Benefits of Participation

The Super Connect for Good provides a number of benefits for both applicants, runners-up and winners including:

- Recognition: Be recognised as one of our 42 Winners & Runners-up across the UK, Ireland and Europe to include on your website, marketing materials and social channels

- Exposure: Secure exposure for your company in both our local to European press coverage through mentions (winners) and through our guaranteed PR prizes with our media partners like Top Business Tech and HealthTech World
- Top 100 Innovation Showcase: Those identified by our Innovation Partners and Judges will be invited to pitch live to them at our Top 100 Innovation Showcase on 30th September 2021 to go head-to-head with the best in your respective innovation stream in the UK, Ireland and Europe
- Feature in our European Top 100 Industry Showcase Report 2022: If you are shortlisted by our Innovation Partners & Judges in our Top 100 Innovation Showcase you will feature in the report providing extended

- Access to Decision-Makers: Be super connected by the Empact Ventures team to potential partners, clients or funders with 3 free super connections for all applicants, 5 for runners-up and 8 for winners plus connect with our judges and partners in our event Expos
- Competition Prizes: We’ve made every effort to ensure that you receive prizes that genuinely support your business development (e.g. guaranteed pilots), funding (e.g. super connections to funders), exposure (e.g. PR) or support your challenges and team through our partners below.

Overall Winner Prize

12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience worth £40,000
Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure & exposure within global content series of blogs on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers)
Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites
5 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period
Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage.
‘Our Scale-up Journey’ headlined in our Tech for Good Top 100 which will get significant press coverage including with Sifted.eu like last year here

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Our Regional Partners for UK & Ireland

Our Regional Partners are based in the UK and Ireland who will be taking part in the Regional Judging and awarding prizes to support winners with their business challenges:

North of England (UK)

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: 2 Days of Market Research Resource (worth £1,000 + VAT)

Runner-up: 1 Day of Market Research Resource (worth £550 + VAT)

South of England

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: A free Strategic Analysis Session with a Board of 3-6 People (worth £500+VAT)

Runner-up: Guaranteed Place on OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits

London

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth £500 + VAT (See Example)
Runner-up: Guaranteed Place on OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits

Scotland & Wales

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Place on OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits
Runner-up: Guaranteed Place on OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits

Island of Ireland

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth £500 + VAT (Example)
Runner-up: Guaranteed Place on the OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits

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Our Regional Partners (Europe)

Our Regional Partners are based in Europe who will be taking part in the Regional Judging and awarding prizes to support winners with their business challenges:

D-A-C-H & Nordics

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Free pitch deck review and crowdfunding consultancy call with a 15% discount on fundraising fees.
Runner-up: Guaranteed Place on the OVHcloud Startup Program with €10,000 of Cloud Hosting credits

BeNeLuX

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth €500 (Example)

Runner-up: Super Connect Lite Membership by Empact Ventures with up to 25+ Super Connections (worth €1,000)

Southern Europe

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth €500 + VAT (Example)
Runner-up: Super Connect Lite Membership by Empact Ventures with up to 25+ Super Connections (worth €1,000)

France

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth €500 + VAT (Example)
Runner-up: Super Connect Lite Membership by Empact Ventures with up to 25+ Super Connections (worth €1,000)

Central & Eastern Europe

Winner: 12 Month Hays Rise Subscription Experience including Linkedin Live Podcast Exposure on Hays Linkedin Account (circa 5m+ followers), Digital Solution profiling on Hays.com & regional sites, 1 free recruitment hire (up to 120k salary) over a 12-month period, Access to Go1 Training Platform, HR-as-a-Service, VIP Access to events and content and press coverage
Winner: Guaranteed Founder Feature Press Coverage in Top Business Tech worth €500 (Example)
Runner-up: Super Connect Lite Membership by Empact Ventures with up to 25+ Super Connections (worth €1,000)

How it Works

Our Innovation Streams

These organisations will decide which Top 10 Applicants will pitch in our Top 100 Innovation Showcase & be featured in our European Tech for Good Report 2022:

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Our 2021 Judges

You can view all our judges across the First Round, Regional Judging, Innovation Judging and Virtual Final Judging below: