14th International Conference on Biomimetics and Biohybrid Systems

The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems.

Conference Rates 16th - 18th July 2025

Regular full (includes 3 conference pass, lunch, welcome reception)    

Students full (includes 3 conference pass, lunch, welcome reception)    

Regular individual days (1 day conference pass, lunch)   

Students individual days (1 day conference pass, lunch)    

Workshop/tutorial 15th July 2025

Regular (1 day workshop, lunch)

Students 1-day (1 day workshop, lunch)    

Registration Discounts

Early bird rate ends 15th June 2025

Standard rate ends 30th June 2025

Late rate ends 16th July 2025

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The Diamond, University of Sheffield. Monday 23 June 2025 

Our fifth annual SLT CDT conference will be held at The Diamond building, University of Sheffield. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of areas with interests in computational processing of speech signals and written language.

The conference will showcase the research being undertaken by our CDT’s PhD students as well as those in the School of Computer Science's long-established Speech and Hearing (SpandH) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) research groups. 

Sheffield's SpandH and NLP research groups constitute one of the largest groupings of SLT researchers in the UK with world leading research publications and impact. 

The conference will consist of:

• keynote talks from leading international academics and industrial practitioners 

• student talks and posters describing their PhD research

Conference registration fees cover access to all sessions (oral and poster), buffet lunch, as well as refreshments during the poster sessions.

Fickle Heart: Managing uncertainty in predictive cardiac modelling, 8th and 9th September 2025.

Complex computer models, capturing multiscale cardiac physiology, can now be developed using data from the clinical setting.  These models are being assembled into personalised digital twins that combine physics-based modelling, uncertainty quantification, simulation acceleration, and AI/ML for data forecasting.  This workshop will build on previous events, and will explore how these recent developments enable uncertainty quantification with digital twin applications.

Registrations include an evening meal on 8th September, additionally if you would like to display a poster at this event you can include the title of the poster in your registration form. Please note that there are only 75 places on the event so early registration is advised.

Once the event is sold out, please email m.cunning@sheffield.ac.uk to be added to the waiting list.

The 6th Clarity Workshop on Improving Speech-in-Noise for Hearing Devices will be held in person, collocated with Interspeech 2025 in Delft, The Netherlands. This event brings together researchers, engineers, and industry professionals to address the crucial issue of enhancing speech intelligibility in noisy environments for users of hearing aids, hearables, and other audio devices, leveraging recent advances in machine learning, digital signal processing, and AI. The workshop will cover a range of related topics, from binaural and multi-microphone processing to real-time AI models and assessment methods, and will also host the 3rd Clarity Prediction Challenge focused on predicting hearing-aid speech intelligibility.

More Information:  https://claritychallenge.org/clarity2025-workshop/

You are warmly invited to join the Third Workshop on Multimodal AI (MultimodalAI'25), taking place on 16th and 17th September 2025 at the Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS. This workshop will be an in-person-only event, preceded by a mini-hackathon on 15th September (location to be announced).

Multimodal AI integrates diverse types of data, such as text, images, and sound, swiftly revolutionising how we interact with technology and information. Following two successful workshops, MultimodalAI’25 will gather researchers and practitioners from AI, data science, and various scientific and applied domains. The workshop aims to discuss challenges, share innovative solutions, explore future collaborations, and further build our vibrant multimodal AI community.

Hosted by the UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN)—a £1.8 million EPSRC Network Plus project—the event features keynote presentations from leading experts, community pitches, talks and posters, engaging panel discussions, a photo competition, and valuable funding and policy briefings. Prizes will recognise outstanding pitches, talks, posters, and photos. Additionally, we offer travel bursaries and volunteering opportunities to support participants.

Join this interdisciplinary gathering to connect, collaborate, and drive forward multimodal AI research and development. For further details, please visit https://multimodalai.github.io/multimodalAI25/ and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukomain.

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