eFutures Conference 2022

A few weeks ago, we had a chance to meet researchers from around the United Kingdom to share our work and bring the community together.  

eFutures is a researcher network which aims to support people researching and working with electronic systems across the UK, bringing people together and igniting a spark for collaboration across the globe. eFutures is mainly funded by UK's EPSRC funding body and thanks to their support we were able to present a SoC workshop to the delegates. 

eFutures is a UKRI Funded Network

This year's gathering met at the Museum of Liverpool on 13-16th September If you couldn't attend this year, have a look at the program and you may ask Beth's great team to put you in contact either with the material presented or the people involved. Nothing would be complete without mentioning the University of Liverpool's relentless efforts to host each attendee perfectly. Ivona kindly welcomed the delegates and orchestrated the event with her team members flawlessly. eFutures team is available here.

Two parallel sessions were executed by the steering committee each afternoon on the 14th and 15th of September.  

Sorry for my phone screenshots, the more precise list and details can be accessed through the eFutures network if you like to know more. 

Some highlights of the conference:

Prof Sir Steve Furber shared free-to-use supercomputer links of the multi-billion projects of "SpiNNaker" and "SpiNNaker 2" for the researchers. If you are interested in and would like to use neural networks, these biologically inspired supercomputer clusters are great. 

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's researcher Koji Tanaka thankfully took a long flight to share their progress on Solar farms in space.

Current EV trends of Li-Ion battery technologies and further power electronics improvements were presented by Layi Alatise from Warwick and Magda Titirici from Imperial.

For our SoC Labs workshop, David gave an excellent presentation to show how easy is would be to have a turn-key SoC chip using the Arm Academical Access (AAA) program for your research targets. He kindly pulled me into the stage to let me present SoC Lab's remote FPGA platform for our collaborators. 

A good number of delegates including Steve Furber from Manchester University joined the SoC Labs workshop to hear about our progress as a community.

Thanks to all researchers who attended and shared their contacts to develop further research together. 

We look forward to hearing about any other national or regional groups. 

Hakan