Talks & videos
Recorded talks, seminars and project demos, newest first. More on my YouTube channel.
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THOR: the future of brain-inspired edge AI
2026
I moderated this EDGE AI Talks session on THOR — next-generation brain-inspired computing and energy-efficient AI hardware for the edge.
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Beyond von Neumann compute: neuromorphic AI at the edge
2026
I organised and hosted the inaugural EDGE AI Foundation neuromorphic mini conference, as chair of the Neuromorphic Working Group — on moving neuromorphic AI out of research and into deployment, covering architectures, sensing and control, training and benchmarking.
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Interview: tinyML EMEA Innovation Forum
2024
An interview recorded at the tinyML EMEA Innovation Forum on Innatera's approach to spiking AI at the sensor edge.
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tinyML EMEA benchmarking panel
2023
I hosted this panel on benchmarking edge AI platforms — how the industry can compare approaches honestly enough to pick the right one.
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Tiny spiking AI for the sensor-edge
2023
A technical presentation at the tinyML Summit on running spiking neural networks at the sensor edge.
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World Engineering Day 2021
2021
A short, two-minute video covering SpiNNaker: how it was assembled, what it has been used for, and a hopeful view of what the future could bring.
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HBP Student Conference #5
2021
I was on the programme committee for #HBPSC2021, the first HBP Student Conference to take place online.
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HBP Tea & Slides #4
2020
An overview of the SpiNNaker neuromorphic computing platform and structural plasticity on it, for the HBP Tea & Slides mini-seminar series. Slides (PDF).
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Neural Computing Journal Club
2020
A review of "Sleep, memory and plasticity" by Matthew Walker and Robert Stickgold, presented to the SpiNNaker group's internal journal club.
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Book editing: a git story
2020
A book about SpiNNaker, visualised as the git commits that built it.
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Cerebellum Hackathon, Pavia
2020
An invited talk on simulating a large-scale cerebellum model on SpiNNaker. The problem pushes SpiNNaker to its limits in several dimensions — but it is solvable.
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SpiNNaker: 1 million core neuromorphic platform
2018
Marking the completion of the million-core machine: Steve Furber presents what SpiNNaker is and where it is heading, with timelapse footage of the build.
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Participate & collaborate — the HBP Education Programme
2018
An overview of the HBP Education Programme, including the late Prof. Karlheinz Meier. I appear briefly at 5:34.
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Neurogenesis on SpiNNaker v0.2
2017
Preliminary first-year PhD work, presented at the 1st HBP Student Conference in Vienna. The abstract appears in the Frontiers proceedings.
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Neurogenesis on SpiNNaker v0.1
2017
Preliminary first-year PhD work, presented at the 3rd HBP School: Future Neuroscience, Obergurgl, Austria.
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Neuromorphic computer vision and robot control system
2016
My undergraduate final-year project: a spiking-neuron robot control system and a vision system based on the mammalian visual cortex, exhibited at the Manchester Art Gallery.
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Thales Arduino contest — mapping the environment
2013
A first-year undergraduate contest entry: an infra-red distance sensor and servo driven from C#, generating a two-dimensional map of the surroundings.