DAFNI Conference 2026
- Climate and security resilience
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Government industrial strategy, with a focus on clean energy
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DAFNI Fellow Dr Tom Mansfield, Data Systems Architect at PML, will be sharing an update regarding the work he is undertaking with his DAFNI Fellowship.
As part of the fellowship, Dr Mansfield is investigating how federated data architecture approaches could improve the way environmental and infrastructure data are connected, accessed, and reused across UK offshore wind programmes.
Offshore wind projects generate vast and highly complex datasets spanning environmental monitoring, engineering performance, ocean conditions, and ecological impacts. However, these datasets are often spread across multiple locations, organisations and systems, creating barriers to collaboration and slowing the delivery of actionable insights.
Tom’s research will explore how federated approaches – where data remain securely within organisations while still being accessible and connected across systems – could improve collaboration and support faster, more coordinated decision-making across industry, government, and research communities.
