Internet of Things Summit London schedule

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.

It’s Your Internet of Things

We have built the IoTA platform to inspire a revolution in open connectivity, devices and sensors to help you shape the world around you, the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) is about you. With IoTA, you create the data to provide evidence, for real change within your community and beyond. IoT shouldn’t be limited to big data, smart cities and a select few having access to enormous piles of incomprehensible datasets. Our platform helps you to stop being a data spectator: measuring or being measured with no insight into where the data goes or what it means. IoTA encourages people to understand the data they create and use it for advocacy purposes.

Hugh uses futures intelligence to help organisations develop new ideas and encourage entrepreneurs to experiment with sustainability challenges. His recent projects include FutureScapes which looks at how technology can help people lead more sustainable lives with Sony Europe, and Clean Horizons – a long term innovation project with Ecover. He has recently launched the Internet of Things Academy – a platform to help people create change with the data they create. He is author of a number of future scenarios including Retail Futures and Consumer Futures and has written for Green Futures magazine on futures techniques and trends. He regularly blogs on weak signals – elements of the future that are here but not mainstream. Hugh has a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences from Edinburgh University.

Intelligent Products & a Circular Economy

We believe products able to pass data about themselves has the potential to extend product lifetime, reduce material waste and offer access to products as a service. Connected, intelligent products challenge the ‘make, sell and dispose’ business model, which depends on features warfare, one-off physical sales and designed obsolescence. Intelligent products instead allow a continuous and intimate connection to a customer via the product and the potential for on-going service revenues. Product parts can be replaced or upgraded and updates pushed remotely. The product can be controlled remotely and made available as a pay-per-use model or with a financing plan. Case studies, including Product Health’s work in the off-grid solar and battery sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, will be used to illustrate the concept.

Tamara is the VP Business Development at Product Health. She has 16 years experience as a strategy consultant and an entrepreneur with a focus on sustainable innovation, impact ventures and digital tech. She has worked with corporations, such as P&G, Nokia and Teléphonica, and start-ups such as Trillion Fund, OZOlab and recently Product Health, to unlock new market opportunity, new business models and new product development. Tamara was named one of “35 Outstanding Businesswomen Under the Age of 35” by World Business Magazine and INSEAD. She is on the board of New Economics Foundation Consulting and an advisor on P&G’s Sustainable Business Council.

We are entering a new world of interactive games and experiences where users can wave and interact through touch-free gestures. A difficulty with touch-free interaction is that often users don’t have any tactile feedback. In other words, they have no sense of having touched the object and struggle to know whether they have selected the virtual interface or not. Ultrahaptics is our invention to bring back the sense of touch to touchless interfaces, creating the magical experience of feeling without touching. With our system one feels like they are touching virtual objects and surfaces with their bare hands. We do this by reflecting air pressure waves off the hand in a way that can create different sensations for each fingertip. Our system can be deployed to work in a range of scenarios like gaming, automotive and home appliances.

Sriram Subramanian is a Professor of Human-computer Interaction at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in exploring new forms of interactive systems combining novel displays combinations with multi-touch, haptics and touchless gestures. Before joining the University of Bristol, he worked as a senior scientist at Philips Research (The Netherlands) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). In 2013, he co-founded Ultrahaptics a spin-out company developing technology to provide the physical sensation of touch in mid-air. Ultrahaptics enables one to feel virtual objects and textures or receive tactile cues for touchless interaction.

Jonathan Wisler is a technology veteran who has been driving innovation, profitability and international expansion in technology companies for close to 15 years. Prior to SoftLayer, he was a Principal at Magnify Consulting where he helped technology startups with international expansion and developing scalable operations. Before this he spent 8 years at Kodak Gallery growing the business unit from an idea to an international market leader. At Kodak, he was responsible for hosting and developing a global web to print infrastructure on a limited capital budget. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a major in economics.

The Future of IoT and the "Enterprise Internet"

Jonathan Wisler, General Manager EMEA at SoftLayer, an IBM Company discusses how IoT will be a catalyst in taking the "internet" to drive massive changes in the way enterprise companies manage. The internet is about to significantly mature based on the recent innovations from mobile and the web 2.0. With IoT now in the program we have seen enterprise customers save millions with relatively simple deployments. We are in the earlier stages of adoption of the IoT enabled enterprise internet, but we are starting to see massive shifts in how energy, healthcare, government and transportation are managing their business for performance optimization.

During his talk, Paul will speak about how IoT has been around for some time now; but it is still searching for the 'killer apps'. What are the applications that are going to get consumers at large to buy into the IoT? Who is going to advise them? What happens to all that data about their possessions? Will it really pay back?

Paul is IT Director at John Lewis which he joined in March 2011. John Lewis is Britain's leading omni-channel retailer with 36% of its sales online over the busy Christmas period. Paul set up John Lewis' first Innovation Incubator last summer.

Previously, he had been Chief Information Officer (CIO) of British Airways for 10 years. There he built ba.com and many industry leading innovations including calendar selling, online check in and dynamic packaging of flights, hotel and car hire. Paul joined BA from the Civil Service where he held senior roles including Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport, Deputy Director of Rail Privatisation, and Head of Resource Management for the Motorway and Truck Road Programme.

Paul is also a member of the Boards of SITA, which is the systems and service co-operative owned by the Air Transport Community operating in 200 countries around the World, Pets at Home and P&O Ferries.

Ohmatex is a pioneer in smart textile development with documented experience in the integration of electronics in technical textiles and wearable devices. Ohmatex is known for its expertise in textile integration for varied applications and for the textile cabling and connectors it has developed to facilitate the new generation of textile integrated wearables.

The company has participated in several FP7 projects in this field, most recently developing a sensor platform for garment integration in the MyWear project and methods for integrating photovoltaic and storage fibres in textile in the PowerWeave project. In addition Ohmatex has a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a garment with an NIRS (Near Infra-Red) sensor to monitor leg muscle oxygenation during astronaut training. In 2012 Ohmatex developed a medical compression stocking that measures changes in leg volume for patients suffering from edema (fluid retention) of the lower limbs.

Christian Dalsgaard, CTO, founded Ohmatex in 2004. He has considerable expertise in the field of commercializing smart textile development. His knowledge of the field spans over a decade from the very early stages of smart textile research and development. He has degrees in electrical engineering, physics and computer science from the Danish Engineering Academy and the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has a developed a strong international network of companies who partner with Ohmatex in new products and developments.

Jean-Luc is an entrepreneur specializing in the information and communication technologies applied to the field of health and prevention. Developing a particular interest in the issues surrounding the miniaturization of monitoring means early on, Jean-Luc embarked on a mission to establish a French smart fabric industry able to meet the needs of professional and amateur athletes as well as the needs of other sectors. “When you leave your home, you always have 3 things on you: keys, smartphone, clothes. You can forget your keys and sometimes your smartphone. Sometimes you’ll forget both but you never go out without clothes on.”

Jean-Luc Errant's career started at France Telecom as an R&D project manager. He then became Marketing Director at Bayer and Associate Director in Uni-Medicine, a company later bought by Atos group. Today he is an entrepreneur and digital technology expert, in particular in health and preventive health issues. Because of this double background, he is passionate about miniaturizing the tools we use to track and follow health variables. In 2010 he created Cityzen Sciences, the first French start-up specialized in smart textile. This led him to build an ambitious R&D consortium whose members are Payen, Eolane, Bretagne Telecom and Cyclelab.

The Internet of Fashionable Things

CuteCircuit is a fashion brand and a pioneer in the field of wearable technology. Founded over a decade ago, CuteCircuit sparked the fashion and technology revolution through the introduction of groundbreaking designs and concepts that merge the worlds of fashion, design and telecommunication. CuteCircuit introduced internet connected clothing and touch (haptic) telecommunication with products such as the Hug Shirt in 2002 (awarded by Time magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year in 2006). The Galaxy Dress introduced in 2008 (part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago) remains today the world’s largest wearable luminous display, a magical garment. Social media connected clothing such as the world’s first haute couture Twitter Dress was introduced in 2012. CuteCircuit became the first fashion label to put wearable technology on the red carpet when Katy Perry wore their gown to the Met Gala in 2010, and the same year CuteCircuit introduced the first line of technologically advanced ready-to-wear at Selfridges in London. The latest collection presented on schedule at New York Fashion week introduces haute couture and ready-to-wear fashions that can be controlled via smartphone app to allow the wearer to change the colour and functionality of their garments at the touch of a button.

All CuteCircuit garments are designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. Francesca’s early career began as designer for Valentino in Italy. CuteCircuit’s Designers share their passion for fashion worldwide by participating in conferences and events where they speak on subjects of innovation, the future of fashion and design. Always endeavouring to create something resonant, fashionable, visually and emotionally attractive; their work is frequently featured in numerous books and publications on design, fashion and innovation

Ghislaine Boddington is a researcher, director, curator and thought leader specialising in body responsive technologies, recognised as an international pioneer in full body telepresence. She has created live links between thousands of participants/audiences across the world for educational, performing arts and creative industries usage since the mid-nineties.

Ghislaine extends natural interface techniques, advocating the use of the entire body as an interaction canvas. Her work examines the representation of our physical selves and our identities in virtual environments and the hyper enhancement of our human senses through the digital transmission/reception of body data, such as touch, motion, biofeedback and gesture.

As a director she has led numerous interdisciplinary creation projects, experimenting with the convergence of the live body with virtual environments, telepresence, motion capture and sense/gesture tech.

The AirSensa air quality network - a real-world example of the IoT

40,000 people a year in the UK die prematurely because of poor air quality - nearly 10 times as many as die in road accidents - and it costs our economy more than £20bn. The same is proportionately true of most industrialised nations around the world. Why is it not higher up everyone's agenda? Deliver Change is a non-profit that believes it should be, and is creating a network of air-quality monitors in the UK to better inform the public and policy-makers alike. We’ve overcome many technology, financing, and political hurdles in delivering the project, breaking some of the key IoT/Smart City 'rules' along the way. This is how we did it.

As co-founder and CEO of Deliver Change Ltd, Jonathan has created a new model of technology-enabled not-for-profit organisation, which is helping to improve health, liveability, and economic outcomes for urban centres - primarily in London but increasingly in other cities. Partnered with Defra, the Greater London Authority, TfL, Cambridge University, Kings College London, and many other organisations, Deliver Change is backed entirely by private sector funding. The largest current Deliver Change project is AirSensaTM - the most detailed air quality monitoring sensor and big data platform in the world - rolled out initially in London but increasingly trialling in cities around the world. Before founding Deliver Change, Jonathan founded (1997) The Bathwick Group, a successful research-based consultancy specialising in disruptive business platforms, performance benchmarking, systems thinking, and smart cities.

Sensing the Smart City

This talk presents a snapshot of a long term ethnography of participatory environmental sensing technologies. The ethnographic approach highlights the complex practices of technological sensing and not just the goals of the technology. Through this research, the Internet of Things emerges as never finished and in a continuous process of being re-designed and re-used by a broad range of stakeholders. Through this journey of being implemented in different contexts, the projects that form around the technology paradoxically gain authority through an ambiguity of what is being sensed.

Christian Nold is an designer and academic researcher from London. He invents participatory technologies for local areas and grassroots groups, which respond to socio-technical issues. In the last decade he has set up large scale mapping projects with thousands of people across the world and written the books Mobile Vulgus (2001), Emotional Cartography (2009), Internet of People for a Post Oil World (2011) and Autopsy of an Island Currency (2014). He is currently carrying out an ethnography of participatory sensing technologies in the Extreme Citizen Science Group at UCL.

Senselab is disrupting traditional place-making by introducing processes and technologies from digital design to address the need for more sustainable buildings. We calculate that changing human behaviour is as important as construction materials in delivering real impact on day-to-day emissions, waste and energy consumption e.g. taking the stairs or sharing resources.

The building itself is the interface to facilitate change, but only if designed to be engaging and rewarding for people. For this case-study we combine user-centred design and data-analytics to nudge occupants into more sustainable behaviours. By aggregating data from multiple sources including C02 sequestration, environmental sensor and satellites to deliver measurable impact.

With neoteric concepts for elevators that tweet, intelligent cars and responsive buildings, Sarah designs award-winning products for that enhance interaction between people, things and the environment. She founded SenseLab to accommodate a recent demand for digital interventions into reshaping city spaces and buildings. Outcomes engage user-centred thinking, emerging technology and smart materials to bridge digital and physical spaces.

Motivated by genuine need, inspired by technical possibility and guided by sustainability principles, Sarah's diverse business experience includes a medical start-up in Paris and as interim director of the UK government’s Future Cities innovation centre. Previously, as Design Director at IDEO, she led major design programmes for airline, mobile and financial services. She has since been fortunate to work directly with Foster+Partners, Mercedes-Benz and Barclays. Sarah is a guest speaker at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art.

Furhaan Khan is responsible for Corporate Development at Verne and is involved with all aspects of business operations, strategy and funding. Before joining Verne Global, Furhaan was part of the team at Lepe Partners, an investment and advisory business, focused on technology and digital media companies.

Prior to Lepe Partners, Furhaan worked in Investment Banking at Citigroup where he focused on Telecoms, Media and Technology and advised on a wide range of M&A transactions and capital-raising activities. Furhaan began his career at KPMG in Transactions and Restructuring. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BSc. From University College London.

Natural Selection and the Internet of Things

Taking a slightly different look at the Internet of Things, Furhaan will examine how the development and structure of the IoT is more closely linked to evolutionary natural selection than we might have all thought, and how the appropriate location of processing power is becoming critical to the ongoing growth and scalability of the wider network. With the unprecedented amounts of data being created by an estimated 50 billion devices by 2020 the IoT will require enormous amounts of processing power, which will place great strain on the already struggling power grids of the UK and Europe. To protect against this, some forward thinking companies are already looking at alternative locations to base their data processing and storage needs, utilising the natural attributes of certain regions of the world to their advantage.

The Internet of Fashionable Things

CuteCircuit is a fashion brand and a pioneer in the field of wearable technology. Founded over a decade ago, CuteCircuit sparked the fashion and technology revolution through the introduction of groundbreaking designs and concepts that merge the worlds of fashion, design and telecommunication. CuteCircuit introduced internet connected clothing and touch (haptic) telecommunication with products such as the Hug Shirt in 2002 (awarded by Time magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year in 2006). The Galaxy Dress introduced in 2008 (part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago) remains today the world’s largest wearable luminous display, a magical garment. Social media connected clothing such as the world’s first haute couture Twitter Dress was introduced in 2012. CuteCircuit became the first fashion label to put wearable technology on the red carpet when Katy Perry wore their gown to the Met Gala in 2010, and the same year CuteCircuit introduced the first line of technologically advanced ready-to-wear at Selfridges in London. The latest collection presented on schedule at New York Fashion week introduces haute couture and ready-to-wear fashions that can be controlled via smartphone app to allow the wearer to change the colour and functionality of their garments at the touch of a button.

All CuteCircuit garments are designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. Ryan is formally trained as anartist, anthropologist and ultimately Interaction Designer focusing on Wearable Technology andholds patents and patents pending for wearable technologies. CuteCircuit’s Designers share their passion for fashion worldwide by participating in conferences and events where they speak on subjects of innovation, the future of fashion and design. Always endeavouring to create something resonant, fashionable, visually and emotionally attractive; their work is frequently featured in numerous books and publications on design, fashion and innovation

Xavier Vilajosana , PhD, Entrepreneur and co-founder of Worldsensing and OpenMote. He is also associate professor at the Open University of Catalonia. From January 2012 to January 2014, Xavier was visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley holding a prestigious Fulbright fellowship. In 2008, he was visiting researcher of France Telecom R&D Labs, Paris. Xavier has been one of the main promoters of low power wireless technologies, co-leading the OpenWSN.org initiative at UC Berkeley, and promoting the use of low power wireless standards for the emerging Industrial Internet paradigm. He is also author of different Internet Drafts, as part of his standardization activities for low power industrial networks.

Jonathan Wisler is a technology veteran who has been driving innovation, profitability and international expansion in technology companies for close to 15 years. Prior to SoftLayer, he was a Principal at Magnify Consulting where he helped technology startups with international expansion and developing scalable operations. Before this he spent 8 years at Kodak Gallery growing the business unit from an idea to an international market leader. At Kodak, he was responsible for hosting and developing a global web to print infrastructure on a limited capital budget. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a major in economics.

The Future of IoT and the "Enterprise Internet"

Jonathan Wisler, General Manager EMEA at SoftLayer, an IBM Company discusses how IoT will be a catalyst in taking the "internet" to drive massive changes in the way enterprise companies manage. The internet is about to significantly mature based on the recent innovations from mobile and the web 2.0. With IoT now in the program we have seen enterprise customers save millions with relatively simple deployments. We are in the earlier stages of adoption of the IoT enabled enterprise internet, but we are starting to see massive shifts in how energy, healthcare, government and transportation are managing their business for performance optimization.

Jeremy is Principal Analyst at the analyst firm Machina Research. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years, most recently at Ovum, from 1999-2014. Prior to this he worked as Head of Market Planning at the mobile satellite services company ICO, heading a team responsible for market research, forecasting, and competitor analysis.

Jeremy also represented ICO within the GSM Association, where he was instrumental in establishing the Satellite Interest Group (SATIG). Before joining ICO he worked at KPMG and BIS. Jeremy has a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Manchester.

Priya Prakash is Designer-Founder @ D4SC: Design For Social Change – A product design studio applying data + action, guerilla research and next generation technologies to prototype and hack daily urban services and platforms for people, places and businesses to positively impact their now and future.

D4SC’s Changify is a mobile platform to humanize smarter cities by taking a photo and sharing it real-time online to street co-lab spaces and citizen walks offline. It has trialed in Hamburg, Barcelona, Zurich, London, been featured in Wired, Ted City 2.0, BBC, shortlisted for numerous awards.

Prakash enjoys creating new habits and behaviours with 13 years design and leadership experience leading new product teams from corporates. She speaks at SXSW, O'Reilly ETech, Next, TEDx and is visiting tutor at UCL’s Mobile academy and RCA MA Information Design.

Listed on 2014 TechCity Insider100 for innovating smarter cities, a RSA fellow with a MA in Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art and holds patents for iPlayer and Nokia Asha phones.

We develop smart green urban devices to improve people’s everyday lives in cities. Our smart city platform Strawberry Tree is a solar urban device which provides 16 built in cables for free mobile phone charging, WiFi, local information, environmental sensing and a place to hang out in a city. It is a connected outdoor device and social hub in public places in a city, where people gather and socialize. We bring IoT to outdoor public spaces people visit daily, to improve urban living by making cities better and more convenient for people.

Miloš Milisavljević is the founder and CEO of Strawberry energy company, the authors of the first in the world public solar charging stations for mobile devices called Strawberry Trees. He started to engage himself into renewable energy sources and entrepreneurship while being still in the middle Electrotechnical school in Serbia, when he established a student company and became Serbian champion of youth entrepreneurship. Later, after enrolling Electrotechnical faculty in Belgrade, at the age of 22 he establishes completely bootstrapped startup Strawberry energy, which now employees 8 young enthusiasts. So far, they have installed Strawberry Trees in 9 cities and had more than 351.000 users.

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.

Jonny is Innovate UK’s Lead Technologist for Internet Technology, and has a particular focus on the Internet of Things, Cyber Security and Cloud Computing. The Internet of Things has been hailed as one of the “Eight Great Technologies” and Jonny is Innovate UK’s representative on the Digital Policy Alliance’s (DPA) Internet of Things work stream, looking at ways to drive greater adoption of IoT through industry and Government. He also currently leads activity in the development of innovation in cyber security and cloud technology across the digital economy programme.

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.