6th-7th May 2026
Pendulum Hotel, Manchester

Programme
Day 1 – Open ~18:00. Dinner, after-dinner talk & networking in the bar
Day 2 – Technical talks and discussions. Close ~16.30

Evening Session

• Tiny Tapeouts, Matt Venn

Morining Session 1

• Learning Networks of Boolean Lookup Tables, George Constantinides
• Memristive Dynamical Spiking Neural Networks with Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity, Xinming Shi
• What if sensors have memory – from memristors to in-sensor computing, Chun Zhao

Morning Session 2

• Cool things to do with a gazillion processors that don’t involve neurons (there will be Hard Sums), Andrew Brown
• Scaling Development from Laptop to Cloud with Event-Triggered Computing, Shidur Rahman
• Innovation management in the age of LLMs, John Goodacre
• News Flash

Afternoon Session 1

• AI and Explainability in Embedded Systems, Ekin Can Erkus
• AI in Education: A Threat to Electronics Skills? Graeme Bragg
• Improving the Supply of UK Design Talent, John Darlington

Afternoon Session 2

• Project Vampire, Patrick Degenaar
• TCAD-Driven SiC Process & Device Modelling, Md Moqueet Ahmad
• Technology Transition at the CHERI Research Centre, Simon Moore