A dozen tech and tech-adjacent firms, representing industries as diversified as blue tech and medical system manufacturing, had been not too long ago acknowledged by the State of Maryland’s Division of Commerce with participation in delegations heading to main financial facilities and expos within the Netherlands and South Africa this week.
The primary of those commerce exhibits is European Water Expertise Week (EWTW), which began on Monday within the Dutch metropolis of Leeuwarden. Per its title, EWTW is geared towards blue tech (water-economy associated tech) and sustainability innovation. Andrew Kreinik, the senior regional supervisor for Europe on the Division of Commerce’s Workplace of Worldwide Commerce and Funding, described the delegation in a previous Technical.ly visitor submit as a “nice probability” to each take part within the constituent Water Tech Europe Commerce Expo and “community with European firms, researchers and scientists” engaged on environmental sustainability options.
“The Netherlands possesses one of the vital complete sustainability frameworks of any industrialized nation,” he wrote in July. “Each 4 years, its Nationwide Environmental Coverage Plan is revised to replicate classes discovered, in addition to new challenges and targets. The commerce expo and mission will thus be an amazing probability for Maryland’s Division of Commerce to assist the state’s companies discover enterprise alternatives overseas.”
A newer state authorities weblog submit famous the chosen entities’ deal with blue tech, which it recognized as “certainly one of Maryland’s rising industries” and nicely suited to its large shoreline and ongoing Chesapeake Bay preservation efforts.
“Our world-class college techniques and group faculties produce leaders in science innovation and extremely expert lab techs, making Maryland an incredible place to get an thought off of the bottom,” the submit added. “With greater than 20 established tech incubators and accelerators able to help the blue tech sector, you possibly can go from an thought to implementation right here on the shores of the Chesapeake.”
The businesses chosen for this set of alternatives included:
- Blue Sources, a Frederick-based firm providing patented “monitoring-as-a-service” tech that exams water toxicity through the habits of bluegill fish populations
- Innovatreat of Owings Mills, which manufactures and develops tech for wastewater remedy
- GaiaXus, a Bethesda-HQed developer of transportable sensors that people can use to measure water high quality, in addition to seamlessly share information with scientists and educators
- Early Allure Ventures, an organization in Baltimore’s Pigtown neighborhood that creates and oversees science innovation-focused ventures
- Tetrahedron Inc., an organization alongside Baltimore’s Key Freeway that provides a mixture of environmental surveying, vitality testing and IT companies
The Division of Commerce was supported on this mission by the Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister Metropolis Committee, whose chair Rachel Sengers informed Technical.ly that scheduling conflicts led to solely two delegation members — Early Allure Ventures and Tetrahedron — really sending individuals to EWTW.
Sengers added that the state delegation would have the prospect to go to Rotterdam, one other main Dutch metropolis with Europe’s largest seaport, to take part in a networking occasion and breakout periods through the Enterprise Café Rotterdam financial partnership group. This occasion will let each Dutch and Maryland entrepreneurs hyperlink up over potential enterprise alternatives as a part of Maryland’s push to strengthen ties with the Netherlands — a rustic that, like Maryland, has relied on coastal waterways and plains for a lot of its financial historical past.
“The Netherlands is likely one of the precedence international locations [from which] Maryland Commerce is making an attempt to get firms to return right here to arrange store — and likewise to collaborate and convey cool, new, progressive applied sciences to Maryland,” Sengers mentioned. The occasion may also intention to introduce Dutch firms to Maryland’s mushy touchdown and International Gateway applications.
In line with a division press launch, seven different Maryland firms will head this week to the Air Power Base Waterkloof in Tshwane, close to South Africa’s government capital metropolis of Pretoria, for the Africa Aerospace and Protection expo. Going down between Sept. 21 and 26, the commerce truthful is billed in an announcement as the biggest defense-focused commerce present on the African continent. The division’s announcement mentioned that Maryland is the one US state collaborating within the present this 12 months, and it will likely be sending the next firms as emissaries:
- Atkinson Aeronautics and Expertise, a technical companies and operations firm with places of work in California, Maryland (HQ’d in Fredericksburg, Virginia) that focuses on aviation, digital warfare, intelligence and cybersecurity
- AvDyne AeroServices, an aviation upkeep and administration supplier primarily based in Glen Burnie
- BC3 Applied sciences, a Baltimorean medical analysis firm growing merchandise to facilitate fast blood-clotting in medical, navy and common use conditions
- MBA Progress Companions, of Rockville, which offers administration consulting and IT assessments, amongst different companies
- Sensible Applied sciences Inc., an electronics producer primarily based out of Center River
- Pugh & Tiller PR, a B2B clients-focused public relations agency from Annapolis
- Zanstrasat LLC, a communications agency from Columbia
President Dilip Dalvi of Sensible Applied sciences, which a departmental announcement mentioned makes its worldwide commerce present debut at Africa Aerospace and Protection, mentioned in an announcement that its “main aim can be to convey extra enterprise to Maryland.”
“We’re trying ahead to assembly potential clients,” Dalvi mentioned. “We wish to perceive their necessities, clarify our merchandise, and in the end attempt to match the 2 collectively.”
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