Annual Conference 2024

Registration Now Open! 

Please see above for the final version of our handbook for this year’s conference.

DAFNI (Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) Annual Conference 2024

Book now for our 2024 DAFNI conference on the 10th of September 2024! 

This year’s conference is being held at Conference Aston, Aston Universtity Campus, B4 7ET

Standard Tickets – £45

Student Tickets – £20

Our conference theme this year is ‘Working Together for Resilient Infrastructure’, including the sub-themes:

  • Modelling for Resilient Infrastructure
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Data Sharing
  • The Impact of Digital Twins

Further announcements will be updated here! 

Come and join our community of users to hear about the latest developments on the DAFNI platform. We will have exciting project updates from our Centre of Excellence grant holders, Transport & Energy Sandpit Project Winners and much more!

If you have friends or colleagues you’d like to invite, do ask them to sign up to our mailing list at: https://www.dafni.ac.uk/#subscribe

Agenda

09:00 Arrival – Breakfast networking
09:20 Welcome and Housekeeping
09:30

Keynote presentation

Martine Wauben, Head of Data for London, and Helen Huemer-Markides, Infrastructure Data & Innovation Lead, Greater London Authority

10:10 DAFNI – Technical Update
DAFNI Programme Team
10:45 Break, Demos, Networking
11:15 Project Presentations

 

Room 1:

STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks

Dr Xilin Xia, University of Birmingham

D-RES: Provision of distributed grid resilience using EVs during extreme weather events

Dr Desen Kirli, University of Edinburgh

FIRM: Flood resilience simulation on DAFNI

Professor Richard Dawson, Newcastle University

ClimaTracks: Forecasting resilience of railway network under propagating uncertainty 

Dr Giuliano Punzo, University of Sheffield

Room 2:

SCQUAIR: Simulating the Resilience of Transport Infrastructures Using QUANT 

Dr Richard Milton, UCL

SOFRAMODE: Sewer Overflow Flood Risk Analysis MOdel DAFNI Enabled

Dr Vassilis Glenis, Newcastle University

BRINES: Building Risk-Informed redundancy for Net-zero Energy Systems

Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University

Pywr-WREW: Water Resources model for England and Wales built in Python water resources simulation system

Dr Anna Murgatroyd, Newcastle University

12:20 Networking lunch
13:20 Exhibitions and Demonstrations
13:50

University of Birmingham’s Digital Twin

Professor Asaad Faramarzi, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Birmingham

14:30

Industry Panel

Yiu-Shing Pang

Open Data Manager at UK Power Networks

Martine Wauben

Head of Data for London at the Greater London Authority

Holger Kessler

Senior Stakeholder Manager, Assets & Technology-Infrastructure UK & Ireland at AtkinsRéalis

Ben Fitzsimons

Technical Director at Water Resources East

Olly Tones

Head of Data Sharing and Technology at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) 

15:20 Break, demos and networking
15:50

Project Presentations

 

Room 1:

RIWS: Resilience scenarios for integrated water systems  

Dr Ana Mijic, Imperial College London

ForNet: DAFNI FORecasting Services for Energy NETworks

Professor Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Durham University

NIRD: Building systemic resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks at the national scale

Dr Raghav Pant, University of Oxford

Room 2:

USARIS: Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for resilient infrastructure systems

Saskia Salwey, University of Bristol

IMPACT: IMproving flood-disruPted road networks resilience with dynAmic people-Centric digital Twins

Dr Qiuchen Lu, UCL

MARS: Flight Diversion Modelling for the UK Aviation System

Dr Fabian Steinmann, Cranfield University

16:40 Conference closing remarks 
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Facility Lead, Scientific Computing, STFC
16:45 Close of Conference

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