NPH-India-Mission-2018

Northern Powerhouse Mission to India 2018

Northern Powerhouse
mission to India

19 - 23 February 2018

#NorthernPowerhouse

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Contents

Foreword..............................................................................................................3
Mission Organisers........................................................................................4-5
Company Profiles
ArEmCo................................................................................................................6
Atlantic Renewables........................................................................................6
Chipside Limited..................................................................................................7
Fuel Economy Solution Ltd..............................................................................7
Informed Solutions............................................................................................8
Maginus Software Solutions............................................................................8
Pimoroni Ltd.......................................................................................................9
Qbots Technologies Ltd....................................................................................9
Santane Ltd.........................................................................................................10
Sarcophagus Limited............................................................................................10
Shaping Cloud....................................................................................................11
Tevva Motors Ltd.............................................................................................11
Asian Lite...........................................................................................................12

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Foreword

Marian Sudbury We are delighted to be bringing a group of companies from the Northern
Global Operations Powerhouse to Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai in February 2018, to
Director develop new business relationships and explore the exciting
- Northern Powerhouse opportunities in India’s technology sector.
The Northern Powerhouse includes the great cities of Manchester,
Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle and has great freight, logistics
and transport links, including 12 international ports and 7 airports. The
North of England accounts for £330 billion GDP, and exports over £54
billion worth of goods every year.
Our region is very strong in the technology sector; over 400,000
people work in this industry in the Northern Powerhouse, and we host
8 of the UK’s leading tech clusters, with significant strengths in High
Performance Computing, Data Management and Analytics, Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Computation and Machine Learning, Internet of
Things (including sensors and smart cities), Media technology (including
content and games), Immersive Tech, E-commerce and EdTech. We have
world class incubator and accelerator units spread across the North, and
over 2,000 separate technology courses available for students across
the Northern Powerhouse. Recognising the region’s national strength in
the sector, in February 2018 we will be home to the UK’s largest digital
recruitment careers fair.
This trade mission is to showcase the very best of what the Northern
Powerhouse companies have to offer and we wish all a very successful
visit.

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Mission Organisers

Department for International Trade - North West Barbara Singleton MIEx
Trade Mission Leader
Barbara has over 15 years’ experience trading with India, originally in the T: +44 (0)7764 836 947
field of automotive manufacturing and advanced engineering and has E: Barbara.Singleton
spent considerable time in India since 1994. She has the responsibility @Tradenw.org
for the NW market strategy for India and provides strategic guidance and www.great.gov.uk
practical advice to UK companies and visits India regularly, supporting
businesses across various sectors that are seeking to realise their
international business potential through knowledge transfer, joint
ventures and business partnerships.
With a diverse international business background combined with expert
knowledge of overseas markets, she currently helps companies in the
North West of England to build mutually profitable businesses with
International partners in India. She is the Market Visit Leader for this
Northern Powerhouse Technology Trade Mission to Hyderabad,
Bangalore and Mumbai.

MIDAS (Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency) Tim Newns
Chief Executive
MIDAS is Manchester’s inward investment agency, with a strategic aim T: +44 (0)7774 486 194
to secure significant levels of new investment and employment for the E: [email protected]
city region. This is achieved through the global business marketing of www.investinmanchester.com
Manchester, targeting key markets and sectors, and the provision of an
extensive, free and confidential package of advice and relocation 4
services for businesses looking to locate in the UK and specifically
Manchester. These services include; property solutions, recruitment,
financial advice, networking, PR support and relocation support. Recent
India investors include India’s HERO Group with the location of its global
design HQ in Manchester and last year’s Fast 50 winner, 42 Gears a high
growth logistic solutions company from Bangalore. MIDAS also plays host
to the Manchester India Partnership.
The Manchester India Partnership is a public/private initiative aimed at
building closer ties with India. The MIP encompasses the full scope of
country to city interaction: encompassing trade, investment, science and
innovation, connectivity and culture. Recognising the importance of this
initiative, MIP will have a permanent full-time team based in Manchester,
Delhi and Bangalore.

Northern Powerhouse Mission to India 2018

Jeremy Coupland Department for International Trade – London
Financial Services
Specialist As a specialist in the financial services sector I cover the main
T: +44 (0)7471 021 632 subsectors; my role is to help identify and facilitate new investors to
E: Jeremy.Coupland establish their business into the UK.
@trade.gsi.gov.uk I also have a regional focus on the Northern Powerhouse (Liverpool;
www.great.gov.uk Manchester; Leeds; Newcastle; Cheshire) it is the largest financial
location outside of London.
With its very strong ecosystems it has a wealth of companies who are
looking for FinTech solutions including the larger banks. It offers
businesses access to decision makers and excellent opportunities to find
customers.
Jeremy aims to meet FinTech; Knowledge Processing Outsource and
Business Outsourcing Companies and highlight the potential business
opportunities and companies they can do business with.

techUK

techUK represents the companies and technologies that are defining
today the world that we will live in tomorrow. More than 950 companies
are members of techUK. Collectively they employ approximately
700,000 people, about half of all tech sector jobs in the UK. These
companies range from leading FTSE 100 companies to new innovative
start-ups. The majority of our members are small and medium-sized
businesses.
techUK aims to assist UK members engage in India and facilitate Indian
companies’ UK growth.

Simon Spier
Head of
International Trade
T: +44 (0)7774 486 194
E: [email protected]
www.techUK.org

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Company Profiles

ArEmCo Rashid Mogradia
CEO
ArEmCo is a business consulting, IT, branding and web design agency
based in Bolton (UK). We specialise in tailor made education packages, T: +44 (0)7737 445 006
digital, branding, advertising and marketing. Our expertise allows us to E: [email protected]
offer a critique on your business processes with a view to enhance www.Arem.co
efficiency and reduce costs. We work on a range of projects from pure
brand creation through to full brand implementation across digital and
print collateral.
We would like to explore potential partners who we can work with in India
that share our vision for quality and delivery. To act as our agents and
sell into the local markets. To explore other opportunities to develop our
offerings.

Atlantic Renewables
Atlantic Renewables are specialists in Solar PV Design, Commission and
Installation. Experts in DNO/Grid G59 Applications for new supply and
existing capacity supply. Design & installation of AC Coupled and Hybrid
Solar Battery & Grid back up Battery systems.
They aim to gain access to growing markets and offer their services as
installation management or technical advice. They are also looking to
make contacts with Tech companies who can help create a peep to peer
energy trading platform, micro grids and import-export energy metering.

Dean Flute
Director

T: +44 (0)161 207 4044
E: dean@

atlanticrenewables.co.uk
www.atlanticrenewables.co.uk

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Paul Moorby Chipside Limited
Managing Director
T: +44 (0)7714 954 219 Chipsides software suite digitally transforms local government services.
E: paul.moorby 150 UK State, Municipal and City governors deployed Chipsides
@chipside.com connected Digital Systems in 2017, to provide 3.5 million residents,
www.chipside.com business and visitors with over 8 million parking government permits,
enforcing 2 million parking penalty notices. Big data analytics
reduces congestion, reduces pollution, increases compliance with
parking law and improves income generated from local government
parking schemes.
We would like to meet Municipal, City and State City managers to
explain some of the UK’s city parking challenges and to explore the
potential for our systems to be used by local government anywhere in
India.

Fuel Economy Solution Ltd

Fuel Economy Solution supply combustion technology and consultancy
to help improve industrial fuel efficiency, reduce operational costs and
lower GHG emissions. Our main 2018 focus is road transport in the
developing emissions control markets of the South-south and R&D into
power generation and marine propulsion. Our aims and objectives for
the mission are to:

• Establish road transport test projects in India with our GPS tracking
JV partner;
• Locate test partners for combustion efficiency R&D case studies in
clean coal combustion and marine propulsion using cutting edge
Tim Patterson • telemetry;
CEO Identify and work with an experienced global energy sector
publisher to develop an online green economy subscription paid
T: +44 (0)7738 248491 publication.
E: ceo
@fueleconomysolution.com
www.fueleconomysolution.com

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Informed Solutions Seth Finegan
Informed Solutions is a leading independent provider of digital UK CEO
transformation, technology, data analytics and systems integration
services, developing innovative strategies and high performing solutions T: +44 (0)161 942 2000
to solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly E: seth.finegan@informed.
where place, location or geography are important. Locations include
London, Edinburgh, Manchester (HQ), Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra. com
We wish to understand the digital transformation challenges faced by www.informed.com
Indian public and private sector organisations and regulators, especially
where these include:

• Regulatory bodies’ requirements to engage stakeholder
organisations and citizens and provide greater transparency, service
effectiveness and efficiency via improved mining of data collected
and sharing of data with multiple publics;

• Capture, processing and data analytics relating to the energy sector,
its environmental impacts and remediation planning and
implementation;

• Consultations on / management of electoral boundary changes.

Maginus Software Solutions

Maginus provides end-to-end commerce solutions for businesses Simon Weeks
trading online. Our back-office software suite for e-commerce consists CEO
of order management, warehouse management and procurement
facilities that together provide “everything behind the buy button” that T: +44 (0)161 946 0000
an online trader needs to manage their business. Our software E: [email protected]
integrates with all leading e-commerce platforms and is best suited to
mid-sized retail and distribution businesses for whom ecommerce is a www.maginus.com
significant sales channel. Our technology is used by several well-known
UK businesses including Dixons, Co-op electrical, Cath Kidston and
SMEG.
Maginus aims to learn more about the opportunities to distribute our
software in the Indian market and to meet businesses involved in the
retail and distribution sector or supplying that sector as well as systems
integrators and providers of e-commerce solutions.

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Paul Beech Pimoroni Ltd
Director Pimoroni designs and creates electronics hardware and kits, primarily
T: +44 (0)7747 022 119 for Raspberry Pi, Micro: bit and Arduino. Our products cover education,
E: [email protected] sensors, home automation, IoT development, smart cities and home,
www.pimoroni.com robots, air quality and smart CCTV and we excel at software support and
guides for educators, integrators and hobbyists looking to use the latest
Vijay Natarajan tech to build products and systems, or just learn more about
Co-Founder & digital electronics.
Marketing Director Pimoroni are seeking experienced online retail and business resellers
T: +44 (0)7736 938 481 throughout India for its range of friendly Raspberry Pi, Micro: bit and
E: [email protected] Arduino. These are aimed at education, hardware prototyping and
www.qbots.ai development in business and hobbyist electronics. We are also keen to
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cities and regions in conjunction with government & public contractors.
We also would like to contact cost-effective and agile small and medium
scale manufacturers (1,000 to 50,000 units) who primarily deal in
injection moulded plastics or CNC metal fabrication. As well as
educational institutions or companies keen to discuss their needs in
delivering effective physical computing and electronics curriculum.

Qbots Technologies Ltd
Qbots helps to accelerate renewable energy adoption by providing
intelligent energy storage solutions to businesses that can reduce their
energy bills while helping them move towards energy independence.
Qbots uses artificial intelligence based algorithms that works for
individual sites adapting to their energy needs and objectives, with a
visually attractive platform. Qbots partners with a global solar, battery
storage & EV charging point manufacturer, to deliver solar and battery
storage solutions for customers. Qbots is also active in UK’s smart city
initiatives.
Qbots would like to find technological and project delivery partners
within India to develop and build renewable energy management
projects.

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Santane Ltd Reena Koul
Director
Santane Limited is an independent Technical Consulting, Technological
& Resourcing Solutions Company with headquarters in Edinburgh, the T: +44 (0)7866 852 511
capital city of Scotland, United Kingdom. Our operations are spread E: [email protected]
globally and provide core expertise in Engineering Services and
Technical/Technological Solutions for Energy, Marine, Oil & Gas, www.santane.co.uk
Automotive, and Engineering Sectors. We also provide Specialist
Recruitment Solutions, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and
Training Solutions to our customers as part of our value-added services
model delivery.
Our Technological solutions include: Internet of Things (IoT) Product
and Platform and related (IoT) Consulting Services.”
Santane aim to showcase their products and services for the Indian
market, develop new clients and to acquire new business from Indian
companies and to select local partners for product development
including IoT product testing. Furthermore, they would like to liaise with
DIT to network with Indian and other British companies and to gain an
understanding of the Indian market and gauge the business volume for
Santane’s products and services.

Sarcophagus Limited Graham Howarth
CEO
the-project.com is a construction collaboration portal to accelerate
capital projects and reduce risk. Disparate teams publish construction T: +44 (0) 1924 580 999
information with standardised control, revision auditing, eTendering and +44 (0) 7720 461 160
compliance. Improved information quality and faster information E: graham.howarth
turnaround is achieved via workflow and exception reporting. Working @the-project.com
from old documents is eliminated which means less reworking. www.the-project.com
The whole construction team benefits but the ultimate objective is a
project delivered on time, on budget with minimal risk. 10
We welcome large property developers, main contractors, builders and
quantity surveyors who need an efficient standard way of working to
simply the construction process in real-time and reduce the design and
build programme.

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Shaping Cloud

Shaping Cloud specialise in driving public sector transformation through
public cloud. We offer professional services such as SC:Strategy, a
methodology that has been used across local and central government,
education and the NHS. We have also developed our own software
solutions, foiPRO (foipro.com), a SaaS tool for managing Freedom of
Information Requests and SPINR (spinr.io) and iPaaS solution that drives
an API-first approach to public sector digital transformation.
We are looking for organisations that can assist us in delivering our
pipeline of large cloud transformation projects as well as new channel
partners for our software solutions.

Carlos Oliveira
CEO
T: +44 (0)7795 494 436
E: [email protected]
www.shapingcloud.com

Tevva Motors Ltd

David Thackray Tevva produces range extended electric freight trucks from 7-14 tonnes
Sales & Marketing Director GVW. These trucks are targeted on the back to base urban delivery
T: +44 (0)7980 819 608 segment. First commercial deliveries begin to fleets such as UPS, DHL
E: [email protected] and Kuehne+Nagel in April 2018. Heavier weight class vehicles (18, 26
www.tevva.com and 32 tonnes) will be tested in 2018 to be customer-ready in 2019.
During the company’s trip to India Tevva aims to:
• Identify, quantify and understand optimal market entry segments in

India;
• To learn about vehicle requirements, such as weight classes and duty

cycles with identified target segments;
• To build understanding of the competitive environment in India,

especially regarding pricing.

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Asian Lite Rahul Laud
Associate Editor
Hindex Media UK Ltd with its Asian Lite editions from UK & Dubai, is T: +44 (0)7845 449 675
now the most influential newspaper for the Indian Diaspora. A new E: [email protected]
media with active presence in the social and digital platforms makes https://asianlite.com
Asian Lite the most popular for the Indian community across the world.
Asian Lite is the first publication to identify the potential and promote
the contributions of Asian professionals, especially in the IT and Medical
sectors, to the global economy.
Asian Lite aims to understand and strengthen India – UK business
relationships and to support NPH tech trade delegates and Indian
partners to promote their businesses, raise awareness and the portfolio
of the group and to publish success stories from the activity. The
company also aims to promote and recruit bilateral trade between the
two nations and support business through influential media channels.

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