Department for Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) Cyber Security Pre-Accelera...

The Cyber Security and Resilience team (part of the Digital Economy Unit) in the Department for Culture, Media and Sports is keen to support early stage innovation in the cyber security sector through the development of a new cyber security pre-accelerator programme. The programme will:

• Support increased exploitation of cyber research, help identify new ideas, and facilitate development of entrepreneurial skills.
• Help to transform early stage ideas into viable propositions and potential new businesses.
• Maximize the ability of new cyber ideas to receive the support they need to enable them succeed
• And ultimately provide a pathway connecting early stage ideas into more mature incubators and accelerators.

Funding of up to £250,000 is available towards the setup of the programme and organisations with innovative ideas and a track record of running pre-accelerator programmes that can help support the cyber security ecosystem are encouraged to apply.

Tenders will be invited from on or about 24 August 2015 and to assist potential applicants, the KTN will be hosting a pre-procurement briefing event on 28 July 10:30am - 15:00, at which potential bidders and other interested parties will have the opportunity to find out more and ask questions about the proposed programme.

AGENDA

10.30 - 10.45 am Registration and Coffee
10.45 - 11.00 am Welcome by Siraj Shaikh (KTN)
11.00 - 11.30 am Poppy Wood (CyLon)
11.30 - 12.00 pm Elisabetta Zaccaria (CyberY)
12.00 - 12.45 pm Lunch
12.45 - 13.30 pm Pre-accelerator Briefing by Austen Okonweze (DCMS)
13.30 - 14.30 pm Q&A and closing