Keynote Speakers

Said Hamdioui (TU Delft)

Hamdioui is currently Chair Professor on Dependable and Emerging Computer Technologies, Head of the Quantum and Computer Engineering department, and also serving as Head of the Computer Engineering Laboratory (CE-Lab) of the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is also co-founder and CEO of Cognitive-IC, a start-up focusing on hardware dependability solutions.

Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh)

Barbara Webb runs the Insect Robotics group at the University of Edinburgh where she has been Professor of Biorobotics for the last ten years. She has published influential articles about the use of robot models to enhance understanding of how animals, particularly insects, are able to interact successfully with the world. Her recent work has focussed particularly on the brain mechanisms that underlie sophisticated navigation and learning in foraging insects such as ants.