Annual Conference 2025

This year’s DAFNI (Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) Annual Conference is being held at The Edge, University of Sheffield, S10 3ED on Thursday 11th September 2025.

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The theme of the 2025 conference is ‘Bridging the gap between Academia, Government and Industry.’

Including the sub-themes:

– Climate Resilience

– Security and Trusted Research

Please see below for our outline agenda for the day including our exciting keynote speakers, invited speakers and panellists!

Further information will be updated here soon!

Tickets – £50 standard, £25 for students

Agenda

09:00

Arrival – Breakfast networking

09:30

Welcome, Introduction and DAFNI Fellows announcement

09:45

Keynote presentation – Making good choices

Juliet Mian, ARUP

10:15

Update on DAFNI
TBC, DAFNI

10:35

Networking Break

11:00

INVITED SPEAKERS SESSION

SALIENT – Building a Secure and Resilient World: Research and Coordination Hub

Dr Richard Kirkham, University of Manchester

Assessing the resilience of infrastructure in the UK

Rachael Steller and Karina Rodriguez Villafuerte, Climate Change Committee

Climate Extremes and Income Inequality: First Glimpses of Econometric Evidence and Policy Insights from the CROSSEU Project

Professor Nicholas Vasilakos, University of East Anglia

12:00

Networking lunch, poster session and demonstrations

13:30

Keynote presentation: Do it once and share it many times
Sarah Hayes, Chair Data Sharing Working Group, Independent Consultant

14:00

Learning to Fly: Research Data Access Pilots
Oliver (Olly) Tones, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

14:20

DINI Project results and recommendations
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Programme Lead, Scientific Computing, STFC

14:40

Networking Break

15:05

Trusted Research Panel
Emily Jefferson, Health Data Research UK

Jason Feehily, University of Nottingham

David Batho, Jisc

Tash Buckley, Cranfield University

15:55

From hackathon to legislation – the journey of NUAR
Holger Kessler, AtkinsRéalis

16:15

National Water Resources Quality Modelling: From research to delivery
Paul Hickey, Ofwat, Jonny Wilson and Richard Thompson, Environment Agency

16:35

Conference closing remarks
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI

16:45

Close of Conference

Annual Conference 2025

Agenda

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