10:00 - 10:20

Welcome and Introductions

• Professor Chris Johnson – Pro Vice Chancellor (Engineering and Physical Sciences) 
• Professor Maire O’Neill - ECIT Director 
• Dr Godfrey Gaston – ECIT Executive Director 

10:20 - 10:40

Opening Speeches

TBC

10:40 - 11:20

Panel Session: Transforming NI’s Digital Economy 

• Scott Rutherford, Director of Innovation Programme (Belfast Region City Deal) at QUB 
• Elaine Smyth, Director of Innovation Community at Catalyst Inc 
• Leslie Orr, Director ADS Northern Ireland
• Peter Leitch Managing Partner, ANSEC IA Ltd

11:20 - 11:40

Keynote:  Representative, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

11:40 - 12:00

Keynote: Andrew Elliot - Deputy Director, Cyber Security at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) 

12:00 - 12:30

Keynote: Koen Gijsbers, Advisory Board Member - Former General Manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency, Non-Executive Director at ANGOKA

12:30 

Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION THEME: CYBER

13:30 - 14:20

Panel Session : Cyber Security & Aerospace

• Philip Mills, CSIT, Chair
• Rolls Royce – Boakye Dankwa
• CERIAS (Purdue University) - Joel Rasmus 
• CYLAB (Carnegie Mellon University) - Michael Lisanti 
• CSIT (Queen’s University Belfast) – Máire O’Neill 

14:20 - 14:40

Securing Connected Vehicles 

John Greer, Sensata

14:40 - 14:55

Break

14:55 - 15:05

AI - The hottest development in Cyber Security?

Paul Miller, CSIT

15:05 - 15:50

Cyber AI - Panel

• Judith Millar, CSIT, Chair
• Paul Miller, CSIT 
• Trevor Graham, Ampliphae   
• Ben Harrison, SilverSky
• Sandra Scott-Hayward, CSIT (TBC) 

15:50 - 16:00

Professor Ian Greer, Vice Chancellor, Queen's University Belfast

Closing remarks

10:00 - 10:05

Introduction

Prof Simon Cotton, Research Director at Centre for Wireless Innovation

10:05 - 11:10

Future Wireless Networks

Chair: Prof Michalis Matthaiou 

• SAMSUNG: AI Role in Future Networks, Dr Howard Benn, VP Communications Research, Samsung Electronics R&D Institute 
• NOKIA: THz Radio for Future Wireless Systems, Dr Thorsten Wild, Department Head of Next Generation Wireless
• GREENERWAVE: Reflective Intelligent Surfaces for Future Wireless Networks, Dr Geoffroy Lerosey, Co-founder, CSO, Chairman 

11:10

Break

11:25 - 12:30

Innovation for New Space

Chair: Dr Neil Buchanan

• AST SPACE MOBILE: Direct Sat-to-Smartphone Connectivity, Steve Gibson, MD and Dr Sriram Jayasimha, Chief Scientist 
• TAOGLAS: GNSS Antenna Design for New Space, Baha Badran, Global Head of Engineering
• C-CORE: The Advantage of Earth Observation Constellations, Desmond Power, Vice President, Remote Sensing 

12:30

Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION THEME: Digital Health - Char: Professor Mark Lawler

13:30 - 13:55

Ditch the stethoscope - the Datascope is here to stay 

Professor Mark Lawler

Professor of Digital Health Queen's University Belfast 

Health Lead Global Innovation Institute 

Scientific Director DATA-CAN, the UK's Health Data Research Hub for Cancer 

13:55 - 14:35

Using health data at a population level to deliver innovative healthcare 

Professor Cathie Sudlow 

Director of British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre 

Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh 

14:35 - 15:00

Importance of Digital Health and Genomics in Cancer 

Professor Aedín Culhane 

Professor of Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Genomics) 

University of Limerick School of Medicine 

15:00

Break

15:10 - 15:30

Digital Health - time to innovate 

Doctor Michael Quinn 

Centre for Public Health Queen's University Belfast 

15:30 - 16:00

The Future of Digital Health 

• Professor Mark Lawler (Chair) 
• Professor Cathie Sudlow 
• Professor Aedin Culhane 
• Doctor Michael Quinn 

Closing remarks

10:00 - 10:10

Introduction

Prof Hans Vandierendonck, Professor of High Performance and Distributed Computing

10:10 - 10:30

AI for Food Authentication 

Prof Hui Wang

10: 30 - 11:15

Wearable Health Technology

Chair: John McAllister

Panellists: 

• Braj Srigengan, B-Secur 
• Dr Peter Shull, SageMotion
• Tiago Malaquias, STAT Sports

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:50

Machine Learning based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines

• Muhammad Fahim, Early Career Researcher

11:50 - 12:30

Panel Session: Lead Hans Vandierendonck - Transprecise Computing  

• Dr Cristiano Malossi – IBM Zurich  
• Georgios Karakonstantis - Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC)
• Dr Thomas Preusser – Xilinx Research  

12:30

Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION THEME: Agri-Food

13:30 - 13:40

Introduction & Chair

Prof Nigel Scollan

13:40 - 14:00

Future of Automation & Robotics in Agri-Food Systems

Keynote speaker Prof. Simon Person

14:00 - 14:50

Panel session:  

• Terry Canning, Cattle Eye Ltd
• Ryan McGuire, Food Future, Data integration for the delivery of sustainability & resilience in agriculture & Food Systems
• Andreas Gabriel, Bavarian Government, digital technologies applications in agriculture from the perspective of farmers
• Colm Higgins, NITC, QUB, Automation & robotics in food factories in practice

14:50

Short break

15:00 - 16:00

Panel session:  

• Duncan Spencer-Brown, Foods Connected, Digital Solutions and Connectivity for the Agri-Food Sector
• Suzanne Higgins, AFBI, Digital Agriculture: Smart solutions for soil, land and environment
• Ilias Kyriazakis - Nip it in the bud: automated early detection of health and welfare issues - QUB
• Niamh O’Connell & Paul Miller, QUB, Developing new vision-based tools for animal welfare assessment

Closing remarks