FEMM Hub Keynote Speaker Announced

17 June 2025

We are pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker for the 2025 FEMM Hub Conference is Professor Rossi Setchi. Professor Setchi is Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Professor of High-Value Manufacturing at the School of Engineering. She is Director of the Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) and Co-Director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Cardiff (CAMSAC). She has a distinguished track record of research in a range of areas including AI, robotics, systems engineering, additive manufacturing, industrial sustainability, and Industry 4.0, and has built an international reputation for excellence in knowledge-driven symbolic AI, computational semantics, and human-machine systems. Professor Setchi has worked with more than 150 co-authors and contributed over 280 peer reviewed publications including 16 edited books and over 120 journal articles, secured external grant support totalling more than £26 million and supervised to successful completion more than 30 PhD students. She has collaborated with over 20 UK and 30 overseas universities, 15 research organisations and 30 industrial companies from more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Australia. She has provided research leadership on over 30 collaborative projects funded by UK and overseas funding bodies, including the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC and the European Commission. Professor Setchi has considerable experience at national (REF UoA12) and international level (EU and Asia) in evaluating research quality and impact. She also contributes to evidence-based policy discussions via her work with the Senedd, the Royal Society and the Learned Society of Wales (LSW).

For more details on our conference please  visit our dedicated conference page or contact the FEMM Hub Manager Laura O'Keefe L.OKeefe@sheffield.ac.uk.