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00:00Yes, I'm Ranjit Singh. I'm the CTO for Link Technologies and a co-founder.

00:07Our technology basically looks at energy consumption inside a built environment

00:11and we reduce energy consumption as well as doing predictive maintenance

00:15and reward people for going green, pretty much.

00:18Oh, so it is green indeed.

00:20It is, yes, it is, yes.

00:21And then if you could introduce yourself, green.

00:24So I'm Audra Roos and I'm the CEO of the same company

00:27and on the same journey and bringing, hopefully, our innovation

00:31and, you know, our great technology to the environment.

00:36So how do you feel that you have won this award?

00:40Yeah, I mean, it's our first award ever.

00:43It's always a good one.

00:44So it's fantastic.

00:45And I wasn't expecting, so I was filming the awards thinking,

00:48oh, yeah, great, they're winning.

00:49We didn't come here to win.

00:50We came here to make a difference and to springboard our technology

00:55to showcase, you know, what we can do.

00:59We wasn't expecting to win, so it was a bit of a surprise, really.

01:02It was a massive surprise.

01:03So where have you come from originally then?

01:06We're from London originally.

01:08London.

01:08Well, I'm French.

01:10But the company is UK-based and then we are going international,

01:14so this is our first international assignment.

01:17Yay.

01:17And you've won an award!

01:18Exactly, which is great.

01:20But, you know, going back to how we feel, it's just sometimes it feels a bit lonely

01:25when you've found a company and you've got, you know, that great idea

01:29and even your products and you're really fighting to get people to see your vision,

01:34you know, and you get rejections and, you know, all that stuff.

01:38And you feel like, oh, my God, is anybody listening?

01:41You know, we really have this great thing.

01:43Like, I'm the only one that sees that.

01:45And so when, you know, getting this award is so amazing because what it is

01:52is the recognition from people to say, hey, we see your technology,

01:57we see what you've done, we want some of it,

02:00and we share that vision that you've presented us.

02:03That's what's special.

02:05100%, I agree.

02:06So how did you even, I mean, coming from London,

02:08how did you hear about the Innovation Challenge to begin with?

02:11So this is part of our network.

02:15We're part of the Cambridge Cleantech Network,

02:18and we pitched to them last year.

02:20In fact, their pitch day is tomorrow.

02:24And the I Love Man is a partner to the Cambridge Cleantech Network.

02:30And when the, you know, when the challenge came up,

02:33I keep my eyes on the ground.

02:34I see what stuff opens through the network.

02:37I applied, and that's how we got here.

02:41Yeah, it was really cool because I didn't even realise that we had become finalists.

02:45I was just tinkering away building stuff because that's what I do.

02:49I built technology and not thinking that,

02:53oh, we're actually finalists in the I Love Man and we're here now.

02:56I think what's really important is that you guys do things differently here

03:02to what they do in the UK.

03:03I think you move progressively faster through how your government works,

03:08incentivising the people, the landscape, the communities to really make a difference quickly.

03:14And I guess you can do that because the government's well connected with the people.

03:18That really doesn't happen quickly in the UK.

03:21You've got to go through a lot of barriers and milestones before you get there.

03:24It happens, but not like it happens here.

03:26I mean, how long have you been here? A couple of days?

03:30Yeah.

03:30Yeah, it's a smaller place, isn't it?

03:33And it's a lot more of a tight-knit community.

03:35You've got everybody already.

03:36Yeah.

03:36I love it.

03:37Absolutely.

03:38I fell in love with this place when we were flying over here.

03:40And I must confess, I even looked at the prices of houses.

03:44An old tumble-down house with lots of building space,

03:47and I could tinker around and start carrying on with my ideas.

03:50I'd like to come because there's innovation there to help you.

03:53So just let me know if that's...

03:55I think the opportunity here is great.

03:57And what's really important is the biosphere.

03:59It's such a beautiful place here.

04:01And I think it's really important that people use the technology

04:08to maintain a healthy lifestyle and living,

04:13to make their lives easier and make a difference,

04:15not just for us, but for the rest of the community.

04:17And this could go global.

04:19And our technology, and a lot of the technologies here,

04:22they can go global.

04:23There's no reason why they couldn't.

04:24And why not start from a great place like this,

04:26where you can patent your device.

04:29It's got great laws, stable, and you can springboard from here.

04:34You really can, because you've got some serious people

04:37who have got long reach.

04:38And that's what I find amazing.

04:42Really, honestly, the old saying goes,

04:45you know, build it and they will come.

04:46It's here.

04:47It's built.

04:48People need to come and see this.

04:51And, you know, we won our first award.

04:53Hey, and I'm talking to you.

04:55So it's kind of not sunk in yet.

04:57It's really good.

04:58No, it's inspiring, isn't it?

04:59And I mean, you're probably on a high right now from,

05:01it's your first award as a company.

05:02Like, you've obviously put in so much effort and worked so hard.

05:05And yeah, you might be on a tiny island receiving that,

05:08but it still counts for so much, doesn't it?

05:10Final question.

05:12What does innovation mean to the two of you?

05:15That's where we live and breathe, right?

05:17I mean, this guy churns our ideas.

05:19I can't tell you, it doesn't.

05:21But it's more about, you know, getting the excitement and the vision thinking outside the box

05:29and seeing the vision and then trying to then build it into something tangible

05:35that people can use and enjoy.

05:38But yeah, what's innovation?

05:40Yeah, so I mean, I've built a few things and been in innovation for many years.

05:45To me, innovation is having a vision, seeing it through painstakingly

05:51and then making a difference for others.

05:53So for me, innovation is making a difference to society and people.

05:58It's making it better, isn't it?

06:00It's making it better.

06:00Improvement, it's improvement.

06:02Every time an innovation comes along, it's a first step.

06:06You make a change and then that innovation sometimes goes

06:09or develops into something else to the next step

06:10and to the next step and to the next step

06:12until you have that, you know, perfect utopian.

06:16So to me, it's making a difference and that's what I like.

06:19It's not really about the money.

06:21The money's important, but it's to make something happen.

06:24But unfortunately, to make it happen, you need money.

06:27It's a dog-eat-dog-eat world, isn't it?

06:28It's a big ink.

06:29Well, thank you very much, guys.

06:36It's lovely to meet you and congratulations again.

06:38Thank you very much.

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