In 2016 we were hosted at Sheffield Hallam with support from the University of Sheffield. Our headline sponsor was SAP, who generously covered lots of student travel and the MSc poster contest. Additional student travel came from our silver sponsor, Google, who were back for the 9th year running. We had 180 people registered, and it was a superb day of talks, posters, discussion, networking, and slightly too much cake. You can see a full set of photos from the event on flickr.
Other major sponsors were:
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ARM, who sponsored lunch.
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Bloomberg, who were our “Coffee and Cake” sponsor.
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ScottLogic, who sponsored the food and the bar tab at our end-of-day social
Speakers:
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Sarah Winmill, Director of IT for professional services, UCL, gave a keynote packed full of excellent careers advice.
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Shahrzad Zargari and Sue Beckingham (Sheffield Hallam) about Open Source Intelligence
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Carolyn Johnson (JP Morgan) about their Technology for Social Good program
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Mahnaz Arvaneh (University of Sheffield) about Brain Computer Interfaces
Poster contests winners:
The first year contest, sponsored by JP Morgan, had the following winners:
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First place (£300) went to Ruth Sartain of Sheffield Hallam with a poster entitled “Could programmers become the next Bach?”
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Second place (£200) went to Mollie Coleman and Hollie Baker, of Bath University with a poster entitled “How the Arduino inspires creativity in Computer Science”
The second year contest (also open to students on a year in industry, or in their third year of a four year degree) was sponsored by GE, and had the following winners:
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First place (£300) went to Margaret Carlin of Queens University Belfast, with a poster entitled “Time critical applications in the healthcare industry”
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Second place (£200) went to Olivia Ruston of Bath University, with a poster about “The future of wearables”
The final year contest (also open to students in the penultimate year of integrated Masters, e.g. an MEng course) was sponsored by EMC, and had the following winners:
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First place (£300) went to Jessica Lettall of Liverpool University with a poster entitled “An app to promote resilience in home carers”
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Second place (£200) went to Imogen Gough of Manchester University, with a poster about “Models for Neurons and Neuronal Networks”
The contest for MSc students (or students in the fourth year of an integrated Masters, e.g. an MEng course) was sponsored by SAP, and the winners were:
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First place (£300) went to Rachmawaty Sudirman of Manchester University, with a poster about “Mobile expert system for Cacao pests and disease diagnosis”
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Second place (£200) went to Preethi Jayaraj of Hertfordshire University, with a poster entitled “Software Testing – a myth or a priority?”
All attendees are asked to vote for the people’s choice award by selecting their two favourite posters. These votes are tallied up and the top two or three get awards, sponsored this year by TigerFacegames. This year there was a tie so we have three winners, each getting £50.
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Jane Parker of the University of Bath with “The creativity in computer science”
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Leah Clarke of Durham University with “Detecting hidden data in images: Steganalysis vs Steganography
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Didi Gradinarska of Aberystwyth University with “Can Hololens be the industry’s augmented reality game changer?”