EVENT PROGRAMME

Overview

The Collaboration Nation Event Programme
The Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain event is focused on the winners from the Technology Strategy Board's fasibility studies competition launched in autumn 2009. It is relevant to everyone who is interested in innovation and technology collaboration in the digital field. The event programme has been designed with plenty of opportunity to make new connections and to discuss future collaborations.

Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain opens at 0830 and closes at approximately 1630 on Wednesday 31st March 2010.
 
Once you are registered to attend the event you will be able to manage your own diary of the day. Use the 'register' button to select the one-to-one meetings.

Agenda

Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain

0830 Registration Opens

0930 Welcome & De-risking Innovation and the Future of Commercial Collaboration
David Bott, Director of Innovation Programmes, Technology Strategy Board

0945 High Follow-up Potential Projects
Understand which projects among the Digital Britain feasibility study winners exemplify high follow-up potential; discover the particular problems they were trying to solve, their approach and the significant progress they made using the funds available to them.
Chair: Nick Appleyard, Digital Britain Programme Lead, Technology Strategy Board
Fred Homewood, CEO , Gnodal Ltd - Highly Efficient Ethernet Networks for Ultra-Fast Broadband Infrastructure
Giles Tofield, Head of Regeneration, Renaissance Southend Ltd  - iSouthEND
David Stewart, Provision Comms - Stadia Casting
Andrew Chitty, Managing Director, Illumina Digital - Tools for opening access to public film archives

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1130 Feasibility Study Elevator Pitches - The Deployment and Operation of Digital Infrastructure
Winning project team members pitch their projects for 1-2 minutes highlighting who they are and what they are now looking for to take their project findings forward.

Chair: Eddie Murphy, Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network

1215 Feasibility Study Elevator Pitches - Application and Services for Digital Britain (companies A - i)
Winning project team members pitch their projects for 1-2 minutes highlighting who they are and what they are now looking for to take their project findings forward.
Chair: John Cass, Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network

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1300 Networking Lunch
Over 30 winning projects will be exhibiting. This is your opportunity to meet and understand more about the people behind the projects, and to discuss future collaborative activities.

1400 Feasibility study elevator pitches - Application and Services for Digital Britain (companies i - Z)
Winning project team members pitch their projects for 1-2 minutes highlighting who they are and what they are now looking for to take their project findings forward.

Chair: Philip Hargrave, Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network

1445 Breakout sessions - attendees will be able to choose one of the following sessions:

1. Access to Public Services and Public Services Data
How can innovative SME's contribute to and create value in the digital delivery of public services?
Speakers from Technology Strategy Board and project winners will provide information on commercial collaboration opportunities
Chair: Andrew Tyrer, Leader - Network Security Innovation Platform, Technology Strategy Board
Dick Davies, Executive Producer, Ambient Performance Ltd - Visualize IT
Ian Anderson, CEO, Overlay Media Ltd - Smarter self reporting via location aware public Services
Martin Merry, Managing Director, Epimorphics Ltd - Semantic data exchange
Simon Sprince, Director, Focus Innovation Ltd - PBS-Tagger

2. Enabling Technologies for the Internet
In an increasingly open innovation ecosystem, SMEs will play an even stronger role than in the past. What opportunities lay ahead for UK SMEs to leverage the UK's world-class academic research, and taking it to adoption and market?
Speakers from the Technology Strategy Board and project winners will provide information on commercial collaboration opportunities
Chair: Zoe Lock, Lead Technologist - ICT, Technology Strategy Board
John Nolan, Co-Founder, First Mile Networks Ltd - Lightpaths on demand - an innovative approach to wavelength open access
Paul Sheppard, Chief Technology Officer, Tangentix Ltd, A method for delivering detailed 3D graphics in a compact format over the internet
Graham Peters, Consulting Director, Avanti Communications Ltd - Router extension for enhanced broadband performance
Jim Hutchinson, Business Development Manager, ClearSpeed Technology - Langstone

3. Application & services for Digital Britain
The UK has one of the strongest, most advanced and most complete digital ecosystem on the planet. What challenges and opportunities ahead are there for UK firms to generate the next generation applications leveraging this unique national asset?
Speakers from the Technology Strategy Board and project winners will provide information on commercial collaboration opportunities
Chair: Alex Stanhope, Lead Technologist - ICT, Technology Strategy Board
David Brain, Chief Technology Officer, Smart Grid Technologies Ltd - Agile energy service infrastructure for smart britain
Gavin Poolman, Director, Apollo Mobile Ltd - Secure pay-as-you-go mobile payment platform for users with and without credit cards
Jonathan Wetherall, Managing Director, Onteca Ltd - An app store for next generation IPTV platforms
Chris Jackson, CEO,  MetaBroadcast - Social discovery of long-form video content for the mass market

4. Deployment and Operation of Digital Infrastructure
The UK faces challenges and cost to upgrade and manage its digital infrastructure.  Can SME innovation make a difference in this space and if so, where?
Speakers from the Technology Strategy Board and project winners will provide information on commercial collaboration opportunities
Chair: Maurizio Pilu, Lead Technologist - ICT, Technology Strategy Board
Steve Morris, Director, Bath Labs Ltd - Low cost, next-generation internet infrastructure in houses of multiple occupation
Brian Lasslett, CEO, Powerline Technologies Ltd - Hybrid fibre powerline for economic provision of broadband communications in rural and remote areas
Patrick McDougall, Director, Nexus Alpha Limited -  Low cost solar powered data transmission systems for remote locations using modified WiFi systems and nZexus Alpha U
John Johnson, Director, Zap Corporation Ltd - Cost effective last mile delivery of IP Video by using an existing IP protocol in a completely new way

15:45 'The Journey' Panel Session
Two-thirds of commercial innovation stems from small business, yet one of the hardest tasks for a small business is to find experienced partners to help in exploiting their research. What are the best ways to collaborate with large business and the funding community in order to take your product to market? Confirmed panellists:
Nick Wainwright, Director of Open Innovation, Hewlett Packard Europe
Chris Eldridge-Himmers, Business Development Director, SME Technologies, Oracle
Jan Reid, Head of Enabling Technologies, Scottish Enterprise
Jon Kingsbury, Creative Economy Innovation Programme Director, NESTA
Tony Raven, Director of Research & Innovation Services, University of Southampton
Jonathan Page, Head of New Ventures, Imperial Innovations
Anne Glover, CEO, Amadeus Capital (Panel Chair) 

1645 the Technology Strategy Board - What Next?
David Bott, Director of Innovation Programmes, Technology Strategy Board 

1700 Event close