Automotive heavyweights and high-tech digital sector

Over 120 delegates descended on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford to learn how the automotive sector could benefit from collaboration with London’s digital sector to capitalise on state-of-the-art developments in digital engineering and gaming technology.

“The whole day went extremely well”, remarked DETC programme director Jon Horsley, “with really meaningful engagement between the digital and automotive sectors. We have started the snowball rolling with the launch and now it’s back to the day job! We have lots to do to help those businesses and academia make the most of the excellent new contacts and creative ideas they left the event with yesterday.”

A unique industry-academic venture within the new Loughborough University London campus, the DETC will focus on both product development and advanced manufacturing engineering.

It will create and use virtual engineering tools and techniques to accelerate the development, test and manufacture of automotive propulsion systems.

By ‘power training’ engineers in applications including digital engineering, gaming, big-data and high-power computing, DETC will strive to help solve some of the upcoming challenges facing automotive in the fields of design, development, manufacturing, testing, validation and verification.