Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme

Intro to the

Connected Digital Economy Catapult

Digital 2014, Newport10 June 2014

Dr. Maurizio PiluPartnerships Director

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The Catapult networkS

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Connected Digital Economy Catapult 4

• ‘A national centre to rapidly advance the UK’s best digital ideas to market’

• Set up by the UK’s Innovation Agency (Technology Strategy Board)

• Non-for-profit, based in London• Focussed on “data value chain”• Centre with critical mass

• Overtime 100+ technologists• £10m p.a. of core investment from government

The data value chain – our ‘field of play' 5

Collaborate > Unlock > Accelerate6

• Our role is to enable digital innovation by …

• …collaborating with partners to …

• …develop a portfolio of demonstrators, platforms & capabilities …

• …which unlocks clearly identified industry challenges in the data value chain

• … for the benefit of digital innovators

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Innovator challenges

• Integration & access to diverse data sets

• Privacy and trust

• Content innovation

• Next generation connectivity / IoT

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We collaborate with ….

• Startups and small businesses use our capabilities and platforms to drive new innovation; engage with our Innovator Centre; and share their story with others through our website

• Large businesses can connect with the UK’s brightest digital talent through our Innovator Centre; work with us on specific projects within our challenge areas; and participate in our industry secondment programme

• The research and academic community participate in our secondment programmes and collaborate with us on specific projects within our challenge areas

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How we accelerate ideas to market

We rapidly advance ideas to market by:

• Unlocking challenges that can speed up UK digital businesses

• Helping innovation clusters across the UK to connect via our Centre

• Showcasing exciting innovation by startups and small businesses in our Centre

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10Our innovator centre in EustonNational reach through clusters & partnerships

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Some of our projects

• Copyright hub (strategic)

• Open Health Data Platform

• City Scale open IoT demonstrator in Milton Keynes (strategic)

• Greater Manchester Data Sync project

• Trusted Data Accelerator (feasibility)

• Personal data programme (strategic)

• Connected Products Studio (feasibility)

• Environmental data + transport (pilot)

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Our activities with academia

• Centres for doctoral training

• Collaboration framework agreements

• Secondment programme

• Project specific collaborations (e.g. 5G centre)

• Cluster / LEPs links

• EU activities (we just joined the European Institute of Tech with UCL, Edi and Imperial)

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We’d love to ….

• Engage you in our centre launch season (Oct – Nov)

• Host events, innovation showcases, pitstops, …

• Establish links b’een Welsh clusters and the centre

• Project collaborations in our challenge areas

• Secondments into the Catapult

• Collaborative R&D activities (esp. EU)

• ….. and more ….

Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme

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Thank you!

@cdecatapult@ maurizio_pilu