{"id":2732,"date":"2019-03-19T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:30:02","slug":"goldsmiths-computing-at-the-semi-finals-of-mayors-entrepreneur-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Goldsmiths Computing at the semi-finals of Mayor’s Entrepreneur 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grzegorz Rybak, Goldsmiths BSc Computer Science student and Web developer, writes about his experience at the semi-finals of the Mayor’s Entrepreneur  2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday 15th March I had the honour of participating in the semi-finals of the Mayor’s Entrepreneur 2019 with our Undergraduate final-year project (ULA: Ultimate Listening Assistant)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being in the top-30 tech projects chosen to progress to the semi-finals out of 625 applications from all London’s Universities (and even start-ups), the stakes (and the stress!) were enormous but it shows how exciting the project we’re doing is – not only to us, but evidently to others as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m happy to tell you I delivered – I strongly believe – the best pitch I ever performed! I pitched about the idea of text transcription and summarization along the normal recording that ULA does and a potential content-sharing platform that could be a business around it (as this is a very entrepreneurial competition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I must also say I was happy to discover I was one of the youngest among the contestants and the only undergraduate I’m aware of – most of the participates were Postgraduate or PhD students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can gather from the above, the competition level was extremely high (I’ve never heard so many amazing tech-product ideas in such a short time!) therefore I won’t be surprised if ULA doesn’t make it to the finals, but nevertheless, I greatly appreciate the distinction of being selected to such an exclusive company with an undergraduate project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit: Marcello Pelucchi
Grzegorz “ULA: Ultimate Listening Assistant” in front of the expert-judges in the “The Chamber”, the city hall’s grand auditorium (this is the place where they also shoot the finals for the “Apprentice”) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also at the semi-finals was Goldsmiths Computing PhD student Hadeel Ayoub pitching the BrightSign glove – I really hope she reaches the finals because her pitch was seriously amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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