The nominees for ‘Big Data Innovation’ at this years Digital Leaders 100 awards have been announced ahead of this years final! Anaeko are proud to sponsor a category that seeks to highlight tremendous innovation in the technical industry. Organisations are increasingly defined by their data and how they use it. This award is for a digital product or service that in the last year has had a measurable impact and delivered real outcomes in the field of big data.

The DL100 list is created by public vote and celebrates the teams and individuals who are working hard behind the scenes to secure the UK’s Digital Transformation. Digital leaders have been asking the public to help find these digital pioneers from across the UK and from the public, private and non-profit sectors, every year since 2013. While the selection process is led by industry professionals, the final result in each category is decided by public vote, so it is super important that you vote for your selected pioneer in ‘Big Data Innovation’ and the other 10 categories this year.

Digital Leaders is an initiative that has created a shared professional space for senior leadership from different sectors promoting effective, long-term digital transformation. Our community of 100,000 senior leaders are involved in leveraging technology to promote economic growth, increase social well-being and narrow social gaps across the UK.

We believe that Anaeko is a perfect fit, not only to sponsor the ‘Big Data Innovation’ category but to also be a part of this event as we are a Data Analytics and Digital Services Specialist, who deliver intelligent multi-cloud analytics for mature organisations in regulated industries.

From our Belfast headquarters we have delivered over 400 data management and analytics projects since 2004. We design data fabrics across millions of assets, build platforms that analyse exabytes of data, operate applications that engage millions of users, and transfer products that process billions of records. And we can’t wait to see what each nominee has to showcase in this innovative category.

Big Data Innovation 2021 Nominees

The Automated Rail Geospatial Observation System (ARGOS) is Thales’ proposed position based identification tool, capable of identifying track geometry faults. The solution uses Thales’ Next Generation Positioning System to identify track geometry faults and their locations.

Global Vaccine Tool

The world’s challenge for 2021 was the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, but misinformation leading to vaccine hesitancy was a major barrier. Engine built a global view of the vaccine rollout and misinformation, which was presented at the G7 in June by UK Government to support the WHO.

A new data service to give ongoing access to the best local insights on London’s High Streets at lower cost through collective purchasing of data and analysis, using a Partnership model to promote collaboration, build local capacity and promote data driven decisions.

Local Land Charges Programme: HM Land Registry

HM Land Registry is working in partnership with over 300 local authorities in England and Wales to standardise and migrate local land charges register information to one accessible place. This is the most ambitious geospatial data transformation in UK government history.

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Tracker: Walsall Council

MAST is a digital tool that lets social workers easily see if other safeguarding partners are actively involved with a person or address. It does this by linking data across Adults, Children, Health, Fire and Police services to show where intervention might be needed so better-informed decisions can be made.

Snowplow Analytics

Snowplow BDP (Behavioral Data Platform) generates, governs and models high-quality, granular behavioral data, ready for use in AI, ML, and Advanced Analytics applications.

STOP THE TRAFFIK (STT)

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a technology led charity which has built the largest granular global dataset on human trafficking to date (1 million incidents) in order to identify trends and hotspots, informing awareness raising campaigns and intelligence led approaches to combat MSHT.

The Data City

The Data City is a Data Services SME that has developed a SaaS platform through which it has established the new standard in industrial classification.  Using machine learning and website text, we identify and analyse emerging sectors to reflect the complexity of today’s economy.

Tymly

West Midlands Fire Service has developed a bespoke platform called Tymly, which delivers a number of digital services. Tymly provides the ability to define a business process and deliver digital solutions, this can be as straightforward as data gathering to more complex workflows.

The Veterinary Health Innovation Engine

he vHive initiative combines assets from the University of Surrey and the Zoetis animal health company, to explore innovation in Animal Health focusing on data and digital transformation. An Innovation Network and Data Innovation Hub for Animal Health have been created. 

How to Vote

 The ultimate winner will be announced at the Digital Leaders 100 awards ceremony later this week. Good luck to all the nominees, and remember to vote by following the link below.

Vote | https://digileaders100.com/big-data-innovation

Last night the Anaeko team welcomed Digital Leaders too Belfast at a private reception within the Titanic Hotel. With the iconic chairman’s office as its backdrop, the reception highlighted Anaeko as Digital Leaders ambassador for Northern Ireland, while also allowing the organisation to network with Northern Ireland’s finest in the technological industry. 

For those who are unfamiliar with Digital Leaders, they are a shared professional online space and face-to-face programme, for leaders across all sectors promoting effective, long-term digital transformation.

In the UK they are the premier digital leadership platform with 12 regional programmes, expert opinion and networking for a growing cross-sector community of over 60,000 leaders.

Anaeko has worked with Digital Leaders for many years, and have often championed their efforts by sponsoring events such as the DL100 Awards that seek to identify innovation across the UK and as their ambassador for Northern Ireland.

This event gave us a great opportunity to not only catch up with our partners at Digital Leaders such as their CEO Robin Knowles, but it also provided us with a platform to showcase the best of Belfast to a national audience. Geraldine Devine attended the event representing DAERA, discussing how their Information Hub has been transformational, enabling the department to discover, view, and analyse data; supporting informed and effective policy-making decisions within Food and Farming, the Environment, Fisheries, Forestry, Animal and Plant Health in Northern Ireland. 

DAERA won the ‘Big Data Innovation’ award at last years DL100 awards, a category sponsored by Anaeko. 

As event protocol and planning changes in the coming months as we get back to normality in a post lockdown landscape, we hope to plan and collaborate on events in the coming months, stay up to date on our social media, for registrations and announcements. 

Generation Innovation aims to inform, upskill and empower the young people of the current generation to thrive as the next leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs of the future. And Anaeko is proud to support this event founded by Catalyst by offering resources for their work experience programme 2022. 

The initiative energises the imaginations and aspirations of young people in Northern Ireland by increasing their knowledge of 21st-century skills and awareness of future careers in innovation. The ethos of the program believes that young people are central to unlocking Northern Ireland’s future as a globally renowned knowledge economy. That’s why we put them at the heart of our inspirational community of entrepreneurs, companies and education leaders.

The work experience programme is for ambitious 17–18-year-olds interested in up-skilling for the jobs of the future. Students receive Design Thinking training over the course of five days, learning how to work as part of a new team made up of students from across Northern Ireland. The new skills are then put to the test by solving a company challenge by developing a solution, before pitching it to the partner company and their fellow students.

The 2022 Programme will engage with 600 students in June for an in-person work experience programme delivered across three locations, working with some of the most successful and dynamic companies in Northern Ireland including Anaeko.

There is a crisis in healthcare in Northern Ireland with longer waiting lists for surgery and crowding in emergency departments. Digital health technology has enormous potential to support service improvements that could save lives and improve outcomes for many patients. Northern Ireland has a substantial reservoir of innovative companies and health professionals.

As a company that works with data in the health tech sector, Anaeko has taken this call to action, and in partnership with Digital Care Systems and supported by HIRANI we have organised an event to deep dive into how we can support the health service in Northern Ireland with their digital care

Pressure on the NHS is increasing, the time to collaborate is now. Leveraging the potential of digital care requires a collaborative and outcomes-based ecosystem. 

This event will comprise of two sessions, one will look at urgent and emergency care, with Dr A Diamond ( Consultant in Emergency Medicine). And a second session looking at elective surgical services with a chair yet TBC.

Why do we need to do this?

1. Local industry has the knowledge and skills to support rapid implementation of solutions for demonstrable patient benefit.
2. Clinical professionals are a vital source of expertise for innovation. Their knowledge of work as done is critical for development of useful and useable solutions.
   
3. Patients are critical in validation of solutions from the earliest stage of development.
4. Discussion between key stakeholders can lead to significant collaboration for patient benefit

Event Outline

• Hosted at the Grand Central Hotel, Belfast on the 25th May from 9.30am to 1700. Two half day sessions. 

• Each session will be opened & chaired by senior clinical leader / problem owner. The chair will outline the challenges in their clinical area / service. 

• There will then be time for a series of short presentations to the panel & other delegates. Interest parties can submit a proposal using the link below. 

• Presenters will have at least 10mins, depending on number of presentations, to outline how their technology / idea could support elective or emergency care. 

• The session will close with a 20-30 min panel discussion & feedback. The panel will consist of patients, health professionals and digital care experts from wide background. A provisional schedule is available at this link. 

Whats next? 

For more information & registration: https://forms.office.com/r/YwdkYVaLrY 

You can also email info@digitalcaresystems.com