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Heat Pump Ready: How to apply to Stream 2
2022-01-13 14:30 - 2022-01-26 15:30 (Europe/London) | Online
Following the opening of opportunities under the Heat Pump Ready Programme, this session will detail the application process for Stream 2
The Heat Pump Ready Programme forms part of BEIS’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), which aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes through the 2020s and 2030s. A key solution for decarbonising homes, heat pumps will be critical for meeting the UK’s legally binding commitment to achieve net zero by 2050.
Full details of the funding opportunities available under Heat Pump Ready are detailed on the Heat Pump Ready webpage.
The Heat Pump Ready Programme is made up of three, separate streams:

Workstream 1: Solutions for High-Density Heat Pump Deployment.
Workstream 2: Developing Tools and Technology.
Workstream 3: Trial Support and Learning.

Sign up to this online event for guidance on how to apply for Stream 2 of the funding.
All questions associated to the eligibility, scope and assessment criteria for this funding opportunity should be submitted to heatinnovation@beis.gov.uk as responses will be included in the formal Q&A response to the competition.
Please note a recording of this event will not be available post-event. Copies of the slides will be made available shortly after the event.

Heat Pump Ready: How to apply to Stream 1
2022-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Following the opening of opportunities under the Heat Pump Ready Programme, this session will detail the application process for Stream 1
The Heat Pump Ready Programme forms part of BEIS’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), which aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes through the 2020s and 2030s. A key solution for decarbonising homes, heat pumps will be critical for meeting the UK’s legally binding commitment to achieve net zero by 2050.
Full details of the funding opportunities available under Heat Pump Ready are detailed on the Heat Pump Ready webpage.
The Heat Pump Ready Programme is made up of three, separate streams:

Workstream 1: Solutions for High-Density Heat Pump Deployment.
Workstream 2: Developing Tools and Technology.
Workstream 3: Trial Support and Learning.

Sign up to this online event for guidance on how to apply for Stream 1 of the funding.
All questions associated to the eligibility, scope and assessment criteria for this funding opportunity should be submitted to heatinnovation@beis.gov.uk as responses will be included in the formal Q&A response to the competition.
Please note a recording of this event will not be available post-event. Copies of the slides will be made available shortly after the event.

Female Founders Access to Finance ~ Information Session
2022-01-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Techstart Ventures and Women in Business will partner together to invite Females across Northern Ireland, with an innovative Business Idea, to apply for a Grant of up to £35k to help kickstart their Business.
If you want to apply for the fully funded Female Founders grant competition? Come along to this information session to find out all that you need to know on why and how to apply!
This event will be free of charge for all to attend, as the perfect opportunity to ask any questions you may have on:
– How to enter
– The competition schedule
– Grant application criteria
– How the grant can/ cannot be used
– The next steps after a successful application!

Directed Energy Weapons science and technology future roadmap
2021-12-16 13:00 - 14:15
This webinar will discuss Dstl’s Future Kinetic Effects research programme, covering scope, opportunities, and how to work with us.

Dstl’s webinars are designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises work with the defence sector. They are free to attend and you do not need to have experience working with Dstl or in defence.

Sign up to hear from our experts discussing Dstl’s directed energy weapons science and technology future roadmap. The session will include:

Scope of the programme and priority areas for future research and funding

Opportunities to get involved

How to work with us

Levelling up: what is it and will it work?
2021-12-16 12:45 - 13:45 | Online
Boris Johnson has set ‘levelling up’ the UK as the mission for his government, but few in Whitehall or the country can explain exactly what it is, how it will be implemented and what success looks like.
Tackling regional inequalities lies at the heart of the Conservative Party’s re-election hopes, but relies on the implementation of a complex series of policies across national and local government – so does the UK have the will and the money to see it through?
With the imminent release of a white paper attempting to answer these questions, the Institute for Government welcomes Neil O’Brien, the minister for levelling up, to explore levelling up with Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor of the Financial Times and author of Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England.
The pair will be in conversation with IfG director Bronwen Maddox, discussing Sebastian’s road trip through parts of England that voted Conservative for the first time in living memory and Neil’s work on producing the white paper and defining the policies that are the core mission of this government.

Quantum Challenge Cultivation event
2021-12-15 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
This is a briefing on the next Quantum ISCF Funding Competition and the progress of the NQTP Quantum Hubs. This event will share advance information on the next ISCF Quantum competition expected to launch in Jan 2022. It will be preceded by a short 15 min talk by each of the four ISCF Quantum Hubs.

Business Model Innovation for Disruptive Technologies
2021-12-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
The InterTradeIreland All-island Innovation programme aims to promote and encourage innovation across the island of Ireland.
During the seminar Prof. Jonatan Pinkse will explain how business model innovation can help in bringing disruptive technologies to the market.
Based on his recently developed circle framework, he shows how you can use a combination of tactics to let customers see all the different benefits that disruptive technologies might bring to them:
• Introducing the circle framework to show how business model innovation can be a catalyst for technological innovation.
• Using business model innovation to overcome initial hesitation of customers to adopt disruptive technologies
• Presenting three tactics for business model innovation: compensating, enhancing and coupling tactics
• Applying the circle framework to the cases of machine learning in healthcare and graphene for desalination
• Explaining how the circle framework can be used to reframe your value proposition

Seminar Running Order
1000: Welcome and Introduction
1005: Business Model Innovation for Disruptive Technologies
1040: Q&A
1100: Close

About the Speaker
Jonatan Pinkse is Professor of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship and the Executive Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.
His passion is innovation and sustainability. He is a regular speaker on topics related to strategy and innovation for net-zero and sustainability, business model innovation for disruption, managing the green transition, and sharing platforms.
In his research, Jonatan analyses how firms make strategic decisions to create a sustainable economy and deal with tensions between issues and actors. He investigates opportunities and barriers for firm adoption of disruptive and sustainable technologies from cognitive, organizational, and institutional perspectives.
Jonatan has authored more than 60 scholarly and practitioner articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, California Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. In 2020, he was included in the prestigious Highly Cited Researcher list.
Before moving to Manchester, he held positions at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and Grenoble Ecole de Management. He is also deputy/associate editor for the journals Organization & Environment and Business & Society and has edited numerous special issues.
In his spare time, Jonatan is a keen ultrarunner, exploring the fells of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, sometimes getting lost on the way. But that’s part of the joy.

Decarbonisation Déjà Vu: What can recent consumer behaviour change tell us?
2021-12-14 13:00 - 14:15 | Online
From seatbelts to smoking, there are a wealth of examples of significant behaviour change in our recent past. What can we learn from them when it comes to decarbonising homes? With a series of short presentations on insights into the consumer mindset, this event looks at how consumer behaviour change has happened in other sectors and the impact of peer influence on the adoption of new technologies.
This event is the third event in the Making the Switch Towards Cleaner, Greener Homes event series.

High speed and hypersonic science & technology
2021-12-14 10:00 - 11:15
This webinar will discuss Dstl’s Future Kinetic Effects research programme, covering scope, opportunities, and how to work with us.

Dstl’s webinars are designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises work with the defence sector. They are free to attend and you do not need to have experience working with Dstl or in defence.

Sign up to hear from our experts discussing Dstl’s Future Kinetic Effects research programme, focusing on high speed and hypersonic science & technology investment to support future defence capability. The session will include:

Scope of the programme and priority areas for future research and funding

Opportunities to get involved

How to work with us

A Q&A with Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci and guests
2021-12-13 15:45 - 17:30 | Online
In June 2021, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Office for Science and Technology Strategy (OSTS) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), with Sir Patrick Vallance taking up the new role of National Technology Adviser (NTA). RAEng will host Sir Patrick for a keynote speech introducing his new role and the OSTS to the research and innovation community, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A.
This event is the start of an ongoing exchange between OSTS and the research and innovation community on UK strategic advantage, what it means for research and innovation, and the challenges and opportunities it presents.
This event is hosted by the National Academies: the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society.
Programme

3.40pm
Zoom opens

3.45pm
Welcome and introduction
Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering

3.50pm
Keynote speech
Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci, National Technology Adviser and Government Chief Scientific Adviser

4.10pm
Panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by Sir Adrian Smith PRS, President, Royal Society

Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci
Dr Flic Gabbay FMedSci, President, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and Senior Partner, transcript
Professor Rana Mitter OBE FBA, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
Dr Ilana Wisby, CEO, Oxford Quantum Circuits

5.20pm
Closing remarks

5.30pm
End of event

Innovation in Social Enterprise
2021-12-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Lisburn Enterprise Organisation Ltd, 6 Enterprise Crescent, Ballinderry Road, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, BT28 2BP, United Kingdom
An introduction to social innovation, explaining how social enterprises can add value to their communities and to wider society.

About this event

Social innovation is growing rapidly across the UK, and it will be critical to how businesses and social enterprises can solve social and environmental challenges and enable all businesses to focus on the triple bottom line: profit, people and planet.
What is driving this growth is that current solutions are not hitting the mark. Investors, government, and civil society are emphasising the need to produce better solutions, and this is a good thing for humanity and a huge economic opportunity too.
This workshop looks at how social innovation relates to both private sector business and social enterprise and the opportunities that are available to create transformation change in communities addressing social and environmental issues as well as sustaining business growth and profit.

Roger Warnock is an award-winning social innovator with over 25 years in social innovation, social tech, and creating social impact. Listed as one of Nesta’s and the Observers Top UK New Radicals for his innovative design and social enterprise work. He is an experienced mentor for start-ups in the Tech4Good space, expert in co-creation and experienced in building a business and raising investment. He is internationally renowned for his social innovation and co-creation work working with some of the world’s leading organisations such as the UNDP where he has designed and delivered the co-creation strategy for the Social Innovation Platform focusing on a range of digital and technology prototypes in Asia and Eastern Europe. He is a Churchill Fellow, Clore Leadership Fellow, Hammamet Fellow and Fellow of the RSA.

Levelling Up
2021-12-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Online
Open Innovations and The Royal Statistical Society are collaborating on a project that will aim to use events, open discussion and suggestions to develop a prototype visualisation for ‘levelling up’.
For the launch event, the organisers will be presenting a showcase of speakers who will talk about the work that already exists and what is needed to make it better. The event will run from 9AM – 12PM featuring talks followed by live Q&A with speakers including:

Andy Haldane, Permanent Secretary to the Levelling Up Taskforce
Neil O’Brien, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State TBC
Stian Westlake, CEO RSS
Tera Allas, McKinsey
Tom Bridges, Leeds Office Leader, Director Cities Advisory, Arup
Tom Forth, Head of Data, Open Innovations (formerly ODILeeds)
Nancy Hey, Executive Director, What Works Centre for Wellbeing
Jodie Levy, Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Alan Reiss, Director of Strategy, Communications and Policing
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Cities

The RSS recently responded to the Treasury Committee inquiry on equal recovery post-pandemic, expressing concern that current data is not up to the job and calling for a rethink of what data the government is collecting.
The term ‘levelling up’ will be more familiar in gaming culture than in politics but it became a core part of political speech and decision-making in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. You might know what it means in a game, but what does it mean for the UK?
With no solid definition, ‘levelling up’ could mean something different to everyone, and with no official ‘levelling up’ dataset to work from, there isn’t a way to currently track progress or keep things accountable. Open Innovations will be leading a project to explore ‘levelling up’ from a Northern perspective, by working in the open, inviting discussion and suggestions, and developing a prototype visualisation with open data at its foundation.
What open data will we use? Well, this is where you come in…
The project will start in November 2021 and finish in February 2022, with three key stages and events that accompany them, plus opportunities for people to contribute their feedback, suggestions, data sources, etc.
Open Innovations uses a method of rapid innovation to work in a radically open way to produce results quickly and efficiently. Our process is purposely initially informally unstructured but ultimately productive to allow for free communication, knowledge exchange, change and action. Please use this document to share any thoughts, links, resources and questions.
The event will take place virtually and be live-streamed to our website here – but to join in & ask questions we ask you to sign up to be able to access the Airmeet platform.

Industry Space Days 2021 - The Conference Edition
2021-12-07 08:00 - 2021-12-08 17:00
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the space community to attend its virtual Industry Space Days (ISD) event on 7 – 8 December 2021. Participants can register as of early October.
The ISD is organised by the ESA SME Office to foster cooperation between different actors in the entire space sector. The 2021 edition will have a special focus on “Commercialisation”.
Key elements of this year’s ISD include:
➔ keynotes and panel discussions with contributions by ESA, industry, industry associations and institutional partners
➔ ESA presentations and workshops about business opportunities and future activities
➔ a virtual exhibition with ESA and industry booths and the possibility to engage with future partners
➔ networking opportunities for the space community, including 1-on-1 meetings, industry speed-dating sessions and pitch presentations
Attend the ISD2021 and join Europe’s space community online
The event is open to entities from ESA Member States, Cooperating States and Associate States.
Participation is free of charge.
The ISD will be hosted on the platform Let’s Get Digital (Chrome browser on a computer/laptop required).

AICON 2021
2021-12-03 08:00 - 2021-12-04 17:00 | Titanic Belfast, 1 Olympic Way, Queen's Road, Belfast, Belfast, BT3 9EP, United Kingdom
Northern Ireland’s premier conference on artificial intelligence, AI Con returns to face-to-face business this year with a hybrid event on Friday 3 December.
As the adoption of AI expands into all areas of our lives, and the business and societal opportunities and challenges become ever more apparent, this ground-breaking conference addresses core issues of the technology for a range of audiences: general, business and specialist.
The event, which is now in its third year, brings together world-leading technology professionals and business leaders to examine how AI is changing our world and the opportunities and challenges that presents.
In-person attendance will take place at Titanic Belfast and will feature some of the top figures in the field, with other leading professionals streaming in from across the globe.
The themes from this year’s event, which hosted 450 attendees in its first year and 800 at the virtual event last year, include:
– Applied AI: Targeted primarily at a general audience, Applied AI looks at existing, mature technology that can be deployed today and examines case studies on where these are adding value and inspiration for people and their organisations to start their own AI investigations.
Chaired by Kathryn Harkin of Allstate NI and Rachael Bland of Kainos
– AI Next: The AI Next track will be focused, primarily, on a technologist audience, this track will look at emerging AI technologies and approaches that, while not yet mature, may play an important role in products and solutions of the future. Come to this track if you want to get a headstart in your career, on the competition or just want to be challenged and inspired by the next generation of AI.
Chaired by Austin Tanney and Tom Gray of Kainos
– Business of AI: Designed for a business audience, Business of AI looks at how AI can challenge existing business models, create entirely new ones and debates what “AI Startups” need to know in this burgeoning space.
Chaired by Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media and Tom Gray of Kainos.
Attendees are asked to note that strict Covid precautions will be in operation at the in-person event which will be limited to 200 people. Attendees must be double vaccinated and proof of vaccination will be required for entry.

COP26: Where do we go from here?
2021-12-01 17:30 - 18:30 | Online
The COP26 Climate Change conference brings the leaders of the world together in the UK, in the most important meeting since Paris in 2015.This event, held 2 weeks after the conference has concluded, will reflect on progress made at the conference, and ask what next for the UK.
This event is dedicated to the memory of the Earl of Selborne. John Selborne served in many roles in science, technology and the environment over many years, including (amongst many others) Chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Chairman of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Information Foundation, Chancellor of the University of Southampton, President of the Royal Geographical Society, Chairman of the Agricultural Research Council, and a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
The event is being organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology on behalf of several organisations that John Selborne worked with over the years.

Speakers

Professor Sir Dieter Helm
Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford

Professor Ian Boyd
Professor of Biology, University of St Andrews

Baroness Young of Old Scone
House of Lords

Professor Sir Charles Godfray
Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Participation is possible both in person (at the Royal Society in London) and online (via Zoom).

SBRI - Decarbonisation and energy - 3 Phase 1 projects
2021-12-01 12:30 - 14:00 | Online
Information event for 3 x SBRI Phase1 projects with NI Water and NI Housing Executive

SBRI brings together government challenges and ideas from business to create innovative solutions. This information session will provide details of three new invitations to bid for projects with NI Water and NI Housing Executive exploring energy recovery from waste water treatment; hydrogen logistics and the decarbonisation of NIHE homes.
The session will be informal, with short presentations on the SBRI process, and presentations from NI Water and NI Housing Executive on their projects.
The tender documentation is available from https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do
For more information about SBRI projects in Northern Ireland click here
NIHE SBRI: http://matrixni.org/job/sbri-using-intelligent-systems-for-the-affordable-decarbonisation-of-homes/

Connections Café: Support and Networking Event
2021-12-01 10:00 - 12:00
Our next Connections Café will be held on Wednesday 1st December

Connections Café is our series of SME innovation support events that explore developments and opportunities in the built environment and mobility sectors that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. They offer support and guidance to growing businesses to help them bridge the gap between new innovations and commercial success.

We welcome all SMEs and businesses who work within these exciting sectors.

To find out more about Connected Places Catapult events please visit our website.

Beyond Glasgow: What impact will COP26 have on Europe’s green dreams?
2021-11-25 16:00 - 17:15 | Online
During the first half of November, international leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26, the UN climate conference. The meeting was identified by many as critical to determining whether the world can realistically meet the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and thereby mitigate the increasingly catastrophic effects of climate change. As signalled by Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen, “the EU will bring to Glasgow the highest level of ambition”. Yet it remains to be seen if others will follow, including its own member states, and commit to join forces and resources in a common approach.
Either way, the COP26 outcomes will be followed with keen interest by European research and innovation communities. Will COP26 deliver a major boost for the Green Deal, with its technology-driven transformation of industry? Will it provide a new framing and direction of travel for Horizon Europe, with 35% of its budget committed to climate-related topics? Will it unleash a new wave of climate innovation financing? And will it open more doors to international cooperation and alliances, both scientific and governmental, in pursuit of solutions that will make a measurable difference?
In this public, livestreamed debate, Science|Business will bring together leading figures from the worlds of policy, science and industry to reflect on the outcomes from Glasgow, and to discuss their implications for European science and technology in the months ahead.

WES Virtual Student Conference
2021-11-25 08:00 - 2021-11-26 17:00 | Online
This year’s WES Virtual Student Conference will explore the theme of ‘Serving Society’, the main theme for 2021. WES will be showcasing some of the remarkable work engineers are doing to serve the societies in which they live, hearing first hand how engineers began and developed their careers, and offering a range of practical advice, tips and support for students in all disciplines.
The event offers a range of virtual networking lounges and booths for you to visit during the conference breaks for a fuller and richer conference experience.
Hear from influential speakers such as:

Dr Karen Donaldson (Chair), Project Manager, Robotics SuperLab, University of Edinburgh
Professor Hua Dong, Professor in Design, Dean of Brunel Design School, Brunel University London
Caitlin McCall, Engineering Doctorate Student, Swansea University and icmPrint
Mara Tafadzwa Makoni, Association of Black Engineers (AFBE)
Dr Larissa Suzuki, Data/AI Practice Lead, Google
Amelia Lewis, Performance Engineer, McLaren Racing
Kathryn Jennings, Senior Quantity Surveyor, CityFibre
Klara Svedberg, Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation, Ball Corporation
Maria Sabatini, Engineering Manager DSP, Dialog Semiconductor
Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister, Digital, Science & Tech

Ask the engineers: Post-COP26 - what have we achieved and where do we go from here?
2021-11-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
PUBLIC EVENT
It is hard to under-estimate the importance of COP26 for reaching global agreement on decarbonisation pathways and financing packages that match the urgency and scale of the climate crisis. In the wake of COP26, our final Ask the Engineers panel will review what has been achieved at the summit and whether it has helped to accelerate progress towards a just transition to net zero emissions by 2050.
The engineering profession can offer solutions, but must work ambitiously and collaboratively to drive change. Our crucial offering to this monumental challenge relies on engineers being engaged alongside policy makers, economists and the public.
Has COP26 set the UK on a decisive pathway to net zero?
Speakers

Chairperson: Alok Jha, Science and Technology Correspondent, The Economist
Professor Nilay Shah OBE FREng, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
Dame Joanna da Silva DBE FREng, Director of International Development, Arup
Sinead Obeng, Chair, Energy Institute Young Professionals Council and Regulatory Affairs Adviser, Gazprom Marketing and Trading
Rachel Skinner FREng, President, Institution of Civil Engineers and Executive Producer, WSP UK

Supported by:
Arup as the technology partner of the Ask the engineers series.
Tickets
This event is free of charge but registration is required. After registering, you will receive an email that contains further details on joining the online event. If you have any questions, please contact Amy Stratton, Events Manager at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Engineering Zero
This event series is part of the Academy’s campaign Engineering Zero, which aims to bring the engineering profession together to advance engineering’s contribution to net zero, working in partnership with the National Engineering Policy Centre and our global networks. More information about the campaign can be found here.
Recording notice
Please note this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.
Accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team at your earliest convenience so that necessary arrangements can be made.

UKAuthority AI & Bots4Good 2021
2021-11-24 11:00 - 2021-11-26 12:30
Artificial intelligence and automation are moving to the fore in public service delivery

Are automation and artificial intelligence core to the future of our health and public sector?
During the pandemic automation, or Robotic Process Automation (RPA), was deployed by many across local government and the NHS to automate the tsunami of new tasks related to covid testing and vaccinations. It’s reliability and efficiency has played a starring role and has much to bring to the sector as we move forward.
Meanwhile from intelligent automation to machine learning and artificial intelligence we are exploring new ways to visualise and use data to gain insight into the impacts of action – or inaction – on our world.
With the power to free time, release scarce resources and supercharge innovation, the question is, should these be specialist skills or embedded as foundational tools for the future of public services?
This event is free to attend for the public sector and accredited for five hours CPD.
Please register using your public sector email. Please note that registrations from personal email addresses may be rejected.
Speakers and agenda
The agenda for this event will be finalised shortly. Contact Helen Olsen Bedford if you are interested in speaker or sponsorship opportunities: helen@ukauthority.co.uk
For a flavour of this virtual event visit last year’s AI & Bots4Good 2020
Who should attend?
All those involved in developing or implementing RPA, intelligent automation and artificial intelligence to help improve outcomes for our citizens and patients, including, but not limited to, NHS, Local Authority and Central Government Chief Information Officers, Chief Digital / Data Officers, Data Scientists / Analysts, Heads of and Seniors of IT and Automation, Assistant and Chief Executives, Members, Heads of and leaders in Customer Services, Social Services, Environmental Services, Transformation or Change.
Registration
UKAuthority has full editorial control of this event thanks to support from our partners. By registering for this event you agree to the sharing of your name, organisation, job title and work email address with the UKAuthority editorial team and partner organisations hosting this event. If you do not wish this information to be shared, please let us know direct by emailing: sian@ukauthority.co.uk

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Forum
2021-11-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
The Research Forum is a highlight of the Academy’s research activities. It showcases the world-class engineering research funded through the Academy’s wide range of programmes. This year, the Research Forum will be a virtual event and will be moderated by Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng FLSW, Chair, Research Committee and Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield University.
The event will consist of a mix of keynote talks from current awardees and alumni from across the portfolio of Academy’s research schemes. Delegates will have an opportunity to ask questions and interact with the speakers.
Programme

5.30pm
Welcome and introduction
Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President, Royal Academy of Engineering

5.40pm
Overview of the Academy’s research programme
Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng FLSW, Chair, Research Committee and Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield University

5.50pm
Research Awardee talks

Professor Eleanor Stride OBE FREng, Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Dr Oliver Payton, University of Bristol
Dr Carolina Font-Palma, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hull
Professor Daniele Faccio FRSE, Professor of Quantum Technologies, University of Glasgow
Dr Michael Jennings, Associate Professor, Swansea University
Professor Tong Sun OBE FREng, Professor of Sensor Engineering, City, University of London

6.55pm
Closing remarks
Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng FLSW

7.00pm
End of event

Tickets
This event is free of charge, but registration is required.
After registering your place, you will receive an email that contains login details to join the online event.

Resources for gender balance and inclusion
2021-11-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join this online workshop from the Royal Aeronautical Society to discover more about the WIAAC online resource hub and hear from the people who contributed to the wide range of resources available to alll women working in the industry.
Hosted by Caroline Arnott, Business Adviser from Invest NI and one of the creators of the hub, you will gain a chance to understand how the hub works before breaking out into workshops:

The benefits of Felixible Working – hosted by Graeme Young, Senior Adviser and Collective Concilliator at ACAS East Midlands
Gender equality at work: strategies for Change – hosted by Linsey Millen, Policy and Development Manager at Close the Gap
The Alta Mentoring Scheme – hosted by Prf Sue Durbin, UWE Bristol Business School and alta founding partner
RAeS Careers in Aerospace resources – hosted by Rosalind Azouzi and Nick Davis, RAeS Education, Skills and Diversity Team

AI Lab Skunkworks: Using AI to identify tissue growth from CT scans with George Eliot Hospital
2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join AI Lab Skunkworks to learn how they have been experimenting with using AI to identify tissue growth from CT scans with George Eliot Hospital.
CT scans are used in the detection and understanding of disease. Radiologists currently manually compare two CT scans, taken at different dates, to see whether a patient’s disease has improved, deteriorated or remained unchanged.
This 12-week project investigated the AI techniques that could be applied to the problem and sought to provide a proof of concept (a feasibility study) about whether it was possible to identify organs and growths, report on any changes and highlight areas of concern to the radiologist.
The AI Lab Skunkworks works on demonstrating the potential of AI through proof-of-concepts and upskilling the workforce through a knowledge-sharing model. We help healthcare organisations apply AI to their problems through rapid, agile, iterative projects. By running an open call, we help develop proof of concepts through a 12 week process usually helped by a supplier. We’re excited to present the results of our last project.
Join us for this webinar to learn more:

About whether AI could be used to identify features in a CT scan and automatically align images to provide radiologists with a quick, trustworthy support tool that would improve early detection and diagnosis of growths and improve patient outcomes.
Learn more about the current problem radiologists face,
The AI technique the Roke team used.
Challenges faced and lessons learned through this project.

Reaching net zero – is the tax system ready?
2021-11-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
How we are taxed will be crucial to how government pays for net zero. It can use the tax system to incentivise sustainable choices by businesses and consumers as well as disincentivise harmful ones. But government revenues will also fall as people and businesses adapt their behaviour to reduce carbon emissions, with the shift to electric vehicles set to eliminate fuel duties.
So what changes are needed to ensure the tax system raises revenue to fund public interventions, redistributes the costs of getting to net zero, and shores up the tax take as fuel duties decline?
This event will take place after a busy autumn of net zero strategies, a budget and COP26. It will ask how the government should adapt the tax system to reach net zero and whether the budget was a missed opportunity, look at the steps being taken in other countries, and set out how to overcome the barriers – political and otherwise – to reform.
The panel to discuss these issues will be:

Rt Hon David Gauke, Head of Public Policy at Macfarlanes LLP and former Financial Secretary to the Treasury
James Murray MP, Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change
Amanda Tickel, Head of Tax & Trade Policy for Deloitte UK

The event will be chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.

Immerse UK x Imagination Virtual Production Series
2021-11-22 10:00 - 2022-02-23 17:00 | Online
Between November 2021 and February 2022, Immerse UK and Imagination will be joined by industry experts in a series of panel discussions and thought-leadership pieces exploring the impact of virtual production and real time content production, each from a different perspective.
Join the organisers as they explore virtual production through three different lenses, including;
The Future of Content
The benefits and impact of using a real time workflow to create content.
The Future of Live Experiences
The emerging advantages, and challenges, of using real time content for live experiences.
Digital Transformation in real time
Exploring what is required to embrace realtime technologies and workflows into your organisation.
About Virtual Production
Virtual Production is more accurately described as real time content production; The process by which digital objects and environments are generated in real time using video games engines such as Unreal and Unity. The same technology that immerses you in living, breathing, photorealistic gaming worlds, is now being used by filmmakers, storytellers, marketers and even product designers, opening up limitless creative possibilities.
About the Series
This series aims to demystify the technology and dig into the practical applications, and structural, business and cultural impact of this incredible new world, which is and will continue to transform industries in much the same way that cloud computing and the Internet before it.
Hear from industry experts and thought leaders at the forefront of Virtual Production, as they guide you through the latest techniques and possibilities in this exciting new space.

Venture Creation: Biotechnology and Healthcare
2021-11-19 17:00 - 2021-11-20 19:00 | Online
Join our Biotechnology and Healthcare cohort, sponsored by AstraZenca, and play a dynamic role in helping to tackle global health challenges.
Are you a potential founder with an idea or application in one or more of the following areas:

A novel biological target?
Therapeutic and research technologies?
Digital health including AI and connected data sets?
Diagnostics and any transformational healthcare solutions?
Genome driven drug discovery and application?

Or do you have the passion, skills and expertise to work with a potential founder to develop a founding team that can take an idea or application and begin the process of creating a new venture with the potential to deliver a solution to one or more of these health challenges?
The Venture Creation programme matches great ideas with exciting talent; and provides a springboard for founders and team members to work towards creating:

Early-stage ventures orientated towards transforming the future for the better
Early-stage ventures with demonstrable potential when applying to larger accelerator programmes or with the capacity to directly explore opportunities for going to market and attracting investment
Founding teams built on common values and culture
Robust and supportive networks in the entrepreneurial ecosystem including a peer cohort of dedicated founders.

Whatever your contribution – as a founder or a founding team member – this is your opportunity to be part of an innovative team working towards solutions with the potential to advance modern health care, tackle global health inequalities and improve life quality and expectancy.
Participation in the programme will help you develop your capacity for future innovation in addition to an entrepreneurial mindset that will support you throughout your career choices.
Bring your ideas and talents to Venture Creation: Biotech and Healthcare and watch the possibilities emerge!

Getting Over Gas: Taking the hassle out of the switch to low carbon heating
2021-11-18 13:00 - 14:15 | Online
‘Confusing’, ‘time-consuming’ and ‘painful’ – that’s how many people who’ve made the switch to low-carbon heating describe the process. What products, services and business models could take the hassle out of decarbonising homes? Join Nesta’s A Sustainable Future mission Director, Madeleine Gabriel and a panel of expert speakers as they discuss how we can make it easy for everyone to understand their options, find out what’s right for their homes and take action.

This event is the second event in the Making the Switch Towards Cleaner, Greener Homes event series.

5G in Health and Social Care - Webinar Series
2021-11-18 - 2021-12-07 | Online
In 2020, UK Healthcare spend accounted for 12.8% of GDP, £269 billion. The NHS alone employs 1.6 million people, treating millions of patients and supporting further millions of citizens in need of help and guidance. Significant injections of additional Government funding were required to help adapt service delivery models and meet increased demand for services related to the pandemic.
Amid Covid-19, the health and social care sectors have introduced new and innovative ways to operate safely and efficiently—yet new challenges have emerged related to treatment delays, on-going infection risk and increased demand on services such as mental health and wellbeing.
5G has the potential to support innovation in these areas and across the sectors as a whole: facilitating more efficient and effective ways of working. Globally, developed economies share these challenges while emerging economies continuously face extremely challenging conditions and ongoing shortages of skilled workforce, further enhanced by pandemic fallout. Health and Care service delivery has seen an acceleration towards community services (treatment and management away from hospitals) meaning increased reliance on data and communication systems both in wireless tech and wired connectivity formats.
5G has great potential to replace and enhance such connectivity and much more besides. It may prove to be a key platform to underpin the innovation in adjacent technologies and in ‘best practice’, which will become necessary to build sustainable health, care (and increasingly wellbeing and preventative) service designs for the future.
This series of events will be of interest to anyone involved in contemporary health and care service design or delivery.

Constructive Conversations: Regenerative
2021-11-17 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Engineers Without Borders UK presents the Constructive Conversations series. A space to discuss, challenge, and listen to some of the most pressing issues that must be interrogated to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering.
During this session, EWBUK explore one of the principles of globally responsible engineering: Regenerative. To actively restore and regenerate ecological systems, rather than just reducing impact.
This event will feature a panel discussion, with speakers from all areas of engineering and beyond who can provide their insight. They will then facilitate an interactive discussion to allow attendees to explore how they can put the principle into action.
The session will be facilitated by Engineers Without Borders UK Change Maker and incoming Executive Director of KDI, Joe Milligan. The panellists he will be joined by include:
Olivia Sweeney, an environmentalist and one of Bristol’s Black and Green Ambassadors, a project that explores the intersection of climate and racial justice by connecting and celebrating diverse community action for the environment.
Diego Almendrades, is an engineer and social entrepreneur with a passion for holistic management and ecosystem restoration in the Dry Forest of Peru.
Dan Smith, is a sustainability professional with over a decade of international experience. He is currently leading the development of a new digital venture for environmental planning and permitting in the European offshore wind sector.
