Don Dhaniwal

Welcome to ICAV. See the latest news and opportunities in the emerging Driverless Vehicle sector.

We are proud to say that our ICAV, has been growing from strength to strength and attracted both national and international attention. I can never wait to share the latest exciting news and opportunities in this emerging space.

Don Dhaliwal, Conigital, Lead Partner @ICAVcluster

Latest News

Toyota VC invests in AI startups

Toyota Motor Corp’s first venture capital fund is investing in startups that help the Japanese automaker refine everyday processes by bringing sharper supply-chain management and robotics to the factory floor. The automaker this year started Woven Capital, an $800 million venture capital fund to make growth-stage investments in companies including those in the Toyota AI Ventures portfolio. Read More

Apple might ditch automakers in favor of Foxconn

The Apple Car could be made in the same way and by the same people, that Apple makes the iPhone. A new report from Bloomberg claims that, following from halted talks with car companies, Apple may rely on manufacturing partners it has existing relationships with to build its car. Apple could simply open its own factories to build cars, but that would take a huge amount of work and investment that the company’s not done before. Read More

Luminar strikes deal with Volvo to offer self-driving system to automakers 

Luminar Technologies Inc. said on Thursday it had struck a deal with the self-driving software subsidiary of Volvo Cars to offer a combination hardware-software system to other automakers. The U.S. lidar company said the agreement was with Zenseact, the self-driving software subsidiary of the Swedish automaker. Volvo plans to use Luminar’s sensors in its vehicles with production starting next year. Read More

Munich Airport’s LabCampus attracts autonomous vehicle technology pioneer

Munich Airport’s LabCampus innovation centre will shortly have a new tenant – one of the world’s leading technology companies in the autonomous driving sector, Argo AI, which is expected to test and develop vehicles on the site. Under the contractual agreement that now, with the agency and consulting services of CBRE GmbH, has been signed, Argo AI will build a test track at Munich Airport . The autonomously driven vehicles are to be tested under realistic conditions in various traffic situations on the test track. Read More

Boeing Drone

Boeing Autonomous Drone Piloted by AI Successfully Completes First Flight

Boeing’s first autonomous drone powered by artificial intelligence, the Loyal Wingman, has just successfully completed its first flight in collaboration with the Australian army. In the future it could also help in various civilian missions. With on-board artificial intelligence, the aircraft can make decisions in flight even faster than a human on the ground responsible for controlling it. Read More

Amazon Zoox

Zoox expects Amazon-backed self-driving car “a lot sooner than people imagine” 

Aicha Evans, CEO of American autonomous vehicle company Zoox, said in an interview with Bloomberg that commercial launch of its autonomous urban transport vehicle won’t happen next year, but it will happen “a lot sooner than people imagine.” Zoox was bought out by Amazon last year in a deal worth a reported $US1.2 billion ($AU1.45 billion). Zoox followed through on its ambitions not long after, unveiling its autonomous urban transport vehicle in December, a “robotaxi”  Read More

Self-Driving Cars To Be Especially Welcomed In “Zoom Towns”

The Zoom Town reference is the catchy new phrase that cleverly brings together the notion of “Zoom” as in being able to work remotely (promulgated by the now-ubiquitous Zoom-like online capabilities), and combined with the homespun “Town” indication. The “Town” part suggests that as a remote worker, you can opt to live wherever you might wish to do so and not have to be residing in a major city for purposes of performing your job. 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

March 15th, 2021 – CertiCAV Final Showcase: Assuring the safety of highly automated vehicles. The CertiCAV project has created a potential practice framework for the development and management of Highly Automated Vehicle (HAV) assurance. This assurance focuses on the important area of safety, but also touches on other practical aspects such as the efficiency of the transport system and cooperation between road users. This webinar is a chance to be informed of, and ask questions about, the ideas we have developed during the project. Register Here

March 16th, 2021 – Net Zero Urban Innovation Challenges and Opportunities.  Connected Places Catapult in partnership with the FCDO and The Business of Cities wants to accelerate the commercialisation of smart cities and transport innovations with a focus on decarbonisation and promotion of global partnerships in these sectors. We will be joined by UK academia and SMEs who are currently working on innovative solutions to tackle climate related issues. Register Here

March 16th, 2021 – STM32 solutions for Artificial Neural Networks. The webinar is aimed at hardware and software engineers who have interest in artificial intelligence and see the power of Deep Learning to enhance signal processing performance and increase productivity in your microcontroller application. As part of the event, all attendees will have access to free of charge evaluation boards to aid their research and development. 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

CertiCAV Final Showcase: Assuring the safety of highly automated vehicles: March 15th 2021 – Working for the Department for Transport, the Connected Places Catapult in collaboration with WMG – The University of Warwick, have explored topics including the information a manufacturer would be expected to present, how performance requirements may be developed and measured, best practice for HAV verification & validation, and finally the activities an independent authority may conduct to assure conformance to the requirements.  Register Here

Future Flight Challenge – Modelling and Simulation: March 15th, 2021 – This ISCF Future Flight Challenge Modelling and Simulation Workshop, in collaboration with Bath Institute for Mathematical Innovation, is to support anyone interested in becoming involved in the programme to foster collaborations and share knowledge alongside the mathematics community. The challenge requires expertise from a diverse range of sectors. Register Here

Net Zero Urban Innovation Challenges and Opportunities: March 16th, 2021 – As the host country of COP26 in 2021, and with its ambitious net-zero targets, the UK has the potential to not only transform itself internally but also work together with partners globally to achieve the global climate commitments and tackle the net zero challenges. We will be joined by UK academia and SMEs who are currently working on innovative solutions to tackle climate related issues. Register Here

STM32 solutions for Artificial Neural Networks : March 16th, 2021 – The webinar is aimed at hardware and software engineers who have interest in artificial intelligence and see the power of Deep Learning to enhance signal processing performance and increase productivity in your microcontroller application. As part of the event, all attendees will have access to free of charge evaluation boards to aid their research and development. Register Here 

Tech Nation Report Launch 2021: March 16th,2021 – As global pioneers in technology, the UK is helping to forge the future for the entire world. We’ll be looking at what’s next for UK tech, the challenges that are being faced by stakeholders in the ecosystem, and how scaling companies have the potential to build back in a way that delivers benefit for everyone. Join this event and a host of industry experts and leaders as we look to the future UK tech built. Register Here

Delivering the Transition to Smart UK Ports: March 17th, 2021 – This event will bring together expert representatives from the five ports along with Government and Trade bodies to discuss the implementation routes for the developed use cases and how they link to other ports and to the Government strategic perspectives. Register Here

Mayor of London’s Resilience Fund Webinar: March 18th 2021 – The Mayor of London’s Resilience fund is a £1m challenge which is calling on innovators to address some of the key urban challenges which face London today. Connected Places Catapult is supporting this challenge as a partner and would like to invite all innovative SME partners to join for a webinar on March 18th at 12pm to find out more. Register Here

Intertraffic 2021: March 23th – March 26th, 2021 – Due to the current pandemic crisis, Intertraffic in 2020 has been moved to the following year and now takes places on the 23rd March – 26th March 2021.  Register Here

TRIG showcase webinar: March 23th, 2021 – In this event on Tuesday 23rd March you will hear from the innovative organisations who have just completed the first Security Technology Research and Innovation Grants Programme (S-TRIG), a programme funded by the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Future Aviation Security Solutions (FASS) Team and delivered by the Connected Places Catapult. Register Here

More events can be found here

COVID 19 Grant & Support Information

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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

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

Infrastructure solutions for zero emission vehicles –  The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), formerly Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), are investing up to £17 million in support of solutions that address challenges associated with the uptake of zero emission vehicles in this programme. The aim of this competition is to fund innovative infrastructure solutions that support this transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEV) in line with the Government’s transport decarbonisation ambitions. 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

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: CRD & Tech round 2 – UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £46.8 million for collaborative research and development or technology projects in quantum. The aim of this competition is to advance the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK and increase private sector investment. Your proposal must exploit second generation quantum techniques. Read More

Infrastructure solutions for zero emission vehicles – The aim of this competition is to fund innovative infrastructure solutions that support this transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEV) in line with the Government’s transport decarbonisation ambitions. This competition seeks to support feasibility studies and research and development projects. Read More

Transitioning towards Zero Emission Vehicles : CR&D – The aim of this competition is to fund innovative on-vehicle solutions that support the transition to zero emission vehicles in line with the Government’s transport decarbonisation ambitions. Projects which address these challenges can use new, highly innovative solutions or advance an existing innovation or R&D project are welcome. Read More

Transitioning towards Zero Emission Vehicles: feasibility studies – UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7million to develop on-vehicle solutions that address challenges associated with the transition to zero emission vehicles. Funding is from Office Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV). The aim of this competition is to fund on-vehicle innovative solutions that support the transition to zero emission vehicles in line with the Government’s transport decarbonisation ambitions. Read More

Driving the Electric Revolution: Supply Chains for Net Zero – UK registered businesses of any size can apply for a share of up to £22 million for innovation projects focused on supply chain development for power electronics, electric machines and drives. The aim of this competition is to facilitate the UK’s niche and volume supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD). Read More

Approaches to mitigate against stranded diesel assets – This challenge is one of two being developed and promoted at this time. A second challenge is exploring how to improve the efficiency of shore derived power to the portside operations and visiting ships. An effective means to reduce pollution and decarbonise activity in the short to medium term will be to reduce demand and eventually replace fossil fuels as the means to derive energy to power mobility. Read More

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

More funding can be found here

Featured Jobs

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Catapult: Service Designer – If You are comfortable applying your design mindset to a wide range of projects. Whilst one day you will be asked to come up with creative solutions for a wicked problem, the next day you could be tasked to help design a (remote) ideation workshop. Innovation comes with uncertainty – you may not always get a clear brief, you will be dealing with abstract concepts and are expected to proactively use sensemaking and analytical skills to define how you can best add value to multidisciplinary projects.  Apply 

Catapult: Principal Technologist – Catapult is seeking a highly technical / specialist professional with detailed knowledge and experience of transport modelling and operational planning to join our Modelling Team. This team supports projects across the whole Connected Places Catapult and as such you will typically be working on multi-disciplinary projects with engineers, data scientists, planners, economists, software developers, environmental specialists, social researchers, designers and a diverse range of external stakeholders. Apply 

Immense Simulations: Marketing & Insights Manager –  This role will lead the delivery and development of the organisation’s short, medium- and long-term marketing, e-marketing, internal and external communication strategies to ensure organisational objectives are met, acting as the organisational lead expert at both a strategic and operational level. You will take sole responsibility for developing and growing our product and corporate marketing strategy and maximising our marketing capabilities throughout the entire lifecycle. Apply

KTN: Knowledge Transfer Manager – Materials & Nanotechnology – The role will provide technical capability and market expertise in the field of Materials and Nanotechnology, with a particular focus on topics in the field of materials sustainability, waste management and efficient use of energy by industries manufacturing materials. KTN has a number of strategic aims in areas such as Sustainability, Net Zero, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in innovation and developing global partnerships. These provide the context within which the sector expertise will be primarily targeted. Apply

Catapult: Creative Freelancers- Copywriters, Graphic Designers, Illustrators, Videographers, Photographers, Web Designers – Catapult is interested to hear from freelance creative practitioners who think beyond the now and spark interest through their creativity to accelerate solutions for tomorrow. Catapult is welcoming speculative applications for freelance creative roles within organisation and review applications on a regular basis.  Apply

WMCA: SME Development Manager – This is a new within our dynamic SME Development team will play a key part in building the Catapult’s SME community. The successful candidate will work with innovative SMEs to deliver novel Catapult programmes, develop new propositions that challenge the market and create a community of SMES across our core sectors that drive innovation. Apply

WMCA: Thrive at Work Engagement Officer x 2 – WMCA is looking for two proactive and persuasive communicators, with strong interpersonal skills, able to connect with a range of audiences through various channels and formats. Promoting the health and wellbeing of the West Midlands workforce, you will champion our Thrive at Work programme. You will be results- and solutions-focused in these challenging times, committed to working at pace in a small (but perfectly formed) team. Apply

WMCA: Thrive at Work Engagement Manager – We are looking for a dynamic, persuasive individual, passionate about the health and wellbeing agenda and able to engage with a range of audiences across the regional business landscape to promote the benefits of workforce wellbeing. We want your enthusiasm and proactivity, with which you will lead the development of an employer engagement strategy and manage a small team of staff to champion our Thrive at Work programme. 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

More jobs can be found here

Top Jobs

KTN: Web Team Lead –  The Solution Architect will work closely with the Director, team leaders and the wider Catapult team in enabling the directorate strategy and shaping the development and delivery  of an exciting range of strategic projects. Solution Architects are key enablers of the business, utilising skills and expertise from across the Catapult to create large scale business projects as Connected Places ‘showcase’ schemes around the UK and the world. Apply

Catapult: Senior Systems Engineer – Catapult is looking for creative and energetic individuals, with a passion for making a difference and with the ability to contribute and accelerate the development of sustainable mobility initiatives. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of systems engineers, technologists, human factors specialists and economists helping to shape Catapult-wide projects. You will play a key role in leading and delivering work packages or entire projects, and work with stakeholders, run workshops and gather requirements, to help plan new projects and manage progress through to final deliverables. Apply 

KTN: Knowledge Transfer Manager – Design – The role leads KTN’s support for Innovate UK’s Design Strategy in promoting and embedding design across the UK economy. The role is specifically to: Generate greater industry awareness & demand across different sectors for design in innovation, Catalyse new connections and collaborations between companies that create sustainable economic value through the use of design in innovation, Build the capacity of KTN, and Innovate UK family of organisations, to enable companies’ better and earlier use of design in innovation, Contribute to developing KTN’s portfolio of tools and approaches to support innovation effectiveness across this network.  Apply

KTN: Knowledge Transfer Manager – Intelligent Systems –  Intelligent Systems will initially work closely with the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) team to support the successful delivery of existing work programmes including the Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network, ISCF Robotics and other public and private sector contracts. In alignment with KTN’s strategy, the candidate will be expected to support the acceleration of innovation through engaging with academia, industry and relevant stakeholder groups, building their networks of innovators, creating diverse connections to drive positive change.  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

More jobs can be found here

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