Where: Room Dobson 1, Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre
When: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Time: 6.15 pm - 7.15pm
Register: this event is free, CLICK HERE to register.
The MacDiarmid Institute Commercialisation and Industry Engagement team would like to invite you to join us for our Tech Tasters event, a deep tech showcase and networking opportunity.
We are bringing local and international scientists and entrepreneurs together for this public session alongside our AMN11 conference.
You will hear from New Zealand scientists making an impact on the global stage with innovations in clean energy, hydrogen, medical technology and other materials science discoveries.
InFact: Scaling Science
InFact Limited is a leading technology innovation and product design engineering company. Committed to supporting the growth of New Zealand’s advanced technology sector, InFact has a strong reputation among science providers, collaborating to create reliable, engineered solutions that enable science programmes to scale for larger field research deployments and to prepare for investment and commercialisation. InFact’s proven experience in translating deep tech into innovative, manufacturable products has enabled numerous scientific advancements to achieve commercial viability, thereby boosting New Zealand’s tech economy and fostering sustainable growth.
Website: www.infact.co.nz
In just three years, OpenStar has developed the technology to revive the levitated dipole concept as a viable fusion approach. The concept requires a superconducting magnet to levitate inside a vacuum chamber and produce a significant magnetic field to confine a plasma, all while entirely disconnected from any external technologies. The company successfully integrated its key enabling power supply that sits onboard the donut-shaped device, a world-first application for this technology. This feat broke records and allowed the team to achieve their inaugural plasma around their first prototype.
Website: https://www.openstar.tech/
Munro Medical – Smart implants for better outcomes
Founder & President: Associate Professor Deborah Munro
Munro Medical is dedicated to challenging the norm, identifying opportunities, and solving complex problems. With expertise in biomedical research, patents, regulatory affairs, and engineering, we aim to revolutionise treatment options through innovative medical devices. Established in 2016 in Portland, Oregon, we are now based in Christchurch, New Zealand, focusing on wireless, battery-free implantable devices. Our flagship product is a wireless implantable sensor to monitor bone healing after spinal fusion surgery. Traditional x-rays take over four months for conclusive results, but our “smart rod” reduces this to a mere eight weeks, enabling faster recovery and immediate intervention for potential complications.
Website: https://munromedical.com/
Fabrum
For 20 years, Fabrum’s patented cryogenic technology has enabled the global movement towards clean energy transition. Fabrum delivers solutions to support a zero-emission future for mobility in aviation, marine, heavy transport, and heavy industry. The Fabrum patented cryocooler technology has been applied in electrolysers, hydrogen liquification plants, boil-off gas management systems, and hydrogen refuelling stations. Fabrum’s composite technology has also been adopted into heavy industry mobility, on-board aviation fuel tanks, and superconductivity. Fabrum, headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand, has built an impressive list of global IP and solution success, applying its sustainable solutions to enable humanity to tread lightly.
Aspiring Materials
Aspiring Materials uses globally abundant magnesium-rich rocks like olivine to capture CO₂ and produce low-emission materials for industries like steel, energy, and cement. Their patented process converts olivine into magnesium hydroxide, reactive silica, and critical minerals, enabling cost-efficient carbon capture and industrial uses. With 1.6 tonnes of CO₂ eliminated per tonne of olivine, Aspiring offers a reliable, scalable solution for impactful industrial decarbonization.
Website: www.aspiringmaterials.com
Dual Axis spin coating
Conventional (single-axis) spin coating is a fundamental microfabrication technique due to its low cost and effectiveness in producing very thin uniform film layers. These films are an integral component in common devices such as smartphones, solar cells, and CD’s. However, the limitations of the technique constraining coatings to flat rigid surfaces have restricted the design possibilities for these technologies. Curve coating is a new method to spin coat using dual-axis rotation, enabling the same advantages of common spin coating to be applied on curved surfaces. This new technique has the potential to unlock new opportunities in microfabrication and other coating-based applications.
Conference Manager: Amy Abel
+64 4 384 1511
amn11@confer.co.nz
www.confer.co.nz