{"id":82607,"date":"2017-07-17T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4dff94c322b26a7e2865c7b2da6756a8"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:53:40","slug":"news-story-accelerator-innovation-network-event-27-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82607","title":{"rendered":"News story: Accelerator Innovation Network event: 27 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Presentation slides now added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The event took place at the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millenniumhotels.com\/en\/london\/the-chelsea-harbour-hotel\/?cid=gplaces\">Chelsea Harbour Hotel<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>Technical experts provided specific information about the themed competition: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/accelerator-competition-improving-crowd-resilience\">\u2018Improving crowd resilience\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2uM4uRm\">View the presentation slides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Home Office (<abbr title=\"Home Office\">HO<\/abbr>) competition, delivered through the Defence and Security Accelerator, seeks innovative or novel ideas to reduce the threat from the terrorist or malicious use of explosives and weapons in public spaces by using the crowd as a sensor. We envisage these capabilities and systems being used in crowded spaces, such as shopping centres, sports stadia and entertainment venues.<\/p>\n<p>This competition seeks proposals for technologies, systems and behavioural sciences, as part of a whole systems approach to improve the detection of explosives and weapons within crowded spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Pennycook, Accelerator Innovation Partner, briefed on what the Accelerator is all about, our funding opportunities and how to work with us.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vWUMtX\">View the presentation slides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Bruce Hardie, Accelerator Innovation Partner, talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/defence-and-security-accelerator-submit-your-research-proposal\">how to submit a great proposal<\/a> to the Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vkYgJZ\">View the presentation slides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attendees were able to book a face-to-face meeting with Accelerator staff and subject matter experts to discuss potential proposals to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/accelerator-competition-improving-crowd-resilience\">\u2018Improving crowd resilience\u2019 themed competition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were networking opportunities with other potential bidders, current suppliers, Accelerator team, government stakeholders  and crowded places operators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_3167\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Defence and Security Accelerator<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">GO1<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBuilding 5<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPorton Down<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">Salisbury<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"region\">Wiltshire<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SP4 0JQ<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:accelerator@dstl.gov.uk\">accelerator@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone <\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)1980 950000 option 3\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence and Security Accelerator held an event in London on 27 July 2017 to provide more information on the themed competition: Improving crowd resilience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83087,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82607\/revisions\/83087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}