UKDF 2025

11th-12th June 2025
Pendulum Hotel, Manchester

Programme
Day 1 – Dinner, after-dinner talk & networking in the bar
Day 2 – Technical talks and discussions. Close ~4.30pm

Evening Session

  • Event-cameras from Earth to Space, André van Schaik

Morining Session 1

  • Keynote: System technology co-optimization: enabling the CMOS technology roadmap to 2050, James Myers (Slides)
  • The “Turing Tax” – reducing the interpretive bottleneck in computer architecture, Paul Kelly (Slides)
  • Making computers fundamentally more secure: the CHERI approach, Simon Moore (Slides)

Morning Session 2

  • SpiNNaker2, Steve Furber (Slides)
  • Closed loop control of brains, Patrick Degenaar (Slides)
  • Flexible electronics for wearables, Alex Casson (Slides)
  • UKESF Semiconductor Skills, Talent and Education Programme, Nathan March (Slides)

Afternoon Session 1

  • TinyML Time-Series Classifier Synthesis for Programmable Hardware, John McAllister (Slides)
  • Optimizing HiRep lattice simulations on CPU-based computer clusters, Shidur Rahman (Slides)
  • Demonstration Introductions:
    • FABulous – Chips and Framework, Dirk Koch (Slides)
    • Remote Laboratories for Engineering Education, Timothy Drysdale (Slides)

Afternoon Session 2

  • eFutures Tribute, Roger Woods (remotely) (Slides)
  • John Goodenough Show: National Semiconductor Strategy Update and Chip Design in Curriculum, John Goodenough