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Webinar - Digital Transformation for Secure and Resilient Infrastructure – a new national centre

Date and time: 16.00 – 17.30 GMT - on Tuesday 27th February 2018

UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science; University College London

With growing urban populations we are seeing unprecedented demand for resilient infrastructure. Rapid ICT developments are moving us towards smart cities and infrastructure, utilising advances in areas such as pervasive sensing, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. With the gap between physical and digital assets narrowing, concerns about how to secure, protect and increase the resilience of new and existing infrastructure are mounting. The UK Government has an unprecedented forward demand of around £500 billion for new and improved infrastructure; yet, in almost all discussions of resilient infrastructure or smart cities, the issue of security and crime is invariably absent, or relegated to the status of afterthought. This risks both infrastructure and cities not being resilient to disruption or attack and missed opportunities to make them safer, particularly salient at a time that law enforcement budgets are shrinking.

UCL is thus bidding to establish a Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Transformation for Secure and Resilient Infrastructure. This CDT will create a generation of leaders, uniquely qualified in security and digital transformation, who will address the challenges of delivering resilient infrastructure in ways that both increase productivity and sustainability whilst also making cities safer. We are seeking partners from industry and the public sector who can provide a strong market context and focus for the research and training of each PhD student. Such stakeholders will benefit by accessing and shaping some of the brightest minds in the country working on areas of potential interest to their own agenda.

 


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