Speakers

Professor Samia Nefti-Meziani OBE is Director of the Birmingham Robotics Institute and Chair in Robotics and AI at the University of Birmingham. With more than 25 years of pioneering research, she is internationally recognised as a leading authority in robotics, intelligent automation, and AI. She has led major UK and EU-funded research programmes supported by EPSRC, Innovate UK and UKRI, advancing robotic technologies across nuclear, aerospace, transport, food manufacturing and healthcare.  She is Academic Co-Chair of the UK Cross-Sector Robotics and Autonomous Systems Task Force. Her collaborative ethos also shapes her leadership of major national initiatives such as the £34.6M RESCu-M² programme, which supports the UK’s transition to a circular manufacturing ecosystem.