
REGISTRATION
David McClelland - Freelance
David is a freelance journalist and broadcaster across consumer and enterprise technology, cybersecurity and mobile. He has written for The Metro, International Business Times,TechRadar, CNET, Wired and Computer Weekly.
He is ITV Good Morning Britain’s regular technology expert, a cybercrime-buster for BBC Watchdog, consumer champion on BBC Rip Off Britain and co-host of Challenge TV mobile technology show Planet of the Apps.


IoT, Data & Predictive Analytics


George Roussos - Professor, Pervasive Computing - Birbeck College
Smart City Dynamics and Emergency Response
George Roussos - Birbeck College
Smart City Dynamics and Emergency Response
IoT technologies are progressively enabling the activation of the city’s material environment, to generate a constant stream of data that can be employed to reveal patterns of urban dynamics that until recently remained unobserved. In this talk I will look back at more than a decade of experimental systems research conducted at our lab and relate our work to key pervasive computing trends. I will then discuss through specific case studies how data from these and similar systems have enabled explorations into how the evolving patterns of human dynamics are reflected onto City rhythms. I will conclude by highlighting current work which employs the outcomes of this research towards improving the effectiveness of ambulance services in London.
Prof. George Roussos leads the Pervasive Computing Group at Birkbeck College, University of London, an internationally recognised research centre in mobile computing and the IoT with particular expertise in networked RFID and mobility analytics. His work pioneered participatory cyber‐physical computing as the predominant methodology for the construction of mobile and pervasive computing systems. With contributions in systems architecture, privacy protection and human dynamics his work demonstrated how the user’s activity can be exploited as the core ingredient for building such systems. Prof Roussos is the author of four books and over 100 research papers. He was a member of the EU‐China Internet of Things Expert Group in 2010/12, the 2011 Medalist for best environmental project at the British Computer Society awards and since 2004 serves on the ACM US Public Policy Committee.


Andrew Hudson-Smith - Professor of Digital Urban Systems - University College London
IoT, Big Data, Sensors & Cities: Joining Up, Communicating & Trusting 'Smart'
Andrew Hudson-Smith - University College London
IoT, Big Data, Sensors & Cities: Joining Up, Communicating & Trusting 'Smart'
Data is everywhere yet it is far from joined up, coherent or used to make anything truly 'Smart'. The talk explores big data in London, how new visualisations can be used to make sense of data in the city. It examines how 'location' can be used to finally join everything together to help us not only understand the city around us but also our understanding of place and place in a world of sensors and IoT. Finally it looks into the opportunity that is the 'Smart Park' - the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a park with plans for 10,000's of sensors to provide a glimpse of the future.
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The Bartlett, University College London. Andy is a Reader in Digital Urban Systems and Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal, he is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Greater London Authority Smart London Board and Course Founder of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation and MSc in Smart Cities at University College London.


Rob Russell - Senseye
Prognostics and the City
Rob will talk about machine prognostics and make the link to how the high levels of connectivity will lead to improved reliability and availability of city infrastructure. Explaining how previous experience implementing solutions in high-end sectors and seeing the benefits, formed the vision for Senseye and their product PROGNOSYS. Lowering the barriers to entry through the use of machine learning and embedding domain knowledge that makes a complex problem space finite and turning prognostic capability into a commodity.
Rob is the Chief Technology Officer at Senseye, with a BEng in Mechanical Systems Engineering. He has spent the last 20 years designing and deploying asset management and condition monitoring systems within the aerospace, defence and transport sectors. Having a mechanical engineering background in the software sector has enabled Rob to bridge the gap between the end user and the software teams he leads. Now in Senseye this experience in guiding the vision for the development of PROGNOSYS the first complete machine prognostic solution, fit for the Industrial Internet of Things. Rob is passionate about maximising asset and equipment usage but believes in keeping things simple.




Enrico Motta - Prof of Knowledge Technologies - The Open University
MK:Smart – A Data-centric Approach to Open Innovation
Enrico Motta - The Open University
Milton Keynes is the fastest growing city in UK and an economic success story. However, such rapid growth is creating stress points in the city infrastructure and new intelligent solutions are needed to ensure that the forecast growth remains sustainable. MK:Smart is a £16M integrated innovation and support programme, which focuses on leveraging large-scale city data to provide solutions to key demand issues in MK. Central to MK:Smart is the state-of-the-art MK Data Hub, which provides a generic enabling infrastructure, available to academia and business alike, promoting data-intensive open innovation. In this presentation I will illustrate the key aspects of the MK:Smart project and will show examples of innovative data-driven solutions which are being developed in the project.
Prof Enrico Motta has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the UK’s Open University, where is currently a Professor in Knowledge Technologies. He has authored over 300 refereed publications and his h-index is 56. His research focuses on large scale data integration, pattern extraction and visualization, to enable users to make sense of large amounts of data and support robust decision-making processes. He currently leads MK:Smart, a £16M initiative which aims to tackle key barriers to economic growth in Milton Keynes, UK, through the deployment of innovative data-intensive solutions. He is also working on a novel environment for exploring and making sense of scholarly data, which leverages innovative techniques in large-scale data mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics. Prof Motta is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and, over the years, has advised strategic research boards and governments in several countries, including UK, US, The Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Finland, and Estonia.


COFFEE
Data Infrastructure and Deep Learning


Ajit Jaokar - Professor - Technical University of Madrid
Deep Learning for Smart Cities
Ajit Jaokar - Technical University of Madrid
Deep Learning Applications for Smart Cities
Deep Learning is a new and exciting set of technologies with potential applications to many areas - including Smart cities, However, Deep Learning technologies are rapidly evolving. This paper first explores the basics of Deep Learning technologies and then explores how they apply to Smart cities. Unlike most papers on this subject, we do not take an academic view. Instead we explore the latest developments of Deep Learning and extrapolate how they could apply to future cities over the next 5 to 10 years. The paper takes a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on the rapid evolution of Deep Learning technologies and their implication for Smart cities.
Ajit’s work involves applying machine learning techniques to complex problems in the IoT (Internet of Things) and Telecoms domains. His research is based on two courses taught by Ajit – Big Data for Telecoms(Oxford University) and the citysciences program (UPM –Technical University of Madrid).
His latest book is included as a course book at Stanford University for Data Science for Internet of Things. Ajit is also writing a paper on Deep Learning applications for Smart cities. In 2015, Ajit was included in 16 Great Data Science bloggers on Data Science Central, Top 100 blogs on KDnuggets and Top 50 people to follow on Twitter by IoT central for IoT. In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of the Internet’ council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program (Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel. In 2012, he was nominated to the board of Connected Liverpool – Resilient Liverpool programs – based in the city of Liverpool for their Smart city vision. Ajit has been involved in IoT based roles for the webinos project (EU funded Fp7 project). Ajit has also been an advisor to the European Internet Foundation on Technology and Policy issues since 2009 and is the co-author of ‘The Digital World in 2030′. He is also involved in creating a community around the issues in this report in the Tech/Policy space. Since May 2005, he has founded and run the OpenGardens blog which is widely respected in the mobile/telecoms industry.



Dr. Larissa Suzuki - Reseacher - University College London
Data Infrastructure for Smart Cities
Dr. Larissa Suzuki - University College London
Data Infrastructure for Smart Cities
The systems that operate the infrastructure of cities have evolved in a fragmented fashion across several generations of technology, causing city utilities and services to operate sub-optimally and limiting the creation of new value-added services. The integration of cross-domain city data offers a new wave of opportunities to mitigate some of these impacts and enables city systems to draw effectively on interoperable data that will be used to deliver smarter cities.
Despite the considerable potential of city data, current smart cities initiatives have mainly addressed the problem of data management from a technology perspective, have treated it as a single and disjoint ICT development project, and have disregarded stakeholders and data needs. As a consequence, such initiatives are susceptible to failure from inadequate stakeholder input, requirements neglecting, and information fragmentation and overload.
To enter into the new era of data exploitation and data infrastructures cities will need to adopt a more strategic and outcomes-oriented approach and this research is about this journey. This talk will give an introduction on a systematic business-model-driven framework, named SMARTify, which guides the design of large and highly interconnected data infrastructures that are provided and supported by multiple stakeholders. The framework can be used to model, elicit and reason about the requirements of the service, technology, organization, value, and governance aspects of smart cities.
I will discuss very briefly the "Data for London" case study which has shown that the SMARTify framework provides decision makers with the clarity they need to think strategically about how systems, businesses and interested citizens can draw effectively on a vast supply of cross-domain city data through a data infrastructure.
The design of robust data infrastructures can facilitate cross-domain data exploitation, the emergence of new profitable business models, and the development of an increase range of new and engaging services in smart cities.
Larissa Suzuki is a PhD Candidate in Software Systems Engineering at University College London / DCE Imperial College London. Her research aims at contributing to a growing body of knowledge in smart cities and urban data management. She is an EPSRC, Google and Intel Scholar. Larissa holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MPhil in Electrical Engineering, and was a Visiting PhD Student at MIT. Larissa is a senior teaching assistant at UCL and has published several research papers in leading academic journals and conferences, and has received several awards and recognitions during her academic career (Intel, EPSRC, BFWG, Google, ACM, EIT ICT Labs, McKinsey&Company, Inspiration Awards for Women). She has interned IBM and at ARUP working on smart cities applications. Her research agenda includes, but not limited to: software middleware, platform ecosystems, urban data management, value chain, supply chain management and business models.


Mapping and Robotics
Daniele Quercia - Bell Labs
Sensory Mapping
How can we change architecture to design more for the people and less for the architects? Daniele Quercia presents crowd-based solutions with which urban planners can get valuable information about what kind of urban design is attractive to the people. This leads to GPS systems that show you the "most beautiful" path to your destination and to indicators about the beauty of a city. More about this on a recent BBC article Daniele wrote bbc.in/1qFwBLs
Daniele Quercia leads the Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK), has been named one of Fortune magazine's 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. His research has been focusing in the area of urban informatics and received best paper awards from Ubicomp 2014 and from ICWSM 2015, and an honourable mention from ICWSM 2013. He was Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, a Horizon senior researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. He received his PhD from UC London. His thesis was sponsored by Microsoft Research and was nominated for BCS Best British PhD dissertation in Computer Science.




Mathew Holloway - Managing Director - Q-Bot
Robots Fighting Poverty, Saving Energy, Creating Jobs and Empowering Workers
Mathew Holloway - Q-Bot
Robots fighting poverty, saving energy, creating jobs and empowering workers.
Q-Bot combines robotics with one of the most pressing needs; upgrading our existing buildings to make them more comfortable, reduce cold draughts and improve energy efficiency. In doing so Q-Bot turns difficult, dirty and disruptive jobs into cost effective and efficient processes, to create a real, scalable and cost effective solution to meeting targets for CO2 reduction and affordable warmth.
The company’s robots are able to autonomously survey and map the built environment, using a range of advanced technology including 3D scanning, artificial intelligence and information systems. This information provides a wealth of opportunities, for example identifying maintenance that might be required, e.g. the nature and location of leaking pipes, deal with hazards such as asbestos, or validate the quality of work done. The presentation will describe how we can use intelligent systems and advanced tools to maintain, upgrade and construct our buildings or infrastructure and some of the benefits that this approach has.
Mathew is the Managing Director of Q-Bot where he leads the development and commercialisation of innovative robotics technologies for the construction industry. He has 12 years’ experience as a founder of high tech start-ups where he has turned his ideas into desirable products and in turn seen them generate 7 and 8 figure turnovers.
He was educated at Bath University (MEng 1st Class Honours), Imperial College and The Royal College of Art in Engineering and Design (Joint Masters, MA & MSc). His technical background includes electrical and mechanical engineering, innovation mechanisms, intellectual property, industrial design, controls and programming (vision, analytics and interfaces).



LUNCH
Smart Cities: Best Practices

Panel: Developing Frameworks for Connected Cities
Esteve Almirall - ESADE
Esteve Almirall serves as Associate Professor in Esade Business School where his research focus on Innovation, particularly on Open Innovation and Data Science. His work has been referenced in HBR and he is a frequent speaker in conferences around Innovation, Big Data and Data Science, Smart Cities, Living Labs and Open Data/Gov. His background is a mix of Management Science (PhD,MRes,MBA) and Computer Science /A.I. (MSc, MRes). Esteve is also highly involved in European Projects and EU organizations having coordinated and participated in many EU projects on Innovation and Smart Cities. He is passionate about how we can use IT to redefine governance and reinvent citizenship in the XXI century transforming cities from service providers to ecosystem orchestrators and therefore fostering growth and promoting entrepreneurship.

Bill Clee - Asset Mapping
Bill Clee is the CEO and founder of Asset Mapping. A design engineer by training, he spent his early career designing systems for data centres, oil & gas and shipbuilding industries around the world. With high expertise in the domain of managing complex systems, he transferred to the construction industry in the UK. After completing a number of building projects, Bill was invited to work with Honeywell on the CCTV system for the London Olympic site. It was here where Asset Mapping was born as an online platform to visualise the location and status of the assets on site. Today, Asset Mapping is a consolidated Internet of Things engine for asset digitisation.


Joe Dignan - Future Cities Catapult
Joe Dignan is the Interim Head of Business Development and leading Smart City Expert at the Future City Catapult. He was previously the Chief Analyst - EMEA Public Sector of Ovum, an international research company leading their Industry Technologies team producing research and analysis on the use of technology in government. He joined Ovum from Microsoft where he was the World Wide Industry Managing Director for Local and Regional Government. During his thirty years in the business he has been involved internationally in national security, economic development, education and digital enablement. He is a regular speaker including keynotes at Smart Cities Africa, SmarterCities, eIndia, eDubai and an expert speaker for the EC in China.

Suzanne Wilson - Bristol is Open
Creating the Open Programmable City
How cities work is changing. Developments in software, hardware and telecom networks are enabling more interaction between people and places and more machine-to-machine communication, creating an internet of things. Opening-up and making sense of this gives citizens more ability to interact, work and play with their city. Smart city technologies will be able to respond in real-time to everyday events including congestion, waste management, entertainment events, e-democracy, energy supply and more. Together with many partners, Bristol Is Open is creating an open programmable city region.
Suzanne is the City Innovation Manager for Bristol City Council, part of a department called Bristol Futures that looks at sustainability, resilience and technology challenges in Bristol and how to address them in partnership with other cities across the world. The City innovation team have deployed the Bristol Is Open infrastructure: fibre, wireless mile and mesh network, run innovation projects on energy, data and transport, and supported digital inclusion. Their approach is to work in partnership with citizens and organisations in Bristol to co-create solutions, looking for external funding to pilot and test new approaches. Prior to working as City Innovation Manager, Suzanne worked for the Higher Education Funding Council for England where she worked for 10 years on research and innovation policy and key account manager for several universities.

Mark Walker - London and Partners
Mark is an experienced technologist, his early corporate successes led Mark to form his own enterprise software company, producing and selling to Universities and institutions. A hands-on role, Mark executed his idea from concept to maturity, while also performing the international sales for an advanced engineering company.
Mark is a former Senior Adviser at UK Trade & Investment, where he used his time to build a contacts in technology, IoT and Smartcities sectors, as well as the investment and accelerator environment. Managing a team of seven, his role facilitated a good understanding of the London technology environment.
Mark has continued his passion for supporting Start-up and Scale up organisations by joining London & Partners as the tech & urban specialist on the Mayor’s international business programme, helping London companies internationalise.



Suzanne Wilson - City Innovation Manager - Bristol is Open
Creating the Open Programmable City
Suzanne Wilson - Bristol is Open
Creating the Open Programmable City
How cities work is changing. Developments in software, hardware and telecom networks are enabling more interaction between people and places and more machine-to-machine communication, creating an internet of things. Opening-up and making sense of this gives citizens more ability to interact, work and play with their city. Smart city technologies will be able to respond in real-time to everyday events including congestion, waste management, entertainment events, e-democracy, energy supply and more. Together with many partners, Bristol Is Open is creating an open programmable city region.
Suzanne is the City Innovation Manager for Bristol City Council, part of a department called Bristol Futures that looks at sustainability, resilience and technology challenges in Bristol and how to address them in partnership with other cities across the world. The City innovation team have deployed the Bristol Is Open infrastructure: fibre, wireless mile and mesh network, run innovation projects on energy, data and transport, and supported digital inclusion. Their approach is to work in partnership with citizens and organisations in Bristol to co-create solutions, looking for external funding to pilot and test new approaches. Prior to working as City Innovation Manager, Suzanne worked for the Higher Education Funding Council for England where she worked for 10 years on research and innovation policy and key account manager for several universities.

Michael Burns - University of Glasgow
Michael Burns works within the Research Strategy and Innovation Office with specific responsibility for the University’s Future Cities offering and, in particular, how the new campus development can be used to drive the research, teaching and commercial collaborations around this.
The main project focus is in the creation of a Smart Campus.
He has a background in project development and management with experience across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.


COFFEE
Smart Living: Citizens and Architecture

Panel: How Can We Connect & Engage Citizens Through Technology?
Asa Calow - MadLab
Asa is a creative technologist, civic hacker, lapsed mathematician and co-founder of MadLab – a community space for science, technology and art based in Manchester – where he gets to experiment with new & emerging technologies in collaboration with others. Recently this has entailed running lots of IoT workshops, and managing MadLab’s Arts+Tech creative practice accelerator programme.
MadLab is one of the UK's most active creative community makerspaces, with more than 15,000 visitors a year and more than 50 regular meet-ups covering everything from software, app & games development through to electronics, film-making, fiction writing, book clubs, and more.

Niraj Dattani - Spacehive
Niraj has been at Spacehive – a crowdfunding platform for civic projects - since its inception. During his stint he has worked in almost every part of Spacehive, and now grows the community of Spacehive users – from cities to businesses to local people trying to shape their communities. In his spare time, he is a local councillor in Harrow, with a specific focus on engagement & innovation. This has given him a good understanding of local government and the challenges & opportunities they face, and allowed him to develop our partnerships in cities accordingly. He is always looking for ways to give people power and opportunities, and has a keen eye for projects that push the boundaries or make a big impact in communities.

Tomas Diez - Smart Citizen Project
Tomas Diez is a Venezuelan-born urbanist, who specialises in digital fabrication and its implications on future cities. He is co-founder of the Smart Citizen project and StudioP52 in Barcelona, and director of Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC. He is developing a new framework for cities to engage with digital fabrication and distributed sensing as urban strategy tools, to create positive social, economic and environmental impacts. He is a tutor in Design Products at the RCA.

Michael Kohn - Stickyworld
Michael Kohn is founder and CEO of Stickyworld Ltd, a visual communications platform that makes it easy for organisations to involve wide groups of people in making better products, services, buildings, places and cities together. Founded in 2010, Stickyworld has attracted a growing number of customers from government, energy, construction, architecture and design sectors. A former architect, Michael’s career spans 20 years including award-winning concept design work, administration of multi-million pound construction projects, university research and lecturing, and collaborative technology R&D. Stickyworld’s platform supports the full lifecycle of projects and is ideal for the development of future cities to capture insights and support active participation from citizens and stakeholders.


Alexander Grünsteidl - Method
Alexander loves designing and managing new experiences at the intersection of innovative technologies, food and communities.
He is interested in how technology affects our social fabric, the relationships we form and how it shapes the urban environment we live in.
He has worked at Philips, Apple and IDEO, leading the design across tactical and strategic projects in retail, healthcare, telecoms, consumer electronics, domestic appliances and IoT. Currently he leads the Interaction Design team at Method in London - An experience design studio that crafts products and services by re-imagining customer experiences and translating business opportunities through branded behaviours.



Thorsten Klaus - Head of Building Systems - Aktivhaus
Aktivhaus B10: A Prototype for Future Energy Connectivity
Thorsten Klaus - Aktivhaus
Aktivhaus: Designing for the Plus-Energy Future
In the face of increasingly acute energy and material resource challenges, the building sector represents both the single greatest consumer of resources as well as the single most powerful lever with which to influence our environmental impact. As new buildings become more efficient, one of the most critical challenges lies in addressing the existing building stock. To make serious progress we must move beyond the mindset of reduction and instead conceive projects which not only meet their own energy needs but also provide for their neighbours. This is the mission of Aktivhaus.
Thorsten Klaus is Head of Building Systems at Aktiv-Haus, where he designed and developed a plus-energy house series for large-scale prefabricated production. He is also a Research and Development engineer at AlphaEOS, where he develops algorithms for building energy management. Thorsten has recently received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart.




David Correa - Research Associate - Institute for Computational Design
Bio-inspired 3D Printed Programmable Material Systems
David Correa - Institute for Computational Design
Bio-inspired 3D Printed Programmable Material Systems
Programmable 3D-printed material systems are sustainable architectural elements made from bio-plastics that can physically move and transform in response to climatic changes without the use of electronic or mechanical components. Based on bio-inspired design strategies, these novel architectural systems use 3D printing processes to build material systems that are highly in-tune with changing weather conditions. Without the need of failure-prone sensors or controllers, these systems operate differently from conventional engineering systems. Much like a pine cone or other hygroscopically actuated mechanisms found in biology, the 3D printed components operate as climate responsive surfaces whereby a simple material element performs as sensor, actuator, and regulator.
David Correa is a Canadian designer, doctoral candidate and instructor at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart. At the ICD, David Correa is leading the research field of Bio-inspired 3D Printed Hygroscopic Programmable Material Systems. His research investigates the physiological relation of information intensive technologies with architectural practice and material production, with critical focus on the computational development and digital fabrication of climate responsive material systems. As a designer in both architecture and commercial digital media, David's professional work engages multiple disciplines, design scales, and environments - ranging from dense urban settings to remote regions with extreme climates.



Allison Dring - Co-Founder - elegant embellishments
Pollution-reducing Building Facades
Allison Dring - elegant embellishments
prosolve370e is a decorative facade module that reduces air pollution in cities. When coupled with architectural surfaces, the modular system can grow to effectively counter local pollution hot-spots. The modules' forms are devised to increase the efficacy of the photocatalytic technology, employing surface enlargement for better reception of light. prosolve370e was recently installed on a hospital facade in Mexico City.
prosolve, along with another project: a consumer plastic synthesized from atmospheric CO2, represent a new materialization of climatic condition. These materials signify existing but often immaterial conditions that increasingly have impact on the way we live. Allison Dring is an architect and co-founder of elegant embellishments, an architectural start-up with the strategy of self-initiating projects for condition-specific spaces.
Along with Daniel Schwaag, she initiated and produced proSolve370e, a decorative, three-dimensional module that reduces air pollution in cities. The modules were recently installed on the facade of hospital Torre de Especialidades in Mexico City. prosolve370e has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and acquired by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum as part of the permanent collection.



CONVERSATION & DRINKS

COFFEE
David McClelland - Freelance
David is a freelance journalist and broadcaster across consumer and enterprise technology, cybersecurity and mobile. He has written for The Metro, International Business Times,TechRadar, CNET, Wired and Computer Weekly.
He is ITV Good Morning Britain’s regular technology expert, a cybercrime-buster for BBC Watchdog, consumer champion on BBC Rip Off Britain and co-host of Challenge TV mobile technology show Planet of the Apps.


Startup Showcase


Marcos Bassols - Chief Product Design Engineer - Watly
The Energy_net: Where Internet Fuses Together With Water Supply and Energy Generation
Marcos Bassols - Watly
The Energy_net: Where Internet Fuses Together With Water Supply and Energy Generation.
The idea of an ‘Energynet’ grasps the truly transformational potential of combining vital and basic resources into a self-supporting ecosystem. Energy_net refers to a solar powered smartgrid behaving like the Internet but where information technology fuses together with electricity and water. Contrary to Internet, the Energy_net generates the same very power it needs to function. The Energy_net will “terraform” the harshest and farest places of the Earth establishing new cities where there is nothing today. The Energy_net is the real IoT, that can be built where there is not Internet and where there are not things.
Graduated at Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn Victoria, and at Elisava School of Designing and Engineering of Barcelona. His motto: «Great challenges must be greatly designed»

Dagmara Lacka - Boldmind
Flow.City
Flow.City from Bold Mind uses artificial intelligence to provide a range of solutions in real-time in a hyper-local environment. Flow.City can solve overcrowding at transport hubs and public spaces as well as connect retailers with shoppers in a local vicinity to drive up footfall in quieter periods. It does this by using open and closed data which is extracted then analysed before providing advertising on all local screens to divert shoppers and travellers from busy spots to local retail, dining and entertainment options. It also allows to gain advanced customer insight.
Dagmara passionately exploits new technologies to increase sales and drive growth. At Boldmind she oversees development of sensor-based solutions for Smart Cities focusing on retail malls, airports and city hubs. The flagship product is Flow.city - a first Digital Signage Big Data Solution for Retail - currently piloted at Canary Wharf. In a decade of work across online and offline media in UK and overseas markets, Dagmara has gained extensive expertise in digital brand strategy, product positioning and delivery. She built and delivered digital strategies for start-ups and blue-chip companies with emphasis on running internal and external innovation teams.


Stephen Dunne - Starlab
Integrated GreenCities
Starlab's mission has always been to transform science into technologies with a profound, positive impact on society.
With our GreenCities project we hope to make cities greener by providing technical solutions for better resource management, risk assessment and decision-making.
We are researching and developing tools to intelligently and remotely manage urban change, irrigation and green inventory at tree level by leveraging satellite imagery, crowd-sourcing and integrated organic sensing.
We also know that our cities are not isolated systems and so provide tools for the monitoring of external events such as floods, droughts, forest fire or water pollution as well as tools to optimize the use of clean energy such as wind power and hydropower.
Stephen Dunne began his studies in the University of Wales in Aberystwyth where he obtained a BSc (Honours) in Planetary and Space Physics. Following this he obtained a Masters in Optoelectronics and Information Processing from Queens University in Belfast, carrying out a research thesis at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. In 2003 he joined Starlab, where he is currently Managing Director, leading two teams at the forefront of applied research. These teams are transforming Science into Technology in the fields of Neuroscience and Earth Observation of Neuroscience Research in conjunction with the European Commission and the European Space.

Archie Wilkinson - Pavegen
From leading ad agency M&C Saatchi, Archie Wilkinson's role in Pavegen focuses on leading the experiential arm of the company – Pavegen LIVE.
He works closely with the sales, design, projects and PR teams to deliver powerful brand experiences for a number of global clients such as Sunglass Hut, Coca Cola, Samsung, Adidas and Formula E. His experience planning and delivering high-profile events across the globe stemmed from his time with advertising agency, M&C Saatchi - where he worked with Paddy Power and the House of Peroni.
Enhanced further by his BSc First Class Honours in Marketing and combined with his curious mind, he explores the latest Intel, Innovations and Inspirations in the Pavegen LIVE bi-weekly 3i blog. Archie has won the Innovation Award at a Google Start-Up weekend in 2012 and he was a finalist in the New Entrepreneurs Foundation programme in 2013. Recently, he also showcased the technology at the Event Tech Summit in Las Vegas.
Archie spends his free time playing or watching sport and he is found tweeting about the latest marketing campaigns @ArchieWilkinson.

Alar Vork - Cityntel
Alar Võrk is a visionary entrepreneur with passion to technology which could make the world a better place to live. He is a CEO and Co-Founder of Cityntel, an Estonian based technology startup developing Smart City solutions based on next generation flat wireless mesh networking technology and Mist computing.
What is the real revolution in the Internet of Things?
It is more than simply connecting physical devices to the Web. More than just executing orders from a cloud server. The real revolution with the IoT is in making those devices communicate with each other locally, so that they can make their own decisions based on ambient input.
In this IoT universe, smarter, connected devices can provide services to other local devices, and use services provided by them as well. The cloud is still there. It enables feedback from devices like sensor data and allows the transmission of operating rules to devices. However, now the computing and the control are also distributed to devices.
This architecture is opening up completely new possibilities to build systems using small, inexpensive wireless devices that act contextually in the background to improve our lives.



COFFEE
Sustainable Energy and Smart Infrastructure

Panel: Smart Grid Management

Trygve Skjotskift - Smart Cities Product Manager, Europe & Middle East - Current, powered by GE
Panelist
Trygve Skjotskift - Current, powered by GE
Trygve Skjotskift has successfully scoped and delivered some of Europe’ s most innovative commercial projects within utilities, retail, smart home, smart grid systems and sustainable cities. His strength is to innovate by bridging business strategy and customer experience enabled by new technologies. Trygve’s experience with smart grid solutions dates back to 2001, when he designed one of the first commercialized smart grid solutions. His sense for strong client relationships, innovation, business development and successful project delivery has made him a trusted advisor for smart grids and smart cities developments.


Dan Taylor - Camborne Capital
Dan joined Camborne Capital in 2015 bringing with him a wealth of experience in the utilities sector, the Smart Grid development sector and the UK and APAC balancing markets. Having completed a role in Management Consultancy, Dan has worked with a number of UK leaders in Demand Side Response, including SGC, WPD and KiWi Power.
Dan joins Camborne after a 2-year project with one of the UK’s largest DNO’s, looking at Smart Grid techniques on the UK distribution network, including network connected battery storage, as well as other intervention techniques.
He is now leading Camborne's energy storage interests in the UK, supporting the move towards a lower carbon economy.

Neal Coady - British Gas
Neal is Head of Innovation at British gas and has four years of experience in Smart Metering, mostly as a technology architect, but more recently deriving value from smart data for operational efficiency, customer insight and new propositions as part of a vision for 2020. Previously Neal worked in UK government, has an MA in Interaction Design along with 15 years experience in digital solutions ranging from video e-democracy to award winning transactional websites.


Molly Webb - Energy Unlocked
Molly has 10+ years advocacy for global innovation in tech, climate change, smart cities and energy, in partnership with companies and cities (Google, Cisco, BT, Living Labs Global) as Head of Smart Technologies at The Climate Group and UK think tank Demos. Green innovation strategy advisor for Skype-founder’s Zennström Philanthropies. 5+ years software and IT business and product development in New York, Tokyo and London, MSc in Environmental Policy at the London School of Economics, and is now founder of Energy Unlocked.

Berit Laanke - SINTEF
Power Road – The Energy Positive Road
Is it possible to build energy positive roads in Norway? Technology and solutions for energy efficient planning, construction, maintenance, demolition and reuse combined with power generation from renewable sources like currents, waves, sun, wind, earth and phase changing materials will be explored – all in a life cycle perspective. The Norwegian highway-project, 'The Coastal Highway Route E39' will be realized along the western coast of Norway during the next 20 years. 7 fjords will be crossed with bridges/subsea tunnels and 1100 km of roads will be connected. The ambition is to integrate technology and solutions for an energy positive highway despite snow and darkness.
Berit Laanke is research director in SINTEF, Scandinavia's largest independent research institute. She leads the SINTEF department of Infrastructure, developing technology for roads, railways, underground space (caverns, tunnels) and arctic infrastructure. Some of today's important topics for interdisciplinary research in SINTEF are 'green transport' and 'energy positive roads'. Berit Laanke is project manager of the Power Road project in SINTEF. She has extensive experience from the industry, both from aggregate- and ready mix concrete-industry and from the contractor Skanska.




Bart Remes - Project Manager, Micro Aerial Vehicle Lab - TU Delft
TU Delft - Micro Aerial Vehicle
Bart Remes - TU Delft
The goal of the TUDelft micro aerial vehicle lab is to bring drones straight to your pocket. Everybody will have their personal drone and use it in daily life. Pocket drones will be as normal as smartphones. To reach this goal a lot of research is happening at the micro aerial vehicle laboratory of the TUDelft http://www.mavlab.lr.tudelft.nl . The smallest opensource autopilot in the world is develop at the MAVlab of the TUDelft. A lot of research is preformed on this 2 by 2 cm devices to make them preform reliable. During this presentation you will see a glimp of the future when the pocket drone will be demonstrated.
Since 2003 Bart Remes is project manager for the micro aerial vehicle lab at the aerospace faculty of the TuDelft. When it began, 11 years ago, nobody believed in the future of this small flying devices. Now the micro aerial vehicle lab of the TuDelft has a central spot in the activities of the aerospace faculty. The prestigious research done at the lab is unique in the world. It ranges from flapping wing vehicles, to hybrids aerial vehicles as well as the smallest open source autopilot in the world, a 2 by 2 cm device.



Emmett Reidy - Director, Sales Operations - Egbert Taylor Group
Smart Waste Management
Emmett Reidy - Egbert Taylor Group
Waste collections all over the country are currently work on legacy milk-run systems, often based on feedback and reaction management while managers and the public deal with inefficient collections, congestion, over flowing bins, missed collections, and complaints. This inefficient, polluting, costly and resource hungry operation has many solutions but introducing technology for the sake of technology is not a solution. To be truly successful you need to breakdown the silos, communicate and look to what is best for where you want to go. Various technologies reporting to one platform, cost control mechanisms, holistic approach, support, future proofing and changing cultures.
Emmett started his working career in the construction industry but changed tack in 2009 during the economic downturn , when he started working for a start-up company called Smartbin one of the initiators of fill level technology and online data analytics in the UK and Ireland . Emmett stayed in the waste industry as the Operations Manager and Sales for Bigbelly Solar and help develop the UK and Ireland distributorship in to becoming the largest market outside of the US. His current role is Sales Operations Director at the Egbert H Taylor Group, he is responsible for all internal Sales Operations while also identifying innovative technological partners that can help shape waste strategies for our cities and the company’s continued growth by accessing and acting on these new market opportunities.


LUNCH
Connected Living: Transport

Panel: What is the Role of Data in Creating Smarter Mobility?
Anastasios Noulas - OpenStreetCab
Anastasios is a Lecturer at the Data Science Institute at Lancaster University, where he leads projects related to location-based technologies, mobile computing and complex social and technological systems. Anastasios completed his PhD in 2013 at the Computer Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. During his PhD he has published at top-tier conferences and journals in the fields of data mining, online social systems. Prior to joining Lancaster University, Anastasios was a Data Scientist at Foursquare Labs in New York and Telefonica Research, Madrid. In 2015 he has teamed up with researchers in Cambridge and Belgium to launch the OpenStreetCab project.

Tim Williams - TfL
Tim is a Lead Developer on the Transport for London Unified API. As well as technical leadership, this includes blogging, promoting and building a developer community around the use of OpenData and the API. He has worked at TfL for the last three years as part of the Online team, starting with the website rebuild and move to the cloud in 2013. Prior to TfL, Tim has worked for a variety of clients, on a range of different platforms, but always with a focus on web services, APIs and data visualisation.

Mark Nicholson - Vivacity Labs
Vivacity Labs creates intelligent cameras to help anyone involved in transport – drivers to transport planners, commuters to station managers – understand their world better. We produce real-time, highly accurate data about movement of cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles, using cutting-edge technology developed with researchers at leading UK universities.
As CEO of Vivacity, Mark is heavily involved in a number of leading Smart Cities projects in the UK, providing data on car parking, road traffic and rail stations, all at unprecedented accuracy & cost. Mark is passionate about how data can be used to improve transport systems & quality of life.

Tia Kansara - Kansara Hackney Ltd
Tia is an award-winning director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. In 2010, she wrote the brief and appointed the architects Foster+Partners for SAMBA‘s multi-million dollar headquarters, as the first female to judge a LEED platinum building in Saudi Arabia.
She’s on London Business School Global Energy Summit’s executive committee, Co-director of the international CleanTechChallenge, the Gulf ambassador of the UCL Bartlett, Siemen’s list of Future Influencers and Global Ambassador of the Sandbox Network.
Currently completing her Ph.D. at UCL on designing future cities whilst creating the first energy baseline in the Gulf.




Julie Alexander - Director, Urban Development - Siemens
Connected Public Transport Systems
Julie Alexander - Siemens
Connected Public Transport
The Future of Urban Transport: With an ever growing population and public transport at capacity, we need new ways of moving people through our cities. How will the connected car of the future not only provide an alternative, but help to reduce some of the negative impacts we experience on our highly congested roads.
Julie is a Director for Urban Development for the Infrastructure and Cities sector at Siemens. With her global remit working with cities around the world, she is responsible for engaging with cities to showcase the role of infrastructure and integrated technological solutions in urban development.
Particular areas of specialism include the financing and funding of urban infrastructure through the use of innovate mechanisms and value capture. On this topic, Julie recently co-authored a report entitled ‘Investor Ready Cities’ in conjunction with PwC and BLP Law.
Julie now has the role of shaping Siemens approach to Smart Cities in the UK in conjunction with the global Siemens businesses. To enable and promote knowledge transfer, Julie works with the Siemens business on the benefit of digitalization in the city, in areas such as smart grid and energy management, intelligent transport systems and Industry 4.0. Julie represents Siemens on the UK Smart Cities Forum and the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for Smart Cities.




Robin Hawkes - Founder - ViziCities
Making Sense of Transportation Data Using ViziCities and 3D Visualisation
Robin Hawkes - ViziCities
Making Sense of Transportation Data Using ViziCities and 3D Visualisation
ViziCities is an open-source 3D geo-spatial visualisation platform; powered by OpenStreetMap, WebGL and many other cutting-edge Web technologies. ViziCities not only allows you to explore any city in the world in 3D in your browser, it also lets you overlay data like live transport, crime, pollution, live social data, and weather. Think SimCity meets the real world! In this talk, Robin will introduce you to the project and demonstrate its powerful methods for visualising the transportation data locked within our cities.
Founder of ViziCities, previously worldwide developer relations at Mozilla. By day he's working on ViziCities, creating visualisations for clients like Thames Water and TfL. By night he's tinkering with anything and everything to do with geo-spatial and open data. He's also the creator of the thriving Open Data Community Slack group.



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Nerea Calvillo - Warwick University
Citizen Practices in the Digital City. Beyond App Development?