
PowerUP LONDON
WINTER PITCH SUMMIT 2019

AI IN AUTO AND EQUIPMENT FINANCE
IAFN WINTER CONFERENCE
12 DECEMBER 2019
In collaboration with

PowerUP LONDON is a pitch competition that brings together innovators and an international audience of industry leaders in auto and equipment finance.
"We want to identify promising innovations can change auto and equipment finance. We know that there are thousands of promising innovations, but few of them are likely to be seen and so have any impact. We think that by subjecting them to a close hard look by leaders in the industry we'll accelerate change."
Peter Thomas co-founder PowerUP LONDON, CEO and Founding Partner THEORICA.
PowerUP LONDON Winter 2019, part of the Asset Finance International event on 12 December, focused on how machine learning and AI are driving change in auto and equipment finance.
Always early adopters of emerging technologies, companies in the financial services industry are rapidly embracing Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
And the benefits are obvious: research analyst Autonomous estimate the savings across front, middle and back offices to be 20% and the total global impact of AI and ML to be over $1 trillion. Crunchbase lists almost 9,000 ML startups, and almost $10 billion was invested in AI startups in 2018 according to PwC.
PowerUP LONDON
WINTER 2019
WINNERS
IAFN/POWERUP OVERALL SPONSOR

OVERALL AWARD WINNER

Pitched by Niels Spitters Founder and CEO Intrador
The urge and necessity to obtain, use, and exchange data quickly and reliably is growing constantly. Intrador, together with its customers, is responding to this with new and smart technologies by continuously working together on a future-proof dataset. Intrador’s MarketWatch generates vast amounts of unstructured data on used equipment assets including a dataset of more than 18 million labelled images including details of machine, brand, year of build, hours of operation and condition.
WINNER OF THE TECHSTARS AWARD
SPONSORED BY


Pitched by Toby Woolfe Big Data Automotive Leader IBM
AI driven maintenance services using IoT asset data to monitor the usage of the asset and to track wear and tear in order to predict in advance of a breakdown when the asset needs maintenance and repairs.
WINNER OF THE CHANGEMAKERS AWARD
SPONSORED BY


Pitched by Bill Verhelle CEO Innovation Finance
QuickFi is a software platform owned by Innovation Finance LLC which delivers equipment finance simply and easily through an app in about three minutes.
WINNER OF THE INNOVATORS AWARD
SPONSORED BY

PowerUP JUDGES WINTER 2019

ANDREW DENTON
Alfa^


SHARON BUTLER
Director of EMEA Leasing & Financing
HP


Quotevine


PETER THOMAS
CO-FOUNDER, POWERUP
CEO & Founding Partner
THEORICA

PREVIOUS PowerUP JUDGES
Jonathan Andrew PEAC
Andrew Denton Alfa^
Graeme Bannister InMotion Ventures
Ashley Barnett Lex Autolease
Tom Bull EY
Adrian Samareanu Volvo Financial Services
Ian Smith 1PM
PREVIOUS PowerUP LONDON WINNERS
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SUMMER 2019

CATEGORY WINNER
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wiserfunding.com

OVERALL WINNER
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CATEGORY WINNER
DROVER
joindrover.com