult and the Smart Nano programme has given us access to engaged, motivated and expert resources to tackle these problems in CleverFoodie.

William McColgan McColgans Quality Foods Limited

 

 

We were actually made aware of companies that we probably wouldn’t have come across otherwise, which has opened up a world of opportunities for future collaborations and the technologies that they’re developing.

Rachael Lockhart Smiley Monroe

 

 

I think the Smart Nano program is very useful for businesses like us to be able to see what is out there in the rest of the industry. We’re a very specialist, company here, design, manufacturing, pediatric equipment but new technologies and emerging technologies will be important to us going forward in the future. It’s not easy to get a platform where we can explore those technologies which isn’t in a sales environment.

Wesley Henderson Leckey & Sunrise Medical

 

 

The thing I’ve enjoyed most about taking part in the accelerator, is the networking opportunities. It’s been great to share our perspectives with other local companies, and see how they do things.

Tom Dougherty Kinsetsu

 

 

How everything weaves together with photonics was eye opening for us. It’s massively benefited because we’ve now got some sort of roadmap, that we can actually practically put into place, rather than just throwing about some ideas.

Simon Hegarty InJuice