University-Industry Demonstration Partnership brought together delegates for its 26th and biggest conference to date this past April.

University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), a membership organisation that facilitates partnerships between universities and industry, held its 26th conference (UIDP26) in April, welcoming hundreds of delegates to the Silicon Valley headquarters of networking equipment maker Cisco for the partnership’s largest gathering to date.

The first keynote speaker was Vivek Wadhwa, distinguished fellow and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and co-author of The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future.

Wadhwa invited the audience to…