With the recent COP26 held in Glasgow, sustainability and climate adaption is on everyone’s minds. The main outcome of this has been an agreement to strengthen 2030 targets by the end of 2022.
Speakers
Headline speaker:
Prof. Julie A. McCann, Professor of Computer Systems, Department of Computing - Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London
Insights speaker:
Eneni Bambara-Abban, Robotics Engineers and STEM Communicator
Agenda
18:00 - Registration opens
18:30 - Turing Talk begins
20:00 - Turing Talk concludes with drinks reception to follow
Please note: Only the London Turing Talk is being filmed and will be broadcast live on YouTube if you can't attend in-person.
Headline speaker synopsis
With the recent COP26 held in Glasgow, sustainability and climate adaption is on everyone’s minds. The main outcome of this has been an agreement to strengthen 2030 targets by the end of 2022.
This February’s Turing Talk will discuss the role of the Internet of Things, specifically sensor-based technologies, in both providing data to better understand resource usage for optimization and reduction, as well as providing ground truths to track those targets are being met.
To do this this technology needs to be embedded in our transport, our factories, our homes even, and with this brings a new set of challenges around privacy and security.
Indeed, such systems are core to building the Digital Twins that drive decision making, but what happens when such systems go wrong?
Join us when we welcome Prof. Julie A. McCann, Professor of Computer Systems, Imperial College London, to explore this and potential solutions to such scenarios and illustrate where the technologies are heading with a future look.
Insight speaker synopsis
To be announced.
About the speakers
Headline speaker:
Prof. Julie A. McCann, Professor of Computer Systems, Department of Computing - Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London
McCann’s body of practical work unifies decentralised algorithms, protocols, cross-layer, dynamical solutions, with a particular focus on low-powered, low-resourced devices that can act as modern wireless sensor-based systems or future smart dust.
She applies this to Space, Agri and Infrastructure Engineering challenges (encompassing the Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems). Her interests lie in harnessing the various interactions between the cyber and physical to improve performance, resilience and to make secure.
Insights speaker:
Eneni Bambara-Abban, Robotics Engineers and STEM Communicator
Eneni Bambara-Abban is a Multi Award-Winning Robotics Engineer and STEM Communicator. She founded The Techover Foundation, an international NGO that focuses on encouraging, educating and supporting individuals from underserved communities into technology. Her most recent outreach program includes teaching girls from Rural Nigeria how to build their first robot through sustainable and renewable materials, which was sponsored by accredited engineering organisation, Arduino.
She has worked in multiple technology sectors from developing algorithms for self-driving cars to data analysis and optimization for some of the biggest gaming apps in the World. She currently works as a Product Owner for an E-commerce Tech Startup based in Ghana whilst on a Scholarship Post-Graduate degree in Data Science at The University of the West of England.
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This event is brought to you by: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and the IET
