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This fast-paced session features three impactful lightning talks from awardees focused on the theme of emerging technology. This session will highlight breakthrough and innovations that are driving the future of engineering.
1. Dr Amparo Güemes, University of Cambridge
Ensuring neurotechnology is accessible and inclusive promotes equitable economic growth, addressing societal needs and reducing health disparities. This talk will highlight the importance of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and how it can guide more responsible, inclusive, and ethically sound innovation.
2. Roaa Abdelmagid, University of Manchester
ChatGPT gets it wrong? As we build increasingly advanced AI systems, we want to make sure they don’t pursue undesired goals. This talk will look at why AI makes mistakes, and how these errors present valuable opportunities for improvement and innovation.
3. Rizwan Wadden, Mr Helix
This session will showcase the critical role technical innovation and engineering plays in the film and HETV sector. This talk will highlight some of the engineering behind leading industry technologies and tools transforming production processes.
Each lightning talk will last 5 minutes, followed by a brief Q&A session, offering insights into the emerging technologies that are shaping the future of engineering.
Emerging technologies conference theme
Innovation is one of the core pillars of the Academy’s work. We are investing in some of the UK’s most creative and exciting engineering ideas and businesses. We do this by supporting the growth of hundreds of companies through our Enterprise Hub and our Chairs in Emerging Technologies programme which supports researchers developing emerging technology areas that have potential to deliver economic and social benefit to the UK. Our MacRobert Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Winners include Google DeepMind for their GraphCast technology and Quanta Dialysis Technologies for their portable dialysis machine.
Programme*
| 3.15pm | Dr Amparo Güemes |
| 3.30pm | Roaa Abdelmagid |
| 3.45pm | Rizwan Wadden |
(*) Programme subject to change.
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