The exhibition 2024

Exhibitor: University of Exeter

With concern around the reliability of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications, this demo uses visualisation to showcase its innovative solutions. How has the team crafted adversarial examples to test system security? Visit the Adversarial Robustness for Deep Neural Networks to find out, by manipulating images to trick computer vision models and text prompts to confuse natural language processing systems.

Exhibitor: Vizgard

FortifAI showcases an AI-powered system of edge-based computer vision and automated cameras strategically positioned along the a UK drone corridor to enable safe drone flight beyond the visual line of sight.

Their computer vision algorithms reliably detect aircraft entering the pathway, feeding information to a traffic management system for efficient routing and collision avoidance.

Exhibitor: Wyser

Much information on the battlefield is passed through voice communications. And despite the speed and of-the-moment convenience voice communication provides, it has many drawbacks – including data loss, transcription error and a lack of searchability. Head to the Whispers in the Wind demonstration to experience an AI system that transcribes tactical military voice communications for searchability. Record your own sample voice traffic and follow its journey from voice to searchable written data through AI.

Visit Adappt’s stand to see how the latest advances in AI have been used to rapidly assist in the discovery of mission critical data.

A project used in both serious organised crime and the prevention serious sexual assault, the team demonstrates how policing can use today’s technologies in early intervention – and how this tech could also work to prevent the next pandemic.

Exhibitor: The Alan Turing Institute - TRIC-DT

What is the TEA Platform, and how can it help navigate the complexities of defining, operationalising, and implementing ethical principles in research and innovation practices? Head to this AI UK demo to find out! An open-source system, the TEA Platform is designed to helps technologists assure model safety through structured rationale. Steering project teams and stakeholders through the process of identifying relevant claims and evidence that justify ethical principles, TEA empowers clear, open, and accessible communication. Drop by to construct justifications, try out the online tool, explore digital twin case studies or simply discuss AI's ethical implications with the expert team.

Exhibitor: Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute

Combining economics with social, natural and physical sciences, this team is using AI to help government and business decision makers better understand the connections between the natural environment and the economy – and the full effect of the decisions they make. Visit this stand to discover, through interactive role-playing, how bespoke digital twins for land use decision-making can help the UK achieve its Net Zero targets. Play policymaker or land manager roles to weigh trade-offs and locate optimal scenarios meeting net-zero planting targets.

Exhibitor: The Alan Turing Institute - AMBER (AI-assisted Monitoring of Biodiversity using Edge-processing and Remote sensors)

Insect populations around the world are in sharp decline. With a 75% decline in insect biomass in Germany alone – prompting concerns of an ‘Insect Armageddon’ – understanding the driving factors behind these trends is key to tackling current challenges. Visit this stand to meet the team and discover how digital twin capabilities can improve AI-powered simulations of real-world systems and discover how use cases relate to aerospace, energy and other industrial contexts.

Exhibitor: The Alan Turing Institute - Cityledger

Polls have shown that most people in the UK think 2050 is too late for Net Zero – but what can we do, when faced with such an overwhelming challenge? Visit this AI UK demo to discover an innovative solution to bottom-up sustainability improvement: a token/ blockchain tool to incentivise and finance grassroots sustainability projects. Blending the notions of a token economy, self-sovereign identities and civic crowdfunding, this novel project demonstrates decentralised, privacy-preserving participation as a means of working towards carbon neutral cities and empowered communities.

How will artificial intelligence change how we understand the Earth? Drop by this visually spectacular AI UK stand to find out for yourself.

Demonstrating how deep learning systems can learn to generate ensembles of realistic geological maps from observational data, this demo features side-by-side comparisons of traditional hand-drawn vs AI-generated maps. Meet the team developing Bayesian deep neural networks to generate detailed, accurate, and colourful maps of the UK’s geology in ways that it’s never been seen before, with quantified uncertainties.

Delve into the important issues in segregation and inequality ever present in human mobility at this AI UK demo and meet the team researching how data science and artificial intelligence can be used to make society accessible for everybody.

From public transport to housing and beyond, drop by this stand for visualisations showcasing this key research around marginalised communities.

With a 2019 international survey revealing that each UK citizen wasted 115 hours stuck in traffic, this team is addressing the UK’s serious traffic congestion problems head-on.

A flagship research partnership between industry and academia, this project demonstrates how AI and digital twins can optimise traffic light control to reduce congestion.

Stop by this demo to interact with simulations of the autonomous system and its cutting-edge capabilities for revolutionising urban mobility – as well as a real-time live trial on site.

Streamlining emissions reporting for UK businesses, this project aims to enable businesses to accurately track Scope 3 emissions. Drop by this demo to learn about the mobile app tailored to help corporations measure and reduce carbon emissions from employee travel.

Empowering comprehensive environmental reporting and informed policymaking, the app utilises AI to track users' commutes across all modes of transport while rewarding sustainable choices through a game-inspired interface.

This innovative AI tool intersects environmental sustainability with health, bridging a gap in cause and effect.

Demonstrating their AI tool for modelling hyperlocal air pollution's public health impacts, this also demo showcases next steps. Linking in with behavioural science insights, this project motivates individuals to make healthier choices through understanding their local environment.

Stop by this demo to learn more about how this project is providing compelling evidence to motivate community-level emissions reductions meeting net zero targets.

Exhibitor: The Alan Turing Institute - Colouring Cities Programme

Cities are home to most people globally but it is increasingly recognised that we need detailed data on a city’s buildings – the homes, offices, shops and schools where we spend most of our lives – in order to improve the lives of city dwellers. The Colouring Cities project is making this possible through the creation of interactive maps that collate, store and visualise buildings data for cities including London, Athens and Sydney.

Visit this AI UK demo to meet the team behind the project and learn first-hand how their global academic network is using AI to enhance building quality, efficiency, resilience and more.

The Critical Minerals Traceability Platform allows users to ask questions through natural language to trace supply chain data related to critical raw minerals such as cobalt, lithium and magnesium.

This system’s knowledge graph architecture integrates decentralised data sources to address sustainability challenges related to clean energy transitions dependent on opaque, risky supply chains. Stop by this demo to experience first-hand its web-based portal and ask traceability questions via query bot.

Smart sensor data collection is showcased through mobile apps that promote active travel while preserving privacy. Navigation and mapping functions anonymously gather indicative information to inform policymakers on improving location-based services and building inclusive smart cities.

Visit this demo for a hands-on opportunity to experience how smart sensor data can be collected, in a privacy-preserving manner, to aid navigation and promote active travel, via the development of a suite of applications for everyday consumer devices.

Exhibitor: The Met Office in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute

AI is taking weather forecasting by storm! This high-profile collaboration aims to revolutionise weather forecasting with artificial intelligence. How can AI enhance our current forecasting abilities? By combining the Turing’s expertise in data science and AI with the Met Office's complex and rich meteorological datasets, this partnership’s goals include developing AI models that enable more accurate forecasting – to save lives and protect critical infrastructure.

Visit this demo to discover how machine learning is being applied alongside physics-based models to offer more localised, real-time predictions that better safeguard infrastructure and public safety in extreme weather conditions.

How can AI personalise medical care – and what benefits would we see? Looking specifically into AI in heart health, the cardiac digital twin demo showcases the importance of personalisation in healthcare.

Stop by to meet the team, see a great range of 3D printed hearts, and play an interactive game to find parameters matching clinical data. Visit this AI UK demo to deep-dive into the incredible progress being made in heart health thanks to AI.

Discover the next step in robot control at this demo. This AI-powered eye gaze control system enables intuitive hands-free human-computer interaction. 

Visit the stand to test user-friendly interfaces to accomplish tasks like playing virtual instruments and directing robots using just your eye movements. 

With uses spanning a huge breadth, from people with mobility challenges to simple convenience, this ground breaking tech has the potential to make waves in society. 

Pop by this pop-up collaboration café to immerse yourself in a forward-thinking research collaboration that links leading national health bodies at a critical intersection: multiple long-term conditions.

How are data science and AI being used to develop treatment programmes and more?

Visit this AI UK stand to find out – with an informal conversational atmosphere spanning the titular research as well a Trusted Research Networks, accessing health and synthetic data, patient & public involvement, and more.

Tackling ‘knotty’ challenges that hinder machine learning and AI in healthcare including missing data, predictive modelling and multi-modal data integration, the Turing-Roche Partnership demonstrates how academics and pharmaceutical companies can work together to enhance patient outcomes.

The productive partnership also includes free monthly expert-led seminars and other events – and their AI UK demo promises interactive education and fun! Drop by to have a go at their interactive games, discover key research highlights, learn about their community scholar programme and more.

We’re not wanting to spill the beans but it may be raining cats and dogs outside. Putting the cat among the pigeons, words are speaking louder than actions at this AI UK demo all about idiomatic language in AI conversation agents.

Recognising idioms is a key determiner in chatbot language fluency, and this project highlights their success – or otherwise – with a live test. Can you recognise idioms better than an AI agent? Visit this stand to test yourself live against a chatbot – it’s a piece of cake!

Not only are large language models redefining how healthcare professionals interact with data – they’re also ensuring that ethics and responsibility remain at the forefront of healthcare. 

By enhancing explainability and transparency around data use, model performance and decision making processes, practitioners can accelerate innovation in areas like precision medicine while upholding ethical standards. 

Visit this AI UK demo to uncover how LLM auditing and monitoring is not only empowering healthcare transformation but also setting new standards for responsible AI adoption in the industry.

Pioneering the use of AI in the realm of physical and mental health, this AI UK demo is at the forefront of deploying AI technologies to enhance health and well-being. 

Featuring a real-time stress-detection wearable and a mobile application, this project aims to bolster health as well as – making profound connections between well-being, environment and safety. Visit this demo to explore the team’s privacy-preserving stress detection wearable, mobile mental wellness platform with air quality insights and violence classification in audio streams. 

Revolutionising access to key health tech progress, this team aims to democratise otherwise expensive and license-restrictive tech by using free and open source software alongside Turing Way principals.

The NHS can face difficulties accessing AI for simulation models of patient treatment and care processes. Visit this stand to see first-hand the interactive simulation models they have created and donated to the NHS.

Expanding NHS access to data-driven decision support systems and improving patient outcomes, these patient treatment simulations enable clinicians to conveniently explore a variety of real-world "what if" scenarios.

Exhibitor: The Alan Turing Institute - The Turing Way

An open source and community-led handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science, The Turing Way aims to make reproducibility too easy not to do. Visit this AI UK demo to discover how the team are making data science accessible, comprehensible and effective for everyone – and learn about their latest guides. This stand is a space for learning and conversation, complete with expert team members available to discuss everything from open source practices and research infrastructure to AI ethics. 

Scivision is a computer vision platform that empowers scientists to discover and test machine learning models with a wide variety of applications including environmental monitoring. One such example is an automated system for the identification of marine wildlife, used by scientists on the RV Cefas Endeavour to study the health of the ocean environment in real time.

Visit this AI UK demo for a live demonstration of how the programme works to detect and identify marine wildlife, monitoring ocean species while gathering information on their habitats. With new software being launched in 2024, drop by this demo to meet the team behind the tech and discover how they're enabling scientists to discover and apply computer vision methods to their work.