At the Frontier Tech Hub, we believe that playfulness, brainstorming, and testing are important ingredients for innovation. With that in mind, the goal of our Ideas Generation Workshop wasn’t for FCDO staff to create refined or excellent ideas that could actually be applications to our programme.

There are no easy fixes when it comes to piloting frontier technologies to progress on global challenges. There are, however, lots of difficult questions: How do we best engage local governments to scale ideas? How do we know the technology is suited to the problem we’re trying to solve? How do we build a solution that is sustainable, outside the comfort of grant funding?

Here are five pieces of advice for current and future pioneers: things to consider when filling out a Livestreaming application form, or building a team and kicking off a pilot journey.