Tech and Innovation Summit: Supercharging Innovation into Action

Morning coffee break

Lunch break and exhibition area

Afternoon coffee break

To ensure the UK continues to pioneer innovation, and maintain its position as a global technology leader, our industry has many challenges that need to be tackled collaboratively. As outlined in the UK Science and Technology Framework, Future of Compute review and Quantum Strategy – investment, power consumption and availability, increasing compute demand and density, and the requirement to hit sustainability targets are together re-shaping digital infrastructure as we know it. Spencer Lamb will provide a perspective from one of the UK’s leading data centre developers and operators, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that our industry needs to address.

Registration

Closing remarks

Applied Innovation session 3: Metaverse technologies in Healthcare

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

This session will explore the future of AI, including the emergence of generative AI which has dominated discussion this year

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

This session will explore quantum technologies, and how the UK can encourage adoption of this nascent group of technologies

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

Innovation and the application of emerging technologies are empowered and enabled by the latest connectivity solutions: from dedicated high-capacity fixed lines, private 5G, RedCap solutions and LEO satellite links. In this breakout session, techUK’s Telecoms Programme will shine a light on the latest solutions making an impact for enterprise use cases across the UK. From advanced manufacturing, agri-tech, next-generation renewable energy provision and powering academic institutions, these connectivity solutions are the key underpinning technologies pushing the UK’s innovation journey on.

In this panel we will hear first-hand from the connectivity solution providers at the vanguard of Private Networks, the communications technologies they are deploying and the results their clients have seen since adopting private 5G, advanced wireless and satellite for their use cases.

We will discuss:

How the advances in communications technology is setting a bright course for future industrial connectivity – from 5G to Wi-Fi, WAN and high-capacity fixed connections

The ways in which solutions providers are helping their enterprise customers make the business case for investment in innovation

The standout benefits for adopting advanced connectivity across the UK enterprise and industrial settings

Pioneering space research in the UK

Many emerging technologies, from generative AI to quantum compute, will raise legal, social and ethical questions that will need to be addressed as we move from research to deployment. Responsible innovation helps manage the risks associated with new technologies, with the aim to take a proactive rather than reactive approach to preventing harm. The UK has a well-established and respected digital ethics community in the UK, but how do we ensure this community is enabling businesses and end users to be equipped with the right tools to put responsible innovation principles into practice?

Examples of best practice from across the UK digital ethics community where UK Government, civil society, academia and industry are taking proactive place on responsible innovation Understanding how to enable industry and UK tech sector to engage with the regulatory development Ensuring technical skills includes the development of business, commercial and socio-ethical skills

With world leading universities creating some of the brightest minds and most innovative ideas, the UK is well positioned to be the global hub of research and development. Yet, with an innovation ecosystem so globally intertwined, how can we continue to support and enable digital research and innovation to happen here in the UK? This session will discuss:

How to build STEM into UK education for a sustainable skills pipeline How can we support the UK’s university system to pioneer research and innovation? What governmental and institutional levers of research and innovation exist in the UK, and how can these be better positioned to bring next-generation research and development to application? What does the UK’s future in Horizon Europe mean for UK research?

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

techUK welcome

Networking drinks

Applied Innovation session 2: Stories from the delivery of ORCA’s 2nd quantum computer- engineering and applications

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

How can re-industrialization address the UK’s stifling productivity gap

Understanding how investment in to key infrastructure and skills can supercharge R&D

Exploration of international best practice, including centers of excellence where Government, industry and academia work together

A look at the Governmental institutions that power R+D, and how they can be best utilized

How HPC is riding the technology wave: from HPC& Exascale to ChatGPT to quantum machines in space….a conversation about how bleeding edge technologies can be useful for SMEs

Applied innovation session 1: Adopting AI and Low Code Technologies with Microsoft and RSM Fire Side Chat

The emerging technology sessions have been designed to traverse the latest advancements across emerging technologies, while highlighting the key opportunities deployment can unlock. It will show how industry, academia and government are working together to push forward innovative and exciting new discoveries, and set out what implications this might have for UK society and economy.

Virtual Energy System & POWERING WALES RENEWABLY