FIRED-Up

The event will:

• provide you with cutting-edge insight into leading R&D and new technologies
• give an overview of the UK funding landscape and the funding opportunities available
• broaden your network and enable you to make meaningful connections
• highlight the resources, skills and facilities available at QMUL to support your business

8:30-9:15          Registration in Arts Two Foyer / Tea, Coffee & Pastries

9:15-11:15        Keynote Speakers 

11:15-11:40      Refreshments and Networking 

11:40-13:00      Parallel Thematic Sessions in Arts Two Building

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data

• Life Science Innovation

• Intelligent Infrastructure

• Sustainable Energy and Environments

13:00-14:00      Lunch and Showcase in The Octagon: Posters and Demonstrations

14:00-15:30      Routes of Engagement

15:30-17:00      Networking Drinks and Showcase: Posters and Demonstrations

16:30-16:40      Closing Summary – How to take things forward

• Paul Mason, Director - Responsive Programmes, Innovate UK on “Maximise the commercial impact of world-class knowledge developed in the UK’s industries and its research base”
• Dr Philippa Lloyd, Vice-Principal (Policy and Strategic Partnerships), QMUL on "QMUL’s Strategy 2030”
• Professor Wen Wang, Vice-Principal and Executive Dean (Science & Engineering), QMUL on “The Faculty of Science and Engineering research highlights”
• Jan Taylor, Senior Portfolio Manager, EPSRC on “EPSRC’s Business engagement strategy and funding”
• Professor Sajad Haq, Chief Scientist, Advanced Services and Products, QinetiQ on “Collaborating with Queen Mary University of London”

• Richard Lamb, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Manage, Innovate UK on “Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)”
• Professor David Lee, Deputy Vice Principal - Research (Enterprise), QMUL on “London Institute of Transport Technology (LITT)”
• Professor James Busfield, Professor of Materials, Director of Industrial Engagement (SEMS), QMUL on “Industrial engagement through undergraduate and postgraduate projects”
• Professor Richard Pickersgill, Professor of Structural Biology, Head of School (SBCS), QMUL on “Industrially supported PhD studentship projects”
• Paula Alessandro, Legal Manager, QMI on “Navigating IP”
• Dr Adam Daykin, Head of Technology Transfer, QMI on “Introduction to QMI, Proof of Concept and IAA Funds”

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data to include expertise in big data, machine learning and AI, complex structure and ethics
• Life Science Innovation to include novel drug delivery, digital health, robotics, biomaterials, and biomechanics and mechanobiology
• Intelligent Infrastructure to include materials engineering and physics, mechanical engineering, robotics and design, intelligent sensing and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Sustainable Energy and Environments to include sustainable energy, energy storage, animal and network ecology and river communities

Confirmed speakers include:

World-leading academics

• Professor Norman Fenton on “Risk assessment in the era of Big Data”
• Professor Rob Krams on “Data science meets Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)”
• Professor Richard Pickersgill on “Synthetic biology - scaffolds and compartments”
• Professor Viji Draviam on “High-speed electrically tunable lens”
• Professor Yang Hao on “3D printed antennas”
• Professor Andrea Cavallaro on “Intelligent audio-visual sensing”
• Dr Stefan Poslad on “Smart infrastructure”
• Dr Elisabetta Versace on “Robot-animal social interactions”
• Professor Richard Buggs on “Genomics for future trees”
• Dr Yannick Wurm on “Molecular analysis of emerging model organism”
• Dr Oliver Fenwick on “Thermoelectric energy harvesting”

Company speakers

Lloyds Bank	Satalia
Filament AI	Unilever
Sanofi	Fourth State Medicine
Gaist Solutions	Perpetuum
Hamamatsu Photonics	The ExtraCare Charitable Trust
Severn Trent Water

Demonstrations of innovative technologies and research poster presentations from our leading academic groups

Demonstrations will include:

• Bela: a computing platform for creating interactive applications - Spun out from our research from the Centre of Digital Music into a start-up company
• Molecular modelling and prediction of structural properties of crystalline materials (includes 3D glasses) with Crystal Maker – Successful KTP project developed a new software product
• Novel flexible self-heating materials with LMK Thermosafe – Award-winning KTP built a new product for an electrically safe self-regulating heating element
• A 3D exploration of loggerhead turtle mobility patterns

Posters will include:

• Who Watches the Watchmen: exploring complaints on the web
• Raphtory: Streaming analysis of distributed temporal graphs
• Applications in natural product synthesis: a novel palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation approach
• Large scale data mining to reveal novel biological insights in retroelements
• Reducing aircraft noise during take off
• Next Generation soft robotics
• Using hydrophobic materials to produce better raincoats
• High-performance flexible perovskite photovoltaics

FIRED-Up will be held on the Mile End Campus of Queen Mary University of London in Arts Two (Keynote and Parallel Thematic Sessions) and The Octagon (Lunch and Showcase)

Registration for the FIRED-Up event is in Arts Two Foyer 

Street Address:

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)

Mile End Road

London E1 4NS

Nearest tube stations: Mile End and Stepney Green