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Launch of UK-wide neuromorphic tech network, focussing on project scoping, strategic plans, and engaging discussions with experts.

The NeuMat Kick-Off Meeting marks the exciting beginning of the UK-wide NeuMat network, bringing together key stakeholders and experts in the field of neuromorphic technologies. This meeting aims to set the stage for future collaborations and outline the strategic direction of the project. The agenda is packed with engaging discussions with renowned invited speakers from government, academia and industry, plus information on upcoming workshops and engagement initiatives. This kickoff meeting is a crucial step in fostering innovation and advancing research in the science and technology of neuromorphic computing. The meeting will be focussed on scoping this 5-year Network grant to maximise success toward its four central aims:

NeuMat Network Aims:

1. Foster and Educate the Community: Create an ecosystem of researchers at varying career stages, representing diverse scientific, ethnic, and gender backgrounds, and encompassing all geographic regions.
2. Strengthen Academic-Industry Ties: Enhance collaboration between academia and the private sector.
3. Catalyse Research & Development Funding: Initiate new funding proposals on subjects that emerge directly from idea cross-fertilisation within the network.
4. Ensure Continuity: Build a cohort of early-career researchers and a long-term vision for the future beyond NeuMat.

Event Schedule 

The Arrival and registration will be in the Blue Boar Common Room which is next to the Winstanley Lecture Theatre. All talks will take place in Winstanley Lecture Theatre, whilst the poster exhibition will be in the Old Combination Room (OCR). Tea/Coffee breaks and reception drinks will be served in the OCR. Dinner will take place in the Hall. Please see map below.

Day 1 – 23 September 2025:

2.00 pm Check-in for people being accommodated at Trinity College

2.30 pm Posters to be put up in OCR (before 6 pm)

3.00 pm Arrival and registration with Tea/Coffee in Blue Boar Common Room

3.30 pm Welcome in Winstanley Lecture Theatre

3.45 pm Lecture 1. Judith Driscoll, University of Cambridge, Intro to NeuMat and Welcome.

4.15 pm Lecture 2. Glenn Goodall, EPSRC, "Neuromorphic Computing and the National Semiconductor Strategy"

4.45 pm Lecture 3. Abu Sebastian, IBM

6.00 pm Reception Drinks and poster session 1 viewing in OCR

7.30 pm Dinner in Hall

Day 2 – 24 September 2025:

8.15 am Breakfast in Hall

9 am. Put Poster session 2 posters up.

9.15 am Lecture 4. Joshua Yang, USC, "Memristive Devices for Computing"

10.00 am Lecture 5. Andrew Mallinson, Intel

10.45 am Tea/Coffee break in OCR

11.15 am Initial roundtable brainstorm - Where should the network go? How can it be most effective?

12.30 pm Lunch in Hall

1.30 pm Poster session 2 in OCR

3.00 pm Lecture 6 Luca Larcher, Applied Materials, "Technologies for Neuromorphic Computing"

3.45 pm Coffee/Tea break

4.15 pm Lecture 7 Sergei Turitsyn, the new UK Neuromorphic Centre

4.45 pm Lecture 8 Paul Larcey, Innovate UK

5.15 pm Researcher flash talks (6 x (6+1))

6.15 pm Reception Drinks and Posters 2 in OCR

7.30 pm Dinner in Hall

Day 3 – 25 September 2025:

8.15 am Breakfast in Hall and Poster session 2 viewing.

10.00 am Check-Out if accommodation at Trinity College

Remove posters before 12 pm

9.30 am Lecture 9 Tony Kenyon, UCL, "Overview of the UK Neuromorphic Computing Ecosystem"

10.00 am Lecture 10 Themis Prodromakis, APRIL hub, "Innovation opportunities across the Semiconductors – AI spectrum"

10.30 am Coffee

10.45 am. Roundtable wrap up discussion. How can the network be most effective? Report to be written.

11.45 pm Researcher flash talks (6 x (6+1))

12.30 pm Best posters and flash talk prize giving.

1.00 pm Lunch in Hall and End

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neumat-kick-off-meeting-tickets-13419047562...

Call for applications: January 15 – March 31, 2025

Find out more here.

gEneSys “Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities in Transition Pathways to Sustainable Energy Systems” is a European project exploring all these facets of the gender-energy nexus with the aim of proposing pathways for a just and gender-equitable energy transition.

The shift to renewable energy is an important change for society, both in the Global North and South, allowing us to produce energy without relying on fossil fuels. By employing technologies that have the potential to revolutionize industries, enhance efficiency, and create new economic opportunities, sustainable energy addresses global challenges such as climate change and societal needs. As with every sociotechnical revolution, this shift brings along challenges affecting the different subsystems involved in the energy transition processes. Inequalities and drawbacks can be reproduced or exacerbated at the environmental, economic, social, and political level.

As with all technologies and policies that have a direct impact on people’s lives, considerable gender inequalities can also be observed in the energy transition – both in relation to the production of energy, its consumption and its political regulation. Energy Research and Innovation (R&I) workforce, the linchpin in fostering knowledge creation and technologies development, is still unbalanced. Women are significantly underrepresented in the field as researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, decision makers, and leaders. The average share of women in the R&I workforce in companies of the energy sector in the EU27 is 22% (CINEA 2024 and IEA).

Regarding energy consumption, gender inequalities along with other socioeconomic and cultural factors, influence citizens’ energy behaviours and the acceptance of renewable energy. These factors are identified as crucial for the uptake of energy technologies (International Energy Agency, 2020), but seldom included in technologically focused interventions. Women are also more often than men affected by energy poverty and underrepresented in the energy decision-making (EC 2024).Gender inequalities also intersect with the power imbalances between the Global North and Global South, meaning that the opportunities and challenges of a just transition are not the same everywhere. It is therefore necessary to deepen gender-energy nexus in the various forms it takes between the Global North and Global South, and within them.