A unique opportunity to discover College's latest research and visit the I-Hub, the first building at Imperial College White City Campus
Date and Time
27th October 09:00-17:00
Session 1. Leading the Data Revolution
Session 2. Engineering Novel Solutions
28th October 09:00-13:00
Session 3. Health and Well-being
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Venue: Translation & Innovation Hub, White City, 80 Wood lane, W12 0BZ
Campus: Imperial College White City Campus
Tube Stations: The nearest underground stations are Wood Lane (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines) and White City (Central line)
Event type: Symposium, exhibition and networking
Tickets: Registration in advance (Eventbrite)
Summary
Imperial College ThinkSpace is hosting a Global Challenges Showcase which will be held on 27-28 October. This is a unique opportunity for you to visit the Translation & Innovation Hub (I-Hub), the first building at Imperial College White City campus and to discover College’s latest research and commercialisation activities.
You will hear from the experts about their work in Cyber security, Robot intelligence, Innovation Design, Engineering and Medical robotic. Please see the programme for details.
Book your place today to discover collaboration opportunities with Imperial College and network with a diverse audience in industries and academics
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Showcase Programme
DAY 1 - THURSDAY 27TH OCTOBER, 09:00 - 13:00
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 for 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
12:00 - 13:00 Networking Lunch
DAY 1 - THURSDAY 27TH OCTOBER, 13:00 – 17:00
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 Engineering
15:00 – 15:15 New energy materials and thin films for the design of future electronics, ‘super material’ grapheme - 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 the 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 – 16:30 Refreshments and Exhibitions
16:30 – 17:00 I-Hub tour - Mr Richard Wheeler, Director - Business Development
DAY 2 - FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER, 09:00 – 13:00
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 Rodrigues 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
11:45 - 13:00 Networking Lunch
Exhibitors
Robot intelligence - DE NIRO (Design Engineering's Natural Interaction Robot) - Dr Petar Kormushev
http://kormushev.com/research/videos/
BioBlox: 3D Protein Docking Game - Prof Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London), Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie (University of London) and Dr Ioannis Filippis (Imperial College London), Prof William Latham (University of London)
http://www.bioblox.org
Biologically inspired flying robots - Dr Mirko Kovac
//www.imperial.ac.uk/aerial-robotics
Medical robotics for neurosurgery - Prof Ferdinando Rodrigues Y Baena
//www.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronics-in-medicine
Social media analytics - detecting and tracking infectious disease based on Twitter activity - Andrew Burton, Nicholas A Thapen
//www.imperial.ac.uk/security-institute/
The future of the field: Analytical Chemistry - Dr Ali Salehi-Reyhani
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/
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Reporter
Bohwon Kim
Department of Surgery & Cancer
