FPGA Front Runner:
Exploring the potential of AI in FPGA development and products.
📅 Date: Tuesday, 18th February 2025
🕘 Time: 09:00 to 14:00 (GMT)
📍 Venue: Renishaw plc, Gloucestershire, GL12 8JR
Join us at the FPGA Front Runner event to explore AI’s groundbreaking potential in FPGA development and products.
This event will feature industry experts like Dr. Pedro Machado from Nottingham Trent University, who will share insights on bio-inspired encryption.
This is your chance to engage with cutting-edge technologies shaping cybersecurity, data protection, and digital privacy. Don’t miss it!
Agenda (GMT)
| Time | Speaker | Details |
| 09.00 | Arrival and registration | |
| 09:30 |
Pete Leonard, Renishaw, Electronics Design Manager – Group Engineering |
Introduction to Renishaw |
| 09:40 |
Gareth Richards, TechWorks AI Network Manager |
An Introduction to Techworks-AI |
| 10:00 | Petros Toupas, Heronic Technologies, CTO | Automating the design of bespoke AI accelerator IP |
| 10:30 |
James Lewis , RED Semiconductor CEO |
VISC – A microprocessor accelerator architecture in FPGA |
| 11:00 | Dr Pedro Machado, Nottingham Trent University, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science | Novel bio-inspired encryption using SNNs suitable for FPGA: A Privacy-Preserving Approach |
| 11:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 12:00 |
Jeremy Bennett (speaker) & William Jones, Embecosm, Chief Executive (Bennett), Head of AI/ML (Jones) |
How to port AI systems to new computer architectures |
| 12:30 |
Giles Peckham, Myrtle.ai, Head Of Marketing |
Realising the enormous potential of FPGAs for machine learning |
| 13:00 | Mark Azadpour, AWS, Sr. HPC GTM | AI in development and prototyping for FPGA |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | End | |
Location
Renishaw plc, New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge , Gloucestershire, GL12 8JR