Katherine Courtney, Strategic Advisor and former UK Government Enterprise Director and Space Agency CEO, said: “Data-driven innovation is a key enabler of business growth and core to the UK’s Industrial Strategy. DRIVA presents a great opportunity for innovators to generate ideas for exciting new applications and services - and to find partners and funding to get them off the ground.”
Morgan McCarthy, Managing Director CDO Partners, which helps put data at the heart of business models, said: “The opportunity to work with world-class academic expertise at the Å·ÃÀÐÔ°®Æ¬ and an organisation of the size and complexity of Gatwick Airport will enable us to develop truly transformational solutions to large scale challenges.”
Anyone interested in taking part in the programme can register at DRIVA arts DRIVA.
The DRIVA project is receiving funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020, established by the European Union, the Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. It is also supported by public funds from the Arts Council England.