Weather Safe Ltd, start-up based in Tobacco Dock, was honoured to have been invited at the Reception for the U.K. Technology Industry held at Buckingham Palace, organised and promoted by the Duke of York.

Francesco Liucci, co-founder and Marketing and Sales Director at Weather Safe Ltd, represented the company at the Reception which has been an occasion gather entrepreneurs from across the country to celebrate tech success and innovation in U.K.

The attendees were welcomed in the Music Room, the Blue Drawing Room and the Picture Gallery where astonishing paintings by Caravaggio, Canaletto and Van Dyck among others, gave even more splendour to the Royal Residence.

Francesco, along with the other guests, had the unique opportunity to shake hands with Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Later on the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, together with the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent joined the guests in the Picture Gallery. Francesco had also the chance to say few more words about Weather Safe Ltd and the work undertaken in the coffee sector to the Duke of Edinburgh who approached him in the room and asked about the company he co-founded.

Mobile app provides forecasts for Rwandan coffee farmers

Technology is great! It helps you do stuff you never thought you would be able to and in quite a short time.  In the sphere of agriculture technology has helped improve the quality of seeds and enable farmers easily access extension services and increase their productivity. Rwandan coffee  farmers are  set to  get  a boost  in the  fight  against  coffee rust with the creation of a mobile app created  by a startup incubated at  ESA in the  UK. The  app  will enable the   coffee farmers  protect and improve their crops  by providing  highly localized weather  forecasts helping them make the best  decisions at the right time. The hyper local forecasts can alert farmers to   changes in rain patterns and any disease threat.  The weather safe coffee farmer edition app can run on multiple mobile software like Apple ios, Android and Blackberry.

For more information: https://www.innovateuk.org/-/hackathon-success-for-weathersafe

 http://phys.org/news/2014-03-mobile-app-weather-rwandan-coffee.html