An event as part of the Turing-University of Hull Forum on: AI for the Humber
Delivered as part of the EPSRC National Edge AI Hub, and co-organised by Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), and the Energy and Environment Institute (EEI), University of Hull, in partnership with CATCH, the UK's largest industrial cluster by CO2 emissions.
Date: 3rd June 2026 12pm-4pm
Venue: CATCH Facility, Kiln Lane, Stallingborough, Grimsby, DN41 8TH
Invited speakers
About the event
This event will bring together industry leaders, policymakers, and researchers to focus on one of the UK’s biggest untapped opportunities: using AI to accelerate Net Zero in the Humber, while ensuring AI itself is developed and deployed in more energy-aware, resource-aware, and Net Zero-aware ways.
The Humber is one of the UK’s most important industrial regions and one of its biggest Net Zero opportunities. Home to the nation’s largest port complex and major energy, manufacturing, chemical, healthcare, and logistics sectors, it offers a powerful real-world setting for AI deployment at scale. This event will explore how AI can accelerate decarbonisation across these sectors, while also advancing a second agenda of growing importance: ensuring AI itself is energy-aware, efficient, and aligned with Net Zero goals. Bringing together industry, policymakers, and researchers, the forum will identify practical opportunities, barriers to adoption, and the partnerships needed to position the Humber as a leading region for both AI for Net Zero and Net Zero for AI.
For industry, this creates a clear opportunity. The Humber offers a powerful testbed for high-impact AI applications in industrial decarbonisation, logistics optimisation, energy forecasting, carbon monitoring, and infrastructure management. At the same time, it is the right place to shape the next generation of sustainable AI: models, systems, and digital infrastructure that deliver value while reducing energy demand and environmental impact.
This forum will explore where AI can drive measurable industrial and environmental gains, what barriers are slowing adoption, and how the Humber can secure the partnerships, investment, and visibility needed to lead in both AI for Net Zero and Net Zero for AI.
Focus Areas:
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AI for carbon capture, storage, monitoring, and verification
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AI-enabled optimisation for energy-intensive industry
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Smart grids, hydrogen systems, and renewable energy forecasting
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AI for ports, logistics, and critical infrastructure
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Environmental monitoring, climate risk, and biodiversity modelling
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Energy-efficient AI models, training, and inference
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Net Zero-aware AI deployment, compute, and digital infrastructure
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Responsible AI for sustainable industrial transformation
Register Your Interest for Demo/Poster
As part of AI for the Humber: Net Zero for AI, AI for Net Zero, we are inviting organisations, researchers, innovators and technology providers to contribute demos, showcases or posters linked to AI, sustainability and industrial decarbonisation.
This is an opportunity to present practical work, early-stage ideas, prototypes, tools, dashboards, case studies or industry challenges to an audience interested in AI, Net Zero and regional innovation across the Humber.
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Demo and Poster Showcase: Explore practical demos, posters and research showcases on AI for Net Zero and Net Zero for AI.
Live Demos
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Title: Energentic: Agentic AI Turning Energy Data into Decisions
Presenter: Zekun Guo, DAIM, University of Hull
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Title: Trustworthy Drone-Swarm Intelligence for Resilient Wind Farm Monitoring
Presenter: Mostafa Anoosha, University of Hull
Poster Showcase
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Title: Persuasive Energy Conscious Network (PECN): An AI-Enabled Sensing and IoT Framework for Net Zero Energy Awareness
Presenter: Dr Ahsan Raza Khan, University of Hull
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Title: Explainable AI and Digital Twin for Net Zero
Presenter: Xinhui Ma, University of Hull
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Title: From Detection to Decision: Explainable AI for Biofouling Management in Offshore Renewable Energy Systems
Presenter: Temitope Bobola, University of Hull
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Title: Net Zero-Aware Edge AI and Wearable Sensors for Industrial Workforce Monitoring
Presenter: Parvin Ghaffarzadeh, University of Hull
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Title: Data-Limited Wind Speed Predictions for Digital Twins
Presenter: Eamonn Tuton, University of Hull
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Title: OPtimisation EXplainability (OPEX) for Maintenance Scheduling of Offshore Wind Farms
Presenter: Louis Donaldson, University of Hull – AuraCDT
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Title: Towards Net Zero-aware Edge AI: Energy-Efficient Models, Sustainable Compute, and Intelligent AI Deployment Infrastructure
Presenter: Halim Ullah, University of Hull
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Title: Building Trust in Wind Turbine Blade Inspection through Explainable AI
Presenter: Mohadeseh Mollapour, University of Hull
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Title: Artificial Intelligence for Wake-Aware Planning and Control in Large Offshore Wind Farms
Presenter: Ifedayo Iluyemi, University of Hull
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Title: Adaptive Distribution Network Reconfiguration Using Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Proximal Policy Optimisation
Presenter: Friday Ogbu, University of Hull
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Title: Using Large Language Models to Recommend Repair Actions for Offshore Wind Maintenance
Presenter: Connor Walker, University of Hull
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Title: AI Applications to Catalyst Design and Process Parameter Optimisation for Biogas → Biomethane → Biohydrogen via CO₂ Methanation
Presenter: Dr Dmitriy Kuvshinov, University of Hull
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Title: Net Zero-Aware Edge AI for Multi-View Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection
Presenter: Kuniko Paxton, University of Hull
Agenda
12:00pm - 01:00pm
Joint Lunch with event participants from the morning event: There will also be a showcase on Net Zero for AI and AI for Net Zero Solutions from the University of Hull and other organisations.
01:00pm - 01:10pm
Introduction to Net Zero for the AI theme:
Professor Dhaval Thakker (Head of Centre for Responsible AI, University of Hull, UK)
01:10pm - 01:20pm
Introduction to AI for Net Zero theme:
Professor Stuart McLelland (Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, UK)
01:20pm - 01:40pm
Talk: Geev Mokryani, Senior Associate Director, Power Systems Studies Team Leader, Jacobs
01:40pm-02:00pm
Talk: Professor Vladimir Stankovic, The University of Strathclyde
02:00pm-03:00pm
Panel: From Opportunity to Adoption: How the Humber Can Lead in AI for Net Zero and Net Zero for AI
Panel members:
Chair: Professor Dhaval Thakker, Head of Centre for Responsible AI, University of Hull, UK
03:00pm-03:20pm
Closing Talk: Astrid Wynne, Head of Sustainability, AI & Automation, Techbuyer
03:20pm - 04:00pm
Coffee + NETWORKING + Continuing with the SHOWCASE
Organisers
CeRAI, University of Hull, UK
EEI, University of Hull, UK
