Welcome to the May edition of Vikela’s monthly technology & business development newsletter.
The past month has been another busy one for us with great opportunities for pitching in front of some really exciting panels and lots of progress made behind the scenes on product development and preparing for manufacturing capacity expansion.
We hope our readers have had a good month and enjoy reading our latest newsletter. 👏
May Highlights
Rising Stars Final
🌠 We were absolutely delighted to share the news that Peter Gilleece was announced as the winner of Tech Nation’s #RisingStars regional final for Scotland & Northern Ireland after the live finals in Edinburgh earlier in May.
👏 Thank you again to everyone who attended, the judging panel, and Rising Stars partners HSBC Innovation Banking, JCDecaux, Blue Array | SEO Agency of the Year.
💡 On 10th June Peter Gilleece will be showcasing the innovative solutions Vikela offers on the Founders Stage at London Tech Week.
xTechInternational Pitch
📢 Earlier in May Vikela CEO Peter Gilleece had the exciting opportunity to pitch to the U.S. Department of Defense about Vikela’s groundbreaking technology.
With only 8 people globally selected to go forward to this stage of the competition, and Vikela being the only UK company in the category, this was a definite highlight to raise the company’s profile as part of the xTechInternational competition, which you can read more about here – https://www.xtech.army.mil/about-xtech/
Our Culture and Values
You might have seen on our social media we recently shared a post highlighting our company purpose, mission, and values.
At Vikela our company values guide everything we do, helping us to provide the best possible products and service to our customers. 🤝
Our core purpose is to make products that save lives and protect the world, and having strong values helps our people work towards this purpose with everything they do.
🔗: https://vikela.tech/values/
Upcoming Events
⭐ Rising Stars Grand Final
🗓️ Monday 10th June, London
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⭐ Generation Innovation Belfast
🗓️ 17th – 21st June, Belfast
We are looking forward to being a partner company at Catalyst’s Generation Innovation work experience programme for the second year, where we will be working with a team of young people on a business oriented challenge statement. Read more about the programme at the link below.
Thank you for reading our newsletter – as always get in touch with us if you want to book a chat or have any questions.
We’ll be back with more news at the end of June,
The Vikela Team 👋
