Programme

Programme Schedule

29th March 2026 (Sunday) (Sidney Sussex College)

18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Drinks

30th March 2026 (Monday) (Lord Ashcroft Building)

Morning session (LAB 109)
- 09:00 Registration and coffee (Poster presenters can put your posters up in LAB 107 after registration)
- 09:30 Welcome session with Jennifer Schooling
- 09:40 Keynote with Prof Mchael Batty
- 10:30 Session A: Governance, Ethics and Power I (Chair: Carolina Fuentes Toro)
- 11:30 Coffee break (LAB 107)
- 11:45 Session B: Governance, Ethics and Power II (Chair: Carolina Fuentes Toro)
- 13:15 Lunch (LAB 107)
Afternoon session (LAB 109)
- 14:00 Session C: Health, Education & Institutional Digital Twins (Chair: Jennifer Schooling)
- 15:20 Poster session and tea break (LAB 107)
- 16:20 Panel discussion 1: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on societal impacts of digital twins (Chair: Negar Ahmadpoor)
  - Panellists:
    - Steven Niederer (King’s College London)
    - Mehdi El Krari (British Antarctic Survey)
    - Vijay Kumar (Cardiff University)
    - Katharine Willis (University of Plymouth)
Evening session (LAB 107)
- 17:30 Early Career Researcher Networking Activity (Chair: Matt Bonney)
- 19:00 Conference dinner in Magdalene College

31st March 2026 (Tuesday) (Lord Ashcroft Building)

Morning session (LAB 109)
- 08:30 Welcome back (coffee available) (LAB 107)
- 09:00 Keynote with Prof Ana Basir
- 09:50 Session D: Cybersecurity, Trust & System Resilience (Chair: Carol Lo)
- 10:50 Coffee break (LAB 107)
- 11:20 Session E: Urban & Smart City Systems (Chair: Carol Lo)
- 12:40 Lunch (LAB 107)
Afternoon session (LAB 109)
- 13:30 Session F: Environment, Climate & Energy Systems (Chair: Yang Lu)
- 14:50 Tea break
- 15:50 Panel discussion 2: From Research to Reality – delivering socially responsible real world digital twin projects (Chair: Viviana Bastidas Melo)
  - Panellists:
    - Mark Enzer (Mott MacDonald)
    - Adele Maher (MHCLG)
    - Holger Kessler (AtkinsRealis)
- 15:45 Awards
- 16:00 Conference ends

Presentation Arrangement and Requirements

Presentation timeslot: 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A
Prizes will be awarded for the Best Presentation, judged by a panel of peers and invited experts.
Session A: Governance, Ethics and Power (Chair: Carolina Fuentes Toro)
- Digital Twins and the Politics of Resilience (Ochieng et al.)
- Data Coloniality and Governance Bias (Famanas)
- Reflexive Governance of Agentic Digital Twins (Burger)
Session B: Governance, Ethics and Power II (Chair: Carolina Fuentes Toro)
- Twinning Between Displacement and Empowerment (Korenhof et al.)
- From Data to Dignity (Ahmadi Dehrashid)
- Local Digital Twins & Urban Governance (Tamor & Effenberger)
- Ethical and Explainable Flood Governance (Starovoit et al.)
Session C: Health, Education & Institutional Digital Twins (Chair: Jennifer Schooling)
- Digital Twins in Healthcare: Systematic Review (Monshizadeh et al.)
- Structural Health Monitoring & Crack Detection (Mohamed et al.)
- Heritage Asset to Living Lab (Zhong)
- Net Zero SMART Campuses (Saadoon)
Session D: Cybersecurity, Trust & System Resilience (Chair: Carol Lo)
- Slice-Aware Intrusion Detection in 5G (Adepoju)
- Dependable and Trustworthy DTs (Lam et al.)
- Cybersecurity Risks in Federated DT Ecosystems (Evripidou et al.)
- Securing the Mirror (Pranggono)
Session E: Urban & Smart City Systems (Chair: Carol Lo)
- Smart Dublin Adoption (Dhingra et al.)
- GIS-Enabled Kerbside Management (Sur et al.)
- Sustainable Value in Urban DT Ecosystems (Bobyleva)
- AI-Driven Environmental Proofing (Murulitharan)
- Enterprise Digital Twins in Contractor Firms (Badamasi et al.)
Session F: Environment, Climate & Energy Systems (Chair: Yang Lu)
- Digital Shadows & HILP Events (McMillan)
- Environmental Assessment of Offshore Windfarms (Seydi)
- Earth System Process DTs (Maun)
- Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Landscapes (Hasan et al.)

Poster Arrangement and Requirements

Posters location: LAB 107
Poster size: A1 (portrait or landscape)
Prizes will be awarded for the Best Poster, judged by a panel of peers and invited experts.
Poster presenters can put your posters after registration