Looking to the Future: Emerging Trends for
the Next Decade and Beyond.
Zero Carbon/ Hydrogen Based Economy.
The Common Good.
Next Generation Networked Systems.
Applications of digital technologies in construction with
focus on VR.
Robotics Workshop by SeeByte and NOC.
Professional Development Workshop.
Sub-plenary and Panel Discussion.
And many more exciting talks.
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Theo Priestley
With a career spanning 20 years, Theo is recognised as
an advisor and sought after keynote speaker and
evangelist on emerging business and technology trends;
identifying and tracking the impacts of emerging
technologies on society and industry globally with a
view to explaining both the positive and negative
effects on today's culture and the future. He has worked
with clients including Siemens, Bosch, TIBCO, HPE,
Mannai, Marketing Society Scotland, Edinburgh City
Council, Generation Media, Aon, WEF, IDC, Welch Allyn
and others to provide keynote engagements, content
marketing, and innovation workshops. Theo has also
mentored and coached early stage entrepreneurs on
marketing and product management strategies at two
leading technology accelerators. He has written over 100
articles and provided commentary for publications
including WIRED, Forbes, Venturebeat, FT Raconteur,
Huffington Post, The European, GigaOM, and has appeared
on both radio and UK national television.
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Julie Adair
Following a leadership career in the media (BBC, Disney
and others) Julie Adair joined GCU in 2014 to develop a
digital social innovation initiative which aims to
identify, showcase and connect social impact projects to
each other and into academia for learning, teaching,
research and community engagement. In 2016 this project,
now called Common Good First (CGF), was funded by the
Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education call, and
Julie now leads a consortium of twelve Higher Education
Institutions - 6 in Europe and 6 in South Africa to
deliver a digital platform for CGF as well as a series of
digital labs and a digital storytelling toolkit.
She also represents GCU as a member of All Digital, a
Brussels-based group which aims to enhance digital skills
across Europe and is GCU’s Ashoka U Change Leader
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Dr Christos Anagnostopoulos
Dr Christos (Chris) Anagnostopoulos is a Lecturer (Assistant
Professor) in Distributed and Pervasive Computing in the School
of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. His expertise
is in the areas of network-centric pervasive & adaptive
systems and in-network information processing in large-scale
distributed sensor/UxV/Edge networks. He has received funding
for his research by the EC/H2020 grants, Marie Sk?odowska-Curie
(MSCA), UK/EPSRC, and the industry. Dr Anagnostopoulos is an
author of over 130 refereed scientific journals/conferences. He
is founding director of the Essence(Pervasive & Distributed
Intelligence) and co-founding director of the Networked Systems
Research (NETLAB). Dr Anagnostopoulos before joining Glasgow was
an Assistant Professor at Ionian University and Adjunct
Assistant Professor at the University of Athens and University
of Thessaly. He has held postdoctoral positions at University of
Glasgow and University of Athens in the areas of in-network
processing systems in pervasive & mobile computing
environments. He holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computing Science,
University of Athens. He is an associate fellow of the HEA,
member of ACM and IEEE.
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Dr Mohamed Abdel-Wahab
Mohamed is a Senior Lecturer in Construction Engineering
Management and fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is
passionate about applied research projects for supporting the
digital transformation of the construction industry for enhancing
both training and practice. His portfolio of applied research is
in excess of £0.5-million which was funded by various
organisations, such as: CITB, Morrison Construction (Galliford
Try), Thomson Bethune, Scottish Government, European Regional
Development Fund, UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Skills
Development Scotland, Energy Skills Partnership, and Scottish
Funding Council. His research won a number of industry awards,
such as: 2-CIOB awards, namely: Premier award in the Digital
Innovation category; and Highly Commended award in the Innovation
in Education & Training category. Recently, his collaborative
project on VR for H&S training was a finalist in the Water
Industry Awards 2018 and featured in industry press. He was
recently a panellist at #ScotlandBuild 2019 discussing the state
of digital transformation in the construction industry.
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Andrea Munafò
“Autonomous underwater vehicles: exploring the ocean from
coast to the deep sea”
71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water. Nevertheless, oceans
are mostly unknown, with more than 80% still unmapped, unobserved
and unexplored. Oceanographic robots and increasingly sophisticated
sensors have enabled to measure places not easily accessible through
conventional means. These new systems provide complementary
information with respect to what is available from ships by acting
as force-multipliers. They can provide ground truth for satellite
remote sensing and extend measurements along the 3rd spatial
dimension—depth. Endowed with on-board intelligence and the
capability to move and/or adapt to the environment, oceanographic
robotics has the potential to improve the quality and persistence of
observations, at a fraction of the cost of additional ships.
Moreover, by building networks of smartly interconnected sensors,
these robotic and autonomous systems can overcome their intrinsic
limitations and provide a step change in our ability to understand
the oceans. This work will show some examples on how the new robots
are revolutionising our way of exploring and monitoring the ocean.
Bio Andrea Munafò (M’09) received the B.Sc. degree in
computer science engineering, the M.Sc. degree in automation
engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in automation, robotics and
bioengineering, all from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in
2002, 2005, and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2013, he was a
postdoctoral student with the Inter-university Centre of Integrated
Systems for the Marine Environment, Italy. He was with the NATO STO
Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spezia, Italy,
from 2013 to 2016 as a Research Scientist, working in the field of
cooperative underwater robotics and underwater communications. From
2017 to 2019, he has been a Principal Engineer with the Marine
Autonomous and Robotics System Department, National Oceanography
Center, Southampton, U.K., where he led the development of
groundbreaking on-board autonomy solutions for ocean exploration. In
2019 he has joined SeeByte, ltd. where he is leading the company
autonomy programmes to deliver the next generation of collaborative
marine autonomy. His research interests include marine robotics,
underwater acoustics and sonar systems, adaptive planning and
sampling.
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Derek Alexander-Wilson
My focus is to create ways for us all to become genuinely
sustainable, protect biodiversity and ensure future generations can
do the same, whilst still enjoying the freedom and choices that
democratic societies are based on.
I believe that transitioning from a fossil fuel based economy to a
Hydrogen based economy is the only way to achieve these goals and
the process will become the next industrial / technological
revolution bringing increased equality, prosperity and security to
all.
Three important steps are required:
(1) Over a 3 year (max) period transfer global fossil fuel
subsidies to the Hydrogen / zero carbon industry.
(2) Within 2 years implement UN based legally binding commitments
for each member country to spend at least 5% of GDP on zero carbon /
zero pollution energy generation / distribution biodiversity
enhancing solutions using proven technology.
(3) Implement UN emergency resolution to enshrine in law "Ecocide"
legal protection for the environment and biodiversity as outlined here.
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Lynn Tomkins
Session-I (2:00 - 2:45 pm) Boost your Career in 60 minutes.
Lynn is a highly experienced operator in the skills environment.
She is Chair of Skills4, the UK's leading provider of the award
winning Career Development Programmes for women as well as other
specialist programmes which deliver measurable business improvements
for high performing companies by addressing gender and diversity
balance within business.
Lynn, who was operations director for SEMTA, the sector skills
council for science, engineering and advanced manufacturing, is also
one of Skills 4’s leading executive trainers and coaches. She works
with companies such as Rolls Royce, Atkins, BAE Systems, and Balfour
Beatty, delivering training and coaching.
Lynn holds various Board positions, she is a Board and founding
member of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) as well a
Board member of Policy Connect, the leading network of Parliamentary
groups; research commissions; forums and campaigns working to inform
and improve UK public policy. Previously a director of Hexham
Racecourse, Lynn is a member of Women in Racing.
She was the first ever woman Vice President of the Ship Building,
Ship Repair Association and is also the current Vice Chair of
Northumberland College.
Talk-II, Panel Discussion (21 Sep 11:30 am - 1:00 pm) Data Care -
how to really look after your data to create value.
Jo founded Effini, a data science company, in 2017 with aim of
making data accessible to everyone. Effini helps companies develop
and deliver their data strategies, whilst building data skills
across the board, from school children to practising data
scientists. Jo started her data journey with a PhD in Astrophysics
and after a brief spell as a software engineer, moved into financial
services for the next 15 years. She has covered a breadth of data
roles from risk model development, to systems implementation, data
governance and analytics leadership. She also sits on the boards of
The Datalab and Gamstop.
Talk-II, Panel Discussion (21 Sep 11:30 am - 1:00 pm) Data Care -
how to really look after your data to create value.
Hadi Heidari (PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA) is an Assistant Professor
(Lecturer) in the School of Engineering and lead of the
Microelectronics Lab (meLAB) at the University of Glasgow, United
Kingdom.
Dr Heidari is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Board of Governors (2018-2020), IEEE Sensors Council Member-at-Large
(2020-2021), Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of Higher Education
Academy (FHEA). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of
Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology and IEEE
Access, Editor of Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, and Guest
Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.
He is the General Chair of 27th IEEE ICECS 2020, Technical Program
Chair of IEEE PRIME'19, and serves on the organising committee of
several conferences including the UK Circuits and Systems Workshop
(UKCAS), UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET) Conference, IEEE
SENSORS’16 and ’17, NGCAS’17, BioCAS’18, PRIME’15, ISCAS'23, and the
organiser of several special sessions on the IEEE Conferences. His
research has been funded by major research councils and funding
organizations including the European Commission, EPSRC, Royal
Society and Scottish Funding Council. He is part of the €8.4M EU
H2020 FET-Proactive project on “Hybrid Enhanced Regenerative
Medicine Systems (HERMES)”.
Dr Heidari has authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed
publications in tier-1 journals or conference proceedings and acts
as a reviewer for several journals and conferences. He has been the
recipient of a number of awards including the 2019 IEEE Sensors
Council Young Professional Award, the Rewards for Excellence prize
from the University of Glasgow (2018), IEEE CASS Scholarship
(NGCAS’17 conference), Silk Road Award from the Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC’16), Best Paper Award from the IEEE ISCAS’14
conference, Gold Leaf Award from the IEEE PRIME’14 Conference. He
was a research visitor with the University of Macau, China, and
McGill University, Canada.
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Shufan Yang
Shufan completed her PhD at the Advance Processor Technologies
Group from September 2006 to March 2010 at the University of
Manchester, where she was involved in inventing a revolutionary
biological chip in the SpiNNaker project. she also worked on the
Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots
(IM-Clever) project at the University of Ulster from August 2010
until October 2012 as a postdoc research associate for building a
novel inhibitory control system using multiple FPGAs. She joined the
University of Wolverhampton (Nov/2012-Aug/2017) as a senior lecturer
and led a research team, working on artificial neuron network
implementation in hardware for an assistive tumor detection system
on Ultra scale FPGAs. Traditional AI system were based on human
experts’ defined the tasks and evaluated by the predefined metrics,
which leads to an unstable system when exposed on context changes
and dynamic environment. To tackle these situations, her research
interest is in developing the capability of incrementally perceiving
and able to learn on their own, and acting accordingly in real time
to achieve autonomous. She also prototypes those systems based on
ASIC and FPGAs.
