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Technium Challenge 2006/07 Winners

Technium Challenge Winners 2006/07

 

The 2006/07 competition attracted entries from 17 companies.  Sponsors included NESTA, Eversheds, Urquart-Dykes & Lord (UDL), Capital Law, University of Wales Newport, Abel & Imray and EnterpriseConsulting. 

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Video Clips from Technium Challenge Awards Ceremony

Please click on the links below to download video clips from the Technium Challenge Awards ceremony.

WorkerANT Interview

Adaptavist.com Interview

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Lindsay Hayman, WorkerANT



WorkerANT - Winner

WorkerANT is an online 'match making' service that pairs people looking for work with those offering temporary contracts.  It exploits a gap in the expanding UK e-recruitment market and targets the growing number of people looking for part time or temporary flexible working, including those seeking to manage a work/life balance.  The company was set up by Lindsay Hayman, a mechanical design engineering, who wanted to find an outlet for her management skills and broad business knowledge that allowed flexible working around family commitments. It was also prompted by a need for a resource to enable freelancers to obtain work without the costly and unnecessary use of agencies.

Movie Mogul - Runner-up

Movie Mogul is an internet based film funding company that uses membership fees to create micro-production budgets for short and feature-length independent films.  Members purchase voting points when they register for the competition and the film project with the most votes at the end of each competition obtains the funds.  The short film fund is capped at £10,000 and the feature fund at £100,000.  Members backing the winning films obtain a range of benefits including their name on the credits.  Targeted at film lovers, Movie Mogul is the world's first online movie community and has been devised, formed and managed by filmmaker and part-time media trainer John Shackleton. 

Adaptavist.com - Runner-up

Adaptavist.com Ltd is based in Warrington and specialises in solutions related to Atlassian products.  The company is an authorised reseller and can provide licenses for all their products.  They have more than 500 clients in fifty countries and trade in 15 currencies.  Atlassian is Australia's fastest growing IT company with 6,800 customers in more than 61 countries. 

 


Technium Challenge 2006/07 participants’ comments:

“The Challenge has been just that - but nevertheless an extremely rewarding and unique start-up opportunity ... the discipline and structure of events has led us through a crucial development phase for the business.” 
Lindsay Hayman, Owner, WorkerANT (Winner)

“Just two weeks after hearing the good news that Movie Mogul came runner-up in the Technium Challenge, the profile of the company seems to be further solidifying.  The prizes will undoubtedly be of major benefit to the company, particularly during these early tentative months.  Technium Challenge has been a very positive and worthwhile experience.”
John Shackleton, Director, Movie Mogul (Runner-up)

“Coming through the Technium Challenge has confirmed to us that the type of business we're developing is going in the right direction.  The contacts we've made from doing the Technium Challenge means we've now got a wide range of companies that we can work with for mutual benefit.” 
Guy Fraser, Director, Adaptavist.com (Runner-up)

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