Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme The Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC) Future Internet: Aligning Social and Technological Innovation Cambridge 28 November 2013 Dr. Maurizio Pilu Partnerships Director @maurizio_pilu @CDECatapult
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Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme
The Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC)
Future Internet: Aligning Social and Technological InnovationCambridge28 November 2013
Dr. Maurizio PiluPartnerships Director@maurizio_pilu@CDECatapult
Connected Digital Economy Catapult 2
• Set up by the Technology Strategy Board• Applied R&D&I centre in the digital economy• Non-for-profit, based in London, national
remit• Centre with critical mass to help UK
innovators, especially SMEs• Overtime 100+ technologists
• £10m p.a. of core investment from TSB
3The Catapult network
The digital economy
FAST MOVING
CONSTANTLY CHANGING
BUILD IT & THEY WILL COME
WONT WORK
GLOBAL
BEINGFAST
IS KEY
‘a few years ago a cloud was something in the sky, a tweet was something you heard in the garden, Skype was a typo and 4G was a parking spot’
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CDEC in 4 bullet points
• Develop a portfolio of openly accessible platforms & capabilities which address clearly identified industry challenges in the data value chain for the benefit of digital innovators
• Bring unique value by combining our neutral convening power, the agile and focussed way we build platforms & capabilities with the centre’s high density of critical skills
• Data & challenges & users coming together• Angles we are exploring with Future Cities Catapult• “Code fellows”• Open source platforms and toolkits• How to engage innovators beyond hackathlons• Interoperability / APIs • Next generation connectivity