Virtual Conference: Smart Connected Manufacturing

#TFNetworkSummer21

 Another great virtual conference delivered to industry and academia!

Industries operating today may all be different but they face a common challenge as we head towards the 4th industrial evolution. 

In partnership with the newly launched nexGworx, we explored the challenges and technologies driving Industry 4.0, including Cyber Security, 5G, Internet of Things and AI that play their part in this amazing transformation.

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Teaser

Over 3 days we had great quick fire presentations from Universities; Catapults; Composite Centres; County Councils and BT. The panel sessions created some very interesting discussions and we’re excited about future collaboration and engagement.

Discussions included the role of the Catapults; the role of Research & Development; training and connecting to employees; core features and attributes of 5G; the context of 5G and open network standards; where does culture come into Industry 4.0; the role of Government and involving supply chain partners; the benefits of Digital Twins; helping smaller companies scale up and adopt new technologies; communication & trust and Security….

Our thanks to Ste Ashton, Managing Director at nexGworx for sponsoring the event; Sam Turner, CTO HVMC; Paul Coles, Advalus and the Quatreus event production team.

Day 1 - Challenges and Opportunities

We'll explore both the opportunities and challenges. Will it lead to an increase in productivity driven by new capital investments and data driven insights? How do we make sure that with “connectivity” we don't encounter issues over security and cyber threats? What role does big data have to play to benefit the industry as a whole?

Please click on the speaker name for bio and presentation

Prof Tim Whitley, MD Applied Research and MD Adastral Park

Setting the scene for Smart Connected Manufacturing!

Katherine Bennett CBE, FRAeS, CEO HVMC

HVM Catapult: Their role and the importance of Smart Connected Manufacturing

Mark Stansfeld, Chair WM5G Board

5G the Driver for UK Productivity

Juergen Maier CBE, Chair of the Digital Catapult 

Made Smarter in support of Smart Connected Manufacturing

Jon France, Head of Industry Security, GSMA 

GSMA: The technology road map – from 4G to 5G and onto 6

Paul Ceely, Director of Technology Strategy at Digital Catapult

5G and OpenRan

Panel Discussion

Smart Connected Manufacturing – Q&A to the big questions

    ⇨ Smart Connected Manufacturing and the UK Productivity

    ⇨ Education and Skills 

    ⇨ Big Data – to share or not to share?

Panel chair

• Rab Scott, Professor of Industrial Digitalisation. Head of Digital at the AMRC

Panellists

• Sarah Walker, Director of BT’s Enterprise business in the Midlands and North of England
• Oliver Swift, Manufacturing Engineering Team Leader at BAE Systems 
• Steven Carter, Digital Manufacturing Integration Lead, Rolls-Royce

Day 2 - Real World Activities

Hear about real world activities in Smart Connected Manufacturing from the likes of the High Value Manufacturing clusters and its partners.

We'll debate questions such as how do we accelerate innovation out of the clusters and into the rest of UK manufacturing? What support do we need from government to make this acceleration of manufacturing innovation happen? What do we need manufacturing supply chain partners to be focussed on?

Please click on the speaker name for bio and presentation

Ste Ashton, Managing Director at nexGworx and Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Manager at Worcestershire County Council

5G – So What? A Testbed's view on Industry 4.0 and the future with nexGworx

Prof Sam Turner, CTO HVMC

The HVMC and opportunities for UK Smart Connected Factories

Marc Funnell, Director of Digital Engineering at the National Composites Centre (NCC)

NCC - Transforming to a digital exemplar

Stephen Phipson CBE, CEO at MakeUK

How UK manufacturing can build a digital, global and green future

Rab Scott, Professor of Industrial Digitalisation. Head of Digital at the AMRC 

The 5G Factory of the Future

Dani Anderson, 5G Engineer, University of Strathclyde (recording TBC)

Software Defined Radio and Shared Spectrum for Industry 4.0

Panel Discussion

How can we accelerate innovation?

    ⇨ Accelerating innovation out of the clusters and into the rest of UK manufacturing

    ⇨ Government Support needed to make this acceleration of manufacturing innovation happen

    ⇨ Manufacturing supply chain partners – Where does the focus need to be?

Panel chair

• Katherine Bennett CBE FRAeS, CEO HVM Catapult

Panellists

• Marc Funnell, Director of Digital Engineering at the National Composites Centre (NCC)
• Ste Ashton, Managing Director at nexGworx and Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Manager at Worcestershire County Council
• Sam Turner, CTO of the HVMC
• Stephen Phipson CBE, CEO at MakeUK
• Dani Anderson, 5G Engineer, University of Strathclyde 

Day 3 - Down to the heart of Smart Connected Manufacturing

We'll take a more in-depth look at some of the research and challenges relating to Smart Connected Manufacturing; explore issues around security and trust and also look at example business cases for Smart Connected Manufacturing with a view on SMEs.

John Davies, Chief Researcher at BT; Visiting Professor at The Open University
Data: The oil for smart manufacturing

Steven Carter, Digital Manufacturing Integration Lead, Rolls-Royce

Smart Factories: Taking advantage of telecommunication infrastructure advancements

Simon Pearson, Founding Director of LIAT at The University of Lincoln

Robot Highways

Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Low Cost Digital Solutions for SMEs - Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring

Andy Corston-Petrie, Core Networks & Systems Research at BT

5G Futures

Carsten Maple, Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG
The Role of Trust in Unlocking the Potential of Industry 4.0

Dan Brooks, Strategy Lead for Digital Manufacturing at NPL
Confidence in data to support the adoption of Industrial Digital Technologies

Ian Bouquet-Taylor, Operations Director of AE Aerospace
Digitising the SME - A private 5G network to drive quality and efficiency

Stephen Douglas, Head of 5G Strategy, Spirent Communications
Accelerating 5G With the Network Digital Twin

Mehdi Daoudi, CRO at VRtuoso
Up-skill & Re-skill workforce with Virtual Reality

Mohammad Zoualfaghari, IoT Architect & Technical Lead at BT
Value-Added Services for Industry 4.0 (VASI4)

Gary Bruce, Research Manager and Ecosystems Architect, BT Applied Research
Digital Business Marketplace - Partner Ecosystems for the Industry 4.0 age!

Panel Discussion

"Testbed as a Service" and building a business case

    ⇨ Where do you start in order to build a case?
    ⇨ What is the role of Testbed As a Service capability? 

    ⇨ What are the key elements of a strong business case?

Panel chair

• Sam Turner, CTO HVMC

Panellists

• Ste Ashton, Managing Director at nexGworx and Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Manager at Worcestershire County Council
• Ian Bouquet-Taylor, Operations Director of AE Aerospace
• Stephen Douglas, Head of 5G Strategy, Spirent Communications
• Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge
• Geraldina Iraheta, Chief Commercial Officer at Digital Catapult

Meet our conference sponsor

5G and beyond!
Our journey started in 2016 when Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership along with Worcestershire County Council started to explore the potential benefits that 5G could bring to Worcestershire.

Since then we secured substancial funding, built important connections leading to world leading trials, won innovation awards and most importantly, alongside our technology partner BT, established an ongoing ‘Testbed as a Service’ with our new trading entity ‘nexGworx’ to be launched prior to this conference.

Expanding on our success stories we are proud to sponsor this conference on "Smart Connected Manufacturing", bringing together the world leaders in the field and discussing an exciting future.

Prof Howard Shrobe to talk at our conference on 'Security & Trust'

Howard Shrobe is Director of CyberSecurity@CSAIL.  His research interests include software and hardware architectures for computer security and the use of AI techniques in software development and other engineering disciplines. At the present time his main interests are in new (hardware and software) architectures for secure computing, the security of industrial control systems, intelligent  assistants for programmers, and policy issues related to cyber security.

·         From 1997 - 2000, he served as associate director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

·         From 1994 - 1997, he served at  DARPA  as Assistant Director and Chief Scientist of the Information Technology Office. He was responsible for the Intelligent Systems and Software Technology group in the office with direct involvement in the Evolutionary Design of Complex Software and the original suite of Information Survivability programs.

·        From Feb 2010 - Oct 2013, he served at  DARPA as a Program Manager Information Innovation Office where he sponsored two programs on cyber security: CRASH (Clean-slate design of Resilient Adaptive Secure Hosts) and MRC (Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds).

·         From Oct 2013 - November 2014 I served as Associate Director of CSAIL

Uli Schlegel of ADVA to speak at our conference on Security & Trust

'ADVA Optical Networking SE' is one of our strongest supporters since the beginnings of Tommy Flowers Institute and we are delighted to have Uli Schlegel as speaker at our conference on 'Security & Trust - How to empower and protect all users'.

Uli Schlegel is ADVA Optical Networking’s technical expert for enterprise networks. He has over 17 years of experience in WDM technology and optical networking systems.

 

He holds an engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing. Physikalische Technik) from the University of Applied Sciences (TFH) in Berlin, Germany.

Uli currently drives product development in the data center interconnect space. He mainly focuses on solutions for storage and server connectivity as well as encryption and security relevant topics.

Ian Daft, NCA, to speak at our conference on 'Security & Trust'

We are proud to have Ian Daft from the National Crime Agency as a speaker at our conference.

 

Ian is a Manager within the Intelligence Collection Department of the NCA leading on the development of new capabilities to ensure the NCA is able to counter organised crime with public confidence and security.

 

At the moment he is giving specific attention to the application of Voice Biometrics and Analytics. A specific interest in the scope for appropriate co-operation between strategic partners.

 

His previous positions in the Agency have included in Financial Crime and as a Staff Officer within the Command Team. Prior to joining the NCA, Ian worked in Europol, Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office with his last posting being as 1st Secretary at the British Embassy in Athens. He holds a MA in History as well as degree level qualifications in Financial Crime, Personnel & Development and Project Management.

 

We are looking forward to interesting insights and discussions during our Tommy Flowers Institute Autumn Conference on 'Security & Trust - How to empower and protect all users?'

Prof Ben Azvine BT Head of Security Research

Prof Ben Azvine PhD, MBA
Global head of security research and innovation, BT

Conference TFNetworkSpring22

Digital Transformation
➣ Conference overview and registration 
➣ YouTube TFNetworkSummer21 Conference Playlist 

Date: 5th May 2022
Time: 

11:15 - 11:30 Presentation

11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation

Ben Azvine is responsible for setting direction and strategy for Security research, identify innovation opportunities and lead a strong international team of researcher to develop new capabilities in collaboration with industrial and academic partners.

Ben has 30 years’ experience in both academia and industry. His previous roles included leading the IT research centre and head of business intelligence & customer analytics research at BT Group Chief Technology Office. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, an MSc in Control Engineering, a PhD in Intelligent Control Systems from Manchester University, and an MBA from Imperial College, London. Having held research fellowship and lectureship posts in several universities, he joined BT in 1995 to lead a research programme to develop and exploit novel Artificial Intelligence technology to support next generation IT systems. Since then he has held senior, principal, chief research scientist posts at BT’s global R&D headquarters in Adastral Park, Ipswich where he is currently based.

He has edited two books and published more than 100 scientific articles on novel application of intelligent systems. He is an inventor of 50 patent applications, has won 4 BCS and an IET gold medals for IT innovation, and holds visiting professorship positions at the Universities of Bristol, Cranfield, Suffolk and Bournemouth. Ben is a current fellow of Institute of Telecom Engineers (FIET) and has acted as the chairman of the European network of excellence for Uncertainty management techniques from 1998 to 2001. His current research interests include the application Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Cyber security, protection of critical national infrastructure, data analysis and information & knowledge management. His current projects include Visual Analytics for Cyber defence, cloud & Internet security, machine learning and anomaly detection in network data and future identity and access management.

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Ben was the sponsor of the TFNetworkAutumn17 "Security & Trust" conference

Synopsis

In 2017 already, Matthew Hancock, The UK Minister of State for Digital at the time, stated at the Singapore International Cyber Week:

“The UK categorises cyber-crime as a tier one threat to our national security. Since 2011 we have had in place a National Cyber Security Strategy. … Our full spectrum approach ranges from developing the new skills and expertise we need, supporting the cyber ecosystem, collaboration with critical infrastructure, the established cyber industry, start ups, and academia to protect our national security and protect the public’s way of life, while contributing to our prosperity and building a more trusted and resilient digital environment. …

Our growing expertise was perhaps best showcased during the 2012 Olympics. The London games were the first ever “digital games” - the first to provide public Wi-Fi access in all Olympic venues, with more content broadcast online than ever before, and much of it accessed via mobile devices - and yet, despite a peak of over 11,000 attacks per second, the network was never once compromised”

In 2017 as well, during our TFNetwork conference on “Security &Trust”, we explored how technology can empower users so that they can protect themselves and their data. And this means that we need that credible track-record of secure operation to create the user’s trust in those constantly evolving technologies, which have capabilities that potentially can turn the table, enabling new kinds of attacks. So there is constant evolution across technology, user behaviour, and the perception of human rights.

Half a decade later the digital landscape is evolving at an even increasing speed, and more than ever it is my opinion that Cyber Security is one of the greatest man-made challenges of our time. The frequency and impact of breaches is increasing at the same mindboggling trajectory as the digital transformation of our world, and the need to continuously adapt and innovate to stay ahead of the threat environment, is raising the bar for researchers.

 

Post Graduate Researcher Profiles – Davide Ferraris

My name is Davide, and I am a doctorate researcher at the University of Malaga, Spain. I am a Marie Curie fellow involved in the NeCS project founded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 675320.

My research topic is about Metrics for Cyber Security focusing on Trust Metrics for the Internet of Things.

The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is founded on the following premise: it is possible to create a world-wide network of interconnected objects which will probably be readable, recognizable, locatable, addressable and/or controllable by Internet. Gartner said that billions of devices are foreseen to be connected by 2020, so trust issues will grow exponentially.

A system such as IoT needs trust because the entities involved should know the other entities in the network. This knowledge is the basis to decide if to trust or distrust another entity. The problem of finding a suitable way to establish trust becomes more complicated in IoT due to its heterogeneity and dynamicity. Trust management systems have been used during the decision-making process to assist entities that must interact with others in a system. How to measure trust becomes a key issue for IoT systems also because all the heterogeneous entities will use their own trust management systems. This is one of the main challenges we will have to face in my research.

My research will focus on give to trust measurement a key role on IoT systems, considering trust in the  whole IoT System Life Cycle from the early to the final stages of a System development.