IAMUS Technologies wins the Alfie Cox Best Start-Up Award at the 2020 Innovation Arena Awards

Minister Damien English announces winners of the 2020 Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards competition in association with the National Ploughing Association.

The best overall start-up award went to Shane Kiernan from AI and Robotics company Iamus Technologies based in NovaUCD Dublin which is collaborating with a large poultry processor and using its technology to continuously gather data from birds, providing feedback that could save the poultry industry billions of euros annually.

For the first time in its ten-year history, the 2020 Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards in association with the National Ploughing Association (NPA), took place online, with shortlisted innovators pitching their groundbreaking designs to a virtual judging panel over the course of two days.

Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena traditionally showcases ground-breaking agri-related products and innovations from Irish agri-companies at the National Ploughing Championships, but the competition was moved fully online due to the cancellation of the event as a result of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

Winners of 2020’s awards are automatically eligible to exhibit in the ‘2020 Winners Enclosure Section’ at the Innovation Arena in 2021.

More than 60 entries were received for this year’s Awards competition with the top 30 selected for virtual pitching.

Here you can see more about the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdHfDjD37Hg.