Among many emerging vertical industries, connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) with the aid of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and networking are deemed to transform our travel experience with numerous far-reaching societal and economic benefits. With 5G communication networks rapidly rolling out globally, it is time to ask how 6G will help revolutionize our future V2X communications.
In this talk, I will share our vision to 6G V2X communications by emphasizing enabling technologies, major challenges and significant opportunities. In particular, I will introduce our new results on codedomain non-orthogonal multiple access and joint sensing and communication, two promising wireless techniques for ubiquitous and highly efficient V2X data exchanges.
Building dense urban mobile networks and the journey beyond 100GHz Explore the rest of the Thought Leadership series
In this talk we explore the challenges with densifying mobile networks and the role wireless backhaul has to play in building future mobile network architectures. Radio frequencies above 100GHz have traditionally been confined to non-terrestrial applications such radio astronomy and satellite. Here we present some of our research looking at the deployment feasibility of high frequency radio systems and their potential as an alternative to fibre backhaul in a world of dense new street level cell sites.
Professor Stuart Walker, University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Dave Townend, Postgraduate Research Student, University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) and currently working within BT's Wireless Research Group based at Adastral Park in Ipswich
Recording: Building dense urban mobile networks and the journey beyond 100GHz
Another great virtual conference for industry and academia in collaboration withDIGIT Lab a UKRI Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre !
"The UK must build on its innovative foundations and focus on leading the way to a future underpinned by the next generation of responsible technologies."
Esra Kasapoglu
Director of AI and Data Economy, Innovate UK
TEDx style virtual pre-conference Thought Leadership event
Prof Alan Brown, Digital Economy, University of Exeter
We explored why research in the digital world is fundamentally different and what that means for the future of research. This session offered insights especially for early career researchers into their future challenges and opportunities and showed ways in which they can join the Digital Transformation community.
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10:00 - 10:05Prof Tim Whitley, MD Applied Research and Adastral Park will be opening the conference.
10:05 - 10:15 Esra Kasapoglu, UKRI Director, AI & Data Economy, "Why is research in the digital world so different – the UKRI view".
10:15 - 10:30 Prof Gerard Parr MBE, UEA, "Setting the Scene and Vision for the EPSRC DIGIT Lab Project".
10:30 - 10:45Dr Sally Howes OBE, of the University of East Anglia (UEA) Council, Advisory Board of DIGIT Lab, and many more speaking on "The importance of digital transformation in government".
10:45 - 11:00Stephen Cassidy MA MInstP CEng FIET, BT, Behaviours, Organisations & Systems Research on "Digitisation Dynamics – maintaining the human and business connection through time: some critical research questions".
11:00 - 11:15Dr Will Venters, LSE, on "How do we research digital transformation? Thoughts on qualitative research approaches".
11:15 - 11:30Rahim Tafazolli, of the Institute for Communications Systems (ICS), University of Surrey on "The role of 5G+ on future digital transformation strategies of large organisations".
11:30 - 12:15 Panel Discussion: Research Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Transformation.
Esra Kasapoglu
Dr Sally Howes OBE
Prof Gerard Parr MBE
Dr Will Venters
Rahim Tafazolli
12:15 - 12:30Prof Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen: Call for Action! Including opportunities of engagement for Early Career Researchers.
With incredible activities around digital transformation happening all over the world, we asked the questions: What are the big impact opportunities where we can really make a difference? What are the barriers for big companies to make progress? Where does Digit Lab come in? And again this session offered opportunities especially for practitioners who deal with large amounts of data to join the Digital Transformation community.
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10:00 - 10:15Kevin Lee, BT Chief Digital Officer, opening Day2.
10:15 - 10:30Theo Kanellos, Director Business Development and Commercial Alliances, Zoetis on "The Opportunities for Digital Transformation in Animal Health".
10:30 - 10:45Yvonne Gallagher, Director, Digital, National Audit Office on "Lessons from Digital Transformation in Large Government Organizations".
10:45 - 11:00 Dr Paul Gosling, CTO Thales UK on "A Thales perspective on Future
Digital Transformation Research Opportunities".
11:00 - 11:15Marc Geall, COO HANA Data & Analytics, T&I at SAP on "Helping Businesses become Intelligent Enterprise the sustained Digital Transformation".
Joining us at the Hybrid Studio live:
11:15 - 11:30Prof Ben Azvine , Global head of security research and innovation at BT. Ben was our host for the "Security and Trust - How to empower and protect all users" conference in 2017. 5 years on he is catching us up on how Digital Transformation has impacted Cyber Security and Cyber Security Research.
11:30 - 12:15 Panel Discussion: How to deliver impact in Digital transformation Recording coming soon
Yvonne Gallagher
Dr Paul Gosling
Marc Geall
Prof Ben Azvine
12:15 - 12:30 Prof Alan Brown, University of Exeter, Call for Action! Including opportunities of engagement for people dealing with large amounts of data.
Dr Mays Al-Naday, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex
Semantic based networking for digital transformation
“The adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) for digital transformation is sketching new forms of distributed data and decentralised machine learning, localised with data sources, or in a proximity to adhere to such requirements as data privacy and possibly latency. The new form of data and machine learning is opening new horizons in future networks (such as 6G) while introducing novel requirements that leverage the role of data semantics at the network layer.
In this talk, I will share our vision on how future networks can find and exchange semantically-relevant data for such applications as machine-learning. Specifically, I will show how state-of-the art information-centric networks can be extended with novel networking services to enable semantic-based mapping and delivery of context-relevant, not necessarily exact copies, of data.”
Dr Amit Kumar Singh, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex
Attacks and defences for Edge Devices: side and covert channels perspective
Previous Thought Leadership Talks in the University of Essex series
Professor Stuart Walker, Essex University and Dave Townend, BT Building dense urban mobile networks and the journey beyond 100GHz
In this talk we explored the challenges with densifying mobile networks and the role wireless backhaul has to play in building future mobile network architectures.
Zilong Liu, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex 6G for Future V2X Communications Recording available now on the presentation page or on YouTube
Among many emerging vertical industries, connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) with the aid of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and networking are deemed to transform our travel experience with numerous far-reaching societal and economic benefits. With 5G communication networks rapidly rolling out globally, it is time to ask how 6G will help revolutionize our future V2X communications.
Somdip Dey, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex
AI, IoT and Blockchain being the future of food security Recording available now on YouTube Outline:
Introduction to the problem of food wastage and food security around the world
Brief introduction of AI and machine learning and their advancement
State-of-the-art of using blockchain and AI/ML in food supply chain and reduction of food wastage
Introduce FoodSQRBlock and SmartNoshWase frameworks – frameworks using blockchain, AI, IoT and Cloud to digitize food supply chain for easy accessibility and traceability while helping stakeholders in the supply chain to reduce food waste and catering for food security
Maria Fasli is a Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health at the University of Essex. She is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) at the University of Essex and the Director of the ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre (BLGDRC). She obtained her BSc in Informatics from the Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki in 1996, and her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex in 2000.
She has held research and academic positions at the University of Essex since 1999 and became Professor in 2012. In 2009, she became the Head of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at Essex, a post which she held until the end of 2014. In August 2014, she was appointed in her current role as Director of IADS. In 2016, she was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science.
Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence techniques for analyzing and modeling complex systems and structured and unstructured data in various domains. Her research has been funded by National Research Councils in the UK and other organisations including businesses. She has worked with a range of companies in data analytics related projects. Maria has published over 130 papers in the field of artificial intelligence, modelling and learning from data and has delivered keynote talks at international conferences. She is also passionate about education and pedagogic innovation and in 2005, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy (UK) for her innovative approaches to education.
Zoëhas a background in computer science (with a MSc and PhD in AI) and in developing novel AI technologies across a few verticals. From a focus on AI at QinetiQ and SEA, Zoë moved into supporting innovation more broadly at Innovate UK, leading and implementing innovation strategies in ICT, enabling technologies and high value manufacturing. She also had responsibility for Innovate UK’s Horizon Scanning Unit. Zoë moved to BT in Nov 2020 to turn her focus back to AI as AI Director in BT’s Data and AI team.
Establishing an AI Centre of Enablement
There are a number of questions to consider when setting up a team to accelerate the development and adoption of AI at scale. Not all of these centre on the technology. This talk will discuss some of the questions that have focused my attention here at BT and the perspectives that are important in addressing them.
James Grant is a Lecturer in Statistics at Lancaster University where he completed his PhD in 2019. His research considers mathematical models of decision-making and learning, and combines ideas from Statistics, Operational Research, and Machine Learning. He is particularly interested in multi-armed bandit problems, online optimisation, recommender systems, and time series.
In modern data science applications, there is often the opportunity to observe the effects of a decision and revise it, and to iterate this process repeatedly, experimenting in order to learn an optimal action. Multi-armed bandits provide mathematical models of such settings, where designing an optimal sequence of decisions can be highly challenging. This talk will give an introduction to multi-armed bandit models, and explore the best techniques used to tackle the problems.
