The Future of Transport

 The Future of Transport

Date: 5th - 6th March 2019

Location: Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE

Fees: none

Road - Sea - Air - Space - Individual - Goods - Economy - Ecology - Ethics

Transport these days is not just getting into a car or an airplane for a trip, or loading a container on a lorry. 

IoT interconnects everything with everything and enables ways of transport never imagined before.

Blockchains enable new ways of authentication and new technologies from autonomous driving via drones and modern Zepplins. 

The type of personal transport through the centuries always was an expression of status, whether walking barefoot or in shoes, riding a horse or a mule, driving a cart or a carriage, or in this modern world the choice of brand of car. Yet, will we be able to afford individual transport as we know it in the future.

We discussed with key industry, government and academic speakers discussing the problems we face now and in the future, state of the art technologies, and a vision of the future. We will gave our audience the opportunity to dive into solution mode with a real world problem and the chance to question and network our experts. 

Downloads

Conference brochure (pdf)

Speakers and downloads

• Peter Lee, BSI, Principal Consultant Smart Cities, Communities & IoT
  Presentation (PDF): 'Accelerate the Future of Mobility'
  Speaker bio
• Peter Frost, Suffolk County Council  on 'The Electric Vehicle Revolution'
  Speaker bio
• Cristian Parrino, CEO and Co-Founder of Grengame on 'Incentivising sustainable choices through the use of technology, gamification and behavioural economics.
  Speaker bio
• David Williams, MD, Underwriting & Technical Services, AXA Insurance UK on 'Driverless Cars; The future of mobility and the implications for insurance'
  Speaker bio
• Dave Lynch, Group Chief Information Officer of FirstGroup Plc
  Speaker bio
• Sam Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo on 'Building a personalised shared mobility service'
  Speaker bio
• Graeme Mateer, Richard Webster, Suffolk County Council
  Speaker bios

Healthy Longevity

 Healthy Longevity

15th - 16th October 2019

Downloads: 

Conference report (pdf)

Conference WRAP

Photos

Impressions from the conference

Opportunities of an Ageing Society

Over the course of two days we looked at how we can exploit and innovate to the maximum so we explore and proactively address a number of key areas for what is described as ‘the UK’s greatest societal opportunity’. We’re delighted to announce speakers including

• Tina Woods, CEO &Co-founder Secretariat Director, All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity,
  https://appg-longevity.org/advisory-board
  Presentation (PDF): 'Healthy Longevity & Global Prosperity: The Hype, the Hope and the How'
  
  
• Dr Hazel Harrison, Clinical Psychologist & Founder of ThinkAvellana,
  http://www.thinkavellana.com/
  Presentation (PDF): 'How can technology enhance our mental health as we age?'
  
  
• Nathan Berkley, CEO Muhdo Health Ltd,
  https://muhdo.com/
  Presentation (PDF): 'Why Muhdo? DNA and Epigenetics Combined with Lifestyle Markers'
  
  
• Rob Collingridge, Managing Director at Smarisant, 
  https://smartisant.com
  Presentation (PDF): 'Intelligent assisted living for all'
  
  
• Adele Chaplin, Death Café, 
  https://deathcafe.com/what/
  Presentation (PDF): 'Living our best life by preparing for a digital death.'

Background
Within the UK, it is expected there will be 16.9 million people aged 65 or over by 2035 accounting for almost one in four of the population.  We are undergoing a fundamental change to our age structure, many people are having fewer children and living longer lives and as a result the average age of our society is on the increase.

This shift in structure isn’t just isolated to the UK, reports indicate nearly half the world’s nations have total fertility rates (TFR) below the replacement level of just over two children per women.  By 2050 the world’s TFR could potentially fall below replacement levels resulting in an older population demographic worldwide.

We were delighted to host this 7th conference where we will explored what is described as ‘the UK’s greatest societal opportunity’.

Over the course of two days we looked at how we can exploit and innovate to the maximum so we can adapt to this change in demographic.  Subjects covered impacts to society, economy and work, mental health and wellbeing, fitness advances to keep us healthier for longer and technology that will allow us to live in our own homes longer.

 

Virtual Conference: Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical - Autumn 2020
Held on 12th - 16th October 2020: Five days of Physics goodness on:

- Optics
- Wireless
- PGR Spotlight day
- Quantum 
- Data Science & AI

The CONFERENCE

Please find a full overview of recordings here. 

A full week of Physics packed sessions with speakers and interactive forums.

During the conference we showcased the fundamental role that physics and physicist have in shaping our digital future. We hope to spur interest and to enable cross pollination between the different subject areas within Physics but across the board as well. And we will yet again highlight the value of collaboration between industry and academia.

Fraser Burton, who is the founder of the Tommy Flowers Network was back in his new role as a senior manager in Network Physics to welcome you and to set the scene for each day. Our wonderful compère Mike Williams then led through the daily program.

Please find speaker profiles, recordings and slides for download in the respective subject days:

OPENING KEYNOTE

Prof Tim Whitley

BT, MD Applied Research and MD of ‘Adastral Park’

"Purposeful Innovation in the age of digital transformation"

Download slides (.pdf)

OPTICS 

We manipulate light for new opportunities, hollow fibres to harvesting light we explore it all

Please visit our OPTICS page. There you will publish a full recording of the day and links to the speaker bios, slides and individual speaker recordings. 

WIRELESS

We explore ways to optimise the use of radio frequencies to transmit more data, more reliably and faster, addressing today's and future communication needs

Please visit our WIRELESS page. There you'll find a full recording of the day and links to the speaker bios, slides and individual speaker recordings. 

PGR SPOTLIGHT

We are celebrating and showcasing their fantastic work in a Lightning talk competition

Please visit our SPOTLIGHT page. There you will publish a full recording of the day and links to the speaker bios, slides and individual speaker recordings. 

QUANTUM

Light and matter have hidden quantum properties, enabling technology that is faster, more sensitive, spookier...

Please visit our QUANTUM page. There you will publish a full recording of the day and links to the speaker bios, slides and individual speaker recordings. 

DATA SCIENCE & AI

Data is everywhere and it contains hidden secrets- you can uncover them with Data Science.

Please visit our DATA SCIENCE & AI page. There you will publish a full recording of the day and links to the speaker bios, slides and individual speaker recordings. 

FINAL KEYNOTE

Prof Jesse Thaler

MIT, Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

"Collision Course - Artificial Intelligence meets Fundamental Physics"

Download slides (.pdf)

The Tommy Flowers Network team wishes good health to you, your families and friends. 

Five Steps to a balanced business comms diet – new White Paper

In 2011, a research project led by BT in conjunction with the University of Cambridge, looked at “Culture, Communication and Change: report on an investigation of the use and impact of modern media and technology in our lives”.

Nine years later, the project has been revisited by Dr Nicola Millard where she explores how we’re using technology in business and whether or not we can improve how we use it.

Over the years, the boundaries of the 9 to 5 day have been gradually eroded.  When our home is our office and our devices are always on and always on us, the compulsion is often to work longer and longer hours. The issue is that long hours often make us tired, more stressed, and we miss out on the vital mental downtime for us to be productive, healthy and creative.

The problem now is not connection, it is disconnection! It’s this seemingly simple act of switching off that the ‘balanced communications diet for business’ aims to tackle.

Like any good diet, the ‘Balanced communications diet for business’ has five steps:

1. focus
2. boundaries
3. awareness
4. education
5. balance

Ultimately, it’s up to us to maintain a healthy communications diet and that’s really about getting a balance that suits us as individuals. The balanced communications diet for business will help you to slim down your working day,

You can obtain a copy of the white paper here

You can join a Webinar on 14 July at 1500 GMT here or read more on the Insights Blog here

For further information, contact Nicola.Millard@bt.com

Posters Galore: 'IoT for assisted living'

Matt Wallwork

Email

Research into reducing costs for the NHS is paramount.

In England in December 2019 there were:

- 23,309,384 GP appointments
- 1,844,804 calls offered to the NHS 111 service
- 560,613 emergency hospital admissions

The research being conducted aims to reduce GP visits, hospital admissions, 111 and 999 calls by conducting preventative monitoring in the homes of the elderly in Assisted Living situations. There are nearly 12 million people (18% of the population) aged 65 and above in the UK many of which can benefit from preventative monitoring. The monitoring will be done using a range of cost-effective ubiquitous sensors to give the ability to detect signs of potential issues and enable the right interventions (end user behaviour changes, family response/intervention/support) to be made.

The research is for trials that are in place with councils and health trusts which aim to deploy a solution into Assisted Living residences. The solution will be constructed based on research into: Gateways, Edge devices, Smart Home ecosystems, device management, connectivity, and more! To reduce cost to the NHS, interventions by parties such as family members, carers, and resident workers will be enabled by them having access to specific data from the person being monitored. The data may come in the form of an alerting system whereby required parties are informed when the person being monitored has an issue or is predicted to have an issue. Predictive analysis is also an area that is being investigated to see if issues can be captured in their early stages.

View the poster here
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