Carbon capture, vertical farming and coding for girls – Britain's environmental and social purpose Innovators of the Year

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🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year Awards, in partnership with Rathbones, celebrate the passion and creativity of British entrepreneurs. From hundreds of entries we have narrowed down to some 50 finalists across the United Kingdom. In this episode, the judges introduce those start-ups rethinking and finessing the battle against climate change, from vertical farming to carbon capture technology; as well as those working for a greater social purpose, such as getting more women into tech.

The judges in this episode are Eva-Maria Dimitriadis, CEO of the Conduit Connect, which backs exceptional founders whose businesses generate positive change; Clive Bawden, director of Governance360 and a previous winner of the Innovator Awards; Michelle White, Head of Private Office for Rathbones; and Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator's business editor.

The awards and this podcast series are sponsored by Rathbones, a leading provider of individual wealth management.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this podcast in our series of five podcasts, celebrating the finalists in this year's Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year awards.
0:23.1	I'm Martin van der Weir.
0:25.9	I'm the business editor of the Spectator,
0:29.6	and I'm one of the founders of this award scheme,
0:32.4	which is now in its seventh year.
0:36.6	So today's set of finalists we're going to talk about are all in the field of environmental and
0:42.8	sustainability innovation work or a couple of them are in the field of social purpose let's say
0:52.7	as a simple label I want to introduce my fellow
0:56.0	judges on the call. This award program would not be possible without the support of our
1:02.7	sponsor, RathBones, incorporating InvestTech wealth and investment UK, represented on the call
1:10.2	by my good friend Michelle White.
1:12.8	Michelle, please introduce yourself and Rathbonez.
1:17.0	Thanks, Martin. Yes, we're the proud sponsors of the awards for the third year in a row now.
1:21.7	My name is Michelle White. As you mentioned, I head up the private office business for Rathbones,
1:26.0	which is where we provide strategic wealth
1:28.5	advice to our private clients across the planning investments and banking pillars of private
1:35.4	client solutions. We work very closely with our entrepreneurial clients on the personal side,
1:41.0	but also on the business side, as we still work very much hand in glove
1:44.5	with our strategic partners in Vestek, who can help with all sorts of private company fundraising,
1:50.9	listings, M&A advice, treasury function and so on. So it's a brilliant thing for us to be part of,
1:57.5	an absolute pleasure to traips around the country, albeit on terrible British trains with
2:02.9	you, meeting all of these finalists and look forward to speaking about this cohort today.
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