Tuesday 21 January 2025, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

I/O Lab Coffee Club presents: A conversation with George Zervas and James Regan, Oriole Networks

  • UCL Business Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ
  • UCL only
  • Discussion / Talk
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The UCL spinout pioneering a “super brain” networking solution

Join us in conversation with Professor George Zervas (UCL’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering) and James Regan, co-founders of UCL spinout Oriole Networks, to hear how they are working to make data centres more energy efficient and enabling LLMs (Large Language Models) to be trained up to 100x faster.

Learn how Oriole Networks, which raised $34m in just two years to scale its “super-brain” solution, received crucial support from UCLB and the UCL Technology Fund.

About George and James

George Zervas is a Professor of Optical Networked Systems. He has made significant contributions to optical switching, networking, and architectures of data centres and telecommunication networks. He is the author and co-author of over 230 international peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and received best paper awards.

James Regan is a physicist with over 30 years of experience in the optical communications industry, specialising in transforming university research into successful businesses. At Oriole Networks, his leadership experience is accelerating the next generation of machine learning in high-performance distributed computing and data centres, promising exciting possibilities for the future.

Join us as George and James talk to UCLB Senior Business Manager Celine Baron about their exciting journey paving the way for faster, more efficient, more sustainable AI.

A light lunch and refreshment will be served.

This talk is brought to you by UCLB’s I/O Lab Coffee Club, a regular networking event for academics to meet and discuss topical questions around the value of bringing academic research ‘from university to market’ through commercialisation with UCLB and UCL Technology Fund.

By attending these sessions academics can meet experts from UCL Business and UCL Technology Fund, ask questions, exchange ideas and be inspired to look for opportunities for market impact from their own research portfolios.

These sessions are open to academics and research staff/fellows only.

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