MUKSW Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition Round 6 (£30M) Event 26th Feb, Plymouth (face to face only)

DATE: Weds 26th Feb

TIME: 09:50 – 15:00

VENUE: Marine Station, Plymouth, Artillery Pl, Plymouth PL4 0LU

This event will provide a briefing on the £30M Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition round 6 plus a whole day of case studies, research and business support. Sign up now as places are limited.

The event will be from 10am to 3pm followed by networking drinks. There will be no dial in option. The idea here is to allow businesses to network and form consortia for SW bids.

Agenda

9:50 Welcome from Prof Deborah Greaves, Professor in Ocean Engineering, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth

10.00 Introduction from Maritime UK South West, Sheldon Ryan, Chief Executive Officer

10.15 Decarbonising Maritime: Feasibility and Pre-Deployment Trials. Supporting South West businesses preparing to go to sea with clean powered vessels to gather the right data to prove performance and compliance, and helping innovators to maximise chances of engineering and business success. Prof Chris Smith, University of Exeter, Director Centre for Future Clean Mobility

10.30 CMDC 6 – Competition details and how to apply

11:00 Enterprise Accelerator & creating value through IP protection, Joe Bryon Edmond, Foot Anstey

11:15 SW Alternative Fuel Demand Study, Richard Pemberton, Solis Marine

11:30 Break

12:00 Innovate UK Business Growth, Angelo Spencer Smith

12:15 Clean Maritime at University of Plymouth, Sarah Fear

12:30 R&D Tax Credits

12:45 Horizon Europe, Louise Mothersole

13:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 GW-SHIFT  and SETsquared connects academic, civic and industry partners to maximise the enormous potential of the South West’s and South Wales hydrogen ecosystem,  Karen Brooks, Deputy Director, GW-SHIFT, Yuchen Gu, Sector Specialist, SETsquared

13:30 Growth Forge MarineTech Accelerator programme, Dan Pritchard, Tech SW

13:45 Plymouth and South Devon Freeport, Eifion Jones

14:00 Supporting Zero Emission Fuels and Zero Emission Vessels: Simon Cheeseman, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

14:15 Application of energy saving technologies (EST) to a tanker, John Buckingham, Chief Mechanical Engineer, BMT

14:30 Pitch your business opportunity: Stand up and give a 5 minute pitch

15:00 Close