Innovate to Accelerate Recovery Conference

The aviation industry is recovering from the biggest setback in its history. At the same time, the climate crisis has been pushed to the fore and mandates set for net zero operations. Industry players can work in isolation and reinvent the wheel independent of one another or can come together to achieve far more than the sum of the parts in collaboration – hear how from:

The UK is known globally as a leader in aviation. However, the race to net zero is global so now is the time to act, and for our airports to embrace the innovation of our supply chain. Hear from one of Connected Places Catapult’s challenge airports about why they are in our accelerator, enabling innovative procurement, and from two of our SME cohort about the benefits of demonstrating their technology in this way.

The Future Aviation Security Solutions (FASS) programme was designed to encourage, fund, and support the development of innovative solutions to deliver a step change in aviation security. The programme worked closely with stakeholders to remove barriers to innovation and create quicker routes to market. This included supporting testing and trialling of aviation security solutions at all stages of development. Over the previous 6 years FASS has held nine themed competitions to find solutions to specific challenges and funded 146 projects, four of the successful suppliers are going to talk about their solutions and delivering innovation to aviation security.

To understand how Future Aviation Security Solutions can support the transport network of the future, Connected Places Catapult has been exploring the key future security challenges within cross-modal transport and how this impacts opportunities to transport security innovations. This in turn would ensure the safety and reliability of the transport network, and sustainable inter-modal activity, thus allowing for UK’s businesses, transport users, and goods to travel around the country – enabling continued wider economic growth.

In 2016, TSA’s ITF was founded to improve the agency’s ability to close capability gaps, improve industry’s understanding of the TSA operational environment and demonstrate emerging solutions in live airports. In this session, TSA ITF Leadership will be providing an overview of their mission, how industry can engage with ITF, current demonstration portfolio, and plans for the future.