High Growth AI Accelerator for BridgeAI (UK)

The theme of the call focuses on addressing critical aspects of the creative industries with solutions that can demonstrate technological innovation and redefine the concept of entertainment in the digital era. They are interested in proposals spanning the entire spectrum of the creative industries, encompassing areas such as music, digital media, film, television, and beyond.

They invite innovators to tackle specific commercial challenges, developed in collaboration with industry leaders. Applicants are encouraged to choose a challenge aligned with their expertise, as each presents a distinct opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the landscape of AI and ML solutions in the creative sector.

Selected businesses will benefit from collaborating closely with industry players in the sector, access to cloud credits, technical and business expertise from the valued partners, strategic and technical guidance, holistic diagnostics, tailored support, to accelerate their product readiness.

This programme is the second accelerator delivered by Digital Catapult and part of BridgeAI, an Innovate UK national programme that seeks to stimulate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies in agriculture, creative, construction, and transport.

BridgeAI is jointly delivered by Innovate UK KTN, Digital Catapult, The Alan Turing Institute, British Standards Institution and the Hartree Centre and funded by Innovate UK.

The Challenges

• Digital media challenges
• Leisure industry challenges
• Radio media challenges
• Music Industry Challenges
• Your idea for the partners

Why apply?

• Industry access and expertise
  • Collaborate with industry challenge owners to address prominent challenges in the creative sector and benefit from their transport networks and expertise.
• Computational power access
  • Subject to availability and third-party terms, get access to computational power and credits provided by the technology partners.
• Holistic diagnostics
  • Diagnostic sessions with experts from the Digital Catapult Team and Industry Challenge Owners to address current AI/ML technological, commercial and strategic needs.
• Tailored support
  • Hands-on support to accelerate data and product readiness; and to develop and improve product, technical, business and ethical roadmaps.
• Workshops and masterclasses
  • Group sessions covering diverse topics, including data readiness and maturity, regulatory compliance, investment readiness and ethical best practices.
• Showcase
  • Exclusive demo day to present your progress to industry representatives, potential investors and customers.

Who should apply?

The programme is inviting applications from UK-registered startups, scaleups and SMEs that:

• Have existing or new AI-enabled services or AI-integrated infrastructure solutions that can demonstrate to solve one of the challenges of the call
• Have strong technical teams
• Have available data and an immediate need for computation.

For more information, visit Digital Catapult.