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Peter Clough
Partner
Osborne Clarke
Sandra M. Baer
President
Personal Cities
VentureFest Bristol and Bath
The Changing Landscape of Smart Cities
3 February 2017
Sandra Baer
President
Personal Cities
30 Billion
30 Billion is the number of endpoints
that will comprise the worldwide
“Internet of Things” in the year
2020….by the way that equates to a
market spend of $1.3 trillion.
Cities are, in large part, responsible for
this investment.
Yet today the global Smart City market
is fragmented, disorganized, continually
growing and evolving.
This spells Opportunity
The Age of Accelerations…
per Tom Friedman
According to Moore’s law, the power of
technology—computing power—doubles every two
years.
Our ability to adapt to it, to incorporate its use and
benefit into our lives takes more than 10 years.
So your opportunity, your challenge is to help cities,
to help all of us adapt to the pace of our world.
In Silicon Valley
…everything that is analog is being digitized,
everything that is being digitized is now
being stored, everything that is being stored
is now being analyzed on powerful computer
systems, and all the learning is being
immediately applied to make old things work
better to make new things possible and to do
old things in new ways.
Smart City Defined
 Aligned! It understands the value of collaboration & the power of
partnerships to get things done
 Aware of its character, its sense of place. It actively works to
communicate its image to all who live, work, play & visit the city
 Inclusive. It invests in human & social capital to fuel stakeholder
engagement
 Views technology as the enabler to create a better quality of life—for
livable, workable, sustainable communities
 Resilient, regenerative & secure leveraging technology innovation &
human talent in optimal ways to create smarter, safer cities
 Economically vibrant. it seeks a competitive advantage to spark
business investment and attract talent, it envisions the future, acts
holistically & invests in the right technology for the right reasons
Investing in cities…matching problems with
solutions to create attractive, competitive cities
Economic Development & Business Growth—Revenue
Generation & Job Creation
Safety, Security & Resilience
Transportation & Mobility—of Freight, Goods & People
Social Inclusion & Access—Diversity & Equity
Community Identity, Placemaking & the Built Environment
Sustainability—for People, Environment & Growth
Health, Wellness & Lifelong Learning
Where is the smart city market moving
or… how are cities becoming competitive,
collaborative, connected and more
secure?
Dubai, UAE
Nektria
Malaga, Spain
CIVIQ
Los Angeles, California
Your Smart City Opportunity
Think big on behalf of the city—endeavor to solve many
problems—understand their challenges around economic
growth, funding, security, city operations, politics.
Align, collaborate, include—build coalitions, work
together, find partners, create new partnerships,
understand the value of inclusion, of giving people a
voice
Connect—to people, to culture, to networks, to money, to
the real benefits of your big ideas
85% of your financial success is due to
your personality; your ability to
communicate, negotiate and lead.
Only 15% is due to technical knowledge.
Through the benefits of your technology
and your leadership to help cities
transform, you have the opportunity to
make cities smarter.
Thank you!
Sandra Baer
President, Personal Cities
sandra@personalcities.org
+1 240 876 8131
@sandrambaer
Ian Meikle
Director, Infrastructure
Systems
Innovate UK
Driving innovation in future cities
Ian Meikle
Director, Infrastructure Systems
@meikle567
FULLSIZE IMAGE SLIDE - INSERT TITLE HERE...
Small body of copy
to support image…
Four-stage urban infrastructure evolution
…..................................................................
 Where are the Cities of Opportunity positioned today in the
evolution of urban infrastructure?
 What will future infrastructure demands be?
Courtesy of PwC
A smart way of adding value
Smart, Resilient Infrastructure
2-5% of Infrastructure spend
£8bn to £21bn domestic market in smart systems
Smart systems market c. $450 billion a year
Innovators face
significant
challenges
in cities
At-scale
demonstrators
needed to
support UK
innovators
New infrastructure systems must be tested at scale
to demonstrate their effectiveness in enhancing our
cities. Future cities demonstrators would help UK
companies to carry out ‘first of a kind’ deployments.
30 cities including Bristol awarded £50,000
each to undertake feasibility studies.
Following the feasibility phase, cities
reported significant benefits:
 New and ongoing partnerships
 Most participating cities received further
investment from partners
 5 cities, including Bristol, secured total of
£107 million additional private and public
investment
Urban Living Programme
Bristol received
£3 million city
demonstrator
funding
Supporting
businesses across
the UK - the
Catapults Network
Bristol Data
Dome
Visualising city data within immersive
experience – Bristol City Council and
Future Cities Catapult
‘Project Heineken’ sees Amey and Staffordshire
County Council working on solutions to better
coordinate highway maintenance and under-road
service installation jobs.
Collaboration
is key to
innovation
Connected Cities Mission
India
November 2016
Supporting UK
businesses in
going global
Industrial Strategy
 Government published Industrial Strategy Green Paper consultation on January 23rd
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
 Led by Innovate UK and the Research Councils.
 Programmes delivered by the fund will be industry-led and powered
by multi-disciplinary research and business academic collaboration.
 It will help identify and develop UK industries that are fit for the
future, driving progress in technologies where the UK can become a
world-leader in research and commercialisation.
Supporting innovation in cities of the future
We can’t stop
thinking about
the future
Ian Meikle
Director, Infrastructure Systems
@meikle567
Venturefest Launch Event - AM Session

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Venturefest Launch Event - AM Session

  • 1.
  • 4. VentureFest Bristol and Bath The Changing Landscape of Smart Cities 3 February 2017 Sandra Baer President Personal Cities
  • 6. 30 Billion is the number of endpoints that will comprise the worldwide “Internet of Things” in the year 2020….by the way that equates to a market spend of $1.3 trillion.
  • 7. Cities are, in large part, responsible for this investment. Yet today the global Smart City market is fragmented, disorganized, continually growing and evolving.
  • 9. The Age of Accelerations… per Tom Friedman According to Moore’s law, the power of technology—computing power—doubles every two years. Our ability to adapt to it, to incorporate its use and benefit into our lives takes more than 10 years. So your opportunity, your challenge is to help cities, to help all of us adapt to the pace of our world.
  • 10. In Silicon Valley …everything that is analog is being digitized, everything that is being digitized is now being stored, everything that is being stored is now being analyzed on powerful computer systems, and all the learning is being immediately applied to make old things work better to make new things possible and to do old things in new ways.
  • 11. Smart City Defined  Aligned! It understands the value of collaboration & the power of partnerships to get things done  Aware of its character, its sense of place. It actively works to communicate its image to all who live, work, play & visit the city  Inclusive. It invests in human & social capital to fuel stakeholder engagement  Views technology as the enabler to create a better quality of life—for livable, workable, sustainable communities  Resilient, regenerative & secure leveraging technology innovation & human talent in optimal ways to create smarter, safer cities  Economically vibrant. it seeks a competitive advantage to spark business investment and attract talent, it envisions the future, acts holistically & invests in the right technology for the right reasons
  • 12. Investing in cities…matching problems with solutions to create attractive, competitive cities Economic Development & Business Growth—Revenue Generation & Job Creation Safety, Security & Resilience Transportation & Mobility—of Freight, Goods & People Social Inclusion & Access—Diversity & Equity Community Identity, Placemaking & the Built Environment Sustainability—for People, Environment & Growth Health, Wellness & Lifelong Learning
  • 13. Where is the smart city market moving or… how are cities becoming competitive, collaborative, connected and more secure? Dubai, UAE Nektria Malaga, Spain CIVIQ Los Angeles, California
  • 14. Your Smart City Opportunity Think big on behalf of the city—endeavor to solve many problems—understand their challenges around economic growth, funding, security, city operations, politics. Align, collaborate, include—build coalitions, work together, find partners, create new partnerships, understand the value of inclusion, of giving people a voice Connect—to people, to culture, to networks, to money, to the real benefits of your big ideas
  • 15. 85% of your financial success is due to your personality; your ability to communicate, negotiate and lead. Only 15% is due to technical knowledge. Through the benefits of your technology and your leadership to help cities transform, you have the opportunity to make cities smarter.
  • 16. Thank you! Sandra Baer President, Personal Cities sandra@personalcities.org +1 240 876 8131 @sandrambaer
  • 18. Driving innovation in future cities Ian Meikle Director, Infrastructure Systems @meikle567
  • 19. FULLSIZE IMAGE SLIDE - INSERT TITLE HERE... Small body of copy to support image… Four-stage urban infrastructure evolution …..................................................................  Where are the Cities of Opportunity positioned today in the evolution of urban infrastructure?  What will future infrastructure demands be? Courtesy of PwC
  • 20. A smart way of adding value
  • 21. Smart, Resilient Infrastructure 2-5% of Infrastructure spend £8bn to £21bn domestic market in smart systems Smart systems market c. $450 billion a year
  • 23. At-scale demonstrators needed to support UK innovators New infrastructure systems must be tested at scale to demonstrate their effectiveness in enhancing our cities. Future cities demonstrators would help UK companies to carry out ‘first of a kind’ deployments.
  • 24. 30 cities including Bristol awarded £50,000 each to undertake feasibility studies. Following the feasibility phase, cities reported significant benefits:  New and ongoing partnerships  Most participating cities received further investment from partners  5 cities, including Bristol, secured total of £107 million additional private and public investment Urban Living Programme Bristol received £3 million city demonstrator funding
  • 25. Supporting businesses across the UK - the Catapults Network
  • 26. Bristol Data Dome Visualising city data within immersive experience – Bristol City Council and Future Cities Catapult
  • 27. ‘Project Heineken’ sees Amey and Staffordshire County Council working on solutions to better coordinate highway maintenance and under-road service installation jobs. Collaboration is key to innovation
  • 28. Connected Cities Mission India November 2016 Supporting UK businesses in going global
  • 29. Industrial Strategy  Government published Industrial Strategy Green Paper consultation on January 23rd Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund  Led by Innovate UK and the Research Councils.  Programmes delivered by the fund will be industry-led and powered by multi-disciplinary research and business academic collaboration.  It will help identify and develop UK industries that are fit for the future, driving progress in technologies where the UK can become a world-leader in research and commercialisation. Supporting innovation in cities of the future
  • 30. We can’t stop thinking about the future Ian Meikle Director, Infrastructure Systems @meikle567

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. Bristol facts – population of around 449,000. 8th largest city in England. More children than people of pensionable age. 10.8% population increase since 2005. Key drivers for growing cities – in white. Key factors to consider in cities – in boxes.
  2. Lots of projects in the future cities area need smart infrastructure to be available in order to make use of it and to test new technologies. We need to build this smart infrastructure before companies can come in to cities to test new technologies. Simply testing if technologies work is not enough – we need to do this at scale, bringing together multiple parties to collaborate – from technology developers to service suppliers, from local authorities to regulators. At-scale future cities demonstrators will help to define the smart infrastructure our cities need for the future.
  3. Innovate UK has started work in this area through its urban living programme. 30 cities received £50,000 in feasibility study funding to support their business planning for future cities – to show how they could work with local businesses and partners to improve urban living and working using new technologies. Cities focused on how different systems in a city could be integrated and how new technologies could be used to deal with challenges in themes such as those shown. What challenges - examples From that feasibility funding, cities have reported numerous benefits including the development of new and ongoing partnerships between authorities and with local businesses and universities. Return on investment – analysis has shown that a total £107 million of additional private and public investment has been secured by 5 cities, including Bristol, to make parts of their feasibility studies a reality. Bristol went on to receive £3 million in city demonstrator funding in the next phase of this programme.
  4. Map of all Catapults Note – if asked re Northern Ireland “not having a Catapult” – it has two regional centres, one in digital and one in precision medicine.
  5. This is a great example combining Bristol City Council’s work with the Future Cities Catapult – Innovate UK’s national technology and innovation centre for cities innovation. The Bristol planetarium was upgraded to provide a venue for immersive visualisations of city data – data from Bristol is Open’s emerging city-wide digital network. This is a great example of citizen engagement within a city – users can visualise the hidden layers of the city, providing an understanding of data related to transport, energy, health, environment and culture. ** What did they do with it? https://urbantide.com/data-dome/
  6. In homage to the famous Heineken commercial that poked fun at the problem of roads being constantly dug up, Innovate UK funded Amey and Staffordshire County Council to work on solutions for better coordination of highway maintenance and under-road service installation. This project is designing and trialling a new spatial planning service across Staffordshire using an innovative smart city platform. Collaboration is key here – between the county council, Staffordshire University, maintenance companies and service installation companies. http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2015/12/07/ameys-project-heineken-to-co-ordinate-hole-digging/
  7. From that local example, to supporting UK businesses in going global. International working in the area of cities was a big theme towards the end of 2016 – with both our and India’s Prime Ministers leading the India-UK Tech Summit. Working with the Department for International Trade, the Enterprise Europe Network and the Future Cities Catapult, we took 11 companies on a trade mission to the cities of New Delhi, Pune and Kochi. This gave them the opportunity to pitch their ideas to potential customers, partners and investors. Already we are hearing of deals done on the mission – for example, Gaist Solutions has taken a 50% share of Optimint Solutions near New Delhi, opening up greater access to the growing infrastructure market in Asia. Gaist is also tendering for work in Pune Gaist new story - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/indian-deal-gives-uk-firm-a-foothold-in-asian-smart-cities
  8. The Government published just days ago their Industrial Strategy green paper, containing proposals to build on Britain’s strengths and to secure a future as a competitive, global nation. Part of the Industrial Strategy sees the creation of a Challenge Fund that will be led by Innovate UK and the Research Councils. Innovation towards future cities fits into many of the themes being discussed for this fund through engagement workshops with industry – from new energy technologies to autonomous transport, from sustainable manufacturing technologies to digital technologies that will better connect our cities. We’ll have more news on the themes for the Challenge Fund in the coming months. Exciting times for UK innovation!