Week 5: Last week in Kansas City

This being the final week at the Kauffman Foundation, before we travel to California, we've been asked to prepare presentations on our business ideas; as a 15 minute pitch. So I thought it would be a good idea to introduce the rest of the Global Scholars and their business ideas.

Scholar	Business Idea
Aaron Mannis	A product to dramatically improve firearm safety.
Ade Bamidele	Web based platforms for Image Retrieval
Chris Mitchell	Automated sound genre classification system
Craig Hellen	Video design production company specialising on a new UK sport mountain boarding see www.fnkydesign.com
Daniel Currin	Patented and is now hoping to license/create company around an innovative balloon product
Devin Cheevers	Create mobile phone features to aid developing countries such as his home town in South Africa.
Georgios Diamantopoulos	An automated quality checker for Video Codec which creates a metric of image quality.
Gerhard Symons	Co-founder of CamStent: a bioscience company aimed at revolutionizing a particular surgical treatment for coronary artery disease.
Joshual Seal	Patented a energy saving product which reduces power consumption of devices in stand by.
Luke Jefferson	Assistive technologies for colour blind computer users.
Manu Bhardwaj	Funky wheelchair that has a novel folding mechanism
Scot Devlin	A non-destructive subsurface mapping provider that uses a unique 3D Ground-Penetrating-Radar system in the European construction industry
Simon Phelps	Started company ‘Fluvial innovations ‘ which is based on IP developed at university: a unique demountable flood barrier which can be constructed by one person. see more at www.fluvial-innovations.co.uk
Wasim Bhatti	Has a number of inventions which he wishes to develop under his own brand starting with an Unmanned Aviation Vehicle for the civilian market.
Will Griffiths	Has business Interests in social innovations focused on energy saving and green devices

So there was a brief introduction to all the other scholars. Next week I'll be in California and the heart of Silicon Valley: San Antonia.