Annual Conference 2024

Registration Now Open! 

DAFNI (Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) Annual Conference 2024

Book now for our 2024 DAFNI conference on the 10th of September 2024! 

This year’s conference is being held at Conference Aston, Aston Universtity Campus, B4 7ET

We are holding early bird prices up until July 2024! Book your place today! 

Standard Tickets – £45

Student Tickets – £20

From August standard prices will rise from £45 to £60, student prices will rise from £20 to £30

Our conference theme this year is ‘Working Together for Resilient Infrastructure’, including the sub-themes:

  • Modelling for Resilient Infrastructure
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Data Sharing
  • The Impact of Digital Twins

Further announcements will be updated here! 

Come and join our community of users to hear about the latest developments on the DAFNI platform. We will have exciting project updates from our Centre of Excellence grant holders, Transport & Energy Sandpit Project Winners and much more!

If you have friends or colleagues you’d like to invite, do ask them to sign up to our mailing list at: https://www.dafni.ac.uk/#subscribe

Agenda

09:00 Arrival – Breakfast networking
09:20 Welcome and Housekeeping
09:30

Keynote presentation

Announcing soon!

10:10 DAFNI – Technical Update
DAFNI Programme Team
10:45 Break, Demos, Networking
11:15 Project Presentations

 

Room 1:

STORMS

Dr Xilin Xia, University of Birmingham

D-RES

Dr Desen Kirli, University of Edinburgh

FIRM

Professor Richard Dawson, Newcastle University

ClimaTracks

Dr Giuliano Punzo, University of Sheffield

Room 2:

SCQUAIR

Dr Richard Milton, UCL

SOFRAMODE

Dr Vassilis Glenis, Newcastle University

BRINES

Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University

Pywr-WREW

Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Newcastle University

12:20 Networking lunch
13:20 Exhibitions and Demonstrations
13:50

Keynote Speaker 

Announcing soon!

14:30

Panel Discussion

Panel members to be announced soon!

15:20 Break, demos and networking
15:50

Project Presentations

 

Room 1:

RIWS

Dr Ana Mijic, Imperial College London

ForNet

Professor Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Durham University

NIRD

Dr Raghav Pant, University of Oxford

Room 2:

USARIS

Saskia Salwey, University of Bristol

IMPACT

Dr Qiuchen Lu, UCL

MARS

Dr Fabian Steinmann, Cranfield University

16:35 Conference closing remarks 
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Facility Lead, Scientific Computing, STFC
16:45 Close of Conference

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