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Don Dhaliwal, Conigital, Lead Partner @ICAVcluster
Latest News
Technological Transformation Enabling the Future of London Smart City
Smart city initiatives can be measured under several channels, like new mobility solutions, autonomous readiness, digitization, sustainability, logistics performance, policy and regulatory frameworks, and transportation landscape and vision. The city and its authorities are actively addressing need-of-the-hour challenges while focusing on longer-term sustainable goals following the Mayor’s vision. Read More
Porsche Engineering highlights ADAS, AV and EV advances
Since its acquisition of the Nardo Technical Centre (NTC) in 2012, Porsche Engineering has been steadily updating its capabilities and currently uses the site for a variety of test programs, including the development of AD and ADAS systems. According to the company, testing of autonomous driving functions at SAE Level 4 (fully automated driving under specific conditions) are now part of everyday life at the NTC, however, continuous development of the NTC itself is also required. Read More
Daimler’s Torc Robotics picks Amazon as cloud provider for self-driving trucks
Daimler AG unit Torc is developing level 4 autonomous technology where the vehicle operates itself under specific operating conditions, which Daimler Trucks believes will fundamentally change the trucking and logistics business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) will provide engineers with tools to design tests and run simulations. Read More
GM Completes Test Track for self driving cars
Engineers at the Canadian Technical Centre (CTC) can officially begin putting their “code-to-the-road” – right here in Canada – on the newly completed CTC McLaughlin Advanced Technology Track (CTC MATT). While the track is now operational internally, an official grand opening event with external audiences is being planned for early spring, pending COVID-19 restrictions. Read More
BlueBotics’ ANT navigation drives autonomous vehicles over 10 million kilometers
ANT stands for “automation navigation technology” and has been installed in vehicles used for applications ranging from warehousing and manufacturing to commercial cleaning services, ultra-violet disinfection and more. ANT navigation is popular with manufacturers and end users of AGVs, automated forklifts and AMRs, since it simplifies and shortens vehicle installation times as well as providing flexible, accurate and user-friendly operation. Read More
MCNEX, Korea’s Most Reputed ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Camera Maker Showcases New Solutions at CES 2021
As the era of autonomous driving emerges, the automotive camera technology of MCNEX is more relevant than ever. The company specializes in manufacturing the camera module for ADAS & autonomous vehicles. During CES 2021, MCNEX has showcased three autonomous driving related solutions. The unveiled Tri-Focal camera sensing system. Read More
Waymo begins testing autonomous vehicles with riders in San Francisco
After successfully opening Waymo One as a public driverless ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Waymo is beginning to test autonomous vehicles with riders in San Francisco. The company shared that one of its major goals has been for its driverless vehicles to be robust enough to handle the complexities of San Francisco’s roads. Read More
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Member Requests
Conigital are searching for beta testers and early adopters of our product suite. If you would like to be involved in our Driverless vehicle and MaaS trials. Please register your interest here
Featured Events
February 23th, 2021 – Ready for electrification (R4E) is a series of themed virtual events developed specifically for UK manufacturers that are currently supplying or have an interest in supplying to the transport electrification sector. Businesses are very welcome to attend all four events or select only those which they think are most relevant for their business future goals. Register Here
February 24-25th, 2021 – AI FESTIVAL. Suffolk is one of the world’s most prolific locations for patented AI innovation. Therefore, this inaugural event will be broadcast virtually from BT’s famous Martlesham research and development facility. Taking place online at www.aiglobalfestival.com and accessible globally, the ticketed, two-day event brings together a range of sector specialists to share their experiences and forecasts for the future in a series of inspirational keynote talks, workshops, ‘fireside chats’, and technology demonstrations. Register Here
February 25th, 2021 – Connected Roads and Vehicles: A Next Generation Mobility Workshop. This workshop is intended to identify project opportunities that connect leading edge academic research with the immediate problems facing local and state government, private industry, and entrepreneurs working in transportation and mobility infrastructure and solutions. It is the second in a series designed to meet future mobility challenges and opportunities, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Register Here
COVID 19 EVENT NOTICE
Following recent developments with the global pandemic relating to COVID-19. A number of events are being canceled, deferred or being made online. Please check directly with event organisers to the state of your event.
Upcoming Events
Ready for electrification (R4E)- Micro-Mobility: February 23th, 2021 – Ready for electrification (R4E) is a series of themed virtual events developed specifically for UK manufacturers that are currently supplying or have an interest in supplying to the transport electrification sector. Businesses are very welcome to attend all four events or select only those which they think are most relevant for their business future goals. Register Here
AI for Services on Tour: February 23th, 2021 – Calling innovators working in accountancy, law, insurance and financial services firms and investors interested in projects shaping the future of the professional and financial services sector. Join AI for Services on a road trip around the UK to discover the innovation taking place in the professional and financial services sectors. Register Here
AI FESTIVAL: February 24th -25th,2021 – Suffolk is one of the world’s most prolific locations for patented AI innovation. Therefore, this inaugural event will be broadcast virtually from BT’s famous Martlesham research and development facility. Taking place online at www.aiglobalfestival.com and accessible globally, the ticketed, two-day event brings together a range of sector specialists to share their experiences and forecasts for the future in a series of inspirational keynote talks, workshops, ‘fireside chats’, and technology demonstrations.Register Here
New Full- Fibre Network: February 24th, 2021 – This new service will enable connectivity to Cambridge’s Science and Research parks and pave the way for High Performance Compute (HPC) and AI collaboration across Europe. Cambridge is globally significant and the ability to collaborate with and between businesses and the parks on which they reside is critical. The event will showcase the collaboration between Light Blue Fibre, bandwidth infrastructure provider euNetworks, and the UK Innovation Corridor’s most advanced data centre, Kao Data. Register Here
Safety Tech Innovation Challenges: the next steps: February 25th, 2021 – This session will review issues, discussions and next steps from across the four thematic workshops held in November, December and January:. Diversity, inclusion and fairness in safety tech. Safety tech – approaches to understanding audience needs, Safety tech – community moderation and management, Privacy, data and legal issues in safety techeve UL, Based on these, we’ll prioritise the areas on which we’d like to focus, and agree key deliverables and milestones. Register Here
Connected Roads and Vehicles: A Next Generation Mobility Workshop: February 25rd, 2021 – This workshop is intended to identify project opportunities that connect leading edge academic research with the immediate problems facing local and state government, private industry, and entrepreneurs working in transportation and mobility infrastructure and solutions. Digital transformation, accelerated by COVID-19, creates an additional layer of complexity in considering how goods and services “move.” Register Here
How can understanding the past help inform the transition to net-zero?: February 25th, 2021 – The transition to net-zero will undoubtedly involve massive technological change, but tightly wrapped up in the process are myriad social, behavioural, cultural, and economic changes. It is easy to get caught-up in the drive for change, but how do we take a step back and look at the transition in the context of our history and the kind of future we seek? In many ways, we’ve been here before. In this session, we will hear from panellists with an interest in the transition to net-zero. Register Here
Innovate Local – South East: March 8th, 2021 – This event is for anyone interested in learning about the latest innovation support on offer both locally and nationally. You will find out about the latest opportunities to pioneer new innovations and connect with other partners and investors across the southern region. There will be different sessions and workshops each day. When you sign-up, you will be able to choose the sessions that you’re most interested in. Register Here
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COVID 19 Grant & Support Information
COVID-19: Government guidance for employees, employers and businesses
This guidance also provides details of support available to businesses including:
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Deferring VAT and Self-Assessment payments
- Statutory sick pay relief package for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and other Grants
- New lending facility from the Bank of England to help support liquidity among larger firms
Funding Calls & Opportunities
IETF energy efficiency and decarbonisation studies, Spring 2021- Organisations can apply for a share of up to £40 million to carry out feasibility and engineering studies into energy efficiency and decarbonisation technologies for industrial processes. This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations. Read More
IETF deployment of energy efficiency technologies, Spring 2021- This competition aims to support the commercial roll out and permanent installation of technologies at industrial sites. This is the second round of the IETF Phase 1 competition. In this strand you must be an industrial business of any size to apply. You can apply on your own or in collaboration with other organisations. Your project must take place at a manufacturing site or data centre in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and be led by the operator of that site. Read More
Farming Innovation Pathways (FIP) – industrial research – The aim of this competition is to support the development of novel innovations to develop and support a productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural sector. Your proposal must engage with farmers, growers or producers to develop farm-focused solutions. These solutions must solve the short to long-term challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions. Read More
Commercialising Quantum Technologies: germinator projects round 1 – UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million for high risk, high return, quantum technology projects with defined commercial outputs. This funding is from ISCF. The aim of the competition is to stimulate the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK through the development of early-stage quantum technology opportunities. Read More
ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Demonstrators – EoI – The aim of this competition is to address widely known problems in relation to plastic packaging for consumer products. Your proposal must include significant industry investment.This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. Innovate UK expects to invest in up to 3 practical demonstrators at the full stage competition. Read More
Farming Innovation Pathways (FIP) – feasibility studies – The aim of this competition is to support the development of novel innovations to develop and support a productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural sector. These solutions must solve the short to long-term challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions.” Read More
Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2021 to 2022, round 1 – This new partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner will recruit 1 or 2 graduates (known as ‘associates’) to work on the project. Read More
SBRI Competition rail demonstrations: first of a kind 2021 – This competition is part of a larger ‘first of a kind’ demonstrator initiative, on behalf of DfT, to accelerate innovation in the UK rail sector and enable technologies to be readily and efficiently integrated into the railway system. This competition is the fifth in the first of a kind portfolio. Read More
UKRI: Open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19 – Proposals are invited for short term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. There is no closing date – proposals can be submitted at any time. Read More
Right On Time: Automating Military Logistics – DASA is seeking to identify innovations that can deliver a step change in military logistics capability across the Maritime, Land and Air domains. Read More
Cyber security academic startup accelerator programme year 5-phase 1: Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of up to £800,000 to join the cyber security academic startup accelerator programme (CyberASAP). The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £800,000 in innovation cyber security projects coming from an academic research base. The aim of this competition is to identify the most promising commercial opportunities. Your proposal must include the area of your research, the problem that you are solving and your proposed solution. Read More
SBRI : Improving Hip Fracture Outcomes Using Data, phase 1: Organisations can apply for a share of £160,000 inclusive of VAT to develop a solution which will improve quality of care and outcomes for hip fracture patients. This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by the Scottish Government through Health Innovation South East Scotland. The aim of the competition is to improve outcomes for hip fracture patients by developing a system using routinely collected health data and data-analytics techniques. Read More
Innovate UK Smart Grants January 2021: Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. Smart is Innovate UK’s ‘Open grant funding’ programme. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £25 million in the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas. All proposals must be business focused. Read More
Commercialising Quantum Technologies: feasibility studies round 2: The aim of the competition is to advance the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK. This funding is from ISCF. This advance is achieved through the investment of up to £7 million in innovation projects which address one or more of the following technical challenges: connectivity, situational awareness, computing Read More
More funding can be found here
Featured Jobs
University of Warwick: Senior Project Manager – This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to contribute to a world-leading University and work with a well-established project management team to manage a range of technology-enabled projects. The Information and Digital Group provides a range of essential information technology services to support the learning and teaching, research, administrative and commercial activities of the University. Apply
University of Warwick: Imaging Specialist – The postholder, funded through a Wellcome Multi-user equipment award, will provide expert-level hands-on technical and user support for lattice light sheet microscopy. The appointee will need to combine enthusiasm and careful attention to detail with adaptability. We seek an individual with good interpersonal skills, a responsible attitude and prior experience of advanced optical microscopy. Apply
u-blox: Customer Quality Support Engineer – In this role you will be responsible to ensure customers’ satisfaction by addressing their requests in a qualitative and timely manner. You will be part of a multi-site, multi-disciplinary team in a global organization that considers quality as a core distinctive value of our products and services provided to our customers worldwide. You are a professional who does not compromise on quality and whose mission is to enable the organization to prevent, address and solve any quality issues raised by your customers. Apply
KTN: Administrator (London)- The administrator position contributes to and supports the organisational objectives of KTN by coordinating the Directorate’s functional activities; including: meetings and travel. Currently, during this extended lockdown period, this position is based from home. After the extended lockdown period, the postholder will be based out of our London Office. Apply
KTN: Administrator (Edinburgh) – The administrator position contributes to and supports the organisational objectives of KTN by coordinating the Directorate’s functional activities; including: meetings and travel. Currently, during this extended lockdown period, this position is based from home. After the extended lockdown period, the postholder will be based out of our Edinburgh Office. Apply
University of Warwick: Senior Business Analyst – This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst to contribute in shaping a newly expanding team of Business and Process Analysis experts. The role involves identifying process and IT improvements and issues and, where appropriate, coordinating activities to ensure services are adapted to meet current and emerging needs. Working with established IT standard processes (BCS, PRINCE2, ITIL). You will establish effective working relationships at a strategic level, influencing the customer strategy and corresponding service strategies. Apply
MediaTek: Graduate 5G RF SOC Verification Engineer- While developing next generation RF SOCs for 5G and beyond, it is an excellent opportunity for a talented graduate who is interested to commence their career in design verification. As 5G RF SOC Verification Engineer, you will be working as part of our highly experienced RF design team, which has an outstanding track record of delivering innovative RF products. Apply
Conigital: Full-Stack Developer – Reporting to the Team Lead, you will take responsibility for developing key aspects and functions that form the backbone of our product portfolio (ConOP™). This includes development at different Technology Readiness Levels, writing functions to analyse data sets, develop prototypes releases of software (for pilots to prove concepts), and “glue” systems together to integrate different business applications. You will support technical review and have a passion to design, develop and implement quality software solutions to be deployed at scale. Apply
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Top Jobs
Immense Simulations: Product Manager – Highway Assignment Modelling – As Technical Product Manager you will be responsible for leading the delivery of pilot-programmes with early-stage clients, transferrable product. You will use your experience of the transport modelling sector and ability to deliver projects/solutions to enhance our product management capabilities, working with our engineering and product teams to find and implement solutions to technical challenges. Apply
WMCA: Business Analyst – Digital and Data- You’ll support Lead BA; this role profile sets out the details of this exciting new role, but what’ll make you succeed is, not only the technical skills which are a given, but the softer skills. The way in which you’ll quickly engage with the business to understand what they need, and help to develop the right digital solutions. Being proactive in communicating with, and influencing, stakeholders is just as crucial. Apply
WMCA: Internal Communications Manager – You will be based at the heart of the organisation in the Chief Executive’s Office but will work corporately and closely with our communications team and other teams across the organisation. You will be responsible for developing our new internal communications and engagement strategy and our intranet, leading on internal communications campaigns, delivering content for our regular updates and briefings for staff and evaluating the impact of internal communications. Apply
Conigital Group: Software Engineer – Reporting to the Tech Team Lead, you will take responsibility for developing key aspects and functions that form the backbone of our product portfolio (ConOP™). This includes development at different Technology Readiness Levels, writing functions to analyse data sets, develop prototypes releases of software (for pilots to prove concepts), and “glue” systems together to integrate different business applications. Apply
Conigital Group: Cloud Architect – Reporting to the CTO, you will translate business needs to technical requirements and specifications for cloud-based portfolio of products, while improving the efficiency and operations of SaaS products. You will support technical review and have a passion to design and improve digital solutions to be deployed at scale. Apply
ICAV Cluster: Vehicle Integration Engineer – Reporting to the Technical Director, the Vehicle Integration Engineer Will Lead and drive forward the definition and implementation of a vehicle x-by-wire interface that will be used to integrate with a vehicle automation platform. The x-by-wire solution will be designed to be configurable across several target vehicles. The role is not just about developing the software but also about defining and integrating the electro-mechanical mechanisms and interfaces with existing vehicle systems (e.g. introducing epas, e-braking etc). Apply
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About ICAV
The International Connected Autonomous Vehicle (“ICAV”) cluster has been set up to support new and existing businesses enter the growing Connected Autonomous Vehicles (“CAV”) market. KPMG research indicates that the CAV market has the potential to add £51 billion per year to the UK economy by 2030, create 320,000 new jobs and prevent 25,000 accidents saving 2500 lives per year. Find the latest Market Forecast report by Transport Systems Catapult here. ICAV are based at iCentrum, part of Innovation Birmingham, the UK’s third oldest science park and a base for the region’s growing Tech community.
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