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The Programme

Driving the adoption of AI in the UK

Through Innovate UK BridgeAI, Digital Catapult boosts innovation, ensures the foundations are in place for responsible technology development and fosters collaboration across the ecosystem through accelerator programmes, workshops, toolkits and support from a community of innovators, technologists, investors, industry leaders and academics.

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100m

Total Government funding

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560

Total organisations funded

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4

Key sectors

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5

Accelerator programmes in 3 years

Benefits

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  • BridgeAI community

    • Get the opportunity to connect with a dynamic and growing ecosystem of AI developers and adopters that will enable knowledge exchange and potential future business opportunities.

  • Workshops & masterclasses

    • Get access to group sessions covering diverse topics, including data readiness and maturity, regulatory compliance, investment readiness and ethical best practices.

  • Tailored support

    • Get hands-on support to accelerate data and product readiness; and to develop and improve product, technical, business and ethical roadmaps.

Toolkits & Reports

The Applied AI Suite

The Applied AI Suite is a set of MLOps offerings, designed by Digital Catapult for the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme, to empower organisations of all sizes to effectively gauge their machine learning (ML) maturity and seamlessly operationalise their AI/ML models. It provides a comprehensive solution for transitioning AI/ML models into production, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. 

By adopting this suite, organisations will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to optimise their AI/ML operational processes. The Applied AI Suite consists of:

  1. GitHub Repository 
    • Access a set of open-source repositories with prebuilt, automated MLOps pipelines and resources to accelerate MLOps implementation.
    • Includes ML coding best practices, reusable code snippets, and collaborative resources. 
  2. Knowledge Hub 
    • Gain insights into best practices for deploying, maintaining, and scaling AI/ML models. 
    • Explore a horizon scan of  MLOps tools available in the market. 
    • Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in the AI/ML ecosystem. 
  3. MLOps Maturity assessment (a part of our AI Adoption Toolkit) 
    • Leverage step-by-step guidance for assessing and improving AI adoption readiness. 
    • Understand critical processes in AI/ML operationalisation to enhance performance. 

AI Adoption Toolkit

The AI adoption assessment toolkit was developed by Digital Catapult for Innovate UK BridgeAI and aims to stimulate the adoption of AI & ML technologies in the agriculture, creative, construction, and transport sectors.

The Digital and Data Maturity assessments will help gauge the level of maturity an organisation is at in terms of digital and data maturity and provide them with steps for moving to the next level. The Data Readiness assessment will assess the data readiness of an organisation for AI adoption and will outline important areas that should be worked upon to move towards the journey of AI adoption.

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Our Ethics Framework

Our ethics framework is a highly practical tool for individuals and organisations developing AI-enabled products and services that want to build value-aligned technologies with positive effects whilst avoiding negative consequences. This framework was developed for the MI Garage programme.

The framework consists of seven concepts with a corresponding list of questions. The questions are intended to highlight the many contexts in which an ethical concept might be relevant to a business or project.

The right time to start thinking about these questions is at the earliest stages of company growth, and to consider current, near and mid-future potential effects. The framework helps characterise ethical opportunities and potential risks and is open and clear about how these are evaluated and managed.

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Data Strategy and Governance Framework

The Data Strategy and Governance framework aims to help users when making informed decisions around their data and will keep their data secure. This framework was developed by Digital Catapult for Innovate UK BridgeAI.

The data strategy framework includes tools, processes and rules that can help with data management. The data governance framework provides inputs on data storage, collection and using data in terms of regulatory or governance policies.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Framework

The digital transformation framework’s core purpose is to help participants on their journey to digital transformation. This framework was developed by Digital Catapult for Innovate UK BridgeAI.

The framework consists of ten steps that can  be followed to attain digital transformation.

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The High Growth AI Accelerator for BridgeAI

The High Growth AI Accelerator for BridgeAI provides startups and scaleups with access to technical and business expertise and an experimentation space to help them develop responsible, ethical and desirable AI and ML deep-tech solutions.

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Expert Working Groups

Digital Catapult as a part of the BridgeAI programme has created four BridgeAI Expert Working Groups (EWGs) that will play a critical role in our work to coalesce and align the UK’s bustling AI developer community with industry players in the agriculture, transport, construction and creative industries.

Each group will include a representative from:

  • the AI developer community
  • an end-user/adopter
  • a representative from academia
  • a representative from the investment community
  • an innovation enabler.

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