Organised by the Asia-Pacific Technology Network
Since we have had few takers for this seminar on Asian Electronics, we have decided to turn the meeting into an informal "meet the speakers" session in a tapas bar very close to Kings Cross station (details below).
Speakers
Location: Camino, 3 Varnishers Yard, Regent Quarter, King's Cross, N1 9FD
Joining instructions: Exit Kings Cross Station. Turn left/Eastwards towards York Way/Islington/the City. Go straight over the first set of traffic lights. Walk past McDonald's, Pret a Manger and Starbucks. Turn left into Varnishers Yard/Regent Quarter almost immediately after Starbucks. Camino has both a restaurant and a bar/pub. We will be in the pub section. I have glasses, grey hair and beard and will have a copy of the Financial Times displayed. My mobile is 0790 5204 677.
Timing: 5.30 - 6.30 pm.
Nearest Tube Station: Kings Cross.
Please let us know if you are coming to biz@aptn.org
Mervyn Levin
Mervyn Levin is Founding Director of Levering Ltd, a digital media and ICT consultancy. Levering works closely with leading UK and Asia-based organisations across the public sector, research community and industry, sharing his time between both continents.
Clients and partners include the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, UK Research Councils, University of Sheffield, Serious Games Institute, BBC, BT, Blitz Games, Real Networks, eTherapeutics, QinetiQ, Twofour Group, Red Redemption and EU-China Information Society Project.
From 2002 to 2007, Mervyn was Head of Digital Content Policy at the UK’s Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) – formerly DTI. Between 1980 and 2002, he spent 22 years at Reuters in a variety of senior international management roles, based in the UK, Latin America and Switzerland.
Professor Des Mapps
After 4 years in industry working for ICL in London on computer memory systems, Des Mapps began his academic career in Plymouth in 1973. Since then he has published 155 research journal papers, supervised 27 successful PhD projects, and presented 124 papers in international research conferences. He is Head of the Centre for Research in Information Storage Technology (CRIST) in the University of Plymouth UK.
At various times he was Visiting Professor in the Universities of California and Alabama in the USA and EHIME University, TERUMO Corporation and SONY Corporation Research Centres in Japan. In Sony he was the first holder of the SONY Sabbatical Chair and still has the courtesy title of SONY Professor.
In fostering International research links he has negotiated cooperative agreements with Yonsei University, Korea, L V Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russia, SONY, Japan and KMITL, Thailand. He is currently an International Advisor for a research project in the Ukaraine Academy of Science.
In the UK Des Mapps was past Chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council Engineering Panel and currently a member of the EPSRC College of referees. He was founder member of the UK Data Storage Network. He is an Associate Editor of e-Britain magazine.
As an international speaker he has given various lectures during UK Government and Industry sponsored lecture tours of the USA (1987, 1991, 2001 and 2002), Germany (2002 and 2003), Japan (2003), Korea (2003) and Thailand (2008).
His lifelong research interest has been magnetism and, in addition to the use of magnetism in computer memory systems, he has an interest in the effects of magnetic fields on human beings (good and bad) as well as utilising the fields generated by the human body as a means of diagnosing the human medical condition.