Smart Cities Need A Trusted IoT Foundation
Level39, London, 21st October 2014
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Demonstration: HyperCat Enabled Sensor in 'Digital Wharf' 

Video from reception showing Richie Saville, CTO Flexeye, demonstrating how a Eurotech sensor is bonded to Eyehub to 'HyperCat enable' it and make it available to Flexeye's Urban Fabric model of Canary Wharf. Panel from right to left includes Flexeye, ARM, IBM, Future Cities Catapult and 1248.  Click here to understand what the experts said about how HyperCat can solve smart cities challenge.

Overview

Lord Erroll Chairman of HyperCat Advisory Board and 
Justin Anderson CEO Flexeye & Lead of the HyperCat Consortium 
are bringing together a panel of Smart Cities experts in association 
with Smart City Level39 company Asset Mapping, to discuss:

"Why Smart Cities Need A Trusted IoT Foundation"

This FREE reception (sponsored by Flexeye) will be held on the 21st October 2014 from 2:00pm to 5:30pm at Level39, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London. Level39 is Europe’s largest technology accelerator space for finance, retail and future cities technology companies, it has views over London which are difficult to beat! 
Merlin, Lord Erroll
What Is This Reception All About?


Smart Cities are places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, everyday objects and even our bodies to address social, economic and environmental problems.

Smart Cities strive to optimise resources, from energy to water but they also strive for participation, democracy and novel social interactions. They need to be secure but not at the risk of becoming surveillance chambers. They need to be efficient but preserve opportunities for spontaneity, serendipity and sociability. There are trade offs between these goals. 

To exploit advances in technology, Smart Cities need to be built on trusted foundations, not foundations that lock a city and its citizens into the agenda of a large technology corporation. These foundations should be built from interoperable building blocks delivered by innovative companies working together, utilising secure and interoperable 'Internet of Things' technologies, ensuring competitively delivered innovative services for citizens.

The HyperCat Consortium is looking to bring together such organisations, including leading universities, innovative companies and public sector bodies, to encourage them to collaborate around key Smart City challenges such as:
  • Smart parking
  • Smart lighting
  • Smart water
  • Energy efficient buildings
  • Safety & security
  • Cleanliness

This reception is one of a series of discussions and debates around this topic and is aimed at city leaders with responsibility for delivering innovative city, infrastructure and building services.

Our Speakers

Eric Van der Kleij, British Entrepreneur Leading the Level39 Fintech Accelerator Programme, Canary Wharf Group

Eric is the Head of Level39, Europe's largest accelerator space focussing on finance, retail, cyber, and future-cities technologies, and special adviser to the Canary Wharf Group on its proposition and strategy for technology companies. Eric is also MD of Pivotal Innovations.  In early 2011, he was appointed the first Chief Executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation, an organisation and strategy he created, which was charged by the Prime Minister with accelerating the growth of London's "Silicon Roundabout" technology cluster.  Eric also helped the UK government establish the highly successful Global Entrepreneur Programme, and was Special Advisor on Major Projects at UK Trade and Investment. 
Andy Mulholland, Vice President, Constellation Research

Andy is the Vice President and Principal Analyst focusing on cloud business models. Formerly the Global Chief Technology Officer for the Capgemini Group from 2001 to 2011, Mulholland successfully led the organization through a period of mass disruption. Mulholland brings this experience to Constellation’s clients seeking to understand how Digital Business models will be built and deployed in conjunction with existing IT systems. His coverage areas includes (1) Consumerization of IT & The New C-Suite: BYOD and (2) Technology Optimization & Innovation: cloud business models
Catherine Mulligan, Head of Digital Strategy and Economics, Future Cities Catapult 

Catherine is the Head of Digital Strategy and Economics at Future Cities Catapult. An engineer by training, Catherine places sustainability at the centre of her all her work.  She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Engineering for sustainable development from the University of Cambridge and a BSc. BIT from UNSW, Australia.  Catherine has over 15 years experience in the ICT industry and is co-author of the book "From M2M to IoT: an introduction to a new age of intelligence" published by Elsevier in 2014. She is also a Research Fellow at Imperial College London where she is Principal Investigator on the Digital Economy Sustainable Society Network+
Richie Saville, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Flexeye

Richie is a world class information system architect with over 25 years of enterprise software development experience.  He is the Director and CTO of Flexeye Limited, where he leads the development of the EyeHub service and the underlying Flexeye engine technology. Richie is an information system architect with over 20 years of software development experience. Had previously founded several US start-up companies; most notably Evolve Software, Inc., an enterprise applications company in the professional services automation (PSA) sector that listed on NASDAQ and was later acquired by Primavera. Graduated in Computer Science from University College London. 
Daniel Barrett, Development, Enterprise, Environment, Greater London Authority

Daniel leads the Environment Unit's smart cities, energy and mobility agenda at City Hall. He advisors the Mayor of London Office and Greater London Authority on policy, programmes, projects and research. He is actively involved in a number of live projects, including the Innovate UK funded Smart Cities Demonstrator project. Identifying opportunities for information exchange, enabling innovation, demonstrating, scaling up and partnering is a key priority.


Our Expert Panel 

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.  He 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.
Amyas Phillips, IoT Lead Technologist, ARM

Amyas leads ARM's Internet of Things lab, based in Cambridge, UK, and as Research Entrepreneur is continuously exploring new opportunities in connected systems. He thinks connecting the digital world with the real one is the most exciting trend in technology today, and is something that is only just beginning. His interests include all aspects of digital commerce and ubiquitous computing; and he has extensive experience in machine learning, cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, wireless networks, optical communications, cloud services, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, educational technology, and sustainability.
Prof Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Professor Andy Stanford-Clark is the Chief Technologist for IBM’s consulting business in Energy and Utilities for the UK and Ireland. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and “Master Inventor” with more than 40 patents. Andy is based at IBM’s Hursley Park laboratories in the UK, and specialises in remote telemetry, energy monitoring and management, Smart Metering and Smart Grid technologies. He has a particular interest in home energy monitoring, home automation, demand-side management, and driving consumer behaviour change. Andy has a BSc in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Peter Reynolds, Executive Director, Future Cities Catapult

Peter is the Executive Director of Innovation and the Cities Lab for the Future Cities Catapult. Previously Peter has worked as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Centre for Information Systems and has held senior executive roles in industry including five years as CTO for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Chris Wright, CTO, Moixa Energy 

Chris Wright heads up Moixa’s Engineering and Design Operations, and brings over 15 years experience in Product Design and Commercialization. He has previously worked with Michael Hopkins, Foster and Partners, on large scale complex architectural projects.
Laurie Reynolds, CEO, Aquamatix

Laurie is a Chartered Engineer with 35+ years senior level experience in control systems and instrumentation in the water industry. Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering. He founded Aquamatix Ltd in 2011 to bring together the best of M2M and Internet of Things technology to create WaterWorX - powered by ThingWorX, the leading IOT development platform. Prior to Aquamatix, he worked in asset standards and business development for a telecoms company , a systems integrator in water industry a condition monitoring company and Derceto, the leading pump optimisation solution, all building on 30 years wit of set up as independent consultant in 2003. Strong experience in technical innovation in instrumentation and control systems, including SCADA, telemetry, flow and water quality instrumentation. industries.
Dr. Alistair Duke, IoT Lead Technologist, BT

Alistair  is a Principal Researcher in BT's ICT Research Practice. His primary interests are the Semantic Web for Business Intelligence and the Internet of Things. He worked on the recently completed TSB funded Stride project which was an IoT Demonstrator for the transport sector. He has written many papers and books chapters in the areas of web-based collaboration systems, knowledge management and semantic technology and has served on the program committee of numerous conferences in related areas. He is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.  Alistair graduated from Aston University with an MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering and from Loughborough University with a PhD in Collaboration Systems for Concurrent Engineering. He was twice a finalist in the BCS IT Industry Awards in the R&D Category.
Pilgrim Beart, Founder, AlertMe & 1248

Pilgrim has a passion to change the world for the better. He has more than 20 years’ experience leading innovation in ground breaking, high-technology companies, three of which he co-founded. After a degree in Computer Engineering, Pilgrim designed innovative computer systems at start-ups in Cambridge and Oxford, then for six years led technology teams in three start-ups in Silicon Valley. In 1998 he headed back to his home town of Cambridge, UK where over the past 15+ years he has co-founded four companies: activeRF (indoor location systems), antenova (multi-band smartphone antenna systems), AlertMe (a Smart Home platform used for Home Energy Management) where he is currently Founder Director and 1248 (a horizontal IoT play). Pilgrim is a Fellow of the IET, a Visitor at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, and chairs the CEDIG consumer energy display industry group.
Bill Clee, CEO, Asset Mapping

Bill is the Founder and Director of Asset Mapping, a privately held software company based at Level39, Canary Wharf, London recognised for its leading technology platform to improve the process of designing, installing and maintaining Assets through their entire lifecycle. The company is the Winner of the 2013 Future Cities Solution research project with the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board. His company is known for its creativity, integrity and ingenuity and we are passionate about our customers and our partners. We love technology and contributing to the improvements in the quality of life of people that work and live in cities.