1. Agenda Time Activity 1410 Welcome and introductions 1415
TICsand the ‘straw man’ FISTIC
1445
Thinking about and capturing important questions
1500
Addressing questions - discussions on the case for a FISTIC
1530
Short break
1540
Revisiting questions
1700
Summary
1730
Drinks and nibbles

2. On tables – to think about....
Its five years time
Your organisation is working successfully with the TIC
What are the key questions and critical issues that will get you to this point?
Think for a few minutes then as a table decide on 2-3 key points.

3. Burning issues Standards and interoperability - can a TIC create this?
How do we collaborate and compete – framework/blueprint. Who does what within UK plc.? On what kind of things would you want to collaborate through a TIC?
Structure and organisation of the TIC – ring-fenced, collaboration?
How will the IPR model work?
How do balance large global objectives vs need to have a positive impact on the UK economy (global vs UK)
What is the mission of the TIC? Strategic objective – success in UK terms – how to define? What is the first challenge it should address and how will the TIC make a difference?
What is the 900Bn equivalent in the UK? – how to retain knowledge and benefit in the UK?
Strong leadership? – how do you attract larger global companies (who may choose to buy what they need?)
What’s the output of the TIC ? – a product or service or a big challenge led project? What would it need to offer for you to want to put resource into it?
What is the appropriate long term sustainable funding mechanism?
Alignment with EPSRC funding and intnl sources of funding – viewed and benchmarked vs universities?

4. 4. IPR Agree among companies taking part
TIC will want to retain some preferably
Generally open and flexible
Not measured but means to an end
This sensible/flexible approach sounds most appropriate
Trust difficult with flexible model – IP model is key to dealing with complexity
Clarity upfront is important.
more work needed to think this through.

5. 2. Collaboration vs competition
Some things you may prefer to fund yourself
Could buy directly from the TIC in this case
But key point is collaboration
Retain later stage work in own labs. Collaborate on early stage work
Which aspects of technical scope would your company be interested in collaborating?
Assembling different parts of eco-system (not about early vs late stage)
There isn’t a trusted place where pre-competitive collaboration can happen in a structured way.
Standards are key area for collaboration – how does that benefit UK plc though?

6. 2. On what kind of things would you want to collaborate through a TIC?
Cross-sector value of a TIC is key
Brokering, creating communities, reducing barriers, overcoming lack of depth, ability to talk and execute, independence
Cross-sector multi/cross-discipline is important
Eg Security, comms, social studies.
Pre-competitive is important aspect of this
Is it important for my company – yes
Wide adoption of technologies
First step of making the solution happen through companies working together (eg mobile payment systems)
External impact, policy impact
Driving open data underpinning info economy
Facilities – end to end (broker or create new ones)
Creating markets
Evolution – starter challenges – what is vision in 10 years time as measure of its success?

7. 6. What is the first challenge it should address and how will the TIC make a difference?
Can we establish some sort of long term statement eg:
UK economy has access to the services necessary to underpin future networked economy
UK well placed to create global solutions..
Need a short-term win to justify existence of TIC
Encourage others to join
Clearly focussed big impact project
TIC will help to assemble lateral co-operation
TIC needs to be featured to facilitate that
Needs to create visible co-operation between companies
To demonstrate
eg 1 – situational awareness and put into non-military environment
eg 2 – m-commerce/trust/security on web – inherently horizontal – wide ranging issues. May not be new technology development – but new business models
? Green/sustainable systems ? – how can help other sectors.. although does this narrow opportunity?

8. 9. What would it need to offer for you to want to put resource into it?
Leading technologists in IT
Strategic leadership – TIC itself should define directions it want to go in
Which help UK economy
As a leader – not follower
Self-perpetuating
2 governance models
Large investors who put most money in
vs consult with wide range of stakeholders then move in directions where investment would follow.
Also need access to technology, tools, data, SW and HW tools
Access to customers – to encourage involvement
Resources to help with regulation/policy
Has any analysis been done on leading candidates (location/company/research park) - haven’t been clear enough to be able to define yet – but should converge quite quickly.
Wide federated industry – no single big player
Some idea

9. Name______________Organisation_________________(optional)
What needs to happen next?
Is what’s needed here a TIC, or something else?