Connected Places Catapult - The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

Podcasts / Connected Places Podcast

Episode: 71

In Conversation with Dan Labbad, CEO of the Crown Estate

Podcasts / Connected Places Podcast

Episode: 70

In Conversation with Andrew Barr, President of Hitachi Europe

Podcasts / Connected Places Podcast

Episode: 69

Highlights from the Connected Places Summit – 2025

Article

Meet the academic supporting sustainable transport start-ups

Professor Marcos Kauffman is helping automotive innovators to flourish on the Clean Futures programme.

Opportunity

Personal electronics detector to stop data leak risk

Detectors to spot hidden phones, smart watches or other electronic devices are sought in the latest challenge launched by HMGCC Co-Creation.

News / Erika Lewis joins AIRTO Board

Event / SME Excellence Series: Alternative Investment

Aerial view of a large shipping container yard with numerous colorful containers and yellow cranes along a central pathway.

Event / Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator – Cohort 4 Application Support Webinar

A worker in a hard hat and high-visibility vest oversees a forklift lifting a blue shipping container, surrounded by stacks of colorful containers in a shipping yard.

News / Government funding available for fresh thinking in freight

Opportunity / Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2025

Article / Meet the innovator enabling material reuse in construction

Event / DNV hosts Gemini Call Live!

News / ncat awards funding to innovation projects for enhancing transport accessibility

News / Maritime innovators invited to step forward for new transport accelerator

Projects, opportunities

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Opportunity

Personal electronics detector to stop data leak risk

Detectors to spot hidden phones, smart watches or other electronic devices are sought in the latest challenge launched by HMGCC Co-Creation.

Opportunity

Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2025

The Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator will support up to 15 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to develop a trial to test their solutions in real-world environments to help solve pressing challenges within the freight sector.

Opportunity

Transport Accelerator: Maritime 2025

Get support for ideas that could help with automating operations, integrating future fuels and improving safety in ports.

Opportunity

Surveillance challenge using edge AI

In this challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation wants to hear from organisations capable of enabling visual surveillance systems to operate with less power – using edge AI.