DAFNI Official launch event – Academic Use Cases and Training
Virtual Event, 14 September 2021
This is part of the DAFNI launch events. The first part of this virtual day will be led by DAFNI Champions, demonstrating the power of DAFNI and real use cases of models and data on DAFNI, followed by training sessions.
Digital Twins – How can they help the South West to decarbonise?
Virtual Event, 12 July 2021 – organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers
Could the use of Digital Twins aid and accelerate the net zero transition in South West England?
Join this exciting workshop to discuss how digital representations of the physical world might unlock new opportunities for the decarbonisation of infrastructure in the region.
The event is open to all, whether you’re an expert or novice.
Please join this free session to help guide the South West Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP)’s learning journey on Digital Twins.
DAFNI Conference 2021 – Official launch event
Virtual Event, 5 July 2021
Following 4 years of intense development effort, we were delighted to unveil to the wider community the exciting advancements within the facility and how it will relate to and revolutionise infrastructure business and research nationwide.
Scotland DAFNI Roadshow
Date: 18 May 2021
Time: 14:00- 17:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Join this event to see live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research.
DAFNI Roadshow – Focus on Transport Research
Date: 24 March 2021
Time: 09:00- 11:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event showed examples of how members of the Universities Transport Studies and other transport researchers can make use of DAFNI.
DAFNI Digital Twin Roadshow at University of Sheffield
Date: 26 February 2021
Time: 10:00- 13:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event showed an overview of the digital twin research at the University of Sheffield and DAFNI plans for accommodating and connecting full-scale digital twins.
Cristian Genes, University of Sheffield and DAFNI champion, talked about his Transport Digital Twin on DAFNI
UKCRIC & DAFNI Roadshow at Southampton University
Date: 8 February 2021
Time: 14:00- 17:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Atttendees leanr about UKCRIC’s vision to deliver world-class infrastructure, and saw live demos of the DAFNI platform, discovering tools and capabilities to support your research.
DAFNI Roadshow at Cranfield University
Date: 4 February 2021
Time: 09:30- 12:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event showed live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research at Cranfield University.
NISMOD meets DAFNI
Date: 21 January 2020
Time: 10:00 – 13:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event showed how to use the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD) on DAFNI.
Participants had the opportunity to see demos of NISMOD workflows on DAFNI.
DAFNI Roadshow at Imperial College London
Date: 15 December 2020
Time: 14:30 – 17:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
At this event we had the opportunity to see presentations on Imperial’s Infrastructure schools and live demos of the DAFNI platform tools: data discovery and model upload.
Digital Twins and Data Ontologies
Date: 2 December 2020
Time: 09:30 – 12:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event shared exciting work on Digital Twins and Ontologies as well as enabling facilities and ways of thinking. It covered the ontology work from CDBB Information Management Framework, and the findings of the DAFNI champions team working on Infrastructures Research Ontologies.
The event counted with the participation of ARUP, Costain, CDBB, UCL and DAFNI.
DAFNI Roadshow at Oxford University
Date: 30 September 2020
Time: 12:00 – 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
This event showed live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research at Oxford University.
DAFNI Virtual Roadshow – University of Bristol
Date: 24th July 2020
Location: Zoom Webinar
Demonstrating DAFNI’s tools and capabilities for supporting research.
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DAFNI Virtual Roadshow – UCL Researchers
Date: 26th June 2020
Location: Zoom Webinar
Demonstrating DAFNI’s tools and capabilities to researchers across UCL’s departments.
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DAFNI and Sheffield Urban Observatory Hackathon
Date: 11 – 13 February 2020
Location: Venue TBC, Sheffield
We will be taking data from the Sheffield Urban Observatory and running analytics on it as part of a collaboration between DAFNI and the researchers in Sheffield.
UKCRIC Observatory and DAFNI integration workshop
Date: 3 December 2019
Location: Friends House, London
The workshop will identify opportunities for collaboration between infrastructure observatories and the modelling capabilities in DAFNI.
DAFNI Conference 2019
Date: 10 – 11 June 2019
Location: The Royal Society, London
Two day event
Day One – showcase event comprising of a series of keynote talks from representatives who are influencers and policy makers within the UK’s National Infrastructure sector. The afternoon will see a series of workshops demonstrating results from DAFNI pilot projects and showcasing DAFNI’s capability.
Day Two – will be a ‘Hackathon’ aimed at academics and developers to get involved in using DAFNI to understand how to visualise data and models.
If you would be interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Marion Samler, DAFNI Partnerships Manager, Email: marion.samler@stfc.ac.uk or call Marion directly on (01235) 567217.
DAFNI Seminar Edinburgh: Real Time Flood Modelling on DAFNI
Date: 22 March 2019
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
A seminar to provide an opportunity to interact with a new flood resilience capability developed during a recent collaboration between DAFNI (Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) and the Newcastle University Urban Observatory and Spatial Analytics and Modelling Lab. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities.
This is an important milestone for both DAFNI and Newcastle University and will demonstrate for the first time integration of the UKCRIC Observatory programme with DAFNI to support infrastructure resilience modelling.
DAFNI Seminar London: Real Time Flood Modelling on DAFNI
Date: 11 March 2019
Location: Geovation Centre, London
A seminar to provide an opportunity to interact with a new flood resilience capability developed during a recent collaboration between DAFNI (Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) and the Newcastle University Urban Observatory and Spatial Analytics and Modelling Lab. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities.
This is an important milestone for both DAFNI and Newcastle University and will demonstrate for the first time integration of the UKCRIC Observatory programme with DAFNI to support infrastructure resilience modelling.