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Envitia wins SME Innovation Challenge at Defence Information Symposium 2016

29 Sep 2016

Conferences, Defence, GEOINT, Innovation

The Defence Information Symposium 2016 took place at Chelsea Football Club’s ground, Stamford Bridge, on the 13^th and 14^th September. The event was well attended with over 700 defence and technology professionals. Mike Stone, CIO of the UK Ministry of Defence and the Information Systems and Services for the Joint Forces Command (ISS) Team, laid out the next steps over the coming 18 months for the Defence as a Platform (DaaP) Journey. He also led a number of sessions and talks to encourage disruptive thinking and re-imagining the delivery of information capabilities to deliver radical change, more quickly, cheaply and to greater effect.

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I myself have never attended the event before and was blown away by the quality of presentations in both delivery and content. The sessions started by looking at the problems that the defence sector were facing – new challenges emerging every day from new technologies that have the potential to cause threats in the battlespace, the pace at which technology is moving and the struggle that this sector faces trying to keep up and exploit these technologies.

We listened to speakers from high tech Small-Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) and innovative start-ups – these are the companies that the defence sector want to work with. To be truly innovative, these technologies will have to come from SMEs and start-ups who are on the cutting edge of technology due to their ‘innovate or die’ outlook. The defence sector understands that they need to encourage these types of companies to work with them, and understand that the length and size of these contracts are excluding the SMEs from the competitions.

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Alongside the speakers, there was the 2016 News Defence Information Symposium SME Innovation Challenge sponsored by Raytheon – a challenge to the SME community to address some of the biggest technological and organisational issues facing the UK Armed Forces. Envitia are pleased to have won this challenge and Roger Brackin, CTO of Envitia, presented our innovation at the closing spot of the Symposium. The presentation focused on Mobile Technologies for Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) and how data and information can be shared between these devices. This innovation combined the work conducted under the AGIS (Advanced Geospatial Information and Intelligence Services) for Augmented Reality and work currently undertaken for the Defence Geospatial Services (DGS) contract.

Overall, this was a very enlightening event full of inspiring sessions, and highlighting the future technology requirements for the MoD.

Sophie Phillips, Sales Executive

Envitians enjoyed an Olympic style sports day

23 Sep 2016

Corporate

Inspired by the Team GB accomplishments at the Olympic Rio Games 2016, Envitia staff played some Olympic style games on a hot and sunny August day. Organised by Business Development Manager and a sports fan Alexa Cook and HR Assistant Lauren Thompson, the day included various outdoor and indoor sports games that were played during the tea and lunch breaks throughout the day. The games included basketball, long jump, archery, (paper plane) javelin and Wii tennis.

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One of the highlights of the day was the Women’s basketball team winning against the Men’s team in the car park of our head office at lunch time. The men did take the Gold and Bronze medals in the long jump competition.

In keeping with Envitia’s core business in geospatial visualisation and intelligence, “Pin the City on the World Map”, our version of “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”, proved to be quite tricky to win, not least a little dangerous for the judges! The contestants were pinning the cities on the map with their eyes closed. We had plenty of brave map experts who joined in this challenging game.

The paper plane javelin competition ran throughout the day with the competitive instincts growing as the day progressed. As the throwing zone was on the way to the kitchen, we saw an increased volume of tea and coffee drunk as more and more attempts were made.

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The day ended with an awards ceremony and a social event in the evening. During the ceremony the symbolic Gold, Silver and Bronze medals (home made out of the tennis ball box caps and coloured with an acrylic paint) were given to the games winners. Although no world records were achieved, it was a highly enjoyable day with the sports activities and we all had a good laugh.

Kristina Zliobaite, Marketing Executive

Envitia presented and exhibited at Civil Service Live London 2016

31 Aug 2016

Conferences, GEOINT, Open Source, Public Sector

On the 12th and 13th July Fiona Buckingham and Alan Crisp headed over to the QEII Conference Centre in London to exhibit at Civil Service Live where we were joined by other Envitia staff including our CEO, Dr Sharon Cooper, Chairman John Massey and Business Development Manager, Steve Wallace during the event. The Civil Service Live London event, organised by Cabinet Office in partnership with Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd (Dods), provided networking and collaboration opportunities for Civil Servants working in government departments and agencies, with private sector organisations.

Alan and Sharon presenting at CSL 2016

One of the key themes for this event was ‘Improved Outcomes’, and in response to this theme, we had a 45 min seminar slot where Alan Crisp, Business Development Manager and Dr Sharon Cooper, CEO of Envitia delivered a presentation titled ‘You already have the answer……so how do you get to it?’ on the Tuesday morning. In this presentation, Alan and Sharon talked about the challenges surrounding data discovery in government departments, and how we have worked with our customers to overcome these challenges. It also included a case study based on a project we are involved in for the UK Ministry of Defence.

If you would like to learn more about our presentation, please contact our Sales Team by tel +44 1403 273 173 or email sales@envitia.com

The event was well attended by over 6000 civil servants from different departments all across government including the Home Office, HMRC, DWP, Defra, VOA, NCA, Environment Agency to name a few. It was a busy couple of days and we managed to have some very interesting conversations with existing customers and with departments that we haven’t previously worked with.

Overall, the event was successful with lots of interest in our presentation and what we do. We are certainly hoping to attend the event again next year.

Fiona Buckingham, Business Development Manager