Stakeholders from industry and research organisations are invited to attend the competition briefing event for the latest funding opportunity as part of the ISCF Commercialising Quantum Technologies challenge.

This latest competition will award up to £30m to industry led projects aimed at addressing technological barriers to the commercial or industrial exploitation of quantum technologies in the UK. This in contrast to recent CR&D and FS competitions which focussed on developing products, services and components.

Projects should exploit second generation quantum techniques and focus on one or more of the challenge areas of:

• Connectivity
• Situation awareness
• Quantum computing

Projects must be collaborative, business led, and have eligible costs of £4m-£20m (with a maximum grant size of £10m).

This event is a must-attend for stakeholders that are interested in applying to the competition to hear the full scope and application process and ask questions of the Challenge Delivery Team.

This is the only briefing event that will be held for this competition. Not able to attend? This event will also be available via webcast and you can register to join online here.

Details on the competition scope are now available online here. The EOI stage of the competition will open on 28th October 2019 and close on 27th November 2019.

London Agenda

10:00 Registration

10:30 Welcome
Chris Jones, Deputy Challenge Director, Innovate UK

10:35 ISCF Quantum Programme
Roger McKinlay, ISCF Quantum Challenge Director, Innovate UK

11:00 Competition Brief – Commercialising Quantum Technologies Tech Projects
Chris Jones, Deputy Challenge Director, Innovate UK

11:35 Q&A - Scope

11:45 Break & Networking

12:15 Competition Process
Lydia Weir-Blankenstein, Portfolio Manager, Innovate UK

12:45 Q&A Session

13:00 Lunch & Networking

13:50 1:1s with Innovate UK

14:30 Close

Background: The Commercialising Quantum Technologies ISCF Challenge was launched in July 2019 by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). The ISCF provides funding and support to UK businesses and researchers. The fund is designed to ensure that research and innovation takes centre stage in the government’s Industrial Strategy.

The fund is being administered by UK Research and Innovation.

The Commercialising Quantum Technologies ISCF Challenge is an investment of £153m over 6 years.

Enquiries: If you have any queries, please contact KTN's Knowledge Transfer Manager, Quantum, bob.cockshott@ktn-uk.org, 07808 739946.