Showcase

Meet the 2023 innovators

The VentureFest North East Innovation Showcase shines a light on the innovative businesses and individuals across Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Durham that are making a difference in their field. Regardless of sector, size or stage of development, the Innovation Showcase is a fantastic platform to demonstrate brilliant ideas.

You can find out more about our 2023 innovator finalists below:

Intelligen

Intelligen develop off-grid zero carbon transport infrastructure, and their innovative solution, powerTRIP, makes low carbon transport accessible to everyone. PowerTRIP…

Health Call

Health Call is an NHS-owned digital healthcare company that reinvests its profits back into health and social care. Working alongside…

Arcus Studios

Since winning the 2018 Jena International Fulldome Festival ‘Director’s Award’ for their immersive adaptation of seminal sci fi novel ‘Star…

Wessington Cryogenics

Wessington Cryogenics are an engineering-led, solutions-driven and customer-focused producer of cryogenic vessels. Founded in 1984, this UK-based company began by…

Engineered Solutions

Rollapole was developed as a solution for silently distributing food and consumer goods in a pollution free, lightweight manner in…

MAADIGITAL

MAADIGITAL created the My Carbon Home App as an immersive tool to demonstrate the real impact of choices at home…

SM Discovery Group

SMDG is a biotechnology company dedicated to delivering efficacious, safe and disease modifying therapies to save lives and improve health.…

DigVentures

DigVentures' 'Deep Time' is an experimental platform uniting citizen scientists, archaeologists, land custodians, and heritage bodies to detect previously unknown…

SPARK EPoS

SPARK EPoS is a cloud-based smart hospitality platform that offers not only Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) technology but also…

Chestnut Bio

With plastic now being a major pollutant, Chestnut Bio has created a plastic alternative made from natural sugars which is…

Atelerix

Atelerix has developed an innovative approach to the storage and transportation of fresh cells, tissues, and viruses at hypothermic temperature.…

We work together with innovation experts from the North East BIC to uncover the businesses behind the latest ground-breaking products and services and celebrate them through the Innovation Showcase at VentureFest North East.

Entry is open to all North East businesses in the North East LEP area, regardless of size, sector, or stage of development. As well as the chance to exhibit in front of over 500 delegates as part of VentureFest North East, businesses will also have the chance to take home the ’Innovation of the Year’ award as part of the North East Innovation Awards, held at VentureFest North East. There is also a multitude of marketing and PR opportunities that help raise the profile of the Innovation Showcase businesses.