Is the UK set up to accelerate AI growth? Committee investigates
The Communications and Digital Committee takes evidence from businesses in the second session of its inquiry into scaling up: AI and creative tech.
Meeting details
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Scaling up - AI and creative tech
Chief Executive Officer at Luminance
co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Human Native AI
founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cleo AI
Chief Financial Officer at Speechmatics
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Scaling up - AI and creative tech
Managing Director, Founders at University of Cambridge
founding Partner at Form Ventures
Chief Executive Officer at Digital Catapult
Background
The Committee is exploring the scale-up scene and why the UK still struggles to turn innovative start-ups into successful scale-ups, and ensure their long-term expansion happens in the UK.
Possible areas for discussion
Possible areas for discussion with the first witness panel include:
- The potential for AI growth in the UK,
- the witnesses’ experience in operating growing AI companies and accessing growth capital, and
- the opportunities and challenges around accessing international markets while remaining based in the UK.
Possible areas for discussion with the second witness panel include:
- The UK’s AI funding ecosystem,
- the impact of government policy on increasing access for UK companies to compute, data and other core resources, and
- the implementation of the Government university spinout review.