Celebration Day

Arrival: From 9:00 AM

Morning Speakers – Starting at 10:00 AM

• Introduction and welcome by the organisers: Professor Roberto Cipolla, Professor Alison Noble, Dr Bobby Rao and Professor Andrew Zisserman

• Professor Irene Tracey (Vice-Chancellor)

• Professor Sir Mike Brady

• Professor Lord (Lionel) Tarassenko

• Professor Andrew Blake

• Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte

• Professor Alison Noble

Lunch Break: 12:00–2:00 PM

• 12.00 - 12.10 Group photo

Afternoon Speakers – Starting at 2:00 PM

• Professor John Leonard (1987–1990)

• Professor Ann Nicholson (1988–1992)

• Dr Nick Cerneaz (1991–1994)

• Dr Michael Isard (1995–1999)

• Professor Lourdes Agapito (1997–2000)

Break: 3:00–3:30 PM

Late Afternoon Speakers – Starting at 3:30 PM

• Dr Miguel Mulet (1996–2000) 

• Dr Matt Mellor (1996–2003)

• Dr Andrew McLennan (2006–2010)

• Dr Karen Simonyan (2009–2014)

• Dr Max Jaderberg (2012–2015)

Closing remarks: Professor Sir Mike Brady

Tea & Coffee & Cakes: 4:30 PM

Dinner: 7:00 PM at Reuben College (Pre-registered only)

• Arrive 7.00-7.30pm; Buffet dinner from 7.30pm

• No dress code required.

Directions to Reuben College

Science Day

Arrival: From 9:00 AM

Morning Speakers – Starting at 9:30 AM

• Introduction and welcome by Alison Noble and Andrew Zisserman

• David Forsyth: “What diffusion models do: not what it says on the box, and worth fixing”

• Ian Reid: "Spatial and Embodied AI (once upon a time we called these SLAM and Active Vision)”

• Andrew Fitzgibbon: “Let’s talk about code”

Coffee Break: 11:05–11:30 AM

• Andrew Davison: “From SLAM to Spatial AI”

• Paul Newman: "That's been harder than I expected: Making robots work"

• Andrea Vedaldi: “From Geometry to Learning: there and back again”

Lunch Break (sandwiches provided) + Posters and demo: 1:00–2:30 PM

Afternoon Speakers – Starting at 2:30 PM

• Gül Varol: "From Bodies to Hands: Language-Guided 3D Motion Generation"

• Weidi Xie: “Towards Building an Agentic System for Healthcare”

Lightning Talks – Starting at 3:30 PM

• Ingmar Posner: “Assembly Required - Compositional World Models in Robotics and Beyond”

• Nick Hawes: “Better Autonomy Through Uncertainty”

• Bartek Papiez: “AI, Bias, and Trust: Towards a Future of Equitable Healthcare”

• Victor Prisacariu: “Mapping the World”

• Steve Roberts: “Instability is all you need: the surprising dynamics of learning in deep models”

• Phil Torr

Tea & Coffee & Cakes: 4:30 PM