Mike Green has had a long research career in lasers, starting in 1969, working mainly on gas lasers, wavelength tuneable lasers and beam propagation. After many years at AEA Technology he left in 1991 to found Pro Laser, providing consultancy on laser applications, projects and safety. He is a Founder Member and Executive Secretary of the Association of Industrial Laser Users (AILU).

Mike is a member of International and UK laser safety committees and has chaired the IEC working group on high power laser safety. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Chief Executive
Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde
The Institute is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance

Tim received BSc (1st class) in Physics from St. Andrews University in 1974 and followed this by a 5 year spell in the Royal Navy as an Instructor Lieutenant, teaching electronics and then navigation. On leaving the Navy, he joined Westland Helicopters as an engineer, with projects in both military and civil avionics. He joined the laser division of Ferranti in Dundee in the sales department, initially working on military and then industrial lasers, eventually becoming their laser Sales Manager. He was part of the management buyout that purchased the laser division from Ferranti to form Laser Ecosse in the early '90s.

In 1992 he was appointed UK Sales Manager for Rofin-Sinar, one of the largest suppliers of industrial lasers in the world. Tim joined the Institute in May 2001 as Business Development Manager, where he was responsible for business development and for establishing and maintaining links with industry. In March 2005 he was appointed Chief Executive, and has responsibility for the complete operation of the Institute.

With a degree in Industrial Relations, Human Resources and Management and Business Administration, Lindsey went on to gain a PhD in Management, specifically concerning the justification for Technology Transfer in the ceramics industry.

Lindsey then worked in research and management consultancy in the construction industry. She joined the EPSRC in 2002 to initially manage research in metals and alloys as part of the EPSRC’s Materials Programme. Lindsey now has responsibility for the Photonic Materials portfolio and also works as part of the Crime Prevention and Detection Programme at EPSRC.

Mike Gilmore
Senior Partner
The Cabling Partnership
Managing Director
e-Ready Building Limited

is involved at the highest level in UK, European and international standardization of IT cabling; an activity which draws together product selection and utilization, LAN/WAN developments, EMC issues and finally, but very significantly, installation practice.

Mike Gilmore began his cabling career with STC Defence Systems as Project Manager with the Fibre Optic Division in Leeds, West Yorkshire where he was involved in the specification of complete systems covering the commercial and military applications for optical fibre within video and data transmission. In 1986, Mike became Managing Director of Optical Core Technology Limited - one of the first specialist installers of optical fibre infrastructures.

In 1988, Mike initiated the British Standards activity to create a Code of Practice for the Installation of Fibre Optic Cabling. Published by the UK Fibreoptic Industry Association in 1991 and by BSI in 1994 (as BS 7718) this document was a world leading text for the design and quality assurance of optical networks.

As the Technical and Standards Director of the UK Fibreoptic Industry Association, Mike is heavily involved in the development of training and competence standards for the fibre installation industry and sets down policy in this area. In addition he chairs the audit and arbitration committees for the FIA. His book "Fibre optic cabling; theory design and installation practice" published in 1991 remains a reference for both experts and entrants into this field.

Since 1991, Mike has been Senior Partner of The Cabling Partnership and has widened the scope of the organisations activity within the European and international cabling standards community. These activities cover all forms of telecommunications cabling.

At the European level Mike is Convenor of CENELEC TC215 Working Group 1, the group that controls the development of European standards for the design and installation of telecommunications cabling including:
EN 50173-X Information technology - Generic cabling systems
EN 50174-1: Information technology - Cabling installation -
Part 1: Specification and Quality Assurance;
EN 50346: Information technology - Testing of installed cabling.

Mike has overseen the division of EN 50173-1:2002 into a series of standards covering generic cabling in different types of premises;
EN 50173-1: General requirements;
EN 50173-4: Office premises;
EN 50173-3: Industrial premises;
EN 50173-4: Homes;
EN 50173-5: Data centres.

At international level, Mike is Convenor of the Cabling Implementation Task Group (CITG) within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG3. This group, established in February 2006, is responsible for the strategic management of the international standards covering the specification, QA, installation, administration, operation, maintenance and repair of generic cabling. This work supports all the cabling design standards produced by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG3 including ISO/IEC 11801, the international equivalent of EN 50173-1, and ISO/IEC 24702 for industrial premises produced by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG3 IPTG (also convened by Mike Gilmore).

In the UK, Mike is Chairman of TCT/7, the BSI Technical Committee responsible for the three UK BSI Experts Panels on telecommunications cabling. He also chairs two of these Expert Panels (TCT7/-/1 and TCT7/-/3). TCT7/-/1 acts to assist development of European and international standards. TCT7/-/3 manages the implementation of European standards and others in the UK and is responsible for the production and ongoing maintenance of BS 6701: 2004 "Telecommunications equipment and telecommunications cabling - Specification for installation, operation and maintenance".

Mike is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences in all five continents. He has provided the keynote address and opening presentation in many conferences in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. His seminars, providing regular updates on the progression of cabling standards are particularly well attended and are operating in the UK and continental Europe.

Don Braggins has been an independent consult specialising in Image Processing and Analysis since the beginning of 1983, and first began ‘getting numbers out of images’ in 1964. He is a graduate of Clare College, Cambridge, a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of S.P.I.E., the International Society for Optical Engineering. He is a director and the administrator of the UK Industrial Vision Association, which he helped to found in 1992. In May 2003 he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the newly formed European Machine Vision Association (EMVA).

Between 1985 and 1995 Frost & Sullivan, of New York and London, published a number of studies which he carried out concerning European markets for Image Processing and Industrial Vision systems. From 1996 to 2004 he contributed the European market section of the annual Automated Imaging Association report on the World market for vision systems. (This task has now been handed over to EMVA).

Since 1986 he has chaired and co-chaired conferences in London, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Innsbruck and The Hague covering various aspects of the field of Image Processing and Machine Vision. He has been a member of the Innovation Prize Jury for the annual 'Vision' exhibition in Stuttgart since 2000.

He is an Associate Editor of 'Sensor Review magazine and of 'Optical Engineering', the peer-reviewed publication of SPIE. He also contributes to other publications (such as the German based 'Sensor Report') dealing with sensors, automation, and engineering, explaining the role of vision and related technologies to their readership, and putting innovations in these fields into context.