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Professor Judith Driscoll is currently Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary applied science research focuses on obtaining the required performance of complex oxide thin films for industrial impact and involves novel nanoengineering and process approaches, both chemical and physical. Her innovations have enabled lower cost, higher performance high temperature superconductor tape and have enabled enhanced performance ferroics, ionics, and semiconductors.

Professor Driscoll has received numerous national and international awards from Materials, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering societies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IOP, IOM3, APS, MRS, WES, AAAS, RSC. She has worked at many institutions around the world and has been a visiting scientist at Los Alamos National Lab for more than 20 years.

Stuart Parkin’s research interests include atomically engineered thin-film heterostructures, high-temperature superconductors, and spintronic materials and devices for advanced sensor, memory and logic applications. Stuart’s discoveries in magnetoresistive thin film structures enabled a thousandfold increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives.

Most recently, Stuart’s research has focused on a novel storage class memory device, ‘racetrack memory’, and cognitive materials that could enable very low power computing technologies. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and TWAS, (The World Academy of Sciences), and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Stuart has received numerous awards and honours, including, most recently, the 2012 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society, the 2013 Swan Medal of the Institute of Physics, and the €1 million 2014 Millennium Technology Award from the Technology Academy Finland. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Seb Dixon is Network Manager for NeuMat (), a UK-wide initiative advancing neuromorphic materials and devices, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on pioneering non‑volatile memory materials to enable next-generation compute architectures, with particular emphasis on ferroelectric oxides, epitaxial growth, and the scalable integration of 2D materials for future compute. He leads a collaborative £1 million SMART grant between Cambridge and Paragraf Ltd, reflecting his strong track record in bridging academic research with industrial application and supported by his RAEng Industrial Fellowship. Seb’s international academic training spans London, Western Australia and Tokyo, complemented by an industrial EngD and seven years’ experience as a Materials Scientist in a UK semiconductor manufacturing start-up.

Steve Furber is a mathematician and engineer, revered for his fundamental contributions to electronic systems. He is known for his design of microprocessors, which control all electronic devices. His work has infinite applications, including controlling household appliances, medical devices such as pacemakers and military equipment.

Steve was the original designer of the ARM processor, the world’s leading embedded processor core - bringing success to the United Kingdom in terms of engineering prestige and commercial value. His work assisted the recent explosion in wireless devices that use low-power microprocessors.

His latest project is SpiNNaker - a computer that mimics the structure of the human brain. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE, the BCS and the IET, and has won numerous awards, including the IET Faraday Medal in 2007. In 2014, he became a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, joining Bill Gates, Tim Berners Lee and other preeminent pioneers of technology.