Cohort Pitches from the Innovate UK GeoAI Festival - Build and Pitch Programme

The top teams of the Innovate UK GeoAI Festival cohort pitch their novel solutions to real-world challenges set by Innovate UK and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for the chance to win tailored Commercialisation Credits for SAC’s Space Commercialisation Engine valued at up to £80k per winning team. As part of this programme, each team will have participated in the accompanying Sprint Event and 6-week prototype development and pitch training sessions delivered by Innovate UK and partners between January and March 2026. The solutions you will hear about are expected to utilise foundation models, Agentic AI, Geo embeddings, multimodal AI, Natural Language Processing and/or large language models (LLM) in answer to these challenges: - Harnessing GeoAI for a Resilient and Sustainable Agri-Food System - Next-Gen Spatial Planning: GeoAI Solutions for Land, Ocean, and Climate - Unlocking Nature-Based Markets with EO & AI