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AI for Services Podcast Episode 3: A conversation with Gavin Starks, CEO and Founder of Icebreaker One
News
04/06/2021

AI for Services Podcast Episode 3: A conversation with Gavin Starks, CEO and Founder of Icebreaker One

AI for Services has launched a podcast series to share the personal stories of the founders who are leading the development of the awarded projects. In the first four episodes, Astrid Ayel interviews the Enabling Data Access Competition winners.

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Future Flight Café: Transforming flight planning for the future aviation systems of systems
Event
23/07/2021 Online

Future Flight Café: Transforming flight planning for the future aviation systems of systems

Join us to hear about project Fly2Plan. A consortium of thirteen partners from across multiple sectors and disciplines is working to create a new model aviation data system-of-systems to enable aviation data exchange and allow new entrants in urban air mobility and autonomous operations to participate through plug-and-play.

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Future Flight Café: Towards an innovative drone medical delivery network
Event
16/07/2021 Online

Future Flight Café: Towards an innovative drone medical delivery network

Watch this recording to hear from project CAELUS where the team is designing a digital blueprint to assess the viability of an innovative drone medical logistics network. Moving towards trials in segmented and un-segmented airspace, this project aims to create an innovative logistic network to improve efficiencies in medical delivery which is scalable to a national level.

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Future Flight Café: UK's first remote low-carbon aviation test centre
Event
09/07/2021 Online

Future Flight Café: UK's first remote low-carbon aviation test centre

Join us to hear from the SATE (Sustainable Aviation Test Environment) project which will create the UK’s first remote low-carbon aviation test centre at Kirkwall Airport in the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

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Future Flight Café: Transforming off-shore wind farm inspection using drone swarms
Event
25/06/2021 Online

Future Flight Café: Transforming off-shore wind farm inspection using drone swarms

Join this webinar to hear from the consortia behind the ‘Dr-SUIT’ project. The team is developing an integrated communication system to enable single pilot, multiple drone inspection of off-shore wind farms. A novel battery and recharging system, including a novel, ‘swarm-aware’ battery health management system, will transform asset management. Heading towards live trials before the end of Phase II, the team is keen to engage with a range of experts including Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) operators, drone service providers with OWF expertise/focus, wind turbine/blade manufacturers and IoT specialists.

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Future Flight Café: New situational awareness technologies towards integrated UAV operations
Event
11/06/2021 Online

Future Flight Café: New situational awareness technologies towards integrated UAV operations

Join us to hear from the ISHIMANO (Integrated System for High Integrity Monitoring of Advanced-Air-Mobility Network Operations) project. This consortium is delivering innovative technologies to improve situational awareness of UAVs and their integration into air traffic management and unmanned traffic management. The project’s next stage is to operate the technologies to enable BVLOS and the team is keen to hear from prospective Phase 3 partners looking to establish commercial BVLOS flight operations.

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Mental health tech firm flourishes with Innovate UK backing
Case Study
02/06/2021

Mental health tech firm flourishes with Innovate UK backing

Innovate UK EDGE has helped a Bristol-based mental health technology company to revamp its leadership and marketing strategies and to secure two Innovate UK grants worth £135,000.

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Future Flight Fridays: The Role of Local Authorities in Future Flight
Event
25/06/2021 Online

Future Flight Fridays: The Role of Local Authorities in Future Flight

Join us to explore the role of Local Authorities in transport innovation projects. They are key to delivering the aviation systems of the future so find out how innovators can engage with them.

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The Future of UK Manufacturing and Supply Chain Infrastructure
Event
30/06/2021 Online

The Future of UK Manufacturing and Supply Chain Infrastructure

Manufacturing is a critical sector for the UK economy and this event will bring together speakers on this topic from both the Midlands and Scotland.

UK5G SMEs & Regions Working Group Seminar

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Designed for Ageing – Pre-Competition Workshop
Event
01/07/2021 Online

Designed for Ageing – Pre-Competition Workshop

This workshop will introduce a new competition from the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge for UK companies to develop innovations that help people as they age.

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