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Overcoming Commercial Barriers to the Scaled Adoption of Digital Twins
Join us for the next video in our series on Tuesday. Tom Henderson and the CDBB team will host a live chat session at 10.30. Bring your questions.
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Welcome to the start of today’s Digital Twin Talk on Overcoming commercial barriers to the scaled adoption of digital twins and a big thank you to @Tom Henderson from Tech UK for joining us. We’re looking forward to your thoughts and questions related to Tom’s talk – and posing one or two of our own.
As with all our Twin Talks Tom is online from 10:30am to 11:30am to answer your questions. To join the discussion please add your thoughts by replying to the conversation thread.
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Hi @Tom Henderson thanks again for joining us today. To start the discussion while we wait for questions from our audience it would be great to get some more detail about Tech UK’s Digital Twin Working Group. It is great to see a collaborative and voluntary effort from your members to inform Tech UK’s strategic direction in this area. As a new working group, what has been your process for working with your members to agree your areas of focus? As a follow up where can people find more information of the working group and are you looking for more volunteers to advance your efforts?
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Hi @Tom Henderson, thank you for video. Can I ask what is the relationship between the TechUK digital twin work group and the DFTG and/or DTHub?
There sounds like there may be parallels between the taxonomy/architecture work proposed and work being done within the commons or around DT maturity as well as parallels between the case study collection you are doing and the DTHub DT Register.
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An open question to all in the discussion. What questions do you have for Tom about Tech UK’s perspective on the regulatory, investment and policy frameworks that underpin digital twin adoption in the UK?
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@Tom Henderson, in your opinion, what are the main commercial barriers your members and industry currently face when it comes to scaled adoption of digital twin?
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@Steven in terms of the balance between developing something common and maintaining a healthy competition this is something @Mark Enzer summarises excellently as “Agreeing on the rules of the game, then having a meaningful competition”. In the analogy a competition between a football team and a volleyball team would be meaningless. It is only when you have a common set of objectives and constraints that real competition exists.
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@Tom Henderson in your talk you mention that the Tech UK Digital Twin Working Group is responding to the CDBB Information Management Framework pathway. This is excellent to hear and exactly the kind of input the National Digital Twin programme is seeking. How has the IMF pathway been received by your working group members, and are there any insights can you provided on it as a pathway to interconnected digital twins?
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As a reminder to those on the discussion more information on the Information Management Framework can be found in our IMF pathway forum https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk/forums/forum/33-imf-pathway/
The consultation is open until the end of August and we would really value your input.
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Many thanks to @Tom Henderson and everybody on this chat for your comments and questions.
We are now coming to the end of our live discussion, but we will keep this space open and available until the end of the day in case you have further thoughts or questions. We will continue to monitor the discussion during that time, but on a less frequent basis.
We will also add Tom’s video, along with the videos from previous talks, to this page: https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk/digital-twin-talks/
Looking ahead, our next Digital Twin Talk: Demographic Twins for ‘What if?’ Scenario Planning by Mark Birkin of Alan Turing Institute
We will post the video of Mark’s talk on Monday evening and Mark will join us for a live forum discussion on the 18th August between 10:30 and 11:30 am BST.
We are keen for as many people as possible to benefit from this excellent series of talks and discussions. Please share a link to the DT Hub with your contacts and let them know about the Twin Talks.
Thank you all very much again
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Is the Digital Twin concept still a solution looking for a problem, or maybe a technology looking for a genuine ROI case?
I wonder what the results of a 1-5 agree/disagree poll would be. Especially filtered by the vested interest of the participants. -
Hi @Tom Henderson,
Really good video, apologies I missed the session earlier in the week.
Have techUK come across anyone in the tech community thinking about the ‘big picture’ and the value from scaled and / or federated digital twins?
Traditional business approaches promote focusing on a specific problem or challenge to develop an initial business case to get moving, though on an individual basis the business case might not stack up, I wonder if this is restricting value and progress…….
As an example the World Economic Forum recently stated that Covid19 is expected to cost between $8.1 trillion and $15.8 trillion, yet the preventative measures are estimated between $22.2 billion and $30.7 billion annually……
Given we know the cost of climate change from previous extreme weather events, do we need to ‘think big’ about the value creation that Digital Twin’s can bring at the macro level to unlock the investment at the micro level. This often gets referred to as ‘boiling the ocean’ (I am accused of this on an almost daily basis ?) and is certainly counter intuitive through a traditional business lens, though I do wonder if we are constraining progress by thinking to small.
Interested to get your thoughts on this, though appreciate it is a rather thorny topic!
Regards
Kevin
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