Discount for staff and students to access future industry summit

28 Feb 2018

Discount to internation academic conference

University staff and postgraduate students are being offered a discount to access an international academic conference that is looking at the future of manufacture.   

The University is co-organising the Industry 4.0 Academia summit which opens on Thursday, 1 March 1 at Manchester Central.

Manchester speakers include Dr Mostafa Nabawy (MACE), who will give a talk entitled ‘Spiders Attack: the rise of bioinspired microrobots’ which will provide an overview of two bio-inspired microrobotic systems. The first is influenced by the extraordinary jumping capability of spiders, while the second reflects the extraordinary flying capability of bees. 

Dr Nabawy said his talk will reveal: “a future where smart micro-robots are deployed in unknown environments and can plan and execute useful missions to achieve given goals.”

Also, a roundtable led by cyber security expert Dr Danny Drenser (Computer Science), will also be held as part of the academic conference. While Professor Philip Martin (CEAS & CAFE4DM), will be giving a talk on February 28 about ‘smart factories’ during a parallel two-day industrial conference. 

Dr Yvonne Hung, co-organiser of the academic conference, said: “If you are interested in attending we have negotiated an 80 per cent on the registration fee for Manchester staff and students.”

To request this discount code email:  industry4.0@manchester.ac.uk.

• Alongside the academic conference will be a commercial summit www.industry40summit.com as well as an exhibition space www.industry40summit.com/factories-of-the-future-expo/ all of which you can access with the same registration. Both of these are also running on Wednesday, February 28.