#HyperCatCity Reception
House of Lords, 26th January 2015, 3:15pm to 5:00pm.
House of Lords, 26th January 2015, 3:15pm to 5:00pm.
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Reception Overview
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Lord Erroll, Chairman of HyperCat Advisory Board, is bringing together government officials, industry leaders and smart cities experts to discuss #HyperCatCity: the value of an open and interoperable ecosystem for smart cities. The reception will be held in the Cholmondeley Room at the House of Lords on 26th January 2015 from 3:15pm to 5:00pm.
What Is this Reception About?This is an exclusive parliamentary reception exploring the value of creating a strong, open and interoperable ecosystem of partners around Smart Cities and Internet of Things (IoT) called #HyperCatCity in order to position the UK as a leader within this market and drive value for its citizens.
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Merlin, Lord Erroll
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#HyperCatCity ecosystem of industry leaders will create a ‘modular IoT Smart City framework’ to prove economic value to Smart City buyers and create new solutions and access to new markets. It is supported by the Mayor of London and is working in partnership with Bristol Is Open and Milton Keynes.
Smart Cities are urban places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, objects and people to address social, economic and environmental problems. 2014 was an exciting year for European technology as debates on IoT and its application within smart cities continued to grow. The awareness within the UK government has grown exponentially and is just warming up. For example the new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smart Cities, set up by Dan Byles MP, and which Lord Erroll vice-chairs, has become most popular, and Sir Mark Walport published his review of IoT, which reaffirms the government's commitment to IoT.
According to BIS, the global market for Smart City technology solutions and services will be over £250 billion by 2020. Despite uncertainty in many areas of the political and economic landscape, UK has a great opportunity to take leadership of this fast growing market given the existing strengths in design, research, finance and engineering services.
This reception is one of a series of discussions and debates around this topic and is aimed at smart city leaders with responsibility for delivering innovative city, infrastructure and building services. Dan Byles MP will be providing a keynote speech to set the scene for round table discussions, bringing city CIOs together with leading technology companies, to explore the opportunities and pitfalls ahead.
The reception is sponsored by Symantec & Huawei and builds on the £8m investment from InnovateUK to develop HyperCat, an interoperable IoT specification. HyperCat is supported by over 300 companies, large and small. In December 2014, it was announced at the Assembly Chambers, City Hall, that the London Data Store will build a HyperCat API for city data to enable software developers to build new applications. The Digital Catapult has also agreed that its data will be HyperCat enabled.
Smart Cities are urban places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, objects and people to address social, economic and environmental problems. 2014 was an exciting year for European technology as debates on IoT and its application within smart cities continued to grow. The awareness within the UK government has grown exponentially and is just warming up. For example the new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smart Cities, set up by Dan Byles MP, and which Lord Erroll vice-chairs, has become most popular, and Sir Mark Walport published his review of IoT, which reaffirms the government's commitment to IoT.
According to BIS, the global market for Smart City technology solutions and services will be over £250 billion by 2020. Despite uncertainty in many areas of the political and economic landscape, UK has a great opportunity to take leadership of this fast growing market given the existing strengths in design, research, finance and engineering services.
This reception is one of a series of discussions and debates around this topic and is aimed at smart city leaders with responsibility for delivering innovative city, infrastructure and building services. Dan Byles MP will be providing a keynote speech to set the scene for round table discussions, bringing city CIOs together with leading technology companies, to explore the opportunities and pitfalls ahead.
The reception is sponsored by Symantec & Huawei and builds on the £8m investment from InnovateUK to develop HyperCat, an interoperable IoT specification. HyperCat is supported by over 300 companies, large and small. In December 2014, it was announced at the Assembly Chambers, City Hall, that the London Data Store will build a HyperCat API for city data to enable software developers to build new applications. The Digital Catapult has also agreed that its data will be HyperCat enabled.
Our Speakers
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Dan Byles, Chair of the All Party Smart Cities Group at House of Commons & MP for North Warwickshire & Bedworth
Dan Byles is the Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire & Bedworth and has a strong expertise in strategic UK energy policy. He sits on the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee and the Science and Technology Select Committee and he served on the Energy Bill (2013) Committee. He is a Parliamentary advisor to the Green Alliance and he Chairs both the All Party Environment Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Unconventional Oil & Gas. He is the founder and Vice-Chair of the Smart Cities All Party Parliamentary Group. A former soldier, Dan was the youngest serving Major in the Army at the age of 27, and he holds two Guinness World Records for crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a wooden rowing boat and for walking to the Magnetic North Pole. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. |
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Justin Anderson, CEO, Flexeye & Chair of the HyperCat Steering Group
Justin is an international technology visionary. Founder, Chairman & CEO of Flexeye, winner of the highly respected Gartner IoT 'Cool Vendor' 2014 for recognition of Flexeye's innovation in IoT. Justin is the Chair of the HyperCat Steering Group, and Vice Chair techUK IoT Council. Previously: Founder & CEO of Frontwire, Director of the Direct Marketing Association; Managing Director Northern Europe for iPIN; Managing Director UK of BackWeb Technologies; responsible for developing Apple’s value added distribution channel in EMEA; founder of Blue Sky Consulting. Graduated in Mathematics from Bristol University and studied at Bristol Business School. |
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Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director at the Greater London Authority
Andrew is a member of the Senior Management Team of the GLA. In 2013, he led on the development of the Mayor of London’s principle strategy document “2020 Vision – The Greatest City on Earth”. Andrew’s job is to understand London and ensure that data is applied in this pursuit. He directs a team of economists, social researchers, statisticians and demographers to deliver high quality analysis which adds to the understanding of the capital’s economy, its communities and its future in the context of a rapidly changing global environment. Through his City Data team, he is also responsible for the GLA’s open data agenda (he recently launched London Datastore V2 and is leading on its future development and incorporation into the wider smart city effort in London). Andrew is asked to speak at various international engagements. He is currently an advisor on smart, safe cities to Interpol and the Singaporean Home Affairs Department and is a guest lecturer to UCL’s Smart Cities MSc course (CASA). Andrew is a board member of Funding London, an organisation which through loan and equity finance supports tech and digital businesses in the capital. |
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#HyperCatCity Supporters
How to Attend?
This reception is now full. We will be organizing other receptions to discuss #HyperCatCity and Smart Cities in February & March 2015. If you are would like to find out more, please email Dr Anu Devi at ad@flexeye.com.
