The Federated Analytics Webinar Series is organised on behalf of the Health Data Research Technology Community, led by Phil Quinlan and Tim Beck, as part of HDR UK’s Federated Analytics Programme.

Each webinar features a short update from the Federated Analytics Programme team, followed by an in-depth look at existing infrastructure, tools, and activities that enable federated analytics and learning across the UK.

Stay tuned for the next session in the series, coming soon! In the meantime, you can catch up on all previous webinars below.

  • In this session, Andre Dekker (Maastricht University) and Stelios Theophanous (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) joined us to discuss the use of the vantage6 infrastructure for federated learning and its application in the atomCAT studies.

  • In this session, we explored the application of federated analytics in European national health data programmes, with guest speakers from Health-RI (Netherlands) and NFDI4Health (Germany).

  • Apheris is a federated computational governance software solution for data-driven analytics. We were joined by Britta Srivas, Customer Solutions Engineering Lead at Apheris, to learn more about this product.

  • We explored the story of the Bunny and the Rabbitverse: A lightweight, open-source tooling ecosystem built for real-world needs, with Andy Rae, Senior Software Engineer at the University of Nottingham.

  • In this session, we were joined Blaise Thomson, CEO of Bitfount, who introduced a prototype workflow tool designed to enable secure and efficient federated analyses.

  • With guest speakers Eoghan Forde (Senior Technical Programme Manager, HDR UK) and Ross Stiven (Product Owner, Aridhia) we explored the architecture and deployment of a federated data sharing API, designed to support cross-border, privacy-preserving research across Trusted Research Environments (TREs), with real-world exemplars from ICODA and PHEMS.