Kent Innovation & Enterprise (KIE) are working with a number of academic and research groups to identify expertise within Synthetic Biology, Advanced Materials & Big Data, three of the 8 Great Technologies.  A website will be launched shortly to enable you to express your interest in one or more of these areas.

This initial research will enable the University to respond swiftly to future funding opportunities by mapping internal expertise, external industry engagement and previous funding applications.

Big Data is already gaining momentum through the work of Eerke Boiten who heads up the Cyber Security Centre and Professor Andy Fearne who recently obtained an ESRC grant as part of the Eastern Arc Consortium.  We are already capturing a lot of information about this area following an initial meeting in Medway last year.  We have also formed a mailing list for those wishing to be kept up to date on developments, big-data@kent.ac.uk.

In order to keep momentum we will be holding an open meeting for academics with an interest in this area.

Agenda

9:30 Arrival and Coffee

9:50 Opening – Eerke Boiten

10:00-12:00 Presentations: “We have data, we have questions, how can ‘Big Data’ provide answers?” from a variety of external stakeholders around a number of themes (e.g. local government, health, transport, food).

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Breakout sessions, split by themes (questions posed by morning speakers).

15:00-15:30 Tea

15:30-16:30 Results of breakout sessions, conclusions and next steps.

If you want to register for the event or would like to find out more about the 8 Great Technologies please email enterprise@kent.ac.uk  or phone 01227 827376.