Cardiff Hartree SME Engagement Spoke

卡迪夫哈特里演讲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的基础上，以卡迪夫大学为中心，可以立即进入卡迪夫首都地区和西部门户中小企业集群。Spoke团队在协作环境中运行创新影响主导的研发方面拥有丰富的第一手经验，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Spoke将能够快速启动，利用大学最近对其“创新生态系统”的重大投资，再加上精心规划的满负荷增长。卡迪夫大学提议的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gend到蒙茅斯郡-同时也接触到位于布里斯托尔，切尔滕纳姆和格洛斯特周围的西部门户的中小企业。Spoke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。卡迪夫领导着超级计算威尔士，这是一个耗资1600万英镑的项目，提供高性能计算支持。该大学最近投入巨资建立了新的创新校园。sbarc|spark大楼于2022年3月开放，作为校园的“前门”，容纳了spark——世界上第一个社会科学研究园区，以及Innovations@sbarc——一个为初创企业、衍生企业和合作伙伴提供的创意空间。我们建议将卡迪夫哈特里演讲中心定位在sharc |spark，将其定位在大学“创新生态系统”的中心，与主要利益相关者和合作伙伴保持密切联系。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22年12月1日非常快速地启动辐条。我们计划以现有的中小企业网络为基础，迅速展开工作。Spoke的计划工作与HNCDI计划密切相关：探索：这将是Spoke的重点，与中小企业建立联系，了解他们的需求，并开发项目。卡迪夫通过国际技术联盟项目与IBM团队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，将促进探索活动的加速启动。解释：大学的使命是发展数据科学、人工智能和高级计算领域的技能，这使我们处于有利地位，可以将解释的元素与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，确定并促进有潜力发展为Excelerate活动的项目。我们注意到，这种工作方式也是卡迪夫的sbarc|spark“生态系统”的一部分，这也是该建筑包括创新机构和可出租商业空间的原因：sbarc|spark可以为中小企业提供一种本地可访问的方式，让他们在探索之外继续他们的数字化转型之旅。涌现：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。

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.