SPRITE+ Expert Fellows 2022
Overview
SPRITE+ hosted the Expert Fellows Meeting 2022 in-person over 11-12 April at the De Vere Cranage Estate in Holmes Chapel. Finally face-to-face, we brought together representatives and stakeholders from academia, industry, SMEs, regional and national Government and civil society organisations that make up our community of Expert Fellows. We were delighted to welcome around 100 attendees for an enriching two days full of networking, presentations, discussion and progress.
We held sessions on a breadth of topics, including:
- SPRITE+ and TIPS - Present and Future
- TIPS and Cyber Physical Infrastructure
- News from the TIPS Family
- TIPS and the Digital Citizen
- The TIPS Horizon: Metaverse and More
- Sharing your views: What else is on the TIPS horizon?
- Deciding our Future for SPRITE+ Phase Two
Within these sessions, we featured talks from:
- Professor Emma Barrett (SPRITE+ Co-director, University of Manchester) on ‘SPRTITE+: Where we are now’ and ‘XR Safety and Security’
- Professor Mark Elliot (SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Co-ordinator, University of Manchester) on ‘SPRITE+ Phase Two’ and ‘Neurotechnology in TIPS’
- Professor Stacey Conchie (SPRITE+ Co-director, Lancaster University) on ‘Support for early careers and inclusion’ and CREST
- Professor Deeph Chana (SPRITE+ Co-director, Imperial College London) on ‘Why worry about the Metaverse?’
- Mark Gaskarth (EPSRC) on ‘UKRI future plans and priorities’
- Mark Enzer OBE (University of Cambridge) on ‘Digital Twins’
- Dr Richard Thomas (University of Birmingham) on RITICS
- Dr Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College London) on ‘IoT in the home’
- Dr Tristan Caulfield (University College London) on RISCS
- Dr Philip Hodgers (Queen’s University Belfast) on RISE
- Professor Adam Joinson (University of Bath) on Discribe and REPHRAIN
- Professor Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Royal Holloway University of London) on the Not-Equal NetworkPlus
- Professor Ben Morrison on behalf of Professor Pam Briggs (Northumbria University) on the Centre for Digital Citizens
- Professor Carsten Maple (University of Warwick) on the Alan Turing Institute Digital Identity Group
- Professor David McIlhatton (Coventry University) ON ‘Resilient cities in 2050’
The presentations were followed by table discussions and networking opportunities over coffee and refreshments, leading into a social dinner and drinks.
SPRITE+ is grateful to all our Expert Fellows who attended. Here’s to the next one in SPRITE+ Phase Two!
You can find the presentation slides and a raw first draft of the outputs from this event via our Members-Only online Forum. Here's how to access:
- Make sure you are logged in to your SPRITEHub profile.
- Go to Portal.
- Click on Discussion Groups.
- Find the topics titled 'SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Meeting 2022 Presentation Slides' and 'SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Meeting 2022 Raw Outputs' under General Discussion.
