WELCOME

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Dr Mark SwiftHead of SME ProgrammesWMG, University of Warwick

#InnovationFeast

Housekeeping

A Kodak Moment

1996Market Cap $28B140,000 employees

2012Bankrupt17,000 employees

2012Bought for $1B13 employees

WMG SME Group• Aim – the Leading SME delivery group in a Russell Group University

• Multidisciplinary team – engineers, user insights experts, materialsscientists, marketers and digital experts from industry & academia

• Track record of growing SME through research-led innovation

• IIPSI (main programme) - Enabling the creation and testing ofmarket leading products and services

• IIPSI currently working with over 40 SMEs:– Intensive project helping business realise their ideas (innovations)– Technology demonstrations– IIPSI programme has only a few remaining places

Growth &Innovation

Strategy

CustomerCentred

Innovation& Insight

DesigningInnovation

Prototype& Test

Innovation

Making &LaunchingInnovation

Supporting Innovation

RecognisingInnovation

Success

Financing Innovation & Growth

Technology Driven Innovation

Innovation Culture & Programme Management

Innovation Feast – “End to End Innovation”

High Value Manufacturing (AME) Customer Insights

Internet of Industrial Things

WMG SME – Focus Areas

• Your views are important for future funding priorities…• WMG SME has priorities in:

– High Value Manufacturing– Internet of Industrial Things– Customer Insights

• Key Enabling Technology (KETs)1. Nanotechnology2. Micro & Nano-electronics3. Industrial Biotechnology4. Advanced Materials5. Photonics6. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies7. Big Data / Internet of Things??8. Missing – any suggestions

• Work with us – few projects places

Future activity and priorities

2.00 Arrival and Afternoon Tea

2.15Welcome Address - Dr Mark Swift (WMG)

2.30Customer Led Design - Ben Griffin (Innovate UK)

3.00Digital Innovation Trends - Helen Trim (FreshMinds)

3.30 Break

3.45Finance for Innovation Panel – Beerbods, Santander, Minerva, WMG

4.30Manufacturing Trends - Will Stirling (Stirling Media)

5.00Low Carbon Technology in Automotive- Prof David Greenwood (WMG)

5.30My life as an entrepreneur - Nick Rutter (Sprue Aegis)

6.15Drinks Reception & SME Awards

6.45 Buffet Dinner

Agenda – Day 1

1. Collaborate to compete?

2. Move up the food chain?

3. Get yourself in yourcustomer shoes?

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THE AWARDS

• Your views are important for future funding• WMG SME has priorities in:

– High Value Manufacturing– Internet of Industrial Things– Customer Insights

• Key Enabling Technology (KETs)1. Nanotechnology2. Micro & Nano-electronics3. Industrial Biotechnology4. Advanced Materials5. Photonics6. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies7. Big Data / Internet of Things??8. Missing – any suggestions

• Work with us – few projects places

Future activity and priorities

IIPSI Impact

WELCOME

7.30 Breakfast

8.45Welcome Address

Dr Mark Swift (WMG)

9.00The Secret to Getting Funding , 5 Rules whatever the Type of Funding

Dr David Bott (WMG)

9.45Collaborate to Compete

Tony Hague (Chairman, MAN Group & Managing Director, PP Electrical Systems Ltd)

10.15 Coffee Break , move to IIPSI

10.45Customer Insights using Digital Tools

Yiannis Maos (Marketing Director, Rant and Rave Ltd)

11.35Customer Centred Innovation

Neil Gridley & Bill Sermon, Viadynamics & Kate Ainscough, WMG

12.25 Lunch

Agenda – Day 2

Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3

1.30

Hugh Boyes, WMG

An Introduction to

challenges and

opportunities in cyber

security

Scott Crowther, Onur Eren &

Piero Filippin, WMG

Internet of Industrial Things

A practical session for SMEs

to show how you can

connect and manage

products and processes via

the web using simple tools

Dr Greg Gibbons, WMGAdditive Layer Manufacturing

Next GenerationA practical insight into how 3Dprinting is developing and whatnew technologies are emerging

2.15

Susan Banfield, Business

Angels Finance

International

Getting Investment Ready

Further insight into Angel

Investment and

Investment Readiness

Repeats

Dr Kylash Makenji, WMG & PhilJohnson, International Synergies

Circular ManufacturingSession on how manufacturers

can become more carbonefficient and reuse/recycle

materials

3.00 Closing Remarks

Agenda – Day 2

• Collaborate to Compete

• Work with WMG SME through a project

Next Steps