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Annual Conference 2025

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                              Register for this year’s conference, which will take place on 11th September 2025 at The Edge, University of Sheffield.

                           Our theme this year will be ‘Bridging the Gap between Academia, Government and Industry’. 

           Tickets – £50 standard, £25 for students

Please keep returning this page for further updates!

 

 

 

 

Agenda

09:00 Arrival – Breakfast networking
09:30 Welcome, Introduction and DAFNI Fellows announcement
09:45

Keynote presentation

Juliet Mian, ARUP
10:15 DAFNI – Technical Update
Bethan Perkins, DAFNI 
10:45 Break, Demos, Networking
11:00

Invited Speakers

SALIENT – Richard Kirkham, University of Manchester

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE – Rachael Steller, CCC

CROSSEU – Professor Nicholas Vasilakos, University of East Anglia

 

12:00 Lunch

13:30

Keynote presentation

Sarah Hayes, Connected Places Catapult

 

  14:00  

 

14.20

Invited Speaker

Oliver Tones, Department of Science, Innovation and Technology

DINI Project Update

Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI

 

14:50 Break
15:15

Trusted Research Panel

Emily Jefferson, Health Data Research UK

Jason Feehily, University of Nottingham

David Batho, JISC

Fourth panel member to be announced shortly

 

          16:05             Invited Speaker

                                 Paul Hickey, Ofwat

16:30 Conference closing remarks 
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI 
16:35 Close of Conference

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