He is a Governor at University Church of England Academy Ellesmere Port, and sits on on the board of University of Chester Academies Trust (UCAT). Enhancing the education not only of students, but those in local schools, is a major driving force for Garfield..

Professor Jonathan C. Roberts is a professor in the School of Computer Science, Bangor University, UK., He was a lecturer (Kent 1999), Senior Lecturer (Kent 2004, Bangor 2007) and became a professor in 2015. His research is focused on data visualization, visual analytics, human computer interaction and computing pedagogy. He is interested in how to analyse, visualise and interact with data, and how to sketch designs and make appropriate designs. He is the creator of the Five Design-Sheet methodology, and author of the book Five Design-Sheets: Creative Design and Sketching for Computing and Visualisation, Springer Nature, June 2017. He focuses on heritage and archaeology, oceanography, pedagogy, and social networking domains, Prof Roberts’ hypothesis is that by displaying the data in several different ways, and allowing the user to highly interact with it, then the user gains a better understanding of their data.

Professor Nowshad Amin is a Strategic Hire Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy of Universiti Tenaga Nasional (@ UNITEN, The National Energy University) as well as an Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (@UKM, The National University of Malaysia). Prior to this, he served 11 years in the Dept. of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (@UKM, The National University of Malaysia), where he also led the Solar Photovoltaic Research Group under the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI). After the higher secondary education (HSC 1989) with distinctions from his native country, Bangladesh, he received the Japanese Ministry of Education (MONBUSHO) scholarship in 1990. Accomplishing Japanese Language diploma in 1991, he achieved a diploma in Electrical Engineering (1994) from Gunma National College of Technology, Bachelor (1996) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology, Masters (1998) and PhD (2001) on solar photovoltaic technology (Thin Film Solar Cell) from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan). Later, he pursued Postdoctoral fellowship in the University of South Florida, USA and briefly worked at Motorola Japan Ltd (Later became Freescale Semiconductors Ltd.). His areas of expertise include Microelectronics, Renewable Energy, Solar Photovoltaic Applications and Thin Film Solar PV Development. Additionally, his research focuses on the commercialization of Solar Photovoltaic Products from his patented entities; as such he served as the CTO cum director of a University Spin-off company financed by the Malaysian Technology Development Center (MTDC). He has been serving as the project-leader as well as co-researcher of many government (Malaysia) and international (Saudi National Grant, Qatar Foundation etc.) funded projects. He has authored more than 275 peer-reviewed publications, a few books and book chapters. He also served as a visiting professor at the King Saud University of Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2016. He is actively involved in promoting Renewable Energy to the developing countries in South and South East Asia, working as an enthusiastic promoter for the affordable solar photovoltaic technologies.

He will deliver the keynote speech on "Thin Film Photovoltaic (PV) Technology – From Inception to Successful Commercialization and Way Forward". Many countries around the world are now convinced to rely on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) for their future energy roadmap. Since the inception of the first solar photovoltaic cell in Bell Labs in 1954, researchers have been working rigorously to achieve utmost benefit in terms of conversion efficiency at the least cost. As a result, mega to giga-watt-peak large-scale solar (LSS) farms, which may be termed as nuclear-power-plant scale solar farms, have become trustworthy reality nowadays. Even though the first generation solar cells, which are mainly crystalline or multi-crystalline silicon based, are still dominating the major market share of around 90%, the search for other options has brought over many other potential candidates such as amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, copper-indium-sulphide as 2nd generation thin film technologies since early 70s. Semiconductor materials and their fabrication technologies in many ways have evolved over the time to support various wings of PV R&D in both traditional or futuristic ways. Some of the thin film photovoltaics are now in regular commercialization stages attributing to their conversion efficiency achievement over 20%. Moreover, new arena has opened up for the most challenging but prospective device structures such as tandem/multi-junctions of various materials. This talk will introduce most prospective thin film solar cells from its inception towards successful commercialization as well as future direction of R&D. This will definitely boost the hope for alternatives amid the imminent energy crisis besides promoting enthusiasm among new generation.

Professor Andrew Ware, Professor of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK.

As Professor in Computing, Andrew is engaged in both teaching and research. He is currently supervising eight PhD students and leading on a number of initiatives with local companies.

Beyond the University, Professor Ware is currently working as external examiner in Computing for Staffordshire University, with particular responsibility for helping to oversee the development of new provision in Ghana. In terms of international work, Professor Ware is currently the USW representative on two European Funded Intensive Programmes and involved with projects in Singapore, Norway and Canada.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales is an innovative collaboration that gives businesses and researchers access to world-class, secure and relatively easy to use HPC technology. USW is one of the partners in the collaboration and has devolved targets in terms of industrial usage, student engagement, as well as research and curriculum development. Professor Ware is the lead academic from USW on this exciting and dynamic project.

Andrew has supervised nearly 30 PhD students and has lead on collaborative projects both within the UK and Europe. He has lectured in many parts of the World including the USA, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong. His main research interest is the application of AI techniques to help solve real world problems.