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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

Learn to lead in a digital twin future
Event

SME Excellence Series: Alternative Investment

1 day ago
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Event

Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator – Cohort 4 Application Support Webinar

Join us on Wednesday 1 November for the Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator Application Support Webinar
1 day ago
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News / Government funding available for fresh thinking in freight

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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

Opportunity / Transport Accelerator: Maritime 2025

Article / Transport tech investor reveals strategy for backing successful firms

Opportunity / Surveillance challenge using edge AI

Projects, opportunities

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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.
1 day ago
Opportunity

Transport Accelerator: Maritime 2025

Get support for ideas that could help with automating operations, integrating future fuels and improving safety in ports.
1 week ago
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.
2 weeks ago
Opportunity

Tracking solutions for alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)

Small devices to track government staff, wherever they are in the world, are sought in HMGCC Co-Creation’s latest challenge.
4 weeks ago

Reports

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Report

Innovation in the west midlands: International Prospects and Place Partners

Connected Places Catapult has been instrumental in fostering innovation-driven growth in the West Midlands.
1 week ago
Report

Maritime Future Fuel Trial & Demonstration Plan 

A transition from feasibility studies to live trials and demonstrations is key to accelerating the adoption of maritime future fuels.
1 month ago
Report

Centres of Excellence Playbook

The National Shipbuilding Office’s Centres of Excellence Task and Finish Group has launched a Centres of Excellence (CoE) Playbook, developed in collaboration with Connected Places Catapult.
2 months ago
Report

The art of the possible: Unlocking the potential of community-based finance

Connected Places Catapult commissioned the Impact Investing Institute to undertake a short research project to explore opportunities for expanding community-based finance in the UK.
2 months ago

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