The Future of Lidar Technology and Research

16th October 2024: National Railway Museum, York

The CEOI Team is organising a participative workshop on 16th October in York. This workshop aims to bring together UK-based experts working with Lidar technologies for a structured series of conversations to generate knowledge pathways for the future.

Please note that the format will be very different from previous CEOI workshops. The aims of the workshop are to:

1.       Co-create a series of shared visions for Lidar Technologies.

2.       Share our assessment of the current state of technology

3.       Shape our ideas for how we might speed up our progress towards our shared vision in terms of knowledge and innovation research.

We hope to have a wide representation across the UK Lidar community, from components (transmission, reception and detection) to systems and applications.  Please forward this invitation to suppliers and partners whose views may benefit the workshop output.

There is a small bursary fund to encourage young professionals and early career researchers participation which will cover travel and accommodation costs. Please contact the CEOI if you need support (please provide justifications).

Registration and coffee is at 9.30 with the opening session at 10.00 and the workshop will be finished by 17.00. In addition to short coffee breaks, there is a longer break of an hour at lunchtime to catch up on emails and calls (should you need to) or develop your network through conversations with others at the event. The materials generated from the workshop will be shared immediately with those attending  on the digital pinboard and longer term will be used to contribute to the shaping of future research programmes.

If you are interested in joining the workshop please go to EventBrite. We are limited to 30 places due to the size of the venue and we would like to have a mix of people attending so whilst we aim to accept everyone we may need to make a selection if more than this apply by the deadline.


Book you Place deadline:

Deadline: 30th September 2024

Please register your participation using this EventBrite link


Agenda

9.30Coffee | Registration | Networking
10.00Session 1: Making Connections – initial conversations about current work in the field
10.15Session 2: Lidar Strategy and Purpose of Workshop – outline from the CEOI team
10.30Session 3: Roadmapping: Future Vision – breakout group activity to share the future potential of Lidar and identify the direction of travel
11.30Break
11.45Session 4: Roadmapping: Current Reality – breakout group activity mapping current research and technology activity in relationship to the future goal. This will include a reflective session to gather additional expertise
13.00Lunch
14.00Session 5: Focusing for the Future: What might be some of the Challenges we need to address? – breakout discussion about what questions need to be addressed to move us from the current reality to the desired future vision.
14.50Break
15.10Session 6: Deep Dive Discussions – you can select any of the topics emerging in Session 5 to explore in a series of simultaneous breakout discussions.
16.25Session 7: Reflections on Lidar Technologies – pairs and plenary reflections from the discussions about what needs to be our focus as a community to address over the next 1-5 years
17.00Close
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