FutureScope is the home of deep tech acceleration support from Digital Catapult – the UK authority on advanced digital technology.

Developed in collaboration with Arrow Electronics, successful applicants will be tackling challenges in virtualisation and cyber physical systems (in particular digital twins, the metaverse, virtual production) with hardware.

Application brief

Enabled by the convergence of advanced digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and immersive (AR & VR), cyber-physical systems are the interface between the digital and the physical worlds.

These systems come together to provide benefits to businesses, the economy and society, by providing new experiences and opportunities through interactions with a digitally enabled environment.

This 16-week programme supports high-growth potential companies tackling the challenges in bringing virtualisation and cyber physical systems to reality using hardware.

The aim is to help accelerate their growth from a business and investment perspective, providing the necessary support needed to become investment ready.

Why get involved?

The participating companies’ leadership team will work with the Digital Catapult team, industry experts and growth coaches to assess and accelerate business processes in order to become investment-ready, whilst expanding their network of peers, investors, and potential customers.

Support for programme participants includes:

• Business health scans and investment diagnostics
• Business and investment support designed from the business health scans
• One-to-one growth coaching throughout the programme and mentoring from subject-matter experts
• Opportunities for networking/peer-to-peer learning
• Opportunities to engage directly with Arrow Electronics

Applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 6th November 2022.

To be considered, Digital Catapult supports companies using advanced digital technologies including:

• Future networks and advanced digital infrastructure (Internet of Things including low powered wide area networks, NB-IoT, LIFI etc. and includes sensors, edge devices, wearables etc.)
• Immersive technologies – extended reality (virtual, augmented, mixed reality and haptics)
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning (natural language processing, machine vision, deep learning)
• Distributed ledger technologies (blockchain etc.)

For further information and to submit your application: https://futurescope.digicatapult.org.uk/how-to-apply/virtualisation-cyber-physical-systems-arrow/