Black Founders Programme
The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
The past few years have seen a growing convergence of emerging technologies to create at scale complex systems that will blur the lines between the digital and physical worlds. These “Cyber Physical Systems” are beginning to emerge as a new capability for businesses, society and the planet in the form of digital twins, the extended reality metaverse and other robotic and autonomous systems.
With this new and emerging cyber physical future, we are coming together with leaders in the field to foster discussions on what this means for the UK, how we can build these new innovations for the future and how we ensure that we create a new technology ecosystem that focuses on interoperability, openness, security and focuses on the needs of the end user.
These innovative cyber physical capabilities will also become interconnected, with underpinning infrastructure, data models and architectures that will enable innovators to more quickly build solutions to tackle challenges and create opportunities. This will include net zero goals for industry, new experiences for consumers, operational efficiency for businesses and a variety of economic and commercial opportunities. This set of connected physical and digital systems, and the building blocks that enable them, can be thought of as a cyber physical infrastructure over which new solutions and innovations can be developed.
The foundation thinking for the cyber physical infrastructure vision has been primarily led by the Robotic Growth Partnership, and Digital Catapult, which led research on behalf of BEIS to support the analysis on the questions of how to bring this vision to life.
This Forum is building on the work carried out till date with an aim to ideate how the vision for cyber physical future in the UK can be brought to life and to discuss how we build the technology ecosystem of the future.
