Bristol is Open Introduction, Paul Wilson Visit www.bristolisopen.com

1. An Introduction to
Bristol
The Open Programmable City

2. • The world’s first open programmable city - Why?
• In the context of five mega-trends shaping the next decade
• How? – ‘City Experimentation as a Service’ - Mass Co-Creation
• Using an Open Software Defined Network, IoT & Big Data
• Who & When to engage
Agenda

3. ‘I see Bristol as a laboratory for urban change’
Mayor George Ferguson
BIG DATA GENERATION

4. Why? - our philosophy of innovation, city-scale co-creation,
enabled by a JV

5. Why? Use cases
Ggj
TMT
businesses
& academia
___________
Culture &
creative
content
___________
People,
community,
service delivery
___________
Better
city
management

6. Source: McKinsey
Mega Trend #1 Technology and data continue to grow

7. Top 10 Country Average Connection Rates
UK ranks 28th
with av. 29.4 Mb

8. Fastest Consumer Connection Rate in the World
South Korea
offers 1Gb
connection rate
to consumers
The fastest
consumer rate in
the UK is 152Mb

9. Connectivity for R&D partners
Every R&D
partner in
Bristol Is Open
can use at
least 30Gb,
and lots more
if needed

10. Mega Trend #2 People move to cities, using more tech
Source: McKinsey

11. Rapid Growth In World Population
7bn people
in 2012
9bn people
by 2040

12. Most of this Growth will be in Cities
Most people
live in cities

13. Congestion
Bristol is 3rd most
congested city in UK
Population - Bristol
has fastest growth of
under 4 children in UK
cities & 50% growth in
85+ over 10yrs
Living on 2.3 planets
Bristol is home to
UK's largest biomass
boiler cluster
Pollution – increase
in health problems,
60,000 UK deaths pa
Less Govt expenditure
We need smarter
ways of working
More home working
Energy requirements
Bristol has the first
local authority large-
scale wind turbine
Urban Challenges Worldwide have a very real local echo

14. Mega Trend #3 Liveable, Sustainable & Resilient Cities Win

15. Mega Trend #4 Citizens want more control over daily life
Source: McKinsey

16. Mega Trend #5: A City Operating System

17. r
Gartner’s Hype Cycle July 2014

18. OUR RESPONSE…

19. A LOT OF PEOPLE
INVOLVED
NEEDS GOOD ORGANISATION &
A CITY-REGION

20. A city-scale digital research infrastructure

21. 3G, 4G, LTE & 5G Technologies

22. An RF Mesh (canopy of connectivity) across the city

23. Being tested in the centre of Bristol now

24. Phase II, wider City-Region, live in stages 2015-17

25. A CityOS: built from a Software Defined Network

26. SDN + IoT + Big Data Analytics = foundation for developing
livable smart city applications

27. Co-production - local people, businesses, academics, and
local government

28. High Definition, Digital Data Dome, on the Bristol network

30. Societal – why?
Academic urban
researchers
Large Corporations
that work in cities
Small companies &
communities
Micro users – apps,
games & creative
Academic technology
researchers
Large technology
corporations
Small technology
companies
Things connecting to
other things (M2M)
Technical – how?
Eight types of network user

31. When will it work for who?
Societal – why?
Academic urban
researchers
Large Corporations
that work in cities
Small companies &
communities
Micro users – apps,
games & creative
Academic technology
researchers
Large technology
corporations
Small technology
companies
Things connecting to
other things (M2M)
Technical – how?
Late Summer 2015 Late Summer 2015 Autumn 2015 Spring 2016
Autumn 2015 Autumn 2015 Winter 2015 Summer 2016

32. £75m investment

33. How to get involved

34. Bristol Is Open
Paul Wilson
Managing Director
@bristolisopen
@__paulwilson