Director of Technology - AI

Description Digital Catapult is a technology innovation organisation. We accelerate the practical application of deep technologies to equip the UK to be future ready. We partner with businesses, investors and academia to identify valuable opportunities and create market pathways, ensuring the UK is future ready, supporting economic growth. Digital Catapult helps deep tech businesses grow by showing what is possible, positive and productive with advanced technology including AI, Quantum, Advanced Connectivity Technologies, IoT, Immersive and distributed ledger technologies. AI is one of the defining technologies of our age, a key part of the Digital Catapult strategy, and a great opportunity for the economy of the UK, with the thriving research and innovation ecosystem. Reporting to the CTO, the Director of Technology AI will play a critical role in leading the AI portfolio of work, defining and driving the technology roadmap for AI and related areas, creating and delivering collaborative research, development and technology translation programmes with university and industry partners and innovators. The role provides an opportunity to both investigate new and emerging AI technologies with academia and innovators, and also experiment with more practical adoption with end users and industry. To both experiment with new capabilities and understand the practical implications and limitations of AI technology and feed that back to the UK ecosystem, and policy makers. WHAT YOU LL ..... full job details .....