Cardiff Hartree SME Engagement Spoke

卡迪夫哈特里中小企业参与辐条

• 批准号: ST/X005291/1
• 负责人: Alun Preece
• 金额: $ 155.43万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FX005291%2F1
• 关键词: Cardiff; Hartree; SME; Engagement; Spoke

The Cardiff Hartree Spoke will build on a vibrant AI, data science and high-performance computing research and innovation community centred on Cardiff University, with immediate access to Cardiff Capital Region and Western Gateway SME clusters. The Spoke team has deep first-hand experience of running innovative impact-led research and development in collaborative environments, with strong industry relationships and tried-and-tested SME engagement approaches. Our Spoke will be able to hit the ground running with a rapid start, leveraging significant recent University investments in its 'innovation ecosystem', coupled with carefully planned growth to full capacity. Cardiff University's proposed Spoke will provide targeted, locally-accessible AI, data science, and high-performance computing support to SMEs in the Cardiff Capital Region extending to the Western Gateway area. Our engagement and project activity will be centred in the Cardiff Capital Region - spanning Bridgend to Monmouthshire - while also reaching out to SMEs in the Western Gateway located around Bristol, Cheltenham and Gloucester.The Spoke will be led and operated by Cardiff University. The transformative impact of data and AI is core to the university's research strategy, with headcount of Computer Science and Mathematics academic staff nearly doubling since 2016. Cardiff leads Supercomputing Wales, a £16M programme delivering HPC support. The University has recently invested significantly in establishing its new Innovation Campus. The sbarc|spark building opened in March 2022 as the 'front door' to the Campus, housing SPARK - the world's first social science research park, and Innovations@sbarc - a creative space for start-ups, spin-outs and partnerships. We propose to locate the Cardiff Hartree Spoke in sbarc|spark to situate it at the centre of the university's 'innovation ecosystem' with close access to key stakeholders and partners. The unique combination of facilities, people and existing SME connections that we have available means that we can launch the spoke with a very fast start on 01/12/22. We plan to achieving a rapid start by building on our existing networks of SMEs.The planned work of the Spoke is closely aligned with HNCDI Programme:Explore: This will be the focus of the Spoke, building engagement with SMEs, understanding their needs, and developing projects. Cardiff's long track record working with the IBM team in research and innovation via International Technology Alliance programmes, combined with experience of targeting data innovation to the region's SME sectors in the Data Innovation Accelerator initiative, will facilitate an accelerated start to Explore activity. Explain: The University's mission to develop skills in the data science, AI, and advanced computing domains put us in a strong position to include elements of Explain alongside the Spoke's primary activity in Explore. We will draw on the academic teachers and experts in Abacws to offer 'explainers' as part the Spoke's engagement delivery.Excelerate: We will work closely with the HNCDI team to identify and foster engagements and projects with potential to develop into Excelerate activity. We note that this way of working is also part of Cardiff's sbarc|spark 'eco-system', and is the reason why the building includes both innovation institutes and lettable commercial space: sbarc|spark can provide a locally-accessible means for SMEs to continue their digital transformation journey beyond Explore.Emerge: this is highly compatible with the University's research and impact mission, to raise awareness of next-generation and generation-after-next approaches and technologies, while identifying pathways to their early adoption.

卡迪夫哈特里辐条将建立在一个充满活力的人工智能，数据科学和高性能计算研究和创新社区为中心的卡迪夫大学，可直接访问卡迪夫首都地区和西部门户中小企业集群。Spoke团队拥有在协作环境中开展创新影响力主导的研究和开发的丰富第一手经验，拥有强大的行业关系和久经考验的中小企业参与方法。我们的辐条将能够快速启动，利用其“创新生态系统”最近的重大大学投资，再加上精心策划的增长到满负荷运行。卡迪夫大学提出的Spoke将为卡迪夫首都地区延伸到西部门户地区的中小企业提供有针对性的、本地可访问的人工智能、数据科学和高性能计算支持。我们的参与和项目活动将集中在卡迪夫首都地区-跨越布里真德到蒙茅斯郡-同时也接触到位于布里斯托，切尔滕纳姆和格洛斯特周围的西部门户的中小企业。辐条将由卡迪夫大学领导和运营。数据和人工智能的变革性影响是该大学研究战略的核心，自2016年以来，计算机科学和数学学术人员的人数几乎翻了一番。卡迪夫领导威尔士超级计算，这是一个价值1600万英镑的项目，提供HPC支持。该大学最近投入巨资建立新的创新园区。斯巴克|spark大楼于2022年3月开放，作为校园的“前门”，设有SPARK -世界上第一个社会科学研究园区，以及Innovations@sbarc -初创企业，分拆和合作伙伴的创意空间。我们建议把卡迪夫哈特里斯波克酒店设在斯巴克|在大学的“创新生态系统”的中心，与主要利益相关者和合作伙伴密切接触。我们拥有的设施、人员和现有中小企业联系的独特组合意味着我们可以在2022年1月12日以非常快的速度启动辐条。我们计划通过建立现有的中小企业网络来实现快速启动。辐条计划的工作与HNCDI计划密切一致：探索：这将是辐条的重点，与中小企业建立联系，了解他们的需求，并开发项目。卡迪夫与IBM团队通过国际技术联盟计划在研究和创新方面的长期合作记录，以及在数据创新加速器计划中针对该地区中小企业部门的数据创新经验，将有助于加速启动探索活动。解释：该大学的使命是培养数据科学，人工智能和高级计算领域的技能，这使我们处于有利地位，可以将Explain的元素与Spoke在Explore中的主要活动结合起来。我们将利用Abacws的学术教师和专家提供“解释者”作为Spoke参与交付的一部分。Excelerate：我们将与HNCDI团队密切合作，以确定和促进有潜力发展成为Excelerate活动的参与和项目。我们注意到，这种工作方式也是卡迪夫sbarc的一部分|火花“生态系统”，这就是为什么建筑包括创新机构和可扩展的商业空间：sbarc| spark可以为中小企业提供一种本地可访问的方式，让他们在Explore之外继续他们的数字化转型之旅。Emerge：这与大学的研究和影响使命高度兼容，以提高对下一代和下一代方法和技术的认识，同时确定早期采用的途径。