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Speakers
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Roxana Slavcheva, Global Lead at Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s leading research and innovation centre for mobility and the built environment. We provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
We also connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and lead to decarbonisation.
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Egle Radvile, Data and Innovation Leader at Vilnius municipality, Vilniaus Planas
Vilnius City Municipality is responsible for the well - being of Vilnius City and in its implementation includes all Vilnius City Municipality projects and integrates them with each other in order to make each activity valuable and create greater benefits for Vilnius the city and its inhabitants.
The city of Vilnius is open to significant and innovative project ideas.
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Andrejs Berdņikovs, Technology Scout at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
Andrejs Berdņikovs is a technology scout at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia who promotes collaboration between researchers and entrepreneurs.
As a researcher or data analyst, Andrejs participated in more than 15 fundamental and applied research projects. His areas of special interests include text data mining and digital audio signal processing, as well as ethical artificial intelligence, coded bias and algorithmic justice.
Andrejs was a Fulbright Scholar Program Fellow and a recipient of a European Social Fund (ESF) targeted scholarship.
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Katie Parnell, Policy and Strategic Planning Innovation Lead at Oxfordshire County Council
Oxfordshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for Oxfordshire - responsible for several strategic local government services within the county including highways maintenance and management, emergency planning, public health, education and consumer protection. It is one of the largest employers in Oxfordshire.
The Innovation Hub (iHUB), created in 2015, is a service area within the council, which works across the organisation's different areas of responsibility, to research, identify, trial and support uptake of appropriate innovations within the county.
The iHUB has been working collaboratively with world-leading organisations to trial new ideas and models, enabling Oxfordshire to become a world leader in public space innovation. It has grown into one of the largest innovation teams in the country, securing millions of pounds worth of income to the council and region, supporting local businesses and economic development.
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Adrian Slatcher, Principal Resource and Programmes Officer at Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council is one of 10 local authorities in Greater Manchester, with a population of 560,000 people. The area covered by the council includes the regional centre, and an international airport.
Over the last 15 years Manchester has led on a range of innovation and regeneration projects with UK and international partners. We were the UK's Internet of Things demonstrator, CityVerve and have recently led on large scale EU funded projects on smart cities and nature based solutions, Triangulum & GrowGreen.
We have recently approved a new digital strategy for the city which will be followed by an action plan.
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Daniel Hobbs, New Mobility Technologies Principal Technologist at Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s leading research and innovation centre for mobility and the built environment.
We offer impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
We also connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and lead to decarbonisation.
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Sara Siegel, Partner, Head of Healthcare at Deloitte North and South Europe and Deloitte UK
Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services.
Deloitte currently has approximately 330,000 people in more than 150 countries and territories.
Our culture and purpose - to make an impact that matters - is shared by our member firms all over the world.
It is brought to life in our work for clients, but also in three common ambitions:
- our WorldClass initiative, through which we will support 50 million people by 2030 develop job skills, improve educational outcomes, and access opportunities to succeed in this new economy;
- our WorldClimate sustainability strategy, through which our people are playing their part by making responsible climate choices within our organization and beyond;
- our ALL IN diversity and inclusion strategy.
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Marcus Chidgey, Director at Loqiva
Loqiva is a digital town hub platform that enables councils and local communities to take control of the information they need to promote economic growth, social cohesion and sustainable town centres.
Installed and branded for each town, Loqiva provides an iOS and Android app for residents, a web dashboard for local businesses and a portal for town managers. Using a combination of data feeds, IoT sensors and crowd-sourced content, the platform intelligently makes town information relevant to residents based on personal factors like time, location, weather, interest and demographic.
The detailed analytics the platform gathers helps businesses and town managers to understand who is travelling in to the town centre, where and when, so interventions to drive footfall can be made. For instance, the platform allows businesses to set geofences outside their premises to trigger targeted-offers to passers-by.
Loqiva has a presence in the UK, US and Ireland. Notably the company has recently won the South London Partnership's InnOvaTe competition for digital town hubs. The partnership is a collaboration between the five London Boroughs of Croydon, Sutton, Richmond, Kingston and Merton. Loqiva is installing more than 200 IoT devices in London as part of this project.
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Julian Wrigley, Chief Operating Officer at Grid Smarter Cities
At Grid Smarter Cities, we want to make our urban centres more efficient, more helpful and quite simply, ‘smarter’. We have developed a new, innovative solution to manage city kerb space more effectively, using dynamic, real time technology.
Kerb is an intelligent kerbside management system that improves city mobility, helping to speed up deliveries and in turn reducing congestion, emissions and improving air quality.
This real-time, dynamic product is already gaining international uptake as cities globally begin to recognise the power of effective kerbside management in improving city mobility and reducing congestion.
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Louise Barker, Head of Community Engagement at Hello Lamp Post
Hello Lamp Post helps cities better understand their citizens. Promoting "in the moment" engagement, Hello Lamp Post invites citizens to playfully interact with their built environment, whilst collecting feedback and insights to better inform the development and planning of cities of the future.
Interaction takes place within community places and spaces, proactively reaching out to citizens within their own environment via SMS. Conversations are fun, informative, playful and available in multiple languages. Hello Lamp Post is inclusive, Covid safe, environmentally friendly and connecting cities with citizens that wouldn't normally engage.
Used in over 40 locations around the world, our installations are helping to democratise decision making, improve visitor experience, make cities safer, measure resident sentiment and educate citizens.
Any city needing to engage and hold 2-way conversations with their communities at scale should be talking to Hello Lamp Post.
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Nigel Harris, Global Account Manager at Telensa Limited
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with regional offices in the USA and Australia, Telensa is the world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of smart streetlight control systems.
Telensa has a cumulative worldwide footprint of more than 2 million street light controllers, including networks in Poland, the Czech Republic, the Middle East, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, the USA and Canada.
In the UK Telensa products are installed on one in seven of the UK’s streetlights, with several networks each comprising over 100,000 lights. Our more mature networks have been in service for over 12 years, proving to be scalable, robust and reliable.
In Georgia, USA we have one of the worlds’ largest smart street lighting deployments with more than 300,000 connected streetlights across the State, managed in a single system.
Telensa solutions help cities around the world save energy, reduce carbon emissions, work smarter and deliver more joined-up services for their citizens. It transforms isolated street light infrastructure into connected lighting networks, providing a foundation for other smart city sensor applications. Telensa is a Signify company that sells its systems under its own brand name.
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Irene McAleese, Co-founder & CSO at See.Sense
See.Sense is a technology and data company helping to get more people using bikes, e-scooters and other micro-mobility. Our technology products make use of our patented sensor and AI-fusion technology, and gather powerful data insights into the safety and experience of riders, to help cities transform for more sustainable travel.
Our consumer bike lights are preferred by British Cycling, and are used by 100,000 cyclists worldwide. Our B2B clients include shared bike and e-scooter operators, providing fleet tracking and advanced safety data services, and forward-thinking employers, who want to help more of their employees travel to work sustainably.
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Stuart Bloomfield, Chief Development Officer at Urban-Air Port Ltd
Urban-Air Port Ltd is a UK based start-up committed to designing, developing and manufacturing innovative ground infrastructure for future Urban Air Mobility (UAM).
Their mission is to remove the largest single constraint to sustainable air mobility, i.e. the lack of infrastructure, and to significantly cut congestion and air pollution from passenger and cargo transport.
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Nic Shulman, CEO and Founder at BlockDox
At BlockDox, we believe we have discovered a breakthrough that eliminates waste and frustration for building managers. We help property, Facilities Managers, Operations, Energy, and Sustainability managers to understand exactly what’s happening in their buildings.
BlockDox’s powerful algorithms harness the very latest in computational power to process immense amounts of data collected from micro-sensor technology. Our team of highly-skilled data scientists works with these various data points to provide you with greater and better insights so that you can successfully achieve your facilities management goals.
BlockDox’s highly interactive platform helps you to create a healthy and productive environment whilst reducing operational costs and meeting your sustainability/net-zero targets.
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