Made Smarter Technology Accelerator - Prototype presentation event

Digital Catapult is the UK authority on advanced digital technology. Through collaboration and innovation, we accelerate industry adoption to drive growth and opportunity across the economy.We bring together an expert and enterprising community of researchers, startups, scaleups and industry leaders to discover new ways to solve the big challenges limiting the UK’s future potential. Through our specialist programmes and experimental facilities, we make sure that innovation thrives and the right solutions make it to the real world.Our goal is to accelerate new possibilities in everything we do and for every business we partner with the journey – breaking down barriers, de-risking innovation, opening up markets and responsibly shaping the products, services and experiences of the future.Visitwww.digicatapult.org.ukfor more information.

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Presenting the 14 cutting-edge concepts selected for the Made Smarter Technology Accelerator.

The Made Smarter Technology Accelerator is at the forefront of industrial innovation, it has been developed to pair manufacturers with technology companies so they can take advantage of advanced technology to radically alter, and improve, the way we approach manufacturing. Taking place online on 23 June 2021, the programme will proudly present the first phase insights and learnings for industry. You’ll hear directly from the Industry Challenge Owners and Tech Sponsors, and find out more about the challenges they face and how to overcome them. Joined by the 14 programme startups you’ll discover the industry-changing prototypes as they pitch the conceptual solutions developed through the programme. Designed for industry, made real by innovators.As we close our prototyping phase of the programme, the teams will have developed pioneering digital tools that help accelerate innovation into the sector and combat a specific challenge for their chosen Industry Challenge Owners: Babcock International Group, BAE Systems, GAF, Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), O’Neills Irish International Sports Company Limited, Safran Landing Systems, and Sainsbury’s. With representation from all seven challenge owners we’ll also be joined by Tech Sponsors Software AG and Verizon with focused and industry relevant panels chaired by well renowned leaders including Juergen Maier, Chair of Digital Catapult and Co-Chair of Made Smarter and Priya Guha, Venture Partner at Merian Ventures and Non Executive Director at Digital Catapult.Agenda15:00 - Welcome &amp; Introduction Jeremy Silver - CEO, Digital Catapult15:05 - Programme overview and objectives Justin Cross - Innovation Partner &amp; Programme Lead, Digital Catapult15:10 - Panel discussion with Made Smarter Technology Accelerator Programme industry challenge owners and tech sponsorChaired by Juergen Maier - Chair, Digital Catapult and Co-Chair of Made Smarter<ul><li>Austin Cook - Principal Technologist, Emerging Manufacturing Technology &amp; Systems, BAE Systems</li><li>Germain Forgeoux - R&T Manufacturing Program Manager, Safran Landing Systems</li><li>Martin Jackson - Head of Strategy and Product Management, Northumbrian Water Group</li><li>Charles Joel - Global IoT Success Director, SoftwareAG</li></ul>15:35 - Startups pitches Part 1<ul><li>Machine Intelligence</li><li>DIEMinnovation</li><li>Innvotek</li><li>Riscon</li><li>Pentiot</li><li>Metis</li><li>Total Control Pro</li><li>Zizo</li></ul>16:10 - Coffee Break16:20 - Panel discussion with Made Smarter Technology Accelerator Programme industry challenge owners and tech sponsorChaired by Priya Guha - Venture Partner, Merian Ventures and Non Executive Director, Digital Catapult<ul><li>Jim Sibson - Group Head of Research and Partnerships, Babcock International Group</li><li>Scott Reed - SVP Quality &amp; Manufacturing Services, GAF</li><li>Sarah Blanford - Category Technical Manager Produce and Horticulture, Sainsbury's</li><li>Anthony Judd - Managing Director, Verizon Business Groups UK &amp; Ireland </li></ul>16:45 - Startups pitches Part 2 <ul><li>Jetsoft</li><li>CAE Tech</li><li>Volatile</li><li>Zeta Motion</li><li>Ascalia</li><li>Singular Intelligence</li></ul>17:10 - Closing remarksChris Courtney - Challenge Director Manufacturing Made Smarter, UKRI17:15 - End

<h3>Why attend</h3>Presented by the Made Smarter Technology Accelerator industry leading partners, sponsors and cohort members the challenges and solutions range from increasing shelf-life and sell-through rate of products while reducing waste (Sainsbury’s) to product customisation – intelligent verification (O'Neills) and scalable artificial intelligence for products’ visual inspection (BAE Systems).Each company has been through a thorough programme of activities to further accelerate and refine their offerings and develop industry relevant digital concepts. Attendees will get a chance to:<ul><li>Hear from industry experts and leaders from a range of sectors</li><li>Listen to pitches from the most exciting startups working within the industrial sector</li><li>Learn from two focused panel discussions on Boosting UK Industrial Digital Technology capability and Building the case for investing in Industrial Digital innovation – led by Jurgen Maier and Priya Guha</li></ul>

<h3>Who should attend</h3>This event will be of interest to anyone working within or for the manufacturing industrial sector. In particular it will be of relevant to senior leaders within these sectors: <ul><li>Aerospace and defence</li><li>Automotive	</li><li>Food and drink</li><li>Rail and infrastructure</li><li>Construction</li><li>Utilities and energy	</li><li>Supply chain and logistics	</li><li>Health and pharmaceutical</li><li>Textiles</li></ul>

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