A team presentation from both public and private sectors from Cambridgeshire & Peterborough at: "Tech Nations: Toward building the Next Generation of France-British Tech Trailblazers", hosted by Lord Ed Llewellyn, and organised by DIT France, led by Oriel Petry, and her Technology Team (led from Lyons by Isabelle Hurley).
The event focused on Smart Cities, Cybersecurity and the Creative Industries, and the team comprised representatives from Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority about our role and ambitions, and two local companies with a global customer base: Telensa and Darktrace about their cutting-edge products and services in e.g. smart lighting and threat detection. References were also made to promote e.g. Cambridge Network, Cambridge Ahead, CW, Cambridge Cleantech and the REACTOR applied gaming incubator / accelerator at Anglia Ruskin University. Games Eden's Chair was in the audience.
The audience (mainly Franco-British) were Industrial CEOs, Regional Leaders and Entrepreneurs. UK CEOs giving keynotes were Gerard Grech of TechNation - who gave as an exemplar the new Bradfield Centre incubator / co-working space on Cambridge Science Park - and Jeremy Silver of the Digital Catapult. The Ambassador also welcomed all to his home, and encouraged collaboration on technology across the Channel.
This key event - held in such a flagship prestigious venue - also gave the opportunity to apprise a French audience of the @CambsPboroCA strategic priorities, around the key theme of being the leading place in the world to live, learn and work and opened the dialogue with our Embassy on potential future metro Mayoral exchanges.
Specific outcomes thus far include several useful commercial interactions e.g. on CAVs, and also with a London-based SME.
3. is a new strategic body made up of 7 local authority partners:
Cambridge City Council; Cambridgeshire County Council;
East Cambridgeshire District Council; Fenland District Council
Huntingdonshire District Council; Peterborough City Council and
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Leadership:
The Mayor is James Palmer: @MayorJPalmer
4. Located in the East of England, at the nexus of strategic arterial routes:
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7. Leadership in Local Energy
Greater South East Local Energy Hub
BEIS has recognised that resources will be required to co-
ordinate, manage and derive the technical feasibility studies
needed to promote and accelerate delivery of new local
energy infrastructure. As a result, 5 Local Energy Hubs are to
be set up from April 2018 in England.
We, on behalf of 11 LEPs covering the East of England, Greater
London, the South East and the Oxford / Milton Keynes /
Keynote growth corridor will create and manage the Hub team
with project managers and technical specialists.
The area equates to 16 counties with 149 local authorities to
connect and facilitate joint working.
Contact: Paul Bourgeois, Head of Sustainability
+44 (0) 7715 408407
8. CAMBRIDGE: UK’S CAPITAL OF
INNOVATION
More patents applications are made in Cambridge
than the next four cities combined
11. HIGH PRODUCTIVITY: Our area has
the highest productivity levels of all
Mayoral Combined Authority Areas
12. is a big data resource highlighting the data on businesses close to Cambridge. It is a
free-to-access online resource created by Cambridge Ahead and shows the vibrancy of
the Cambridge technology cluster:
www.camclustermap.com
14. Game-tech :
Major studios:
Indie developers (20+):
Education (HE/FE/Private):
Cambridge gaming
Communities:
Gamification: REACTOR
program in Tourism, transportation, IoT,
health care, education, smart cities…
&
Significant individuals
Game JamsHackathons,
Membership organisations:
Cambridge
Games Industry Ecosystem
1500+ professionals
300+ students
Investments:
15. Picture Your Knowledge
Virtual communication
/training tool
Data Challenge modeling
Family Friendly Visitor Application
Making chest
physiotherapy fun
With physio games
New transportation vehicles/systems
– a game to teach strategy to managers
Bioscientific game
16.
17. An industry network based in the UK
400+ companies and growing…
Academic & Industry
Automotive & Transport
Business
Connected Devices
Digital Delivery & Content
Future Devices
Healthcare
Legal
Location
Radio Technology
Security
Software / Open Source
Small Cell
User Experience
Virtual Networks
Wireless Heritage
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial IoT
Smart Cities
17 Special Interest groups – SIGs:
Contact: Eleanor Brash, Head of Marketing www.cambridgewireless.co.uk │@CambWireless │+44 (0) 1223 967 101
Cambridge Wireless is reaching out internationally, and we have members in:
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, India,
Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the USA
22. Deployed a City Wide ‘Internet of Things’ Infrastructure
• Real-Time Data Hub
• Static Data Hub
• LoRa WAN network
• SIGFOX network
• Sensors incl Air Quality, Traffic,
Public Transport, bins, etc.
23. Mobility – Current Work
• £3.2m Autonomous Shuttle – part of
Transport system
• Better re-usable transport data – static
and real time
• Traveller information – app’s, screens
and Variable message signs – nudge
behaviours
• Integration of bus, train, cycling and
walking – first steps toward ‘Mobility as
a Service’
• Network management – signals, etc.
24. “Thank you” to Isabelle Hurley,
Julie Lebouleux and Evelinne Regnard!
Contact Details:
Steven Wilson,
Head of Innovation
+44(0) 7525 176639
steven.wilson@cambridgeshirepeterborough-
32. Company Background
Machine learning and AI market leader
Founded in 2013 by world-leading
mathematicians
HQs in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK
5,000+ deployments worldwide
Over 32 global offices
“With Darktrace, AI in cyber
security has turned into action.”
Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Ovum
And in Peterborough we’re proud to be at the fore-front of this movement – one of the first cities in the world to commit to becoming a Circular City
At a practical level this means…. Making the most of all the materials & resources we have available locally – and minimising waste in doing this
If you take away anything from my presentation today, I hope it’s that the CE is not just about recycling!
It’s more than that… it starts by… rethinking how we use and value resources (moving away from a throwaway society )
Redesigning products and services so that they can be easily repaired…
Our approach in Peterborough is about listening to businesses such as yourselves and finding out about the real challenges we’re facing in the city… and then apply ce thinking
And this is how we developed our sharing platform – Share Peterborough. We listened… struggling to access the resources that they needed…
The Share Peterborough platform – allows businesses, charities, schools and community groups to share resources – whether that be old office furniture, meeting rooms…
New work on the platform is now live – Bondholder network group and now on your business profile you’ll be able to showcase the positive impacts you’re having – from diverting waste to landfill to donating time to a local community group…
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Dragonfly Hotel!
VALIDATION
Darktrace was founded by mathematicians and machine learning specialists
We bring a fundamentally new approach to cyber security.
We have over 5,000 customer installations
Headquartered in San Francisco, and Cambridge, UK
Over 32 locations globally. [APAC: Singapore]
DARKTRACE APPROACH – THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
So it’s clear that the legacy approach of rules and signatures or defending the perimeter is not sufficient.
Darktrace’s approach is different.
It’s inspired by the biological principles of the human immune system, and is designed to embrace the challenges we’ve just talked about.
We call it the Enterprise Immune System.
Our bodies are attacked all the time by new viruses and bacteria.
Of course, skin protects us to a certain extent. But the immune system is essential.
The immune system understands what ‘self’ is – it is continually learning what is part of ‘me’ and what is not part of ‘me’ – and can identify abnormal behaviors – and take action against them.
It expects intrusion, and responds routinely.
Darktrace works in a similar way. Like the human immune system, it is a self-learning system that is continually evolving and adapting to understand normal activity inside the network.
It can detect and stop threats before they do damage.
Our approach is underpinned by unsupervised machine learning and mathematics.
We typically take a hardware appliance and plug it in to the core of your network, where we configure a SPAN port from a core switch and passively ingest as much raw network traffic as possible.
We analyze 350 different dimensions for every user and device on your network and from those metrics we create behavioral models.
We call this a ‘pattern of life’. It is essentially a complex behavioral model for every person and device on your network.
From these highly detailed models of normal, the machine learning is able to detect even the most subtle behavioral shifts, and do this in real time.
We can display the most anomalous or threatening behaviors on our intuitive three-dimensional Threat Visualizer which I will demonstrate in a moment.
And this gives unprecedented visibility into the behaviors deep in the core of the network.
CUSTOMERS
All verticals: from retail, media, and hospitality, to healthcare, financial services, and energy and utilities.
We can also scale up to any size business. Our smallest customer is a two person hedge fund in New York, and our largest is one of the top 3 global banks with 400,000 employees and over 1 million devices.
CUSTOMERS
All verticals: from retail, media, and hospitality, to healthcare, financial services, and energy and utilities.
We can also scale up to any size business. Our smallest customer is a two person hedge fund in New York, and our largest is one of the top 3 global banks with 400,000 employees and over 1 million devices.