FPGA Frontrunners Group

Empowering Innovation. Building Community. Driving FPGA Excellence.

The FPGA Frontrunners initiative is dedicated to advancing the use and understanding of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in the UK.

Our mission is to foster collaboration, improve best practices, and address industry-wide challenges , ensuring that FPGA technology continues to thrive in an ever-evolving technological landscape. By connecting professionals and encouraging open knowledge exchange, we aim to build a stronger, more innovative FPGA community across the UK

Key aspects of FPGA Frontrunners

  • Designed for FPGA specialists, we create opportunities to connect with industry peers, exchange practical knowledge, and collaborate on solutions to today’s most pressing design and implementation challenges
  • We champion best practices in FPGA design, development, and application, encouraging the use of proven methodologies, efficient workflows, and innovative tools that raise the standard of engineering excellence.
  • Collaboration is at the heart of our mission. We bring together engineers, suppliers, and researchers to address shared challenges, create opportunities, and drive progress across the industry. Through open dialogue and strategic partnerships, we help the FPGA ecosystem adapt and thrive in an ever-changing technological landscape.
  • Our events feature wide spectrum of topics, from security and compliance to AI acceleration, high-performance computing, signal and image processing, low-latency networking, safety-critical design, verification methodologies, and the latest advances in FPGA tools and architectures. These sessions inspire innovation and equip our members with the knowledge to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Steering Board

Mike Bartley

Founder and CEO, Alpium Consulting

Flemming Christensen

Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd

Jon Older

Business Development Director, ITDev

Dilip Luharia

Sales Manager, Phixos

Presentations and Materials

FPGA Frontrunners

Microchip, April 2026

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Building Resilient and Cyber Secure FPGA Systems in an Adversarial World

Thales, September 2025

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Prototyping Systems using FPGA Event

Rolls-Royce, May 2025

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Using AI in FPGA development and products

Renishaw, February 2025

Password: FPGAFrontRunner-Feb25

FPGA Safety and Security

Cambridge, November 2024

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FPGA Technology and Methodology Roadmaps

Microchip, July 2024

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FPGA Verification Strategies

Rolls-Royce, September 2024

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Using AI in FPGA development and products

Renishaw, April 2024

Password: FPGAFrontRunner-April24