TITAN Webinar on Safe and Resilient Infrastructure

As global infrastructure becomes more complex and interdependent, the pressure to secure it grows just as rapidly. From satellites orbiting the Earth to submarines navigating the ocean floor, the demand for safe, resilient, and high-performance communication systems is at its peak.

This inaugural TITAN Network of Networks Accelerator Webinar focuses on one of the most urgent industry-wide challenges: how to build and scale secure communications across dynamic and hostile environments, while staying ahead of fast-evolving threats, technologies, and operational demands.

At the heart of this webinar are the following questions:

• How can we build communication systems that are secure, resilient, and reliable—even in extreme or contested environments like air, sea, land, and space?

• How do we protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data from interception or disruption, especially in the face of cyber-physical attacks and the emerging risks of the quantum era?

• What does it take to move beyond lab-based experiments and deploy secure communications technology at a real-world, industry-grade scale?

• How can we support privacy-preserving, scalable access to sensitive data across distributed, multi-user networks, especially in future internet architectures?

• What new waveform innovations and technical standards are needed to enable low-latency, high-integrity communications across next-generation non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)?

Attendees will hear directly from researchers and industry leaders, engage in an interactive Q&A and panel session, and follow up through matchmaking calls, project collaboration, and site visit opportunities.

Event Agenda
11:00 – 11:05	Welcome & Introduction	Professor Harald Haas FREng FRSE FIEEE FIET Van Eck Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge
11:05 – 11:25	Industry Keynote	Dr h.c. Henrik Almeida Head of Ericsson Research UK
11:25 – 11:45	Research Showcase	Professor Wasiu Popoola, University of Edinburgh Professor Sujan Rajbhandari, University of Strathclyde Professor Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton Dr Roger Giddings, Bangor University Professor Zilong Liu, University of Essex Professor Reza Nakhai, King’s College London Professor Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Adrian Wonfor, University of Cambridge Dr Pan Cao, University of Hertfordshire
11:45 – 11:50	Break
11:50 – 12:35	Panel Discussion & Live Q&A	Moderator: Anvar Tukmanov, BT Panelists: Jon Spencer, Dstl Professor Rob Maunder, Accelercomm Professor Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Professor Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton Bridgette Bigmore, UK Telecoms Lab, National Physical Laboratory
12:35 – 12:45	Closing Remarks

Whether you are in telecoms, defence, satellite tech, infrastructure resilience, or emerging quantum systems, this webinar is your front-row seat to the UK’s boldest research at the interface of security, innovation, and scale.

TITAN is part of the Federated Telecoms Hubs (FTH) alongside CHEDDAR, HASC, and JOINER. Together, we conduct world-leading R&D and create a new knowledge-sharing framework, roadmap technology, develop skills, and engage with standards while instilling a commercialisation-focused mindset across academia. 

If you have any questions about the event, please contact titan-enquiries@eng.cam.ac.uk.