Accelerating Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Accelerating Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Raj Mack, Head of Digital [email protected]: 07823534981Twitter @raj_mack

Twitter @digibrum

Welcome

What We Do

Our objectives:To -Deliver and develop the smart city and digital agendas across the City and region -Provide a gateway and brokerage service between the public, private, and community sectors to support economic growth -Support business to gain digital skills capabilities-Establish an ecosystem to support business growth opportunities -Create an information market place to stimulate data driven innovations, applications and services

A ready made test-bed for innovation and experimentation

Talent Pool

One of the youngest populations in Europe- 46% under 30 years of age.

4 major universities and 11 key FE colleges- 97000 graduates across the region

Largest percentage of smart phone ownership

StartUp Britain 2014Top Entrepreneurial Hotspots

#2Birmingham

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#techbrum“I want to make Birmingham a really exciting and important part of what we do. This is just the start but make no mistake, if you're interested in new skills and digital innovation, this is the place to be.” Tony Hall, BBC Director General

CENTRE OF£110BILLIONREGIONAL ECONOMY

5,300 DIGITAL COMPANIES 75 MINUTES FROM

LONDONMOST CONNECTED REGIONAL CITYAT THE CENTRE OF THE UK

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DIGITAL OFFICE SPACE 25% CHEAPER THAN LONDON

2,800 COMPUTERSCIENCE STUDENTS

MORE START UPS THAN ANY CITY OUTSIDE LONDON

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Business Birmingham is the city’s strategic inward investment program.businessbirmingham.com/tech

26,000 DIGITAL WORKFORCE

TOP UK REGIONAL CITY FOR QUALITY OF LIFE

The tech ecosystemStartup support

#2Birmingham

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Birmingham Data Factoryhttps://data.birmingham.gov.uk: search by organisation, group, keyword

: CKAN platform with open API

Creating the Opportunities - Data available

Currently – 20 datasets:•Business rates, Energy consumption, FOI responses and datasets that Government requests e.g. spent above £500, charity funding•Access to traffic management data on requestSoon to be released:•Cooperation with Centro •Opticities and Open Transport Network projects: location data for parking, public transport, traffic info•Social housing stock

Examples of data driven applications

Birmingham Heat Island

- Sensor array – 200 sites-Collecting real time heat variations and using predictive analysis to model heat variations Smart Road Weather Forecasting Systems

- Collaboration b/n Amey and Aston University - Deployment of weather stations -Road sensors -De-icing strategy – through thermal mapping -Re-modelling gritting routes and risk assessment

Providing a support mechanism

Challenges

- 26% of SMEs lack

the skills required to utilise data

- 27% of SMEs do not understand what big data is

Grasping the Opportunities of Fiware

Key messages Grasp the opportunities Lets see the development of 100s of new start ups and applications Enjoy the day!

Raj MackHead of Digital Birmingham Twitter @raj_mackTwitter @digibrum