Climate Innovation Platform Video Transcript

Title:               Climate Innovation Platform - Cohort Two Graduation 

Duration:        2.35 mins

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[Michaela Wright, Head of Corporate Sustainibility, HSBC UK.] It's been absolutely amazing to be here today, in the Exchange, listening to some of the climate ventures that HSBC UK have been supporting with the University of Birmingham.

[Rory Brown, Co-Founder and CEO, Airhive.] We really see how all of us have progressed, we can see where there's common areas of complementarity going forward.

[Aneysha Minocha, Founder and Director, Quantenergy. ]Today was incredible, it's been fantastic  to reconvene as a team, as a cohort.

[Professor Martin Freer, Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute.] The Climate Innovation Platform is a platform for supporting businesses, driving their innovation, taking products and services through into market.

[Kenny Cameron, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Connected Response.] The Climate Innovation Platform is very  important for us, in that through that we were able to access help from the Catapult to better understand the market we're in.

[Neil Whittaker, Incubation Manager, Energy System Catapult.] The Catapult is bringing great expertise and skills and knowledge from the energy space and the University is bringing fantastic research work. So when you've got that collective collaborative environment, the program has enabled SMEs to smooth through this innovation journey faster.

[Rory Brown] We found that working with a group  of similar early-stage start-ups and benefiting from both peer-learning and some of the expertise that Energy Systems Catapult and the University of Birmingham brought was really helpful for us.

[Dolly Chakraborty, Business Engagement and Marketing Officer, Climate Innovation Platform.] The Climate Innovation Platform offers businesses a package of tailored support to drive the commercialisation of decarbonisation in products and services, developing world-leading SMEs whose innovations can address today's climate challenges.

[Michaela Wright] The future for this program with the University of Birmingham is that we are working with cohort two, helping them with the connections that they need to make. Absolutely inspiring the amount of innovations that are here that are looking at the whole energy system, it really gives me hope.

[Logo of Climate Innovation Platform. To find out more birmingham.ac.uk/energy/cip]

[Delivered by the University of Birmingham Energy Institute logo, in partnership with the Energy Systems Catapult logo.]

[Supported by HSBC UK logo and European Regional Development Fund logo.]

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