The Manchester Prize @AIforNetZero
The Manchester Prize @AI for Net Zero Conference
Find out more about the Manchester Prize at our conference. We will have a speaker from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology introducing the ‘AI for Energy 1’ session on Tuesday 17 December. The Manchester Prize team will be available in the conference hall to answer questions.
What is the Manchester Prize?
The Manchester Prize is a multi-million-pound challenge prize from the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to reward UK-led breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for public good.
Every year for a decade, the prize is rewarding innovations that will help to transform the lives of people across the UK and continue to secure the UK’s place as a global leader in cutting-edge innovation.
The Manchester Prize is a challenge Prize. Challenge prizes support open innovation with a level playing field for established and previously untested innovators alike, enabling the most promising ideas to progress with funding and expert capacity-building support. Science and technology make their greatest advances when multiple ideas from diverse perspectives are applied to solving the same problem.
Manchester Prize: Clean Energy Systems
The second Manchester Prize launched on Tuesday 19th November 2024 and runs until March 2026. Up to 10 of the most promising solutions will each be supported with £100,000 in seed funding up to £60,000 of compute and additional non-financial support to develop solutions capable of winning the £1 million grand prize in spring 2026.
The Manchester Prize will reward UK-led breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that will accelerate action towards the UK’s ambitious clean energy and net zero goals.
AI has the power to transform energy systems, however, despite rapid progress in AI technologies, the application of AI to clean energy systems has not kept pace. The Manchester Prize is incentivising the development and deployment of AI in this space to support the UK in realising its mission to be a clean energy superpower.
