DAFNI (Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure)
Post Conference Updates
At this year’s DAFNI Conference on 12th September 2023, we welcomed over 100 in-person delegates to Imperial College, London for the day.
The conference theme of ‘Building a Secure and Resilient World’ highlighted the importance of the new Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis, as well as the pivotal role of the Data & Analytics for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) platform in climate-related and infrastructure projects.
The Centre of Excellence fosters research in resilience in the natural and built environment as part of the overarching UKRI programme ‘Building a Secure and Resilient World’ (BSRW), a 5-year programme which seeks to tap the UK’s research and innovation system to tackle large-scale, complex challenges for the UK.
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Giuliano Punzo, Lecturer at the University of Sheffield
Keynote Presentation
DAFNI to Improve Capacity & Resilience of Infrastructure Systems
Bridget Rosewell, Non-Executive Director at UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB), Formerly Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)
DAFNI – Exploring Resilience
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Facility Lead, Scientific Computing, STFC
DAFNI Platform Development Presentation
Dr Bethan Perkins, DAFNI Team Lead, STFC
The Challenges of Resilience
Dr Kristine Zaidi, Associate Director of Programmes, UKRI AHRC
Resilience Scenarios for Integrated Water Systems – RIWS
Dr Ana Mijic, Reader in Water Systems Engineering and Innovation, Imperial College London
An agent-based model of flood infrastructure resilience – FIRM
Professor Richard Dawson, Professor of Earth Systems Engineering and Director of Research in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for resilient infrastructure systems – USARIS
Dr Francesca Pianosi, Senior Lecturer in Water and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol
Building systemic resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks at the national scale – NIRD
Dr Raghav Pant, Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Welcome Back and Introduction to the Afternoon Session
Dr Giuliano Punzo, Lecturer at the University of Sheffield
Spatial Planning Reimagined
Dr Wei Yang, Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Task Force for Planning; Chairman, Wei Yang & Partners
Standards in Practice – embedding Resilience in Infrastructure
Russell Price, International Standards Organization
Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks – STORMS
Dr Xilin Xia, Assistant Professor in Resilience Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham
Pywr-WREW, a Water Resources model for England and Wales built in Python water resources simulation system
Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford
Sewer Overflow Flood Risk Analysis MOdel Dafni Enabled – SOFRAMODE
Dr Vassilis Glenis, Senior Lecturer in Hydroinformatics, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Small Changes and Computer-Generated Spatial Interaction Modelling with QUANT – SCQUAIR
Dr Richard Milton, Senior Researcher, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UC
Panel
Dr Wei Yang, Dr Brian Matthews, Russell Price, Dr Giuliano Punzo
Agenda
Building a Secure and Resilient World
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