Andre Burgess | Assured Autonomy Programme lead
National Physical Laboratory

Working within the Security and Resilience Group at NPL, Andre has led the creation of its Assured Autonomy Programme, which brings together disciplines across Data Science, Time and Frequency, Electro-Magnetic technologies and Dimensional metrology.  His work on Autonomous Transport Systems has focused on delivering confidence in the adoption of these emerging technologies.  This includes building collaborations across the UK’s mobility sector  (Land, Sea and Air) to establish an integrated digital measurement infrastructure and technical framework to underpin the testing ecosystems – real and virtual - for autonomous systems at all Technology Readiness Levels.  Over the last 3 years Andre has coordinated NPL’s involvement in the Maritime Autonomy Assurance testbed programme.  This is a UK initiative which follows a data-driven and evidence based approach to deliver an internationally relevant assurance capability supported by pro-innovation standards, and not constrained by existing human centric regulatory frameworks.  This will deliver a framework to Test, certify and operationally assure maritime autonomous technologies globally, from component through to System of Systems. Andre has over 25 years’ experience in the TMT sector having worked across Tier 1 Telecoms operators as well as setting up an international digital services company and supporting the launch of several start ups.