title: Heba Bevan
text: # Heba Bevan
  
  Heba Bevan OBE is an electronics engineer and founder and CEO of tech start-up UtterBerry Ltd. She studied at the University of Cambridge and was awarded an OBE in 2018 for her services to innovation, technology and STEM education. She was awarded Vodafone’s Woman of the Year Innovation Award 2021
  
  Her work includes low-power smart sensor systems which monitor loads on structures and bridges and are used on civil engineering projects for smart construction. Utterberry is a spin-out from Cambridge University. The patented AI sensor technology has been employed by Crossrail, Thames Tideway and London Underground Tower Bridge and Forth Road Bridge
  
  UtterBerry offices and production are based in Leeds.
  
  