Pitch-In Workshop: Developing Collaborations in IIoT

The Pitch-In project is a major collaboration on the Internet of Things (IoT) funded by Research England and led by the Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge, Newcastle and Oxford. This one day workshop at the MindSphere Lounge in Sheffield aims to build a collaborative academic ecosystem focussed on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Knowledge Exchange, addressing barriers to the exploitation of IoT research, technology and expertise.

This day emphasises the role academia can play in such collaborations and how IoT work can be developed. This will help build an academic community around IoT knowledge exchange interests and explicitly foster collaboration. View the full agenda via the below link

During this workshop we will:

• Develop and document our understanding of problems faced in the exploitation of IoT research and expertise
• Provide a forum for exchange of best practice
• Collaboratively construct possible pathways for specific KE prospects identified by attendees and formulate general guidance for impact.

This is a workshop day and there is an emphasis on ‘working’. The day’s activities will furnish material for jointly co-authored documents but allow us also to further identify the IIoT academic community’s specific needs regarding KE.

Who should attend:

This workshop is open to academic, business development and knowledge exchange staff from across UK universities.

If you are business looking to engage with Pitch-In, please get in touch to discuss alternative opportunities and upcoming events: www.pitch-in.ac.uk/contact

The workshop will be led by John Clark, Pitch-In Academic Lead and Professor of Computer and Information Security at the University of Sheffield

Agenda:

0830-0900. Refreshments.

0900-1040. Identification of Barriers. The aim here is to develop a comprehensive set of perceived barriers to the successful exploitation of IoT. We will identify both generic barriers (or barriers that are encountered across IoT sectors) and sector-specific barriers.

1040-1100. Refreshments

1100-1200. Developing Specific KE Pathways. We are interested here in developing Pathways to Impact for specific prospects offered by attendees. The results will feed into the next session.

1200-1300. LUNCH.

1300-1415. Developing Guidance for Pathways to Impact. We are interested here in developing general guidance for IoT pathways to Impact statements (or similar). This will be a community contribution and useful for IIoT proposal writers who seek to build in impact.

1415-1435 Refreshments

1435-1600 Collaboration Discussions and Next Steps. We will solicit IIoT interests from attendees in advance and seek to process also in advance. These will mix specific project ideas but also ideas for wider community oriented collaboration, e.g. the provision of large-scale testbeds that might help IIoT KE.

We will solicit contributions from registered attendees in advance and will collate and make this information available in advance of the meeting. The sessions largely provide opportunities to work further on the indicated topics. We will be flexible regarding what is IIoT, but will certain include Pitch-In’s major themes (Manufacturing, Energy, Cities, Health and Wellbeing, Managing the Introduction of IoT).

** This event follows on from Siemens' MindSphere Innovation Network (MINe) Symposium on the 18th June. If you have already registered for both days as part of this event, you don't need to register again. **