Draft Agenda
10:00 - Welcome & Introduce Steve Curtis - Sarah Duckering, Director of Research & Innovation Services
10:05 - UK Shared Prosperity Fund: How will it be administered? A Local Authority’s perspective - Steve Curtis, Bid Manager, Portsmouth City Council
10:30 - Setting the scene - Sarah Duckering, Director of Research & Innovation Services
10.45 - UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda, and what it means for UoP - Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser
11:00 - UoP success then (regeneration funding) and now (place-based funding) - Pam Jones, Regional Development Manager
11:15 - Solent Freeport opportunities - Guy Hembury, Deputy Director (Commercialisation & External Partnerships), RIS
11:30 - Summary: What makes a good place-based funded project?
11:45 - Workshop opportunities
a. Creative and digital and heritage
b. Health and medical technologies
c. Clean growth/ net zero/ environmental sustainability
d. Space and satellites
e. Security and policing
12:15 - Breakout session feedback & Next steps