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Happy New Year!
Who are you? – I’m Francis Heritage, a Royal Navy veteran and Business Development Manager for the Defence arm of Faculty, an Applied AI company based in London.
What is your industry and profession? Faculty Science Ltd (Faculty) is the UK’s largest independent AI company (we recently outgrew the ‘SME’ label!). We provide a full range of data fusion/data science capabilities and provide bespoke AI services across every use case you can think of, including digital models, shadows and twins. We recently launched a new product called ‘Frontier’, which creates computational twins of complex business processes for the purpose of improving decision making. (faculty.ai/frontier)
Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Professionally, to better understand DT use-cases and subsequent applications of AI/ML.
Why have you decided to join the DTHub? To find potential partners and clients where our AI/ML experience might help to make a difference; to network; and to increase my own knowledge of an increasingly important field that is rapidly evolving!
Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? The Defence Digital Twin event in Nov 2022.
Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? We have completed a computational Digital Twin of an NHS trust to improve A&E flow-through, as profiled in The Times in Dec 2022. It allows hospital managers to scenario plan and predict the likely outcome of each patient as they arrive, leading to a more efficient use of bedspace and other assets. We are also applying this product to other Government and non-Government clients. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-cure-for-bed-blocking-can-predict-hospital-stay-fpvjn5ql6