Speakers

In its recent IoT report*, IDTechEx states, "Key are micro controllers, potentially billions a year, with sensor interfaces and wireless interfaces". Ilika's solid state rechargeable lithium ion batteries have fast charge and discharge rates, high energy density and low leakage currents, which enable autonomous perpetual beacons combining energy harvesters, microprocessors, transmitters and sensors.

 

*www.IDTechEx.com/iot and www.IDTechEx.com/wsn

Graeme Purdy has been the CEO of Ilika since its foundation in 2004. He led the company through two successful rounds of venture funding before floating it on the London Stock Exchange in 2010.

 

Prior to joining Ilika, Graeme was COO of a high-technology company in the Netherlands and before that worked internationally in a variety of technical and commercial roles for Shell. Graeme holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD business school in France. Graeme is a Chartered Engineer and a Sainsbury Management Fellow.

Ilika's patented, high throughput techniques enable functional materials for energy and electronics applications to be made, characterised and tested up to 100 times faster than traditional methods. Ilika Technologies Ltd has commercial partnerships with international blue-chip companies. Its high throughput vapour deposition platform has enabled the development of advanced electrode and solid state electrolyte materials for lithium-ion batteries in a far quicker and more efficient way than traditional materials discovery processes. Ilika develops solid state thin film micro-batteries consisting of stacked cells that result in superior gravimetric and volumetric energy density.