DT Hub launches programme to fast-track targeted digital twin solutions

The UK’s Digital Twin Hub is launching a new programme to fast-track digital twin technologies and rapidly build a market for products and services.

Gemini Firebox is designed to provide a space for collaboration between digital twin innovators and infrastructure owners. It allows real-world application of digital twin technologies with innovators able to refine their solutions alongside infrastructure owners to ensure they meet industry needs.

Driving digital twin innovation

The programme marks the next step in the DT Hub’s mission to provide a network for finding partners and collaborators and a place for learning and sharing experiences to drive innovation and develop expertise to advance digital twins.

The hub was launched by the Centre for Digital Britain in 2020 at the University of Cambridge and in 2022 transitioned to a multi-sector industry and Catapult Network partnership housed at the Connected Places Catapult (CPC).

“Companies like ours, doing innovative cutting-edge stuff, don’t have the platform to get in front of and be taken seriously by large organisations. This programme provides that platform”

Gemini Firebox aims to help innovators stand out as a suitable partner company in the digital twin innovation landscape and increase the value of their offer, collaborating with a group of mutually beneficial innovators. It will also enable them to amplify their pitch with a benefit-led transformation story and marketing toolkit for stakeholders to buy into and share.

It seeks to deliver real opportunities within a short timeframe via the following:

• Direct access to major infrastructure owners and decision-makers 
• Collaboration opportunities with other innovative companies 
• A platform to showcase solutions to a wider audience 
• Marketing support to articulate value propositions 
• Opportunity to present at the CPC Summit on 19 March 2025.

The initiative addresses a critical challenge in the industry of connecting cutting-edge innovators with established infrastructure giants. Toby Mills, CEO of Entopy, developer of an AI-powered digital twin platform, said: “Companies like ours, doing innovative cutting-edge stuff, don’t have the platform to get in front of and be taken seriously by large organisations. This programme provides that platform.”