{"id":76475,"date":"2016-11-25T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bc177ab3d1cc41f22be2986c518f03f8"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:31:14","slug":"news-story-innovate-2016-highlights-of-global-innovation-showcase-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76475","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovate 2016: highlights of global innovation showcase event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"innovate-2016-highlights\">Innovate 2016 highlights<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1qBQKoGJ80E&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Innovte 2016 highlights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 2,500 of the UK\u2019s leading innovators, business leaders and investors attended Innovate 2016. These included investors, high-growth innovative businesses, academia and government.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event explored the impact of digital technologies on manufacturing and the new challenges and opportunities of our growing urbanisation. The packed agenda also looked at how new technologies are revolutionising healthcare and biosciences. There was also a focus on the technologies that have the potential to create brand new industries.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, gave a keynote speech. Other speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Misener, vice-president global innovation for <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\">Amazon<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dr Alan James, vice-president <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperloop-one.com\/\">Hyperloop One<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Juergen Maier, chief executive of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/uk\/en\/home.html\">Siemens<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paul Clarke, chief technology officer of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocado.com\">Ocado<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wayne Hemmingway, founder of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/houseofhemingway.co.uk\/hemingway-design\/\">HemmingwayDesign<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Simon Jones, head of innovation, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teamsky.com\/teamsky\/home\">Team Sky<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"new-innovations-launched\">New innovations launched<\/h2>\n<p>Innovate 2016 featured 25 new innovation launches by UK businesses. These included RoboPhysio by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paclamedical.com\/\">Pacla Medical<\/a> \u2013 an innovation with 36 robotic fingers to mobilise a user\u2019s spine joints. There was also  the Swim AR, wearable technology for swimmers by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginationfactory.co.uk\/\">Imagination Factory<\/a>. Also launched GEOrge, a car-based parking space detection system by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/geomii.co\/\">Ethos VO\/GEOmii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Innovate 2016 took place early November at the Manchester Central Convention Complex.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/58583\/Innovte-Highlights-Video-2.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Innovate 2016 took place early November at the Manchester Central Convention Complex.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"about-innovate-2016\">About Innovate 2016<\/h2>\n<p>Innovate 2016 took place early November at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. Innovate UK and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-international-trade\">Department for International Trade<\/a> hosted the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovate 2016 brought together the UK\u2019s most exciting innovators to explore the technologies and innovation opportunities of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}