Welcome to this the fourth in our series of podcasts for the Spectators Economic Innovator of the Year awards, sponsored by the private bank, Julius Baer. We've been going around the regions of the United

Kingdom and today we come to Scotland and Northern Ireland and I'm joined as ever by a guest

panel of distinguished judges so first of, I'm going to introduce them

and ask them to talk a little bit about themselves, and then we'll go on to talk about the

finalists and how this awards process comes to its conclusion in a few weeks' time. So I'm very pleased to welcome back as guest

judges this year. Irene McAleese, whose company C-Sense, which makes smart bike lights,

bike lights which collect data from cyclists and put it to good use. She is from Northern Ireland,

and she, having been a winner in 2018, has been with us as a judge last year and this year.

Secondly, Ian Ritchie, chairman of Turn PLC, but actually a veteran of some 40 tech ventures in Scotland and elsewhere,

and one of the most experienced tech investors in the Scottish business world.

And representing Julius Bear, we have Gordon Scott, who's a regional team head speaking to us today from Julius Bear's Edinburgh office.

So let me invite the judges, first of all, to tell us a little bit more about themselves,

but also I'm interested to hear this year, because everything is disturbed and disrupted by the pandemic, how that has affected

their own business life and what they see of business around them. Irene, over to you first.

Thanks, Martin. And it's a pleasure to be back again this year and hopefully lend my experience

as a startup and entrepreneur to the judging panel.

So CSense is a cycling technology and data company.

We are based in Northern Ireland.

We're known for our bike lights, you're correct,

but we're actually expanding the business now to integrate that technology into bicycle share

schemes and e-cargo bike share schemes.

So no bike light required, but still all the amazing sensor data that CSense can collect

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