Thursday 7th November 2024
3pm to 8pm
Highfield Campus
B40/Garden Court
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You are warmly invited to our ECS Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) is organising a Showcase on 7th November 2024 at the Garden Court, Highfield Campus. The CMI Annual Showcase will bring together the great minds in AI from across academia, industry, and government. This event is an opportunity to:

• Discover cutting-edge AI research, projects, and initiatives. We are excited to have Prof Dame Wendy Hall deliver a keynote talk, along with representatives from AI@FEPS, RAI UK/TAS Hub, SUST.AI, MINDS CDT, AugmentAero, Silicon Phonics for AI, Quantum Technology Engineering, GloSAT, DRAfrica, and more.
• Connect academics, practitioners, and students to discuss collaborations, explore project opportunities, and build bridges for future funding. This is a great chance to network and form impactful partnerships.
• Learn more about pursuing a PhD in AI—we’re inviting 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates, as well as Master’s students, to engage with our research and discover new career paths.

Programme Overview :
• 15:00 – 15:30 : Registration and Refreshments
• 15:30 – 15:35: Welcome and Introduction — Dr Haiming Liu
• 15:35 – 17:00: AI Project Talks
Silicon photonics for Neuromorphic systems — Professor Frederic Gardes
EPSRC CDT in Quantum Technology Engineering — Dr Yoshi Tsuchiya
The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability (Sust.AI) — Prof Enrico Gerding
Responsible AI (RAI) UK — Dr. Jennifer Williams
AI for Data Rescue ( GloSAT and DRAfrica projects) — Dr Stuart Middleton
AugmentAero Project — Mr Sam Lowen
UKRI CDT in Machine Intelligence for Nano- Electronic Devices and Systems ( MINDS ) CDT — Prof Tim Norman
Future Worlds — Dr Alice Iles
• 17:00 – 17:45: Keynote by Prof Dame Wendy Hall + Q&A
• 17:45 – 18:30: Collaboration Services at Southampton
AI @ FEPS — Prof Tim Norman
Business & Industry Partnerships — Rosemary Nunn/Hannah Illsley
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) — Justin Lewis
PhD funding opportunities — Dr Nema Abdelazim
18:30 – 20:00: AI Project Poster/Exhibition Session with Buffet Dinner
20:00 – 20:05: Closing Remarks

Here is how you can contribute to the event:
You can register to attend the showcase here: https://forms.office.com/e/e2Y97qrUwq
You can register to exhibit your research/project here: https://forms.office.com/e/WQ0kWyLDf8 [Note: you can reuse the posters and demos that you may have presented at conferences and other venues. ]

Biography of Keynoter

Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. She was Dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2014 and Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007.
One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its forefront ever since. The influence of her work has been significant in many areas including digital libraries, the development of the Internet, and the emerging research discipline of Web Science. Her current research includes exploring interfaces between the social and physical sciences through the development of Web Science and the study of online systems through a sociotechnical lens. She is Managing Director of the Web Science Trust.
She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year. She was elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, and was the first person from outside North America to hold this position. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the ACM. She is a distinguished fellow of the British Computer Society.
She was Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005-8), a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (2004-10), and a founder member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (2005-10). She was President of the British Computer Society (2003-4), an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (1996-2002) and a member of the EPSRC Council (1997-2002).
In 2017, Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017. She became a member of the AI Council and was appointed the first UK AI Skills Champion in 2018. She was Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute (2020-2023). She is currently the co-Chair of the ACM Publications Board and Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. She is an advisor to the UK government and many other governments and companies around the world and in 2023 was appointed to the United Nations high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence. Her latest book, Four Internets, co-written with Kieron O’Hara and published by OUP in 2021, is about data, geopolitics and the governance of cyberspace.
Through her leadership roles on national and international bodies, she has shattered many glass ceilings, readily deploying her position on numerous national and international bodies to promote the role of women in SET and acting as an important role model for others.

www.damewendydbe.com