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Developing Cities for the Future Conference

Wednesday, 30th June 2021 0920hrs – 1500hrs

The challenges of the past 12 months have brought a renewed focus on the need to integrate new technologies into the fabric of our cities, to effectively manage everything from transport to utilities, public spaces and communication.

This event is our biannual dive into the world of smart and connected cities as we showcase the projects that are making our cities smarter, safer, more connected and efficient and give a platform to the public and private sector leadership behind them.

With major projects and schemes set to be discussed, the event will help the industry align on the key areas of focus whilst connecting leaders and decision makers with the industry to drive smart development in the UK.

Topics to be discussed include:

  • Romal Capital’s £100m waterfront scheme
  • Smart plans at Argent’s £7bn Brent Cross
  • How TfGM’s 2040 strategy will futureproof transport
  • Argent and Related’s Tottenham Hale project
  • Belfast City Council’s £33m Smart Belfast project
  • E.ON’s investment in City Energy Transformation
  • How Sunderland became Smart City of the Year
  • And much more…

Speakers include:

Associate your brand with the Developing Cities for the Future Conference and position your brand at the forefront of one of the UK’s biggest discussions and debates around infrastructure.

Packages available include:

Package Exhibition Stand Chair/ Speaking Opportunity Tickets VIP Backstage Access Cost (+VAT)
Conference Partner Yes Yes 15 Yes £2,500 View Details
Session Partner Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,500 View Details
Session Two Partner: Smart Technology in Housing Development: Creating Sustainable, Connected and Healthy Places Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,500 Sold Out
Best Practice Presentation Package Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,000 View Details
Exhibitor Packages Yes 5 Yes £500 View Details

Conference Partner

£2,500+VAT

Become the headline partner of this conference and get mass awareness and brand visibility. This package is the ultimate – with a prime location during the event, a speaking opportunity, logo positioning on the top of the logo and your name in the event title – “The Futuristic Infrastructure Development Conference; Sponsored by YOUR COMPANY NAME”

  • The conference will be called the xxx Conference in association with your company name
  • Ability to help shape the conference agenda and content to bring your strategic thinking to the event
  • Option to recommend speakers
  • Inclusion with pre-conference speaker communications
  • Access to the speakers and panellists; an excellent opportunity to establish rapport and build commercially rewarding relationships
  • Prime branding for the whole conference
  • Option to do a keynote speech
  • One speaking position on one panel during the conference
  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share downloadable content such as literature
  • 15 online delegate passes for your team or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media etc
  • Master of Ceremonies “thank you” in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion with all PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Session Partner

£1,500+VAT

The role of the session partner provides an opportunity for you to participate in one of the sessions to build brand awareness, loyalty and trust amongst hundreds of civic and business leaders from across the industry. You’ll be seen to be a thought leader within your area of expertise and showcase your company in front of key decision-makers from across the industry. Benefits include:

  • Ability to help shape the session agenda and content to bring your strategic thinking to the event
  • Option to recommend speakers for the session
  • Inclusion with pre-conference speaker communications
  • Access to the speakers and panellists; an excellent opportunity to establish rapport and build commercially rewarding relationships
  • Branding for the whole conference and your session
  • One speaking position on your panel
  • Option to do a five minute introduction to your panel or thought leaders presentation
  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share downloadable content such as literature
  • 10 online delegate passes for your team or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media etc
  • Master of Ceremonies “thank you” in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion with all PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Session Two Partner: Smart Technology in Housing Development: Creating Sustainable, Connected and Healthy Places

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Best Practice Presentation Package

£1,000+VAT

During the breaks delegates are able to speed network and visit the exhibitors – but with this package you can also give them the option of coming to see your company deliver a 15-minute thought leadership presentation, enabling you to play a key role in the conference. Build brand awareness, loyalty, trust and new business leads amongst numerous civic and business leaders from across the industry. Benefits include:

  • Ability to deliver a 15-minute presentation during one of the break periods
  • Access to the VIP Room – a green room for speakers, VIP guests and sponsors
  • Branding across the rest of the conference
  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share content
  • 10 online delegate passes for your team and/or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media, etc
  • Master of Ceremonies ‘thank you’ in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion in any PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Best Practice Partner

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Best Practice Partner

Exhibitor Partner

£500+VAT

If you’re looking for access to the event and a space to meet online delegates and chat with them – then our exhibitor package is perfect. Some people can be reluctant to approach exhibition stands – but online it’s different and you’ll be inundated with enquiries and questions about your brand. Benefits include:

  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share downloadable content such as literature
  • 5 online delegate passes for your team or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media etc
  • Master of Ceremonies “thank you” in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion with all PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Our online conferences will merge our face-to-face conferences with a virtual platform – providing networking opportunities, exceptional panel discussions and debates, speaker presentations and an exhibition hall.

Here’s a little video highlighting what to expect

And here’s a bit more information of key areas of our online webinars…

You’ll receive unique log-in details and URL a week or so before the event to gain access.

Main Stage

On here you’ll be able to navigate what is in our ‘Programme’ where our speakers, panels and discussions will take place. You’ll be able to get involved in the discussion, ask questions and more.

Networking Lounges

You can connect with the attendees in our networking lounges – video chatting with others at the event.

Exhibition Area

View our partners and sponsors, have a chat with them and learn more about their business.

09:20-09:50 Doors Open & Networking

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

09:50-11:00 Session One: The Renewed Importance of Smart Cities in 2021

Over the last 12 months the importance of adopting digital strategies and the use of smart technology has been reinforced, and there has been an even greater understanding of the role tech can place in creating urban resilience. A group of public and private sector leadership will join us for a thought leadership style discussion on the renewed importance of smart cities and what the future holds for the sector.

Session Sponsor: (Available – click for details)

E.ON UK; Phillip McDermott, City Energy Transformation Lead

Nesta Challenges; Kathy Nothstine, Head of Future Cities

Hull City Council; Adam Jennison, Smart City Lead

BSI; Emilia Cardamone, Programme Manager – Digital Construction

11:00-11:10 Networking & Exhibition

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

11:10-11:30 Breakout Session: Building a Zero-Carbon Future: Ground Source Heating in New Builds; Sponsored by The Kensa Group

Kensa Contracting; David Broom, Commercial Director

11:30-11:40 Networking & Exhibition

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

11:40-12:40 Session Two: Smart Technology in Housing Development: Creating Sustainable, Connected and Healthy Places; Sponsored by ABB

Our panel of residential and mixed use development experts join us to share their forthcoming development plans and discuss how they are using technology to make increase resident wellbeing and meet net-zero goals.

Chair: ABB; Nigel Thomas, National Specification & Projects Manager, UK

Romal Capital; Greg Malouf, Founder & Chief Executive

Argent; Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability and Digital Strategy

DG Cities; Balazs Csuvar, Head of Delivery

12:40-12:50 Networking & Exhibition

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

12:50-13:10 Breakout Session: Buildings of the Future: Enabling Smart and Sustainable Cities; Sponsored by Schneider Electric

With increasing urbanization, mounting cost pressures, and demand for improved quality of life, there is a greater need than ever for seamless integration between systems, sites, people, and assets whilst providing an improved operational efficiency and reduced energy cost. Furthermore, buildings account for 40% of CO2 emissions, 2nd to manufacturing, globally. To create smart and sustainable cities we will need to start with buildings. Transforming our buildings to make them more sustainable, resilient, efficient and people-centric.

In this presentation, we will look into smart buildings technologies and how they can enable the future of smart and sustainable cities.

Schneider Electric; Kas Mohammed, VP of Digital Energy UK&I

13:10-13:20 Networking & Exhibition

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

13:20-14:20 Session Three: The Future of Public Estates

A selection of public sector property experts will discuss how they will incorporate smart technology to increase mobility, reduce inequality and futureproof our public estates with a series of presentations followed by audience Q&A and interaction.

Session Sponsor: (Available – click for details)

Belfast City Council; James Noakes, City Innovation Broker

Transport for Greater Manchester; Conor Chaplin, Innovation Strategy Officer

Sunderland City Council; Liz St Louis, Assistant Director, Smart Cities

14:20-15:00 Networking, Exhibition & Close

Here’s an overview of the confirmed speakers:

Romal Capital – Greg Malouf, Founder & Chief Executive

Romal Capital are behind a £100 million plan to transform a derelict site in Liverpool into a thriving waterfront community, brimming with smart technology. The scheme will include 330 highly sustainable smart homes as well as retail space, amenities and a regenerated historic waterfront. The smart homes will include power usage monitoring systems, solar panels and EV charging stations. Greg will discuss the use of smart technology in the development and how it will help create a sustainable and futureproofed neighbourhood.

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Nesta Challenges – Kathy Nothstine, Head of Future Cities

At Nesta Challenges, Kathy is the Lead for Future Cities, where she focuses on place-based innovation and empowering cities to shape their destiny. Kathy is passionate about cities and communities, and has over a decade of experience in urban planning and working with local governments. She has designed and delivered capacity-building and technical assistance programmes to identify and scale up transformative new approaches to creating stronger communities and economies based on local assets and place-based strategies. She has worked on rural and urban development and regeneration schemes, planning proposals and transport plans in the public and private sector.

Belfast City Council – James Noakes, City Innovation Broker

James is a renowned expert in smart cities and works on the city’s exciting smart city programme, supporting the £350 million Belfast City Deal. Smart Belfast’s projects include a £33m scheme to develop a zero emission ferry, the introduction of smart loading zones which will help cut congestion and pollution and an £8m project to use innovative means of regenerating the historic ‘Maritime Mile’ along the city’s waterfront. Prior to his current role he was Assistant Mayor for Liverpool where his responsibilities included  Liverpool’s smart city programme, he oversaw £2bn in infrastructure investment and embedded smart cities thinking into the fabric of the council.

Argent – Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability and Digital Strategy

Argent is well-known for delivering some of the best mixed-use developments in the UK. The developers are always at the forefront in delivering smart technology and working within sustainability targets. With a number of ongoing projects, such as Tottenham Hale and Brent Cross Town, Claudine joins us to offer insight into the advancements Argent has made regarding construction technology and will highlight innovations that ensure their developments are sustainable and fit for our future cities.

 

Transport for Greater Manchester – Conor Chaplin, Innovation Strategy Officer

Working in the Innovation Strategy team at Transport for Greater Manchester, Conor is leading on micro mobility and mobility-as-a-service, as well as supporting GM Cycle Hire, connected and autonomous vehicles, 5G and AI. He is responsible for the development and delivery of long-term innovation strategy for transport in Greater Manchester that aligns with strategic goals and programmes such as decarbonisation, increasing digital provision for public services, and the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040. He will discuss TfGM’s smart cities strategy and a number of projects they are working on including smart traffic signals, connected and autonomous vehicles, AI controlled traffic junctions and more.

Sunderland City Council – Liz St Louis, Assistant Director, Smart Cities

Sunderland was named UK smart city of the year for 2020 for its forward thinking approach and the pace at which they are driving forward projects to embed an augmented digital infrastructure. The city council are moving forward with projects including upgrades to vital digital infrastructure connecting the city through the continuing rollout of free ultrafast public wi-fi with download speeds surpassing the first 5G cities, expansion of the National Assistive Technologies test-bed, delivering solutions to enable vulnerable people to live safely at home, reducing social care intervention and the implementation of transport solutions for traffic mapping to inform future traffic flow and allow real-time traffic management.

 

E.ON UK – Phillip McDermott, City Energy Transformation Lead

E.ON have been partnering with cities in the UK and Europe for more than 30 years and have been using smart technologies to create decarbonised, smart local energy systems, drive energy efficiency and renewable generation, enable electrified transport and even satellite heat mapping. They have invested heavily to achieve these aims with £600m in domestic energy efficiency funding, £215m in bio-energy projects and £75m in city energy solutions spent in the past 10 year. Philip will discuss E.ON’s work to use technology to help cities tackle the climate emergency, whilst also becoming better places to live, learn and work.

BSI – Emilia Cardamone, Programme Manager – Digital Construction

BSI is a global brand and network of 4,600 people supported by 12,200 industry experts helping organisations implement collective best practice, training delegates and certifying management systems each year. The business improvement partner, worked in collaboration with the IPA and over 100 built environment professionals to produce Digital Transformation report in 2019.  Emilia is a technical expert for BIM, Smart Cities and Communities and Reduction of Carbon within Infrastructure Projects. Her role also includes supporting the digital transformation within the built environment sector via stakeholder engagement.

DG Cities – Balazs Csuvar, Head of Delivery

DG Cities is the commercial smart cities arm of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It enables the organisation to work flexibly with external partners in research consortia, local government, consultancy and other new business opportunities related to smart city development.

Balazs leads the delivery of their innovation projects, solving challenges through the integration of new technologies and holistic thinking. His recent projects have included the Smart Mobility Living Lab: London, Project Endeavour, D-Risk and the fleet electrification strategy for the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Kensa Contracting – David Broom, Commercial Director

David has 13 years of experience working with the design and application of ground source heat pumps. David joined Kensa in 2008 and works on large complex commercial applications of ground source heat pump projects. In his time with the company, he has played a key role in establishing shared ground loops as a recognized solution for tackling fuel poverty, carbon reduction, air quality and energy security in both the social housing and new build development sector.

Hull City Council – Adam Jennison, Smart City Lead

Hull City Council have been working in collaboration with technology company Connexin to deliver the Smart City Operating System project. The city has spent the last few years quietly updating its digital infrastructure, paving its way to become the UK’s first full-fibre city, featuring the fastest broadband of anywhere in the UK. The project has increased and enhanced data sharing and decision-making, allowing the Council to deliver more effective services across local sectors, from traffic management to health and social care.

Built Environment Networking – Amanda Griffiths, Director

Amanda is one of the Co-Founder’s of Built Environment Networking – formed almost 10 years ago.

She’ll be hosting throughout the day, running the days proceedings and managing the interaction between our delegates and the speakers.

ABB – Nigel Thomas, National Specification & Projects Manager, UK

Nigel has worked for ABB Electrification for 14 years and has over 30 years’ experience within the building services sector, working with design consultants and contractors. He has a wide-ranging expertise in building services within the built environment.

Schneider Electric – Chair: Kasim Mohammed, Vice President of Digital Energy, UK & Ireland

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.

We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries.

We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

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Details

Date:
Wednesday, 30th June 2021

Time:
0920hrs – 1500hrs

Venue

Online – All in the Loop


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