Digital Catapult – Helping Launch, Support and Grow UK-Based Fintech Companies & Startups

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Richard Jacobs

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4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Digital Catapult works across a range of technology layers helping SMEs grow and scale faster as well as helping larger corporations roll out digital products and services.
From artificial intelligence to virtual or augmented reality, Blockchain based applications, smart contracts and networks, they are working on the most recent discoveries in the Fintech world to help grow the UK digital economy.
Sam Davies, a Lead Technologist at Digital Catapult, is researching the use of blockchain & smart contract technology to integrated with the internet of things (IoT) and provide services. He touched upon the idea for developers to create a game using smart contracts and other up and coming ideas.
Even if you don't live in the UK or have an interest in the UK, companies that assist and incubate Fintech and other technologies may exist in your country or locale – it's worth a listen.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here
0:14.3	means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the
0:18.8	corner from Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.4	Hello this is Richard Jacobs from Future Tech Podcast around the corner almost
0:30.6	here technology and today I'm talking with Digital Catapolt, the company, Sam Davies.
0:37.0	Sam, how are you doing? Can you hear me okay?
0:40.0	I can indeed.
0:41.0	Hello, how's it going?
0:42.0	Yeah. I know you're over in the UK so it's getting into the evening so thank you for doing this.
0:48.0	Yeah Sam could you um would you mind giving listeners a brief overview of what digital
0:54.5	catapult does? Sure, so the digital catapult, we are an applied research
1:01.0	and innovation center, primarily based in London in the UK but with
1:05.6	regional centers throughout the rest of the UK. So at the digital catapult
1:10.8	we're part of what's called the catapult network.
1:14.6	So this has been set up in part funded by the UK government to try and speed up innovation and technical adoption in a number of key areas.
1:25.0	So for example there's a catapult looking at high-value manufacturing,
1:30.0	so looking at new manufacturing techniques,
1:32.0	there's a catapult looking at renewable energy, another
1:36.2	one looking at future cities planning, transport systems, cell therapy.
1:40.9	And at the digital catapult, we primarily focus more on computer science related problems and
1:47.0	computer science related technologies.
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