WelcomeTommy Flowers Institute

Launch Event

09:00 Coffee

09.25 Welcome – plus H&S info

09.30 The Tommy Flowers Institute: Why now? Why here?

- with BT’s MD Research & Innovation and Adastral Park , Dr Tim Whitley

10.15 What is needed to develop future research leaders?

- with doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers

10.45 Break

11.00 What will the Tommy Flowers Institute deliver in Year 1?

11.30 Panel: industrial challenges, development needs, what industry can do

12:30 Group Photos & Networking

13.00 Lunch & Close

Agenda

Tommy Flowers Institute

Right time

Right team

Right place

Dr Tim Whitley

MD, Research & Innovation and Adastral Park

‘A doctoral and post doctoral institute,

focussed on the researcher not just the

research, the TFI will bring together the

UK’s ICT industry and academia to develop

the research leaders of the future’

Right time, right team, right place

A time of change Research excellence Global connectivity

Tommy Flowers: Champion of purposeful innovation

Bill Tutte,

Cambridge postgrad

Lorenz Code

Max Newman,

Mathematician

mechanisation

Colossus

Tommy Flowers,

GPO Engineer

Implementation

Our Vision

• Bigger than any one company or

any one university

• Addressing the big challenges

facing the UK ICT industry

• A source of well-rounded ICT

research leaders

• Deep commercial and operational

understanding

Academic excellence

Industrial experience

UK policy-makers Industry and societal challenges

BT has a long history

of ‘purposeful

innovation’

What do we mean by ‘purposeful innovation’?

Science Engineering

Purpose

Innovation

1846

Electric Telegraph

Company

Many world first achievements1926

Two-way transatlantic

telephone call by radio

1943

Programmable

computer: Colossus

1962

Telephone call

via satellite

1968

Digital telephone

exchange

1980

Purpose-designed

optical fibre submarine

cable

1984

140Mbps single-mode

optical fibre link

1989

Satellite telephone

system: Skyphone

1999

GPRS live data call

over a mobile network

2013

World’s first

G.fast trial

2014

3Tbps optical fibre link

in the core network

2015

200Gbps data secured by

Quantum cryptography

1984

World's 1st 140Mbps

commercial

single-mode optical

fibre link

The backbone of

the entire global

communications

infrastructure

2014Pushing the

core transmission

to 3Tbps

Future proofing

UK digital

communications

No UK

capacity crunch

2015Record bandwidth of data secured by Quantum cryptography

Competition of broadband market*

Most affordable pricing

Fixed broadband penetration

Avg. measured downstreambandwidth

Superfast coverage

Take-up of superfast

broadband

Source: Analysys Mason, International benchmarking report, September 2015

1st

2nd

4th

5th

3rd

Source: Ofcom ICMR 2015* Using Herfindahl–Hirschman Index

Digital communications is a UK success story

Adastral Park

3,000 BT people and 700 partners including

128 Graduates and Apprentices this year

3,700 people

High tech companies

89

VIP customers, civil servants and policy makers

hosted in our customer centre

1,100

visitors during 2014/15

including 4,000 school visitors

54,000

engineering HQBT’s Global

UK operations centre

To become a national centre for a global digital

economy

Adastral vision

Largest test & integration

facility in Europe

Innovation Martlesham ICT Cluster

• ICT Cluster

• Business Incubator

• Mentor Group

• Networking

Opportunities and

Business Club

18

Adastral Park 2025

A national centre for

a global digital economy

Transform UK ICT –

from good to great

What do future research leaders need?

Now we will hear directly from some of the research leaders of tomorrow ...

I need to know how

I can make a

difference with my

research

I want to know

what the real

problems are

I want to find who

can help me get the

information I need

I want more

options for my

future career

I want to show I

can do more

I want to test

my ideas in

new ways

I want to work

with industry

more broadly

Lancaster University PGR … Sam Tickle

Robert Gordon University PGR … Reginald Ankrah

University of Essex PDRA … Anasol Pena Rios

Networking Break

Please be back at

11.00

What will the

Tommy Flowers

Institute deliver in

Year 1?

Fraser Burton

Head of BT University Research

Improve the potential of both researchers and their research

Show-and-tell

networking eventsIntroductions and

placements

Industry

mentors

Based at the heart

of the UK’s digital

ecosystem

Strategic industry

challenges:

Real world

conferences

Strategic industry

challenges:

Real world

conferences

The Future Organisation:

how to build agility and

customer focus?

The Converged User

Experience: how to deliver

the connectivity and

performance required?

Security and Trust:

how to empower and

protect all users?

• Real strategic cross-industry

questions

• Beyond any one academic

discipline or technology

• Provide researchers with unique

industrial exposure

• Offers value to all stakeholders

Strategic industry

challenges:

Real world

conferences

Annual programme of “real-world” three-day conferences

Day 1: Industry key notes

• From industry leaders on the

front line

Day 2: Current approaches

• From operational practitioners

• Voices of dissent?

Day 3: Bridging the gap

• From PGRs and PDRAs

• New directions, new

engagements

February 2017

The Future Organisation: how to

build agility and customer focus?

June 2017

The Converged User Experience:

how to deliver the connectivity

and performance required?

September 2017

Security and Trust: how to

empower and protect all users?

New directions, new engagements

Show-and-tell

networking eventsIntroductions and

placements

Industry

mentorsAt the heart of the

UK’s digital ecosystem

We will provide student-initiated networking events –

explain your work, identify how it addresses industrial

challenges – with other researchers and companies

We can broker introductions between industry projects

and prospective interns, leaving the bilateral terms to

the two parties

We can seek out industry mentors, as requested by

researchers, to meet development needs beyond

their technical research

We can provide the opportunity to be based at

Adastral to work with other students and a thriving

industrial community

A new way of collaborating between industry and

academia: researcher-focussed

Academia Industry

Future

research leaders

Tommy

Flowers

Institute

This is something new:

kickstarted by BT initially to

create better research leaders

for the whole ICT industry, for

academia and the UK economy

BT will be ramping this up,

opening availability in discussion

with partners. Partner companies

can recommend their sponsored

university researchers to join

Help guide industry to provide

valuable complementary

development that cannot be

provided from academia

Articulate the grand challenges

we share as an industry.

Contribute for our mutual benefit

We are looking for participants rather than spectators – please get involved

Innovation

Panel: industrial challenges, development needs, what industry can do

How to shape and improve the Institute’s activities:

Richard Burguete National Physical Laboratory

Wenbing Yao Huawei

Jörg-Peter Elbers Adva

Dennis Moynihan EIT Digital London

Using the power of communications to

make a better world

Get involved

https://atadastral.co.uk/tommy-flowers-institute/