Past Event

1st Network Meeting: NeuMat Kick-off

Overview

THE VENUE

Welcome to the NeuMat Kick-Off Meeting!

Date: 23-25th September 2025

Location: Trinity College, Cambridge

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.
EXPRESS INTEREST



Event Speakers

Day 1 – 23 September 2025

  • Judith Driscoll – University of Cambridge (Intro to NeuMat and Welcome)
  • Maryam Crabbe-Mann – EPSRC UKRI (NMC within the National Semiconductor Strategy)
  • Shamit Shrivastava – Apoha.ai (Lecture 3)

Day 2 – 24 September 2025

  • Joshua Yang – University of Southern California (Neuromorphic Computing via Integration of Diffusive and Drift Memristors)
  • Sergey Savliev – Loughborough University (Stochasticity in Artificial and Biological Neurons)
  • Sergei Turitsyn – UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing (Lecture 6)
  • Giuliana Di Martino – University of Cambridge (Bridging Disciplines to Advance Neuromorphic Technologies)
  • Abu Sebastian – IBM (Bridging the hardware divide between biological and artificial neural networks)
  • Paul Larcey – Innovate UK (From the lab to the market: How Innovate UK can help the journey)

Flash Talks (Session chaired by Seb Dixon):

  • Philip Calado – University of Southampton
  • Javier Porte Parera – University of Strathclyde
  • Thomas Nowotny – University of Sussex
  • Will Branford – Imperial College London
  • Radu Sporea – University of Surrey
  • Himadri Singh Raghav – University of Edinburgh

Day 3 – 25 September 2025

  • Tony Kenyon – University College London (Neuroware – UK Neuromorphic Computing Hardware IKC)
  • Themis Prodromakis – APRIL Hub (Innovations across AI and Semiconductors)

Flash Talks (Session chaired by Himadri Raghav):

  • Markus Hellenbrand – University of Cambridge
  • Khushboo Singh – University of Cambridge
  • Prabodh Katti – King’s College London
  • Dip Das – University College London

The NeuMat Network

We help drive breakthroughs in neuromorphic materials, devices, algorithms, circuits and systems.