Philip English on Tech London Advocates Robotics - 11 August 2020

Tech London Advocates Robotics - 11 August 2020
TLA: www.techlondonadvocates.org.uk
Robot Philosophy: robophil.com/roboception/
Sponsor: Robot Center: robotcenter.co.uk/
Sponsor: Robots of London: robotsoflondon.co.uk/
Robot Strategy Call:- robotcenter.co.uk/contact-sales/
Thomas Andersson,
Founder,
STIQ Ltd / TLA Robotics Intro
Russ Shaw,
Founder,
Tech London Advocates Intro to Tech London Advocates, UK
Philip English,
COO,
Robot Center Sponsor + System Integrator, UK
Henry Wood,
Co-founder,
Inovo Robotics Cobots, startup, UK
Sameer Puri,
Head of Sales,
Eiratech Robotics Online fulfilment robotics, Ireland
Mathieu Scampini,
UK Sales Manager,
Fives Intralogistics Parcel sortation robotics, Italy
Jakub Langr,
Co-founder,
Creation Labs GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), Startup, UK
Mark Corderoy,
Incubation Manager,
Bristol Robotics Laboratory Hardware Incubator and Launch Space Robotics Incubator
Sam Onwugbenu,
Founder,
Altered Carbon Graphene based Sensors
Arthur Keeling,
Founder,
Indus Four Cyber-Physical Operating System
Snir Benedek,
Founder,
Benedex Mobility Platform
Thomas Andersson (00:00:00):
Hello and welcome to the inaugural TLA robotics events. Um, my name is Thomas Anderson and I am one of the four group leaders in TLA robotics. Um, I'll be very brief. Um, so we can get onto the exciting part, which is then to see the company presentation, um, tech, London advocates now, or TLA for short is a voluntary organization. So please consider that everyone involved in today's event has spent their free time on this. So if you could mute your microphones until it's your time to speak, that'd be great as well. And I should mention that if he wants to become a member of CLA uh, please reach out to any of us. You'd just take a screenshot of the screen right now, um, and reach out to us, um, after the event or during his event. Uh, we're lucky to have, uh, the founder of tech, London advocates on the call today.
Thomas Andersson (00:00:54):
So he'll be introducing tech, London advocates in a bit more detail. So I will talk a bit more about the robotics group. So CLA robotics was set up in April, 2020 with the purpose of encouraging and promoting robotics and automation. You can Europe. So the key reason for this is simply that the UK and Europe lags behind North American and Asia in terms of funding for both six companies in particular, those with a hardware component at the same time, we also kink to see, um, increased adoption of robotics and automation across industries. And in particular in the UK, which likes behind many of its European peers, um, enrolled with penetration part of the most. Um, we also have an aim to encourage more women in robotics. And the reason I'm laughing slightly is that today's, we've totally failed with that. And, um, we all men who are presenting here, but we promise to, to improve that in our next, uh, coming, uh, webinars.
Thomas Andersson (00:01:57):
Um, and I should also note that our medium to long, um, aim is to organize physical networking events. However, uh, depending on the success of these webinars, we may continue these as well. Um, before I hand over to Russ to introduce tech London advocates in more detail, I want to extend a big thank you to robot center, uh, which is a robotics and automation system integrator based in UK robot center has kindly sponsored assume hosting for this event. And without that, we wouldn't be able to showcase the many clothing companies that are coming up. It's a big time give to Philip and his colleagues at Robertson festival. Uh, you will be hearing more from, um, robots and have lots of introduced, um, tech, London advocates as well with that. Um, I'll get sharing. Uh, so can we stop right over to you, Rob?
Russ Shaw (00:02:50):
Thanks, Thomas and Thomas, um, congratulations to you for getting this group set up and launched today. I know this has been a passion of yours, and I know you, and I've been speaking about this for the past few months. So, so many congratulations on taking an idea and turning it into a reality. And also let me add my thanks to the robot center as well. Um, as Thomas mentioned, the founder of tech, London advocates, I know many on the call today may not be familiar with tech, London, advocates and TLA robotics. So I'm just going to take a couple of minutes to share a bit more about the group as well as global tech advocates. Um, I launched tech London advocates back in 2017. So we're just over seven years old. Um, and I did it because I wanted to create a group of diverse leaders from all backgrounds and all walks of life, uh, to come together as volunteers, mainly from the private sector to promote London's tech ecosystem and to deal with the issues and challenges that we face in our ecosystem.
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