
The panel
- Dan Martin – Elmtronics
- Professor Liana Cipcigan – Cardiff University
- John Baker – Simply Do Ideas
- Auroskanda Vepari – IPFT Fuels
- William Hartley – Asirius
- Ralf Kernchen – Accelogress
- Charlie Alexander – Ultraleap
- Parvez Akhtar – Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems, Bath University
- Florian Wagner – Clean Cold Power
- Jack Withinshaw – Airspeeder
- Colin Stakem – Sector Lead for Advanced Manufacturing, SETsquared Scale-Up Programme
In summary
Many challenges lie ahead for the automotive industry – technological, industrial and legislative – but its transformation is well on the way and there is much opportunity for those able to support the transition.SETsquared is establishing a network of ambitious companies in the automotive industry who want to scale-up and raise investment for their R&D. Colin Stakem, Sector Lead for Advanced Manufacturing from the SETSquared Scale-Up Programme:“The Scale-up Programme is a partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey and it offers funded support to help develop collaborative R&D bids. It starts with a series of one-day innovation workshops to enable SMEs to further enhance their business model and establish relationships with our university partners.“The Scale-Up Programme is linked to an investor network and we have an online platform of investors, which forges links to individual projects. Throughout the year, we organise investor showcase events to give innovative SMEs the opportunity to meet and pitch to investors. This is further supported through a series of focused networking opportunities at industry events with leading speakers.”Related and recommended

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