SPEAKER
Dr Mengqui Cao
AGENDA
13:00 Sandwich lunch available at BCS
14:00 AGM: Jonathan Leeson to chair
14:30 Break for networking, collating Symposium items from members, etc
15:15 Symposium: Availability/Service Resilience (Ed Steinmueller and Panel)
16:00 Symposium: UCL Presentation Dr Mengqui Cao
16:40 Symposium: Discussion led by Kevin Eagles - priorities for 2026
17:20 Symposium: Photography competition: Panel and voting
18:00 Networking & drinks at BCS
19:00 Close
SYNOPSIS
The event will give delegates the opportunity to explore the challenges facing IT Leaders in 2026 and to volunteer to contribute to researching and providing positive tools and methods for the IT Leaders community.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Mengqiu Cao is a Lecturer in Transport and Urban Systems Modelling (Urban Systems Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning) at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER), University College London (UCL).
He works in both academia and industry, specialising in an interdisciplinary research field, which is primarily a mixture of transport analysis and urban studies.
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