Industry Study Group 2026
HetSys is pleased to launch its Industry Study Group for 2026.
This will be our sixth Industry Study Group, in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). Study Groups with industry have been running for over fifty years and, having started with pioneering work in the UK in the 1960s, these groups now take place all over the world. They have been hugely successful in solving problems and providing insight for a variety of organisations.
Building on our previous successful sessions we welcome a multidisciplinary research audience of HetSys PhD students and their supervisors, academics and associated colleagues.
Representatives from Amentum, James Walker and JLR will present their challenges to our students. Once they've chosen which challenge they want to work on, they will work collaboratively over the next three days to code, model, and sketch solutions to the problems. The groups will meet again at the end of the three days to share their ideas and propose solutions. Essentially, this is a Hackathon, looking at real world problems and aiming to deliver workable solutions.
Study Group Programme
The study group will run from the morning of Monday 13th April to the afternoon of Wednesday 15th April at Radcliffe. An outline programme is below:
Monday 13 April
| 10.30 | Registration |
| 11.00 | Welcome and Challenge presentations |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Welcome and Challenge Presentations |
| 13.30 | Group work |
| 15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 | Group work |
| 17.30 | Catch up |
Tuesday 14 April
| 09.00 | Group work |
| 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 | Group work |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Group work |
| 15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 | Group work |
| 17.30 | End of session |
| 19.00 | Group dinner |
Wednesday 15 April
| 09.30 | Group work |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | Group work |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Final presentations |
| 15.30 | Close |
Please note:
For researchers: all work demonstrated at this Study Group should be considered as open disclosure. All codes used to generate results should be made freely available to the working group and industrial partner. If you are not comfortable sharing code, please do not bring it to the Study Group.
For companies: it is understood that all results and code generated over the course of the Study Group is research output, it is not to be used in a commercial, or clinical setting. The research participants offer no guarantees on the code or results generated. All data shared at this group will be considered open.