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Venue: Translation & Innovation Hub, White City, 80 Wood lane, W12 0BZ
Campus: Imperial College White City Campus
Tube Station: The nearest underground stations are Wood Lane (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines) and White City (Central line)
Event type: Symposium, Exhibition and Networking
Target Audience: Technology companies, Start-ups, Researchers and High-growth SMEs
Ticket: Registration in advance
Contact: For any enquiries please contact Dr Bohwon Kim, Business Development Manager, Imperial College ThinkSpace
Overview
Imperial College ThinkSpace invites you to this unique UK showcase at the Translation & Innovation Hub (I-Hub) in Imperial White City Campus. Technical programme will have three half day events on the 27th and 28th October to showcase College’s research, education and commercialisation activities on one of each of the three global challenges.
Book your place today to
Explore College’s latest research and commercialisation activities
Discover collaboration opportunities at the Translation & Innovation Hub (I-Hub)
Network with a diverse audience in industries and academics
Global Challenges Showcase - Programme
THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER, MORNING
SESSION 1
LEADING THE DATA REVOLUTION
08:30 – 09:30
Registration and Breakfast
09:30 – 09:45
Welcome and overview of the session Dr Eulian JF Roberts, CEO Imperial College ThinkSpace
09:45 – 10:00
Cyber security Prof Chris Hankin, Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology
10:00 – 10:15
Block chain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Dr Catherine Mulligan, Associate Director at Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering
10:15 – 10:30
Social media analytics - detecting and tracking infectious disease based on Twitter activity Nicholas A Thapen, Research Associate at Institute for Security Science and Technology
10:30 – 10:45
Big data visualisation and the tree of life Dr James Rosindell, Lecturer in Biodiversity Theory and Science
10:45 – 11:00
Frontiers in Astrostatistics - Big Data from Space
Dr Roberto Trotta, Leader in Astrophysics
11:00 – 11:15
Robot intelligence
Dr Petar Kormushev, Head of Robot Intelligence Lab
11:15 – 11:30
Fintech - The impact of technology on finance, business and society
Dr Andrei Kirilenko, Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology
11:30 – 12:00
Refreshments and Exhibitions
12:00 – 13:00
I-Hub tour
Mr Richard Wheeler, Director - Business Development
Networking Lunch
THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER, AFTERNOON
SESSION 2
ENGINEERING NOVEL SOLUTIONS
13:00 – 14:00
Registration and Lunch
14:00 – 14:15
Welcome and overview of the session Dr Eulian JF Roberts, CEO Imperial College ThinkSpace
14:15 – 14:30
Future cities – transport demand and transport studies Prof John Polak, Head of the Centre for Transport Studies
14:30 – 14:45
Biologically inspired flying robots Dr Mirko Kovac, Director of the Arial Robotics Laboratory
14:45 – 15:00
Innovation Design Engineering and Entrepreneurship Prof Peter Childs, Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering
15:00 – 15:15
New energy materials and thin films for the design of future electronics, ‘super material’ graphene Prof Neil Alford, Associate Provost, Chair in Materials and Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering
15:15 – 15:30
The mechanisms of materials mechanical behaviour Dr Finn Giuliani, Senior Lecturer in the Structural Ceramics Centre
15:30 – 15:45
Analytical Chemistry – the future of the field Dr Ali Salehi-Reyhani, Research Fellow in Department of Chemistry
15:45 – 16:00
Engineering Design: improving product, processes and people through a scientific understanding
Prof Saeema Ahmed Kristensen, Deputy Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering
16:00 – 16:40
Refreshments and Exhibitions
16:40 – 17:00
I-Hub tour
Mr Richard Wheeler, Director - Business Development
FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER, MORNING
SESSION 3
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
09:00 – 10:00
Registration and Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15
Welcome and overview of the session Dr Eulian JF Roberts, CEO Imperial College ThinkSpace
10:15 – 10:30
Medical robotics for neurosurgery Prof Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena, Professor of Medical Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
10:30 – 10:45
Biologic Delivery and wound repair Dr Benjamin Almquist, Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering
10:45 – 11:00
3D planning and 3D printing of patient matched instrumentation and robotics, modelling bone quality and joint shapes in early joint disease Prof Justin Cobb, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery & Cancer
11:00 – 11:15
Next generation computational drug discovery Prof Michael Johnson, Deputy Head of the Centre for Clinical Translation in the Division of Brain Sciences
11:15 – 11:45
Refreshments and Exhibitions
11:45 – 13:00
I-Hub tour
Mr Richard Wheeler, Director - Business Development
Networking Lunch
Exhibitors
Robot intelligence - DE NIRO (Design Engineering's Natural Interaction Robot)
Dr Petar Kormushev, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London
The £200 million I-HUB is one of the landmark buildings at Imperial College London’s White City Campus, a major research and innovation district for science, engineering, medicine and business located in White City, West London.
The I-HUB is designed to enable collaboarion and partnership between Imperial academics, students, businesses and entrepreneurs, supporting the commercialisation and 'translation' of research and innovation for the benefit of society.
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