Microsoft Research, through its own fellowship programmes and jointly with the Royal Academy of Engineering, supports leading academic research in the UK.

The speakers will be Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research, together with Microsoft Research-Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chairs:

- Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London

- Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford

and Microsoft Research European Fellows:

- Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton

- Ruth Baker, University of Oxford