The Pitch Most tidal power plants today generate power only in one direction. Projected, next-generation tidal power plants with two-way production have sub-optimal production. Tidetec patented technology improves efficiency by 11-22% of the most cost effective tidal turbine technology by obtaining optimal efficiency both ways and pumping efficiency. This is achieved by integrating the turbine into a rotating turret. The turning mechanism is patented, and has received international recognition. The What Tidetec can kick-start a huge UK Market The How Tidetec has developed a fully functional scale model prototype of the turning mechanism. The turning mechanism prototype has been successfully tested in sea water for two months. Prototyping has shown feasibility of the concept and the model turbine simulations and testing confirm turbine efficiencies much higher than state of the art traditional turbines for 2-way hydropower. In summary, prototyping engineering, feasibility studies and cost estimations of the Tidetec concept have proven major efficiency increase compared to traditional concepts. The results show that the Tidetec concept is potentially disruptive technology for 2-way hydropower in Tidal lagoons and barrages, and can kick-start this market. TEAM Tidetec has built a competent team guided by its co-founder and CEO. Tidetec team has been balanced to meet the commercial phase and Tidetec heading for an establishment of The Tidetec Two-way Hydropower Consortium consisting of EPCI partner, State funding partner GIEK /Export Credit and sub-suppliers to be able to deliver for Tidal range projects. PARTNERS Tidetec core function is development of market and technology within two-way hydropower. For everything else we use our trusted network of partners. From 2018 Tidetec is collaborating with Engineering company Femkuber AS. The Tidetec Two-way Hydropower Consortium consisting of EPCI partner, State funding partner GIEK /Export Credit and sub-suppliers to be able to deliver for Tidal range projects is expected to be in operation during 2018. Tidetec have signed MoU collaboration agreement with several, renowned international developers, turbine producers and sub-suppliers. MARKET The Tidetec market is 2-way hydropower, which means the tidal range market, with a focus on the tidal lagoon/tidal barrier/flood defence industry. Studies indicate a potential global market for Tidal Range hydropower up to 30Bn€ (investments). Tidetec's concept is not limited by turbine type, MW or geographical area. The Why Tidetec has developed and patented technology that can kick-start the Tidal Barrier and Tidal Lagoon market.

Investio is a start-up company in NCE Finance Innovation (https://www.financeinnovation.no/our-members), an exiciting new FinTech incubator located in Bergen.We are currently developing a new P2B crowdlending platform with built-in smartness, using machine learning and block-chain technology.Our goal is is to provide safe, secure and fast loan distribution between companies in need of funding and private investors looking for ways to diversify their investment portfolio. The founders of Investio have solid experience from finance software development, international banking and IT development projects in the oil & gas industry. We are dedicated to turning the company into a successful business, aiming to become the preferred P2B crowdlending platform in Norway by 2022.

Pivotic is a Nordic thought-leader within business and enterprise architecture. We ensure clients have the right architectural capability to execute business strategy, manage risk, and succeed dramatically. The field of Enterprise Architecture encompasses many disciplines, and the practice is still very immature. We are a company of highly experienced "battle hardened" Enterprise Architects who recognize both the challenges and the values related to the Enterprise Architecture discipline, and we have seen through experience how both companies and projects can succeed dramatically by using it correctly - or fail spectacularly by "getting off on a wrong foot".

LumiNode’s proprietary AI technology enables grocers to significantly increase their sales and store level market share, by delivering hyper-targeted interventions to acquire and retain high value customers.LumiNode AI was founded in 2017 and is part of the StartupLab community at Oslo Science Park.

We help restaurants increase sales with mobile ordering and payment solutions that exponentially increase ordering efficiency and reduce waiter-dependent ordering process.

The Multicoater is a modular robotic system for coating applications, offering a wide range of modules for different thin film preparation techniques.   Inkjet Printing – Printed electronics, accurate coatings Electrospinning – nanofibers, tissue engineering, battery separators, performance apparel Ultrasonic Spray coating – General coatings, solar cells, fule cells, etc Dip Coating – General coatings, porous materials Process automation/High thoughput experiments –

We are an award winning Norwegian company who harvest and sells seaweed from the Atlantic Ocean. We offer handpicked naturally grown sea vegetables. Our sea vegetables are carefully selected and harvested from the cleanest waters off the coasts of Norway and Iceland.We have developed an attractive brand for Nordic sea vegetables and have supplied gourmet sea vegetables to the high-end restaurant market since 2010Curious? Take a better look at us @norterncompany.

Tillit er Nord-Europas bidrag til den nye generasjonen forsikringsselskaper. Et selskap bygget for og rundt kunden, som skal bringe kundetilfredsheten til et nytt nivå i den kanskje mest kunde fiendtlige bransjen av dem alle. Moderne teknologi vil hjelpe oss og sette kunden i førersetet på en helt annen måte enn det gjøres i dag. Det er på tide med et nytt forsikringsselskap. Et forsikringsselskap hvor kunden selv har full kontroll. Et forsikringsselskap hvor alt er heldigitalt – og alt skjer gjennom din smarttelefon. Det finnes mange aktører i Norge i dag. De fleste av disse opererer på samme måte. Selgere og meglere på provisjonslønn som er ansvarlig for de tingene som betyr aller mest for deg, og når det skjer et uhell kan det ta lang tid før du får pengene dine tilbake, hvis du får det. Vi tror folk vil gjøre ting selv, på en trygg, enkel og gjennomsiktig måte. Derfor har vi startet selskapet Tillit med en visjon om å være et forsikringsselskap bygget for kunden.

Allva is a digital platform that lets people plan events in a stress-free way. Because why is it that in a digital era when we have endless information at our fingertips, it has gotten more time consuming to figure things out? Take people planning a wedding for example. On average they are using 250 hours. 250 hours, doing research, planning and logistics. It leads to stress, frustrations, and strain on their relationships. Sometimes we just want someone who tells us exactly what to do, and Allva does just that for the big events in life. On our event planning platform, we are providing the users with prefilled and personalized content by the use of Artificial Intelligence. We make the actual project for them. The platform guides them through the entire planning process, and shows them relevant articles, tips, and ads along the way. For advertisers, Allva creates completely new opportunities by offering contextual marketing to a pre-segmented target group that is in a buying state of mind. Allva saves time, money, and frustrations. For people planning events, and the advertisers who wants to reach them. And with our existing concept for weddings, over 3000 users have already shown us that people need help planning their events.

Filmgrail is a Digital Commerce & Marketing platform for cinemas all around the world. The goal is to help cinemas and movie studios engage their audiences, target their marketing and enable them to grow their brand. By automating Content-Creation, Audience-Engagement, Marketing and Targeting, Filmgrail is one of few truly disruptive companies in a 50 billion dollar growing market dominated by legacy players.

Task Analytics is a product development company founded in Oslo, Norway. We are passionate product developers working on Task Analytics full time – headquartered in Oslo, Norway with development offices in Bergen, Norway and Colombo, Sri Lanka and a US office in New York City. Task Analytics aims to be a tool helping web editors, marketing departments, communication departments and consultants to work systematically on user experience online. We believe in focus on the users, their needs and how these needs are met. To gain our users trust, it’s important for us to be non-intrusive and keep these promises to our end users: We will never ask you about anything unless it is important and we know how we will use the response We will make it easy to say no to participating and we will remember your choice We will never take you out of the flow without sending you back afterwards We will always – ALWAYS – use the result from surveys to make an improved experience for the user

WellGuard develop cost saving and groundbreaking technology for plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells By developing new technology, we seek to improve the plugging operations and reduce the overall costs with at least 50%. Our solutions combines the benefit of reduced cost and better safety. The company is located in beautiful Hardanger, Norway. The area is well known for its breathtaking nature, Trolltunga being the most famous. The industry in Hardanger is diverse and thriving.   The WellGuard team is hard working and creative, with background from the oil- and gas industry. Our goal and passion is to develop technology for P&A, which is both cost saving for the industry and safer for the environment.

Socius is a design driven technology company developing next generation ad tools. Founded in Berlin in the fall of 2013 the international team works with top tier brands and publishers in US and Europe and is venture backed by Axel Springer, Google and 500 Startups. Our first product is Socius Native – a smart banner ad builder that removes production costs and generates 10-100x higher engagement by turning influencer content and a brand’s social feeds into next gen ads on publishers’ web pages

NewSchool develops innovative digital tools for collaboration and project based learning by combining agile working methods, psychology, games and mobile media.The tools draw on a set of successful business practices  - the kanban boards for Lean Management, adapted to education purposes, in real-time. By focusing on the organization of the process, not its content, it helps develop self-regulation and collaborative skills for 21st century learners. We are an education technology start-up, with extensive change management experience, unique insights in workforce trends and technology, and pedagogy at its core. All team members have solid international experience from fields like mobile technology, business development and technology management, international education, instructional design, and learning sciences research.The team consists of Fredrik Harloff, Chief Executive Officer, and Mihaela Tabacaru , Community Manager, both co-founders of NewSchool, working full time. The third co-founder, Stian Hofslett Thowsen, works full time as a teacher and part of management team at Langaugen secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Besides the three co-founders, NewSchool relies on an interdisciplinary board of administration with senior level execs: Anne Posner, Bjarne Solhaug, and Paal Kaperdal, all with broad experience, covering international business development expertise, publishing house and human resources expertise, and digital transformation expertise. Frequent contributor and education research expert is Marina Hirnstein, PhD in cognitive psychology, expert in learning analytics .We have offices in Bergen and Oslo,  members of two incubators: Nyskapningsparken in Bergen (http://www.nyskapingsparken.no/) and SoCentral in Oslo, Nordic Center for Social Innovation (www.socentral.no). With an international mindset from day 1, we have been testing our product in classrooms across Europe, from Norway to Denmark, Portugal and Romania, to USA. Our extensive education network made it also possible to plan pilots in emerging countries like India and Iraq.

SuperEgo is aiming to be the leading company in the field of digital health in Scandinavia.  We have had a flying start by getting European contracts through our collaboration with the Norwegian institute of Public Health and the National Competence Network for Children. Lately, we have changed our focus to gamification and simulated Artificial Intelligence. Our goal is to develop new and innovative products for both companies (in private and public health) and consumers.   The people behind SuperEgo is a good mix of personalities and backgrounds. Our team consist of psychologists, doctors and engineers working together, - and having fun while doing it. Our hearts are in making help more available for people who need it. Achieving this goal requires team members that know the administrativ stuff and how to do business. The core team consists of Henning (business development), Geir (management and administration), Tarique (software development and engineering) and Svein (psychology and behavior change). We also have a network of advisors, all being specialists in their field. We also collaborate with user organizations, NTNU, Stanford University and Villa Sult. When we all meet up, there sure is a lot of ideas and inspiration flowing around!