Join us for a one-day hybrid conference with keynotes and interactive sessions to showcase the latest cross-industry business applications for connected digital twins.
CONNECTED DIGITAL
TWINS SUMMITAgenda
Event finished: 22nd June 2023
What’s on and when?
Day 1
22nd June
How can connected digital twins address industry challenges?
09:30 - 10:25
Day 1
1st January
08:45 - 09:25
Registration, Networking and Exhibition Zone
09:30 – 09.:45
Morning Welcome addresses
Dr Alison Vincent, Chair of the DT Hub Strategic Board
Justin Anderson, Director of the Digital Twin Hub, Connected Places Catapult
09:45 - 10:00
Ministerial Address: Launch of the TRIB online Vision and Roadmap to 2035
The Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP, Minister of State (Decarbonisation and Technology), Department of Transport
10:00 – 10:25
Keynote: Why Connect Digital Twins?
Dr Alison Vincent, Chair of the DT Hub Strategic Board
Networking and Showcasing Zone
10:30 - 11:00
Day 1
1st January
10:30 - 11:00
Morning break & Networking Showcase
Choose a session
11:00 - 12:25
Led by Digital Twin Hub Chair Dr Alison Vincent, this session features connected digital twin projects underway across the UK, with a panel discussion on how to overcome the barriers to connecting digital twins and a special Gemini Call Live with Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader, Arup.
Day 1
1st January
11:00 - 11:20
CPI Challenges for industry: Landscape review
Simon Hart, Head of Digital Twins and Cyberphysical Infrastructure, Innovate UK
11:25 - 11:55
Panel: Breaking Through the Digital Divide: Conquering Barriers and Unleashing the Power of Connected Twins
Justin Anderson leads a panel of experts to discuss how businesses can reap unprecedented value and return on investment from connecting digital twins, but what challenges and barriers are preventing industry from implementing systems thinking? And how can we enable system-level innovation across industries?
Moderator: Justin Anderson, Director of the Digital Twin Hub, Connected Places Catapult.
Speakers:
Keith Dear, Managing Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Advanced Technologies, Fujitsu
Kjell Eriksson, Vice President, Digital Partnering, DNV
Miranda Sharp, Associate at the ODI and CEO and Founder, Metis Digital
David Wagg, Alan Turing Institute
12:00 - 12:25
Panel: Digital Twin Financing: The Future of Investment and the Key to Unlocking Unprecedented Asset Value
Investing in infrastructure is essential for Businesses to address challenges related to Net Zero. Real Assets with high upfront costs and long asset lives need to be planned, financed and built. How can organizations demonstrate the right signals for increasing the need for investment in digital twins?
Moderator: Mark Coates, International Director of Public Policy, Bentley Systems
Speakers:
Steven Eglinton, Senior Consultant, Asset Management Systems, World Bank
Janet Greenwood, ESG Director, infrastructure Advisory Group
Zoe Jennings, Head of Engagement, 3Ci - Cities Commission for Climate Investment
Digital twin research and development and the journey towards a cyber-physical infrastructure. This session features key projects and programmes across the Catapult Network and how they will change the industrial and economic landscape.
Day 1
1st January
11:00 - 11:55
Transport Research and Innovation Board Programme: Overview and SME Use Cases
Workspace
Connected Places Catapult introduces the programme to develop digital twinning capability for transport, through creation of a vision and roadmap for steer the industry towards a federated network of digital twins. A focus will be on SME-led use cases across the sector.
Dr Wolfgang Schuster, Executive Director, Ecosystem Innovation, Connected Places Catapult
Yalena Coleman, Director of Applied Data and Technology, Connected Places Catapult
TRIB presentations
Nicholas LeGratin, Founder & CEO, Open Space
Dr Robert Harwood, CEO, Slingshot Simulations, Ltd
Dr Oytun Babacan, CEO, Evotrack
12:00 - 12:25
Digital Operations and Maintenance Environment (DOME) for Offshore Wind (Offshore and Renewable Energy Catapult)
Using digital models and testing environments to design and simulate the impacts of future offshore wind farms.
Speaker: Ben George, General Manager, Humber, Offshore and Renewable Energy Catapult
Interactive Training/Working Group Sessions with members of the Digital Twin Hub Strategic Board and guests. These interactive working group sessions focus on specific areas of interest first identified by the Digital Twin Hub community. Sessions are led by the Strategic Board – we invite you to join them in conversation.
Day 1
1st January
11:00 - 11:20
Stimulating Innovation in Digital Twins through R&D Funding
This presentation will be delivered by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It will consist of three parts:
• An explanation of UK Research and Innovation and the context for their latest round of digital twinning research investments.
• A high-level explanation of what UKRI means by the term ‘digital twinning’, and highlighting some of the investments that EPSRC and NERC have already made in digital twinning research.
• An introduction to the latest round of EPSRC and UKRI investments in digital twinning research.
• An explanation of UK Research and Innovation and the context for their latest round of digital twinning research investments.
• A high-level explanation of what UKRI means by the term ‘digital twinning’, and highlighting some of the investments that EPSRC and NERC have already made in digital twinning research.
• An introduction to the latest round of EPSRC and UKRI investments in digital twinning research.
Through the presentation, EPSRC will explain how UKRI is convening, catalysing, and investing in digital twinning, in close collaboration with others, working with government, industry and academia, stimulating innovation through R&D funding, and playing their part in the development of the national capability.
Speaker: Mark Gaskarth, Head of Digital Security and Resilience, EPSRC and DT Hub Advisory Group
11:25 - 11:55
DT Hub Working Group: Governance Model and Trust
Discussion – developing guidance for digital twin developers to enable them to create a functioning operating model. Such guidance will also allow developers to understand who pays, who has authority, and who holds the liability.
Speakers:
Anne-Marie Friel, Partner, Pinsent Mansons
Sarah Cameron, Legal Director, Pinsent Masons LLP
Joseph Otoo, Senior legal counsel and associate director, ARUP
Angela Baker, Data Assurance Programme Lead, Open Data Institute
12:00 - 12:30
DT Hub Working Group: Open Standards and Interoperability
Discussion – the digital twin ecosystem is rapidly advancing with new digital twins created in their own silos every day. For digital twins to reach their maximum potential, we must begin to connect them, and to evaluate the challenges, standards and data architectures required.
Ben Ford, Technology and Innovation Manager – Operations, Network Rail
Charles Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer, Esri UK
Mark Enzer, Vice Chair, Digital Twin Hub
Networking and Showcasing Zone
12:30 - 13:30
Day 1
1st January
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch & Networking Showcase
Choose a session
13:30 - 15:30
The Digital Twin Hub’s weekly stand-up, the Gemini Call, gets the special treatment and expands into a two-hour showcase of digital twin related presentations from the community, with an open forum for comments and questions and news. The Gemini Call is hosted by Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader at Arup and DT Hub Strategic Board member.
Day 1
1st January
13:30 - 14:15
Gemini Call Live hosted by Simon Evans
The Digital Twin Hub’s weekly stand-up, the Gemini Call, gets the special treatment and expands into a two-hour showcase of digital twin related presentations from the community, with an open forum for comments and questions and news.
Featuring:
The importance of making your energy sector digital twin a ``real`` asset
Hari Vamadeva, Executive Vice President, and Regional Director UK & Ireland, Energy Systems DNV
Defence Fuels Digital Twin: A proof of concept for Defence Fuels Enterprise (DFE)
Lee Griffiths, Head of Technology, CACI Ltd
How digital twins are making the biggest contribution to reducing the environmental impact of major events.
Paul Foster, Founder, OnePlan
Delivering change sustainably and profitably. Case Study: Portsmouth International Port
Sophie Peachey, Business Development Director, IOTICS
The Gemini Call is hosted by Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader at Arup and DT Hub Strategic Board member.
14:15 - 15:00
Gemini Call Live
First Floor
The Digital Twin Hub’s weekly stand-up, the Gemini Call, gets the special treatment and expands into a two-hour showcase of digital twin related presentations from the community, with an open forum for comments and questions and news.
Hosted by Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader, Arup and DT Hub Strategic Board member.
Speakers:
David Buxton, CEO, Decision Lab
Great things happen with digital twins and trusted data
Seb Lessware, CTO, 1Spatial
Social Digital Twin
Kurt Dusterhoff, Manager, Technology Strategy Unit, Fujitsu
Digitalising Whole Systems Energy Planning with local government, energy networks, and wider stakeholders
Christopher Jackson, CEO & Co-Founder, Advanced Infrastructure
15:05 - 15:25
Virtual Energy System - decarbonising the energy sector with connected digital twins
The ambition of the Virtual Energy System programme is to enable the creation of an ecosystem of connected digital twins of the entire energy system of Great Britain, which will represent both electricity and gas, and operate in synchronisation to the physical system.
This presentation will share the programme’s developments on the tangible use cases and the underpinning socio-technical common framework.
This presentation will share the programme’s developments on the tangible use cases and the underpinning socio-technical common framework.
Speakers:
Carolina Tortora, Head of innovation strategy and digital transformation, National Grid
Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader and the Global Digital Twin Leader, Arup
Digital twin research and development and the journey towards a cyber-physical infrastructure. This session features key projects and programmes across the Catapult Network and how they will change the industrial and economic landscape.
Day 1
1st January
13:30 - 14:05
What are connected digital twins already bringing to manufacturing?
Industry 4.0 is changing the world of manufacturing through new advances in cyber-physical systems and robotic automation where appropriate. This session explores what's been happening across our network, the benefits we are finding within the approach of digital twins, the challenges we are tackling from small systems through to supply chains, through to how we are enabling interoperability with a brief look at what the Apollo Protocol is trying to achieve.
Speaker: Jonathan Eyre, Senior Technical Fellow, Digital Twin Integrated Manufacturing Group
14:10 - 14:45
Energy System Digital Twin Visual Demonstrator
Digital Twins are becoming more and more prevalent within a multitude of sectors and potentially offer significant capabilities to address key aspects of the question: ‘How do we strategically decarbonise energy?’.
The Energy System Digital Twin Demonstrator Project was commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Central Modelling Team and has been further developed under Innovate UK’s Cyber-Physical Infrastructure project to investigate uncertainty in the baseline data and improve the visualization
The Energy System Digital Twin Demonstrator Project was commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Central Modelling Team and has been further developed under Innovate UK’s Cyber-Physical Infrastructure project to investigate uncertainty in the baseline data and improve the visualization
Eloise Thatcher, Systems Engineering Manager, Energy Systems Catapult
14:50 - 15:20
Unlocking the insight and value of a dynamic Digital Twin for the Fawley IMIC
How to take a design-led approach for digital twins when building with technology from the ground up
Speakers:
Emma Hitchman Head of Commercial Pursuits, Satellite Applications Catapult
David Bradley, Senior Associate Director of Asset Management Advisory
Peter Matthews-Dixon, Associate Director & Information Management Advisory Lead, Jacobs
Interactive Training/Working Group Sessions with members of the Digital Twin Hub Strategic Board and guests. These interactive working group sessions focus on specific areas of interest first identified by the Digital Twin Hub community. Sessions are led by the Strategic Board – we invite you to join them in conversation.
Day 1
1st January
13:30 - 14:05
DT Hub Working Group: Business Case and Demonstrating value
Discussion – developing demonstrable evidence and supporting materials that enable decision makers to easily understand the value and benefit of funding digital twins.
Liz St Louis, Director of Smart Cities, Sunderland City Council
Davin Crowley-Sweet, Chief Data Officer, National Highways
14:10 - 14:45
DT Hub Working Group: Digital Skills and Building Capability
Discussion – Digital twins are on few agendas due to lack of information around use cases and benefits. We must provide clarity around digital skills and digital twins. One way is to provide tools for business leaders to better understand how to enable Connected digital twins and to communicate their benefits.
Mark Coates, International Director of Public Policy, Bentley Systems
Matt Edwards, Chief Data Officer, Anglian Water Services
14:50 - 15:25
Gemini Alliance: Shaping the future of digital innovation
How the Digital Twin Hub is catalysing action to accelerate future adoption of digital twins by improving digital skills and capability.
Justin Anderson, Director of the Digital Twin Hub
Stuart Coleman, Strategic Business Development Director
Open Data Institute (ODI)
Prof. John Erkoyuncu, Professor of Digital Engineering and Head of the Centre for Digital Engineering and Manufacturing, Cranfield University
Melissa Zanocco OBE, Head of Programmes, Infrastructure Client Group (ICG)
Mark Warrilow, Head of Skills Development, Connected Places Catapult
Networking and Showcasing Zone
15:30 - 16:00
Day 1
1st January
15:30 - 16:00
Networking and exhibition
Choose a session
16:00 - 17:10
The Digital Twin Hub’s weekly stand-up, the Gemini Call, gets the special treatment and expands into a two-hour showcase of digital twin related presentations from the community, with an open forum for comments and questions and news. The Gemini Call is hosted by Simon Evans, Global Digital Energy Leader at Arup and DT Hub Strategic Board member.
Day 1
1st January
16:00 - 16:20
Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo)
The CReDo project is demonstrating how we can share data and collaborate across sectors to increase the resilience of critical infrastructure in response to climate change.
Sarah Hayes, Engagement Lead for the CReDo project.
16:20 - 16:40
Space, Time and Digital Twins
Interconnecting Digital Twins at scale is vital to help us tackle the complex challenges we face as a society. However, this task is daunting and may not be solved with our current approaches. This presentation will cover the role of location and geography in Digital Twins and in linking them together in a manageable and pragmatic way.
Charles Kennelly, Chief Technology Officer, ESRI Ltd
16:40 - 17:00
Fireside Chat: Harnessing BIM to realize digital twins
In a world driven by technological advancements, the convergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Digital Twins has emerged as a ground-breaking shift. In this inspirational talk, we dive into the realm of twin building and unlock the transformative potential of harnessing BIM to realize Digital Twins. Our journey will begin by unraveling the concept of the digital thread, where the essence of a physical asset intertwines with its virtual counterpart - learning the art of creating and nurturing the digital thread, as we witness intelligent virtual replicas come to life. The true power of digital twins lies in their ability to harness data and transform it into actionable insights in the realm of insightful operations, where every piece of information and data is analyzed, interpreted, and acted upon. Collaboration and partnerships form this thriving ecosystem as no digital twin can flourish in isolation. We will explore how different stakeholders come together and how each role contributes to the collective intelligence that propels digital twins forward. Additionally, we will examine real-life examples of how they have been successfully implemented.
Speakers:
Robert Bray, VPGM Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk
Adam Matthews, Head of Strategy & Engagement, Digital Construction International (DCI)
17:00 - 17:10
Wrap Up and Final Words
Alison Vincent, Chair of the DT Hub Strategic Board and Justin Anderson, Director of the DT Hub
Digital twin research and development and the journey towards a cyber-physical infrastructure. This session features key projects and programmes across the Catapult Network and how they will change the industrial and economic landscape.
Day 1
1st January
16:00 - 16:55
Digital Twins interoperability Workshop
Introductions and case studies will be presented and followed by a panel discussion
Dr Justin Buck, Senior Marine Data Scientist, NERC
Dr Anasol Pena-Rios, Research and Networks Strategy, BT Group
Sindu Manickam, Senior IIoT Technologist, Digital Catapult
Ben Ford, Technology and Innovation Manager – Operations, Network Rail
James Byrne, IT Research Software Engineer, British Antarctic Survey
Interactive Training/Working Group Sessions with members of the Digital Twin Hub Strategic Board and guests. These interactive working group sessions focus on specific areas of interest first identified by the Digital Twin Hub community. Sessions are led by the Strategic Board – we invite you to join them in conversation.
Day 1
1st January
16:00 - 16:55
Interactive Training Session: Realising the potential of digital twins
The Digital Twin Hub in collaboration with the ODI will be launching new learning resources designed to help unlock the full value of data in the digital twins ecosystem.
Dr David Tarrant, Academic Lead, ODI
Matt Edwards, Chief Data Officer. Anglian Water Services
Networking session
17:10 - 19:30
Day 1
1st January
17:10 - 19:30
Networking
