What is BridgeAI?
BridgeAI offers comprehensive funding and support solutions to businesses in priority sectors (Agriculture, Creative industries, Construction and Transport), facilitating the adoption of AI through a range of offerings. With a focus on bridging the AI divide between the supply and demand side of the ecosystem, BridgeAI enables businesses to harness the power of AI technologies to drive innovation and growth.
How will BridgeAI support me?
Delivered by Innovate UK and strategic partners, BridgeAI will deliver funding and support by:
- Connecting businesses in priority sectors with AI experts
Building an innovation community to help businesses adopt AI through collaboration with developers
- Developing new trusted AI services and technologies
Supporting the development of cutting-edge AI technologies through co-creation between both the supply and demand side of the AI ecosystem
- Elevating high growth potential sectors
Building new capabilities in businesses through training and upskilling in AI, providing access to scientific expertise
What support can I get from the Hartree Centre?
Our £5000 Innovation Vouchers will facilitate between 8 and 10 days of effort from our technical experts in data science and artificial intelligence (AI). These vouchers could facilitate one of the following:
- Informing companies about the benefits of integrating AI into business activities, how AI can be applied to their business problems, or which technologies might be relevant.
- Informing companies about the data requirements to exploit AI. Review available data and assess the readiness of a data set for use in AI applications.
- Supporting companies to identify opportunities and challenges where novel AI solutions can be integrated into business activities.
- Carry out a short feasibility study into using data science or AI to solve a given business problem.
- Provide detailed training in data science methods applied to a particular business problem, or assistance developing a roadmap for data transformation.
- A short literature review to identify the latest state of the art in an area and what data could be available.
- Knowledge transfer: provide time with a data science or AI expert to formulate an informed challenge statement taking account of the current state of the art.
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Our £15,000 Innovation Vouchers will facilitate between 24 and 31 days of effort from our technical experts in data science and artificial intelligence (AI). These vouchers could facilitate one of the following:
- An in-depth feasibility study.
- Scoping out of a future large project, such as a proof-of-concept project.
- Exploration of the suitability of current data for solving a problem of interest.
- Suggest if more data (volume and type) is required to be able to solve a problem of interest.
- Identification of alternative datasets that could be utilised if the current data is not suitable for a state-of-the-art analysis.
- Develop a roadmap for future data analysis work.
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Our £5,000 HPC Vouchers will give companies access to the Hartree Centre’s powerful high-performance computing (HPC) platforms:
- Scafell Pike – the largest UK supercomputer for Industry use. Atos BullSequana machine with over 82000 cores; standard, accelerator, high memory and GPU nodes.
- JADE – a Tier 2 Regional deep learning supercomputer. One of the largest of its kind in the UK, used for computer vision.
These vouchers will:
- Allow companies to harness readily accessible, world-class computing power, so companies will be in a stronger position than ever to defend and extend their market share.
- Enable businesses to increase the size of their models and run projects more quickly and efficiently without increasing overheads, resulting in improved learn rates and better value for money for clients.
- Enable companies to compete with much larger rivals in the delivery of high-quality technical solutions.
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Our Discover Digital Transformation training programme is designed with decision-makers in mind, and aims to help you to explore digital, data-driven and AI technologies, decide what’s right for your organisation and build an action plan to become digital-ready.
The programme is aimed at businesses or public sector organisations of any size in agriculture, creative industries, construction or transportation, who want to enhance their data and AI knowledge and begin the road to adoption.
The programme consists of five sessions in key technology areas which can be taken individually as drop-in sessions or followed as an entire series. To access the sessions, you will need to register to the Hartree Centre Training Portal.
The next wave of Discover Digital Transformation sessions starts January 2024 and registrations are currently open!
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Our Training Portal offers an array of self-paced free virtual courses that cover topics to inform the generation of real-time decision-making insights from data helping you to innovate, speed up processes and boost efficiency.
From predictive maintenance to intelligent automation and the optimisation of tools and processes, our courses will walk you through how to embed AI into your organisation.
Our courses are designed for various skill levels:
- Introductory Level: Perfect for those new to the subject.
- Learner Level: Suitable for attendees with some background knowledge.
- Independent User Level: Tailored for individuals skilled at working independently but need guidance for complex problems.
- Practitioner Level: Tailored for active professionals exploring advanced techniques.
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Who is involved in BridgeAI?
Innovate UK support business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies and UK regions. They help businesses grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes, and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem.
Digital Catapult is the UK authority on advanced digital technology, accelerating industry adoption to drive growth and opportunity across the economy.
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and AI, tackling big challenges in science, society, and the economy through research.
BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body, supporting organisations around the world respond to complex challenges, embrace technology and build trust in AI.