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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve got a 10 minute presentation slot on a visit from BEIS later in the week. If there’s anything IoT related that you’d like me to flag, please let me know ASAP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The general steer from the Centre is “Other than an overall interest in GovTech, they have not been very helpful in specifying what they want (for any of the sessions) – but have identified web and data science
as things they are interested in. I suggest that you identify some areas of research/capability you think might be of interest to Government in terms of their own operations (and yes, I know this is a bit vague!)”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#00557F">Dr Geoff Merrett</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#00557F">Associate Professor | <a href="http://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#00557F;text-decoration:none">Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Computing</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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