on 28-11-2024
The “Secure Communications: A UK-Portugal Dialogue” event is part of an ongoing series organized by the British Embassy in Lisbon, focusing on pivotal topics in cybersecurity and emerging technologies. This initiative began in 2022, following the release of the UK National Cyber Strategy, with the inaugural session, “Cyber: A Whole-of-Society Approach.”
Since its launch, the UK-Portugal Dialogues have addressed a broad spectrum of issues, including digital transformation, cybersecurity in healthcare, cyber resilience in financial services, the impact of emerging technologies, and specialized subjects such as submarine cables. These events aim to strengthen bilateral dialogue between the United Kingdom and Portugal while fostering strategic partnerships between businesses from both nations.
On November 28, the series continued with the “Secure Communications” conference, organized in collaboration with the Instituto de Telecomunicações. This session emphasized the importance of critical communications infrastructure in ensuring a secure cyberspace and supporting the growth of an innovative digital economy.
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Program:
09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:20 Opening Session:
• Paulo André – Instituto de Telecomunicações
• Lisa Bandari – British Ambassador to Portugal
09:30 Keynote speaker – Kevin Adams OBE, UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
10:00 Panel 1 – Telecoms and Digital Infrastructure Security
This panel will discuss the current threat landscape and the cyber security operational challenges in telecoms and digital infrastructure. It will also address how emerging technologies such as AI, Quantum, and Space technologies are shaping the future of telecoms and digital infrastructure security.
Moderated by Manuel Cabugueira, ANACOM
• Nuno Bastos, Vodafone
• Jorge Monteiro, Ethiack
• José Cura, Colt Technology Services
• Nelson Muga, Instituto de Telecomunicações
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Keynote speaker - Craig Needham, UK Space Agency
11:50 Panel 2 – Cyber Secure Satellite Communications
This Panel will discuss the evolving cyber threats for satellite operations and the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures to protect space assets from sophisticated attacks that can threaten global stability and security.
Moderated by Tiago Peres, PT Space
• Margarida Vieira, Deimos Engenharia
• Jorge Cano Martinez, Open Cosmos
• Chris Proctor, NCC Group
• Paulo Mateus, Instituto de Telecomunicações
12:50 Closing Session
• Paulo André, Instituto de Telecomunicações
13:00 Networking lunch
Registration is mandatory (find the link in the program below).
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on 28-11-2024
The Portuguese IEEE Signal Processing Chapter invites to IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Distinguished Lecture by Farhan Baqai (Apple, USA), with the title "Digital Camera Signal Processing - History, Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities.”
The lecture will take place in ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Auditorium A302 (Building 4), on November 28th, at 14h30, and is open to all interested participants.
Farhan Baqai has an extensive track record and impressive contributions to the area of digital photography, both in Industry and Academia.
Abstract:
In a relatively short period, the digital camera has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. The pace at which innovations are being made in this area is remarkable. The exciting aspect is that there is much more to come. In this talk, we review the evolution of digital cameras from camera obscura to film to digital to mobile. Along the way, we identify events that precipitated the change to a digital photography ecosystem. We briefly discuss practices and assumptions that are prevalent in the scientific community and look at a few signal-processing solutions that we have developed over the years for problems in digital photography. Using these examples we demonstrate the multidisciplinary nature of digital camera image processing. We present recent results to show the progress that has been achieved in computational photography on mobile cameras and conclude with challenges and opportunities.
Bio
Farhan Baqai earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Before that, he received a Master of Engineering Science degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. After his PhD, he worked on halftoning algorithms for inkJet printers at Xerox Corporation and on digital camera image processing at the Sony US Research Center. Currently, he is a Senior Research Manager at Apple Inc. where he leads a research group focused on the development of state-of-the-art algorithms for digital photography.
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