Save your seat for our member meeting in Leeds, UK!
September 16-18 will be packed with three days of thought leadership and networking with the leaders in digital twin innovation and IoT technology – our members!
We can't wait to see you there!
Agenda
| time | September 16th - Rethinking What's Possible |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am | Breakfast & Arrival Start your experience with curated conversations among peers |
| 8:30am - 8 :40am | Opening Remarks Presenter: University of Leeds University (TBD) |
| 8:40am - 9:00am | Joint-Consortia Community Welcome and Opening This joint-consortia session provides a strategic overview of the latest initiatives driving innovation across technology ecosystems (OMG, DTC, AREA). You’ll get a first-hand view of collaborative projects, new strategic directions, and emerging opportunities to engage. From technical breakthroughs to innovative collaborations, this is your front-row seat to what’s moving—and how you can play a role. Presenters: Bill Hoffman, Chairman & CEO, OMG |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Keynote Presentation Speaker: TBD |
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Executive Panel - The Next Phase of Digital Transformation Learn directly from senior leaders who have translated digital twin pilots into measurable enterprise outcomes. This isn’t about incremental improvements—it’s about unlocking invisible value, driving behavioral change, and aligning internal investment with long-term sustainability goals. Speakers: TBD |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break |
| 10:15am - 11:00am | Lightning Round - Testbed Showcase: High-Impact Deployments (5 Minute Update Per Testbed) Discover new domains where digital twins are transforming industries. |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Testbed Ideation & Roundtables Explore specific challenges, opportunities, and innovations across various testbed projects. Developers will share insights, explore emerging trends, and collaborate on actionable solutions to advance technology adoption and integration. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with the developers, ask questions, and gain a deeper understanding of the testbed's contributions to advancing technology and innovation. Whether you're involved in the projects or interested in their outcomes, this session offers valuable takeaways for all. |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Networking Lunch + Nexus Demos Sit with fellow attendees tackling similar challenges across sectors—transport, finance, energy, logistics, public health—and discover where your next big idea could take root. |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | VirtuoCity & Helix XR Experience Tours What happens when a university builds its own twin? You’ll tour projects where sensors, AI, and behavioral modeling converge: from rewilding a pond to decarbonizing building systems to simulating regional food insecurity. This is the blueprint for a real-time adaptive organization. |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | Case Study Deep-Dive: Nexus Living Lab—Continuous Assurance Through Connected Twins Go inside a live deployment with a DTC industry member. You’ll hear how they moved from isolated data systems to a cross-functional digital twin that informs real-world decisions—and what that took inside IT, finance, and operations. (Crysp and all other partners) |
| 1:50pm - 2:15pm | Healthcare Pathway Twin: Region-Wide End-to-End Patient Journeys Digital twin being lead by: Nexus, Counterpoint Technologies, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Lees Teaching Hospital Trust, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, and Crysp. |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Testbed Ideation/Networking (continued) |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Testbed Ideation/Report Out Testbed developers will share key updates and insights from their ongoing testbed initiatives. This session will highlight progress made, challenges encountered, and milestones achieved, providing a comprehensive overview of each testbed's impact. |
| time | September 17th - Architecting the Future |
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| 8:15am - 8:30am | Welcome Back: Day 1 Outcomes, Day 2 Objectives |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Keynote: AI-Enhanced Semiconductors Powering Intelligent Twins |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | AI Cross-Consortia Working Group Workshop: Understanding AI Agent Development Using the AI Agent Capabilities Periodic Table (AIA CPT) Framework, we’ll work through real-world use cases in predictive maintenance, urban planning, immersive upskilling, personalized healthcare, smart grids and autonomous vehicles. |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break |
| 10:15am-11:00am | Keynote: Digital Twin Policy & the Coming Shift Get briefed on how UK and EU policy is evolving—from data sovereignty and cyber-physical infrastructure to green finance and transparency mandates. The rules are changing. This session shows how to stay ahead. Speaker: TBD |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Working Group Briefs: Building the Foundation Hear from the Chairs and Leads of our Working Groups and Subgroups as they share the latest updates on ongoing activities and initiatives. Learn about current projects, upcoming opportunities, and how to get involved. |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch - Academic poster session over lunch |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Working Group Roundtables Choose a domain—Academia & Research, Manufacturing, Mobility & Transportation, Sustainability, Energy, Security & Trustworthiness, etc.—and join a focused sprint to define short-term goals, long-term deliverables, and near-term collaboration options. |
| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | Break |
| 3:15pm - 4:30pm | Working Group and Subgroup Roundtables Continued |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Working Group Report Out & Participation Launches Hear the most promising insights and proposed actions from each roundtable. Then get invited into active initiatives and collaboration pathways |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Networking Reception |
Public Information Day
| time | September 18th - Engineering the Future Today (Open to the Public) |
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| 8:30am - 9:00am | International Collaboration Briefing Get updates from OMG, DTC, and EU partners on how Leeds-based projects are influencing the global trajectory—and where aligned leadership is needed next. Speakers: TBD |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Keynote: Future of Learning is Here, Fueled by Agentic-AI Speaker: TBD |
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Panel: Redefining Education with Digital Twins & Agentic AI Panelists: TBD |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Technology Showcase Members will showcase their digital twin innovations, capabilities, enabling technologies, and use cases. Presenter: Toshiba |
| 10:15am - 11:15am | Demo Sessions: Ready to Scale See how industry leaders developing and deploying digital twins |
| 11:15am - 12:00pm | Hear from Local Innovators Hear from local industry leaders developing and deploying XR, AI, and digital twins solutions. |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Panel: Powering the Agentic World—Compute, Infrastructure & Governance Panelists: TBD |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Public Testbed Showcase: Failures, Fixes & Fast-Track Roadmaps Beyond metrics. Leaders from key testbeds share where they failed, what they fixed, and how those lessons accelerated transformation. Practical, honest, and replicable. |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm - 3:45pm | Closing Plenary: Roadmap, Collaborations & Next-Step Actions We will highlight exciting new opportunities for member engagement, collaboration, and contribution. This session will provide an overview of upcoming initiatives, events, and projects that members can get involved in, as well as ways to maximize participation and impact. Speaker: Dan Isaacs, CTO & GM, DTC
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| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | Strategic Alignment Roundtable This session will discuss strategic priorities, initiatives for the upcoming period, alignment of key goals, identification of emerging trends, and outline actionable steps to drive growth and innovation. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute their insights, collaborate on defining the roadmap, and ensure alignment across all groups as we move forward into the next phase of our collective efforts. |
Member cost
$645
$545 - Early Bird Discount
(Early Bird Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025)
Meeting Location:
NEXUS Building
Discovery Way
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 3AA
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