ILMC Tech Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT ON TECH

As ILMC goes virtual, hopefully for one year only, it will feature more presentations of new technology than ever before in the event’s history. Here, we preview six of the products and services that delegates can expect to learn about during the conference’s three-day schedule…

Hearby.com is a live music discovery platform that combines big data and anthropology to provide the most comprehensive collections of local music listings. The company uses AI, data cleaning and social matching to yield data on 4x more shows across 100+ cities in North America and the UK, with expansion to European and other global cities in 2021.

“We’re powered by the thrill of discovery and the joy of sharing with others.”

Hearby’s founders – serial data entrepreneur Gary Halliwell, and Ian Condry, professor of cultural anthropology at MIT – were frustrated by the difficulty of finding live music nearby and in cities they visited. They merged AI venue scraping with anthropology to connect people to local music: more people to more shows.

Hearby covers all neighbourhoods and scenes, and all kinds of venues – large, small, restaurants, brewpubs, drive-ins – to give people choice, and ultimately, the satisfaction of a great night out.

The company monetises through licensing its daily updated live-show data for interactive maps, browsing carousels, and calendar widgets.

Its customers include news, media, travel and entertainment companies. The company also works with partners to provide a cost-effective means of engaging passionate, diverse, and networked audiences, and to build communities around the love for live music.

GOODTILL POS

Goodtill’s POS solution offers the perfect platform to help businesses become Covid-secure and reopen safely and speedily. The company automates a whole host of processes within its easy-touse and cost-effective POS and has helped a number of big names on the way, including Printworks, Wembley and the O2 Arena.

Goodtill champions a range of features that will allow clients to streamline their operations and keep their music venues running safely with the Goodtill iPad-based point-of-sale system.

From stock management and reporting capabilities, setting up bespoke promotions and points-based loyalty systems to extensive product, staff and customer management, Goodtill states that it is all possible using its one-platform solution.

With the company’s GoodEats click & collect and table ordering service, clients can transform the way they take and manage orders, with remote payment processing all built-in. Goodtill’s system offers table and location ordering, as well as self-service, to help staff and customers socially distance with ease. The set-up is easy, and the developers says that integration of a GoodEats’ menu into an outlet’s website can take place in a matter of hours and can be carried out seamlessly, allowing clients to take their first orders the very same day.

NOQ

We’ve all been there. At a concert, a music festival, or a crowded outdoor event, and having a fantastic time… And then you need a drink. And your heart sinks. You know that it is going to be a painful and time-consuming roundtrip queuing up with hundreds, sometimes thousands of other people, to try and get your order in, and in the meantime, you’ve missed what you were there to see in the first place.

This is where NOQ comes in. The company has built a cashless and contactless mobile ordering app, connecting customers to vendors at events.

The NOQ app will lead to speedier transaction times, increases in vendor sales and reductions in queue times whilst enhancing customers’ overall event experience. Under the current climate, NOQ says its solution is going to help the events industry recover faster by allowing events to take place while following safety and distancing guidelines.

NOQ’s mission is to become the market leader in providing a seamless order management system for events across the UK and globally. The company will look to broaden the concept beyond just food and drinks into other areas such as merchandising, ticketing and parking.

Resysten is a Budapest-based company that manufactures a durable hygienic coating that protects surfaces from the spread of Covid-19. It eliminates the presence of harmful pathogens (including the novel coronavirus) by up to 99.9%, and is already in extensive use in Hungary’s public hospitals and passenger transport networks.

The company expanded its presence from one to 35 countries around the world throughout 2020, with high-profile clients including Audi, T-Mobile, Arriva, KFC and Metro stores. Müpa (formerly known as the Palace of Arts), one of Budapest’s best-known performing arts centres, was also coated with Resysten last year.

The product, which was developed in response to the SARS epidemic of 2003 as a way to combat Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), is the most advanced photocatalytic hygienic coating technology in the world today. Upon contact with light, the sprayed solution produces hydrogen peroxide, which prevents the presence of pathogens on any surface. It has been developed to integrate into any surface on a molecular level, meaning that it cannot be removed by conventional cleaning methods and so remains active for up to a year. These two key properties result in surfaces that protect users and their environment from the spread of contamination.

Additional materials are also available via https://bit.ly/Resysten_EPK BackTogether provides Covid-19 PCR and antibody test status. As going back to events is on everyone’s mind (performers, organisers, and most importantly, the fans ), the company knows that, in the short term, events will likely take a different form.

As social distancing measures relax further, ensuring the safety of everyone participating in an event will present new challenges to the industry. BackTogether enables the verification of a participant’s Covid-19 testing status to be confirmed prior to allowing entrance to a venue.

Built on Blockchain, BackTogether’s data is fully secure and private, belongs to the user, and can only be used for validation of the passport. What’s more, BackTogether is interoperable with other solutions that use the most popular standard for verified credentials.

BackTogether will be available as a module within the ComeTogether app or via the network as an add-on to existing ticketing apps via open APIs.

NOTETRACKS

Notetracks is an award-winning platform for music creators and collaborators to easily take notes, gather feedback, and share music, performances and any other audio/video content, in order to refine and produce their best work for its debut into the world.

The platform allows a user to get real-time feedback pinpointed directly on the media file itself. Whether the user is a musician, performer, or producer, Notetracks allows creative teams to work together without having to be in the same place.

The system allows audio or video files (MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV) to be draggedand-dropped from a desktop into the browser, or uploaded via Dropbox or Google Drive, also making it an ideal tool for anyone in the live-streaming sector.

Once the track is imported, users will be able to see the audio waveform visually and jump to specific segments quickly with a simple keyboard shortcut. While the track plays, users can insert time-stamped comments directly onto the track without interrupting the playback.

Notetracks also lets users download a PDF or text file with a report to document all the comments. The system allows users to share projects by simply entering the email addresses of collaborators and setting view or edit permissions. Those named collaborators can then log in, make their own notes, and reply to comments while uploading their own files for reference, with comments and notes appearing in real-time (like Google Docs, but for music).