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Celebrating a new cohort of awardees starting the Shott Scale Up Accelerator, as well as the graduation of fourteen leaders of high-growth tech companies into the Enterprise Hub community. This inspiring evening of recognition and networking will bring together a community of innovators, technology business leaders, and other scaleup supporters.
The Shott Scale Up Accelerator proudly recognises talented entrepreneurs and decision makers from fast-growing, bold and IP-rich engineering and technology SMEs. Our rigorous, competitive selection process ensures that only the most promising and talented individuals are awarded a place in the programme. Talented leaders we have supported in the past are currently growing global businesses, such as Notpla, Quantum Dice and Paragraf, among many others.
Awardees benefit from a transformative programme designed to equip them with the leadership capabilities, confidence and strategic insights to successfully navigate the challenges of scaling their enterprises into global engineering businesses.
Programme*
| 3.30pm | Registration with refreshments |
| 4.00pm | Spring launch ceremony |
| 5.30pm | Networking reception |
| 7.00pm | Event ends |
*Programme is subject to change
Shott Scale Up Accelerator graduates:
- Adam Glen, Unicorn Biotechnologies
- Ashkan Kavei, RFC Power
- Brian Cobb, Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd
- Chri Besenbruch, Deep Render
- Chris Cieslak, BladeBug Ltd
- Christopher Chavasse, Muddy Machines Ltd
- Christopher John Bullock, QV Bioelectronics Ltd
- Claire Trant, Untap Ltd
- James Finlayson, Impact Recycling Ltd
- Khalid AbdulJabbar, Case45 Ltd
- Oliver Worsley, Sequential Skin Ltd
- Scott Dufferwiel, Aegiq Ltd
- Stephen Stewart, Factory 42
- Timothy Elder, Multiply AI Ltd
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Ian Shott CBE FREng
Former Inaugural Chair of the Enterprise Committee and a long-standing Academy Fellow, Ian Shott CBE FREng has played a prominent role in establishing the Enterprise Hub. His track record of helping businesses in the engineering and life science sectors transform their approach and improve their vision, ambition, business models and enterprise value is an invaluable resource.
Dr Simon Thomas FREng
Simon Thomas is a founder and the CEO of Paragraf, a pioneering graphene electronic device company. He is a materials engineer whose research, developments and inventions have enabled the world’s first scalable graphene electronics products to be achieved, solving a 15+ year challenge for industry. Simon is a Shott Scale Up Accelerator alumnus and the chair of the steering committee.
Ana Avaliani
Director, Enterprise
Cristina Lisii
Senior Programme Manager, Shott Scale Up Accelerator. Having worked across education, international development, government, finance and innovation consulting, Cristina’s passion for technology innovation and cultivating connections, people, ideas and resources has led to her senior leadership role in the Shott Scale Up Accelerator.
Wenmiao Yu
Wenmiao Yu is an entrepreneur focused on translating scientific innovation into marketable products. She is co-founder and Director of Business Development at Quantum Dice, a venture-backed Oxford University spin-out enabling encryption through a self-certifying Quantum Random Number Generator. Her responsibilities include fundraising and leading quantum technology market creation. After reading Chemistry at the University of Oxford and co-founding Quantum Dice, Wenmiao was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship at the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre in Bristol (the youngest across all cohorts). She actively advocates for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, mentoring students in the Oxford Women in Business Society and is also on the committee for New Voices in Space, a part of the Scottish Space Leadership Council. Wenmiao strongly believes in the power of communities, crucial to growing nascent industries such as quantum technologies, and she always wants to hear from like-minded individuals across all disciplines.