BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS DRIVING INNOVATION Cardiff, UK

11-12 October 2016

AGENDA 2016

CoInnovate 2016

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CoInnovate is a unique two-day conference that brings together world-

leading innovators and decision-makers in the spirit of collaboration.

Delegates across academia and industry, from start-ups to multinationals, will explore market-led opportunities to develop new technologies and products through collaborative innovation.

From Concepts to Clusters through Collaboration!

This year's event will take you through a stimulating journey, starting with a grand vision led by growth and working our way to highlight initiatives that are needed in realising this vision; from the importance of supporting SMEs and technology clusters, through to the effective tools, market-led opportunities and key technologies for enabling collaborative innovation that will drive growth across a number of sectors.

We are especially excited about the new Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult that will be coming to Wales! This centre will accelerate the development of next generation technologies underpinned by unique, key enabling materials.

We have made changes to the format of the highly anticipated Innovation Camp and Pitch Live! sessions to make sure you get the most out of these engaging activities.

Join us on 11-12 October as we look to drive growth through the effective convergence of unmet needs, collaborative innovation, novel technologies and creative communities!

Interactive Workshops Pitch Live! Exhibitions

Panel Sessions Inspirational Speakers Opportunities

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08:00 Registration Pick up your delegate pack and join other delegates for morning refreshments

08:45 Welcome

CoInnovate 2016 promises an engaging event that focuses on creating value from ideas through collaboration. The Conference Chair, Chris Meadows, will highlight the objectives of this year's event, followed by a warm welcome from Councillor Phil Bale, Leader of the City of Cardiff Council.

09:05 Market-driven wealth-creation from collaboration

Catapults play an important role in facilitating collaborative innovation and supporting regional clusters. With the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult coming to Wales, the session will outline key opportunities and the best practice in engaging innovators across supply chains in meeting market needs through collaboration .

David Rosser (Welsh Government), Dr Paul Zanelli (Transport Systems Catapult), Dr Phill Cartwright (High Value Manufacturing Catapult), Simon Andrews (Fraunhofer UK Research), Dr Andy Sellars (Innovate UK)

10:40 Networking break

11:10 Open Innovation Toolbox

Established processes and methods can be beneficial in ensuring that the outcomes of collaborative innovation lead to success. Our expert speakers will present some common methodologies and interactions that have proven to be effective in managing open innovation relationships and projects.

Tanvir Mufti (Venturebright), Rob Rolley (General Dynamics UK), Dr Jane Lynch (Cardiff University), Nick Crew (Airbus Group Endeavr Wales)

12:05 Innovation Camp: Meet the Challenges!

Focusing innovation on market/user needs can help to ensure that effective products and technologies have a potential market application. Leading organisations will pitch their market-led challenges for you to explore collaboratively with others. Dedicated Innovation Sessions across the two days along with useful tools, designed together with the international user experience and service design agency, Leadin will help you to frame your ideas quickly and effectively!

13:05 Lunch and networking

13:50 User-centric design in innovation

With technology and prototyping becoming increasingly accessible, those that embrace effective design principles are likely to stand a cut above the rest! The presentations and case studies in this session will help you and your team to consider design best practices whilst you explore market-led opportunities with other like-minded collaborators.

Thomas Gilliford (OI Engine), Harri Mansikkamäki (Leadin), Dr Peter Dorrington (PDR), Paul DeLooze (RTLS)

15:40 Networking break

15:55 Innovation at GSK: Dr Paul Castle

16:10 Entrepreneurship & Growth

There is a global focus on entrepreneurialism, with start-ups and SMEs being recognised as strong drivers of economic growth. In this session, our Pitch Live Panel will explore exciting initiatives, such as the Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme that was initially developed by MIT and has been successfully adopted in a number of countries world-wide to support SMEs in their journey of growth. We will also provide you with tools to start framing your ideas and solutions to the challenges presented earlier in the day.

Dr Jenna Bowen (CMD), Dr Carl Griffiths (Finance Wales), Gareth Jones (ICE Wales), Tanvir Mufti (Venturebright), Ashley Cooper (Catalyst Growth Partners)

18:05 Pitch Live! Awards 2016: presented by Avril Lewis, ESTnet

18:15 Drinks reception & networking buffet

Enjoy the complimentary food & drinks, network with other delegates and browse through the exhibitions on show!

Day One, 11 October 2016 We’re excited that a new Catapult focused on Compound Semiconductor Applications will be established to drive next generation technologies across a number of supply chains and will play an active role in building a technology cluster. Successful technology clusters need real opportunities, active involvement from the community and best practice to succeed, and we will be diving into these themes on Day 1. The Innovation Camp will allow you to explore opportunities with other innovators, academics and business leaders. Pitch Live! will return to CoInnovate, with pitches taking place throughout the day. The evening drinks reception and buffet will provide plenty of networking opportunities after an immersive discussion on REAP - a potentially game-changing initiative!

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08:00 Registration

08:45 Welcome

These are exciting times, as the UK Government has agreed a £1.2billion City Deal for the Cardiff Capital Region in partnership with the Welsh Government and 10 local authorities! Join us as we hear more about the Digital and Innovation Strand of the City Deal.

Kellie Beirne, Monmouthshire County Council.

09:00 The Autonomous Future

Products are increasingly becoming smarter and more autonomous. Are we a long way away from realising truly autonomous systems? Our speakers will separate the hype from reality and outline the challenges that lie ahead.

Dr - Ing. Rainer Rauh (Airbus Group), Chris Moody (Clear Vector Advisors), Prof Nigel Copner (University of South Wales)

10:15 Networking break

10:45 The Connected World

Society is facing significant challenges in pooling together the resources needed to deliver a welfare-state. Technology can help to ease the burden on the system through diagnostic devices, which rely on cutting-edge sensing technologies. We will explore the opportunities for technological advances and the challenges in developing end-to-end condition-monitoring systems.

Prof Ifan Evans (Welsh Government), Prof Adrian Porch (Cardiff University), Pete Stirling (Dashboard Ltd)

11:30 Innovation Camp

This is your chance to polish up your ideas! Be sure to use this time with your teammates effectively to work through the materials. Don't forget to build a mock-up to help your audience to visualise your idea!

12:45 Lunch and networking

13:30 Innovation Camp:

Time to test your ideas on the audience and panel for some valuable feedback with 3 minute pitches from each team. Be sure to hear about the other collaborative projects and find out if they are also relevant to your capabilities.

14:50 Networking break

15:05 Next steps: Building success & fostering growth

Now that we have come up with great ideas, our speakers will highlight best practice in moving these collaborative ideas forward towards commercialisation. We will hear an update on the Science and Innovation Audit and the Compound Semiconductor cluster initiatives that will position the region as a leader in enabling technologies.

Martin McHugh (Microsemi), Dr Neil Bradshaw (University of Bristol), Dr Wyn Meredith (Compound Semiconductor Centre), Paul Adams (Virgin Startup), Anna Bastek (Wolfestone), Caroline Thompson (NatWest)

16:15 Conference close

Day Two, 12 October 2016 We will explore the trends for a number of novel technology areas and draw out the challenges and opportunities along supply chains. These include the Factories of the Future, connected vehicles, sensors and condition-monitoring.

Continuity is key to collaborative innovation and in the afternoon, we will explore next steps in ensuring the ideas we have developed across the two days have a pathway to success. Starting with an update from the Science and Innovation Audit and moving towards the key initiatives in establishing a cluster on compound semiconductor technologies. We will also cover the impact of gearing R&D funding for start-ups and SMEs and look forward towards the initiatives in driving entrepreneurship in technology and manufacturing.

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Peace of Mind: Detecting anxiety through technology

Biosensors: Enabling automated monitoring without contamination

Leading Regenerative Medicine: Disruptive business models for competitive advantage

Your Device, Your Choice: High data rates for every seat

An Efficient Interface: Connecting design and assembly teams

Smart Power: Predictive solutions for load management

Need More Bandwidth?: Time to move to THz

Big Over Narrow: Meaningful Big Data over unreliable networks

The Autonomous Advisor: Self-learning application support

Super Vision: Real-time context through image-fusion

Smart Mining: Tackling declining ore grades

Fracking & Water: Minimising the trade of water for shale gas

Help the urban population reduce their transport footprint and enable digital, asset-light lifestyles

Create relevant, personalised and context-aware information

Increase user experience and perceived value of public transport

Innovation Camp—Challenges 2016 Products are becoming increasingly smarter, more connected and more efficient, as organisations across the world are looking to deliver a better experience to their customers by capitalising on the value of data. By sharing resources and aligning deep expertise along supply chains, collaborators are likely to deliver more disruptive solutions to real world problems.

A number of organisations, including Airbus Group Endeavr Wales, GE Healthcare, General Dynamics UK Ltd, Transport Systems Catapult and The Weir Group will share some of their challenges with you on Day 1 of CoInnovate, for you to explore these with other innovators and business leaders.

This is a great opportunity to network around a problem-space to better understand unmet needs and potentially build your capabilities into new products and technologies! Click on the links to find out more about the challenges.

If you have capabilities in IoT, Big Data, sensor technologies, imaging, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, hardware, design, systems integration, software, photonics and/or an understanding of the markets or the problem-space, please join us! Your capabilities may just be the key ingredient in solving these problems.

These are not easy challenges and the perfect solutions may not be developed quickly, but we do hope that the roundtable discussions guided by design principles will lead to exciting collaborative projects and create opportunities across a number of supply chains.

If you know of individuals across industry and academia that have the right capabilities to address these challenges, then play your part in building this community and get them to come to CoInnovate!

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Pitch Live! 2016 Start-ups and SMEs, with their agility and focus, lie at the heart of dynamic technology clusters, which is why CoInnovate aims to support this community in their journey to success.

At the end of each session on Day 1, a number of start-ups and SMEs will have 3 minutes on stage to pitch their technologies, ideas or capabilities. They may be looking for collaborative partners to take their technology to market, to grow their network or to connect with investors.

Join us for these exciting pitches and get involved in building a technology cluster by connecting these companies with other partners. Perhaps these companies have the key ingredient that will give you the competitive edge in your markets through partnerships —come to CoInnovate and find out!

SME Expo A number of start-ups and SMEs will be showcasing their technologies and capabilities across the two days. This is your chance to exhibit or find out if partnering with any of these organisations could have a positive impact on your business.

Any questions? Email the team at coinnovate@iqep.com!

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