
Digital Catapult Centre Brighton: Retail Innovation Group Meetup#1
Event Information
Description
The Digital Catapult Centre is about collaborative R&D and enabling breakthrough innovations. Following last month's introduction to Retail Innovation this follow-up group session will work with data insights into local and global problems identified from recent research.
Using a Knowledge Cafe format, collaborative groups will work with insights from two recent data sets. A survey of 134 global retailers and their views on IoT and data captured by the Business Improvement District’s current consultation exercise identifying the core needs of Brighton’s retail community.
The Catapult team will facilitate ongoing collaborations here at the Centre and introduce tools to help shape new propositions.
The event is due to run as follows:
4.00pm Arrival and Registration
4.30pm Welcome, Introduction & Vision
Jim Byford, Innovation Lead, Digital Catapult Centre Brighton
4.40pm Retail Innovation and Technology: Local Problems and Solutions with Retail Data
Knowledge Cafe Activity: Introducing short, medium and long term challenges facing Brighton’s Business Improvement District Members
5.20pm Break
5.30pm Group Discussions continue
6.10pm Wrap-Up
6.30pm Networking and beers
7.00pm Event ends
Do feel free to help us spread the word of this event and extend the invitation to colleagues, peers and also other businesses that you would like to collaborate with – the more opportunity for collaboration and idea generation, the better!
It’s free to attend and we’ll be providing beers, soft drinks and some snacks, so please do register for a place asap so that we have a good idea of who’ll be coming.
Hope to see you there, feel free to get in touch with any queries in the meantime.