CEMET Launch 8th of March University of South Wales Prifysgol De Cymru

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1 CEMET Launch 8th of March 2017 University of South Wales Prifysgol De Cymru

2 Mark Griffiths CEMET Co-Director University of South Wales Welcome to the launch of the Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies. Our aim as a project, is to encourage research and development in Wales. Through collaborating with SMEs and supporting their ideas our ambition is for Wales to become a leader in innovation. Since receiving funding we have been collaborating on exciting projects with our clients, from M-Health, and Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality. Wales is not short on great companies with innovative ideas. As Head of the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of South Wales and Co-Director of CEMET, I would like to thank you for your attendance today and I hope you leave with the same excitement of what the future holds for CEMET as I have. We are looking forward, as we hope you are, to seeing the great products and services that our clients can produce with our support. Today s Agenda 10:00am 10:30am 10:35am 10:40am 10:50am 11:05am 11:20am 11:30am Networking and Registration Welcome & Introduction Prof. Helen Langton, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of South Wales Welsh Government Perspective, Julie Morgan AM, Welsh Government CEMET Overview, Mark Griffiths, CEMET, Co-Director Space Vision, Dr Luke Anderson and Dr Stephanie Campbell, Vision Game Labs A measure of change, Ian Bond, Medivation Closure, Mark Griffiths, CEMET, Co-Director Networking PG 01 PG 02

3 Prof. Helen Langton Deputy Vice Chancellor The University of South Wales Helen is responsible for the development of the University s course portfolio across its three campuses. A children s cancer specialist, Helen ran cancer care courses at the University of the West of England in the early 1990s working as Head of School for children s nursing and later adult nursing. She has also held the posts of Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences at the University of Derby and Associate Dean at the Coventry University. Helen is involved in several national working groups, including her position as co-chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Group for Health Education England. Julie Morgan AM Assembly Member Cardiff North Welsh Government Julie Morgan, Assembly Member for Cardiff North, has represented the area for 19 years both as an MP and an AM. She is currently Chair of the Wales Programme Monitoring Committee for the European Structural and Investment Funds. Julie has always been a champion of equality and human rights. Throughout her time as an MP, Julie chaired several All Party Parliamentary Groups including Children in Wales, Sex Equality, and Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform. Julie also presented three Private Member s Bills - one on banning smoking in public places, one on granting votes at 16, and one on preventing under-18s from using sunbeds which became law in After losing her Parliamentary seat in 2010, Julie became the Assembly Member for Cardiff North in 2011, and was successfully reelected in At the Assembly Julie has chaired Cross Party Groups on Cancer, Gypsies and Travellers, Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood, and Children. Julie was a founder member of the Welsh Refugee Council. She is also a founder member of the Women s Arts Association and patron of the Touch Trust, Advocacy Matters, Pontyclun Bosom Pals, Women Seeking Sanctuary Advocacy Group Wales and the Policy Forum for Wales. Julie is also a trustee of Life for African Mothers and Vice President of the George Thomas Hospice. PG 03 PG 04

4 Dr Stephanie Campbell Dr Luke Anderson Co-Founders Vision Game Labs MBChB FRCOphth PhD BSc MCOptom Stephanie, co-founder, is a PhD graduate in vision science and also an NHS optometrist. Through testing children s vision, she realised that children were being misdiagnosed because of their short attention span, and watching how long that children could play on computer games, she turned to technology to help. Stephanie is particularly interested in how this app could be used as a vision science research platform, to transform the collection of data from tens of subjects in the lab, to thousands of subjects being tested in their own homes. Luke, co-founder, is a consultant eye surgeon at Cwm Taf university health board. Understanding the difficulties that doctors face when they enter the world of ophthalmology, Luke previously worked with CEMAS to design Neuroophthal, a ophthalmology training app to teach trainee eye professionals how to identify sight threatening disease. From a medical perspective, Luke is interested in how the current technology, developed with CEMET, could be used across a range of ages and diseases such as cataract, diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration. Ian Bond Founder Medivation Medivation are building an intelligent data platform to help millions of people with lung disease worldwide manage their condition and improve their quality of life. It will reduce pressure and costs on health services everywhere and provide the biggest data set for research ever undertaken. I have lung disease from 60 years of smoking. From my personal experience I know how important self-management is and how important real data is for evidence based treatment. That s why we are moving into a $40 billion market with an intelligent data platform, to help millions of people with lung disease worldwide manage their condition, improve their quality of life and improve treatment. Combined with the value that CEMET will add, the business will reduce pressure and costs on health services everywhere. Medivation is already attracting business from developers with parallel, add-on devices and marketing partnerships. We are expandable and scalable; we will have a multi-million business within two years. Together, Stephanie and Luke believe that this platform has the capability to revolutionise how vision is measured - to contribute huge efficiencies to the health service by allowing patients to be monitored at home; and to pick up eye problems earlier in life, enabling a healthier population of young children in Wales. PG 05 PG 06

5 Address CEMET Faculty of Computing Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL Tel: Website: PG 07