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4-5 December | 2014London
Combining entrepreneurship, technology & science to re-work our cities for the future.
CITIES
WHAT IS RE.WORK CITIES?
Why explore cities and technology?
At RE.WORK Cities, the most influential
innovators, leading technologists and
disruptive entrepreneurs will come together to
explore future cities and inspire change.
Stand still and you’ll be left behind. It’s time to find
breakthrough solutions to unprecedented levels of
urbanisation.
By 2030, 60% of the population will live in urban areas - totaling 5bn people.
Twelve megacities will have populations of over 20
million people.
Increased urbanisation is putting pressure on cities to
provide adequate infrastructure, deliver public
services, and control environmental quality.
Our future cities need to be smarter to sustain the
increasing urban population.
An urbanised planet provides environmental,
structural and social challenges.
However, it also presents an opportunity to provide living
spaces that are smarter, more efficient, more
sustainable, equal and safer.
RE.WORK Cities is a global meeting of minds to re-work our cities for the future.
We are experiencing an unprecedented era in the history of urbanization. How we manage the pace of urban growth will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century.
RE.WORK Cities brings together the most influential technologists, entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders and Government officials to collaborate and reshape our future cities.
Gain insight into breakthrough innovations that will have an impact on our future urban areas through the world’s leading technologists and decision-makers.
Partnerships and new business opportunities will be created through a program of inspiring fireside chats, interactive panel sessions and presentations from world-class speakers, as well as speed-networking, workshops, breakout sessions and exhibition areas.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
<<Re-shape our future cities>>
WHO WILL YOU MEET?
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
EntrepreneursAcademics
Technologists
Business LeadersGovernment
Investors
RE.WORK Cities is a unique opportunity to meet world-class academics, disruptive entrepreneurs, the most exciting new startups and world-leading business strategists all in the same room. Play your part in shaping the urban future of our planet.
• Discover cutting-edge solutions for smarter cities from academics and scientists• Meet exciting new startups re-shaping the city with breakthrough technologies• Interact with influential entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, business leaders & Govt officials• Play an active role in defining our future urban landscape• Explore the impact of your disruptive technology on the urban sector• Discover new business opportunities• Create a more sustainable future through re-shaping our cities• <<Understand how breakthrough technology is going to transform our urban futures>>
WHAT TOPICS WILL BE COVERED?
WHAT CHALLENGES ARE WE FACING?
• Internet of Things• 3D Printing• Big Data• Nanotech• Robotics
• Sensors• Cloud Computing• Wireless• Biotech• Open Data
RE.WORK Cities is a platform to explore how to re-work and reshape
our cities for the future using new and emerging technologies with the
potential to have a positive impact on urban areas.
• Unprecedented Urbanisation• Sustainable Energy• Inefficient Infrastructure• Increased Water Supplies• Poverty & Inequality
• Environmental Pressures• Improved Security• Regeneration• Providing Food for All• Efficient Healthcare
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
PHILIPP RODEExecutive Director
LSE Cities
CARLO RATTIDirector, Senseable City Lab
MIT
CHRIS BRAUERCAST Co-Director & Sr.
LecturerGoldsmiths, University
of London
FAHIM KAWSARDirector, Internet of Things
ResearchBell Laboratories
MANU FERNANDEZFounder
Human Scale City
LEAN DOODYSmart Cities Lead
Arup
FRAUKE BEHRENDTSenior Lecturer
University of Brighton
GILLES RETSINCo-Founder
Softkill Design
NEIL SPILLERDean of the School of
Architecture, Design and Construction
University of Greenwich
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
FABIO GRAMAZIOChair for Architecture
and Digital FabricationETZ Zurich
ERIK SCHLANGENChair of Experimental
MicromechanicsDelft University of Technology
ALICIA ASINCo-Founder & CEO
Libelium
MARC POUSFounder
theThings.IO
ANDREW HUDSON-SMITHDirector, Centre for Advanced
Spatial AnalysisUniversity College London
CONOR RIFFLEHead of Cities
CDP
DAVID BENJAMINFounding Principal
The Living
ENRICO DINIChairmanD-Shape
ALLISON DRINGCo-Founder
elegant embellishments
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
PRIYA PRAKASHFounder
Design for Social Change
MISCHA DOHLERChair Professor
King’s College London
MELISSA STERRYDesign Scientist & Futurist
Bionic City
SCOTT CAINStart-Up Director
Future Cities Catapult
NICK BROMLEYProgramme Manager, EU iCity
Smart CitiesGLA
TIA KANSARADirector
Kansara Hackney Ltd
ROD HACKNEYDirector
Kansara Hackney Ltd
IAN ABBOTT-DONNELLYEuropean Smarter Cities
InnovationIBM
PAULA HIRSTFounding Director
Disruptive Urbanism
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
CLAUDIA PASQUEROCo-Founder
ecoLogicStudio
MARCO POLETTOCo-Founder
ecoLogicStudio
JOSEF HARGRAVESr. Foresight & Innovation
Arup
SIMON FRANTZEditor
BBC Future
JEMIMA KISSHead of Technology
The Guardian
ALEX WOODEditor
Tech City News
JOEL GETHIN LEWISCo-Founder
Hellicar & Lewis
JULIAN BLAKE Editor
TechCity Insider
SAM HILLCo-FounderPAN Studio
CARLO RATTIDirector, Senseable City LabMIT
A Few Points on a Smart (or Senseable) City
Smart is the new 'green'. Smart city, smart transport, smart buildings - the label smart is now often used and abused. After reviewing the principles behind the 'smart city' concept - which Carlo prefers to call 'senseable city', this presentation will discuss ten areas of innovative applications. From transport to energy to civic engagement, something that could be called a decalogue for a senseable/smart city.
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Carlo holds several patents and has co-authored over 200 publications. Forbes listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011 and Fast Company named him as one of the ’50 Most Influential Designers in America’. He was also featured in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world’.
PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS
PHILIPP RODEExecutive DirectorLSE Cities
Going Green: How Cities are Leading the Next Economy
Going Green: How cities are leading the next economy is research based on a major global survey of 90 city governments and a case study analysis of innovative green strategies in eight cities. The survey was conducted by LSE Cities, ICLEI – local governments for sustainability and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in order to closely analyse the strengths and weaknesses of cities as key contributors to the emerging green economy.
Going Green offers a fresh perspective on the environmental challenges that cities face, along with the opportunities and barriers to going green and fostering economic growth. The survey covers key aspects of green policies and the green economy, smart city technology, green policy assessment and urban governance. It provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of cities around the world as they make the transition to a green economy.
Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Ove Arup Fellow with the LSE Cities Programme and co-convenes the LSE Sociology Course on ‘City Making: The Politics of Urban Form’. As researcher and consultant he manages interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design. Rode organised Urban Age conferences in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society in ten cities bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts.
FABIO GRAMAZIOChair for Architecture and Digital FabricationETH Zurich
Digital Materiality in Architecture
Fabio Gramazio will lecture about Digital Materiality, a term describing an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds – the digital and the material – generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect. Fabio Gramazio is an architect with multi-disciplinary interests ranging from computational design and robotic fabrication to material innovation. In 2000, he founded the architecture practice Gramazio & Kohler in conjunction with his partner Matthias Kohler, where numerous award-wining designs have been realized, integrating novel architectural designs into a contemporary building culture. Trained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, his integral approach to practice and research focuses on the interplay of digital design and material processes through advanced construction methodologies. Since 2005, Gramazio & Kohler have held the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. Founding the world’s first architectural robotic laboratory, the pioneering investigations of Fabio Gramazio concentrate on non-standardized architectural design and additive fabrication processes through the customized use of industrial robots. A significant amount of research has been accomplished addressing scales ranging from 1:1 prototypical installations to the design of robotically fabricated high-rise buildings. Currently Fabio Gramazio’s research is focusing on adaptive design strategies for constructive material systems and in-situ robotic fabrication.
CONOR RIFFLEHead of CitiesCDP
Conor Riffle serves as Head of Cities at CDP. Under his leadership, CDP’s cities program has achieved international recognition as the premier platform for cities to report their climate change data. More than 100 global cities now report annually on their greenhouse gas emissions using CDP’s platform. Conor’s opinions on cities and climate change appear frequently in GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and Cities Today. Prior to his role at CDP, Conor served in various roles at the William J. Clinton Foundation in New York, including Foreign Policy Fellow and as a member of the team that developed and ran the second annual Clinton Global Initiative in 2006. At the Clinton Foundation, Conor was an early employee of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), where he worked with large city governments around the world—including Karachi, Johannesburg, Tokyo, and Seoul—on greenhouse gas reduction projects and helped to set up CCI offices in North America, Asia, and Africa. Conor graduated magna cum laude in History from Connecticut College and holds an MA in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics.
DAVID BENJAMINFounding PrincipalThe Living
Now We See Now
Cities are living, breathing organisms. In the context of new technologies and new urban challenges, there is a great opportunity to create new living, breathing design ecosystems. These design ecosystems will link complex flows of people, resources, data, and energy. They will involve work on multiple scales simultaneously. They will anticipate and welcome rapid change. Within these new design ecosystems, architects and technologists will have to embrace design with uncertainty, design with shifting and unknowable forces, and design without complete control. This talk will explore examples of these design ecosystems. It will describe a series of projects and prototypes that draw on sensor data, generative algorithms, digital simulation, automated fabrication, and synthetic biology to create buildings and cities that are more adaptive, regenerative, and alive.
David Benjamin is Founding Principal of The Living and Director of the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University. The Living creates full-scale, functioning prototypes of the architecture of the future. Clients include the City of New York, Seoul Municipal Government, Airbus, Autodesk, Nike, 3M, Kanye West, and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. Recent projects include Living City (a platform for buildings to talk to one another), Amphibious Architecture (a cloud of light above the East River that changes color according to water quality), and Architecture Bio-synthesis (a new process for bio-computation and bio-manufacturing of high-performance building materials through synthetic biology).
GILLES RETSINCo-FounderSoftKill Design
Testing the Boundaries of Large-Scale 3D Printing
Gilles Retsin will present SoftKill Design's prototype for a 3D printed house. The prototype investigates the architectural potential of the latest additive manufacturing technologies, testing the boundaries of large scale 3D printing by designing with computer algorithms that micro-organize the printed material itself. The Softkill house is the first project to move away from heavy, compression based 3d printing of on-site buildings, instead proposing lightweight, high resolution, optimised structures which, at life scale, are manageable truck-sized pieces that can be printed off site and later assembled on site. The presentation will further speculate on how new computational design methodologies and advanced fabrication techniques could radically change the way we build the cities of the future.
Gilles Retsin is a London based architect holding a Masters in Architecture + Urbanism (Dist) from the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s Design Research Laboratory (AA.DRL).He is co- founder of SoftKill Design, a collective design studio with Nicholette Chan, Aaron Silver and Sophia Tang, investigating generative design methodologies for additive manufacturing. He is lecturer at the University of East London and runs a research cluster investigating 3D printing strategies for architecture at University College London. He also teaches for the AA in Shanghai and Beijing, focusing on computational design methodologies for the new mega-city. SoftKill Design has succesfully prorotyped one of the world’s first coherent designs prototypes for a completely 3d printed house. The work of SoftKill Design has been widely published, most notably in Wired, Dezeen and The Observer.
SAM HILLCo-Founder,PAN Studio
Hello Lamp Post
In 2014 PAN Studio launched Hello Lamp Post – an 8 week, city-wide installation across Bristol, commissioned by Watershed Art Trust for the Playable City Award. Hello Lamppost brought thousands of objects across the city to life – including (but not limited to) post boxes, lamp posts, bus stops and parking meters. By referencing the existing identifier codes seen on these items of street furniture, the people of Bristol could converse back and forth with objects via text message. The project served as a platform that encouraged people to share their observations, memories and opinions of city locations.
Sam Hill is an experience designer and co-founder of design practice PAN Studio, producing interactive objects for installations and immersive theatre, and creating experimental objects designed to find new ways of enriching everyday living. This year Sam has spoken internationally about the value of experience in design and how it relates to memory and can improve our future cities, including at UnBox Festival in New Delhi, Replayce: The City in Zurich and TEDx Hamburg. Sam is also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
NEIL SPILLERDean of the School of Architecture, Design and ConstructionUniversity of Greenwich
The Surreal Sustainable City of the Future
The City is a massive engine of chance, we are at once infatuated with it, inebriated by it, entertained by it, scared and scarred by it. We are cast, like drunken sailors, in its vagrant geometries, its sublime vistas, its random street life and its astounding possibilities for personal experience. We navigate the City and our lives in constant negotiation with other people, animals and things. These negotiations are spatially multi-dimensional. Equally, we have to keep our wits about us, for the City is a bewitching, feral lover where love and death call in equal measure. Cities don’t just occur at the anthropomorphic or the super anthropomorphic scale, they happen in rooms, within carpets and in mouths, they also might happen across galaxies. This kaleidoscopic perception of the City was recognised and pursued vigorously by the Surrealists, who explored its magnetic desires in paintings, graphics, sculpture, prose, poetry, performance but oddly, relatively few examples of architecture and building. However, I believe these surrealist researches and a lot of what was inspired by them subsequently, have much to teach us about the possibilities of contemporary architecture and how we might educate the architects of the twenty first Century.
Neil Spiller is Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory at the University of Greenwich, London. Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Neil’s books include Cyberreader: Critical Writings of the Digital Era, Digital Dreams and Visionary Architecture – blueprints of the modern imagination. He is on the AD editorial Board. His architectural design work has been published and exhibited on many occasions worldwide.
FRAUKE BEHRENDTSenior LecturerUniversity of Brighton
Smart E-Bikes Research - How Urban E-Cycling and Media Mobilities could Shape Future Sustainable Cities
The 'Smart e-Bikes' project considers how electrically-assisted bikes could significantly widen the appeal of cycling in the UK and how e-bikes could be integrated with media mobilities. The 'Smart e-bike Monitoring System' (SEMS) developed on the project is currently running on a fleet of 35 e-bikes in Brighton (UK). It is an open-source platform for the acquisition of usage data from electric bicycles that can monitor location, rider control data and other custom sensor input in real time. The data can be viewed by riders and analysed for research. SEMS can be extended with other sensors to address various issues in e-bike research and sustainable urban mobility. http://www.smart-ebikes.co.uk Dr Frauke Behrendt leads the 3-year RCUK funded 'Smart e-bikes' research project ( http://www.smart-ebikes.co.uk ) that aims to understand how people engage with electrically-assisted cycling and the issues for policy, design/product development and research that could lead to a higher uptake of e-bikes in the UK. The project, which runs from 2011 – 2014, has developed an open-source monitoring system (SEMS) for a fleet of 35 e-bikes that enables collection and sharing of ride and sensor data in real time. Behrendt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and her research interests include the areas of digital cultures, sound studies, mobility, (sonic) interaction design, sustainable development and smart cities. www.fraukebehrendt.com
ALICIA ASINCo-Founder & CEOLibelium
IoT: Smart Cities Involve Citizens
With so much talk of a huge unmet opportunity to apply technology and create efficient Smart Cities in our Internet of Things era, we must remember that these new cities have to serve citizens. Citizens will use and benefit from technology advancements, and they will take part in the decision process and implementation. And whether the impetus stems from cities offering services, citizens cooperating with companies, or citizens on their own, through Open Data initiatives or crowdsourcing, we have learned that they have a lot to say about it!
Alicia Asín is the co-founder and CEO of Libelium, the Zaragoza, Spain based wireless sensor hardware provider, creators of Waspmote, a modular, open source sensor platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). Alicia is a computer engineer focused on how IoT can change our world, starting with Smart Cities. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on issues related to Smart Cities, wireless sensor networks and IoT. Alicia holds a master’s degree from the Polytechnic Center, University of Zaragoza, and is a graduate of the Cambridge Judge Business School and ESADE.
MANU FERNANDEZFounder,Human Scale City
Forget the Smart Cities of the Future: It is Happening Now
Certain discourses and visions about smart cities look into the future to show the promises of digital techonologies. In this approach there is a underlying negative attitude about the cities we are already living – the mess and chaotic disorder of cities will be finally resolved thanks to command and control-, also hiding new civic engagement practices and collaborative processes already happening. These practices hardly appear in the most apologetic bird´s eye visions of smart cities but, in the end, they are changing and expanding in a silent way the role of citizens.
Manu Fernandez is an urban strategist, the founder of Human Scale City urban agency ( w w w. h u m a n s c a l e c i t y. o r g ) a n d t h e a u t h o r o f C i u d a d e s a E s c a l a H u m a n a b l o g (www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org). As a researcher and urban policy consultant for the last ten years, he has always been involved in projects relating to local sustainability and urban economies. He is currently focused on three areas: adaptive urbanism strategies to actívate vacant sites, the intersection of digital and social perspectives of bottom-up smart cities and, the link of social creativity and local economic development. Manu holds a master´s degree in sustainability management and is a graduate in Laws and Economics.
ERIK SCHLANGENChair of Experimental MicromechanicsDelft University of Technology
Enhancing Structural Durability and Sustainability by using Self-Healing Material Concepts
Civil engineering structures are designed to have a long service life. During the life time of the structure some level of degradation of the used materials will always take place leading to damage in the structure. In this presentation self-healing concepts for civil engineering materials will be introduced. Various ways of implementing self-healing for concrete and asphalt will be explained. Furthermore the benefits for durability, sustainability and economics of our infrastructures will be discussed and illustrated with real examples. Dr. Erik Schlangen is Professor in the chair of “Experimental Micromechanics” at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is also the director of the Microlab for micromechanical and material research which is part of the same University. Prior to joining Delft University he was a senior materials engineer at the materials research institute Intron in the Netherlands. He has a MSc-degree in Structural Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology and a PhD from Delft University, where he graduated in 1993. He is specialized in fracture mechanics of quasi-brittle materials like concrete, durability mechanics, finite element modelling, design of experimental techniques and self-healing of concrete and asphalt. He is the inventor of the Delft lattice model for simulation of fracture. He owns a patent on healable concrete. He initiated the self-healing bacterial concrete and is the inventor of the self-healing asphalt with steel-wool and induction heating that is applied in several applications. He is very active in RILEM committees and is chairman of the Technical Committee dealing with self-healing phenomena of cement-based materials.
ANDREW HUDSON-SMITHDirector, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The BartlettUniversity College London
Realtime Data, Augmented and Virtual Reality mixed with The Internet of Things: Towards the Smart Citizen and ultimately a Smart City
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few (IBM, 2103). This data can, compared to traditional data sources, be defined as ‘big’. Cities and urban environments are the main sources for big data, every minute 100,000 tweets are sent globally, Google receives 2,000,000 search requests and users share 684,478 pieces of content on Facebook (Mashable, 2012). An increasingly amount of this data stream is geolocated, from Check-ins via Foursquare through to Tweets and searches via Google Now, the data cities and individuals emit can be collected and viewed to make the data city visible, aiding our understanding of now only how urban systems operate but opening up the possibility of a real-time view of the city at large (Hudson-Smith, 2014). The talk explores systems such as The City Dashboard (http://www.citydashboard.org) and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of data collection, visualization and analysis. Joining these up creates a move towards the Smart City and via innovations in IoT a look towards augmented reality pointing towards the the creation of a 'Smart Citizen' and ultimately a Smart City.
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The Bartlett, University College London. Andy is a Reader in Digital Urban Systems and Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal, he is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Greater London Authority Smart London Board and Course Founder of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation and MSc in Smart Cities at University College London.
MARC POUSFoundertheThings.IO
The Next Big Thing: Stay Tuned to Your Screens!
In 2015 there will be more than 25 billion objects connected to the Internet. From our household light bulbs to our cars, all the devices in our daily lives will be connected to the Internet. That will affect our daily lifes from our houses to our cities. In the new reprogrammable world users will be able to interact and reprogram all of their Internet of Things gadgets. Can you imagine being able to reprogram your car with a special engine program to adjust the fuel consumption during your next trip? Can you imagine a system being able to know when a traffic light bulb has broken and a company get a message for an urgent repair service? The future of the cities is based on complex technologies, should they be open?
Marc Pous is a computer engineer, founder, evangelist and blogger. He is the founder of theThings.IO, the next social network of the Internet of Things. He also organises the Internet of Things meetup at Barcelona and Munich. He had worked in different research centers focused on Smart Cities and Internet of Things during the last 6 years. He has been awarded with design mentions, challenges and hackathons prizes.
ALLISON DRINGCo-Founderelegant embellishments
Ornament and Climate
prosolve370e is a decorative facade module that reduces air pollution in cities. When coupled with architectural surfaces, the modular system can grow to effectively counter local pollution hot-spots. The modules' forms are devised to increase the efficacy of the photocatalytic technology, employing surface enlargement for better reception of light. prosolve370e was recently installed on a hospital facade in Mexico City.
prosolve, along with another project: a consumer plastic synthesized from atmospheric CO2, represent a new materialization of climatic condition. These materials signify existing but often immaterial conditions that increasingly have impact on the way we live. Allison Dring is an architect and co-founder of elegant embellishments, an architectural start-up with the strategy of self-initiating projects for condition-specific spaces.
Along with Daniel Schwaag, she initiated and produced proSolve370e, a decorative, three-dimensional module that reduces air pollution in cities. The modules were recently installed on the facade of hospital Torre de Especialidades in Mexico City. prosolve370e has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and acquired by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum as part of the permanent collection.
ENRICO DINIChairmanD-Shape
Every Building is A Prototype - Large Scale 3D Printing in Building Construction
In this talk, Enrico will describe introduce the D-SHAPE technology through the history of his inventing process since the first trials to the latest developments introducing the concept of Archinature,as the final outcome of his exploration.
Enrico Dini is an Italian civil engineer who spent most of his career in automation and robotics for the footwear industry. Since the late 90’s Enrico came into contact with rapid prototyping techniques used to facilitate the design of the shoes. In 2003, while he was 3D printing a shoe sole, Enrico had a vision of this technique applied on a large scale and imagined a new free form architecture. Enrico decided to return to its original skill enriched by his experience in robotics and since then has devoted his life to developing a new construction technique based on the principles of stereolitograpy. In 2007 helped from his trusted brother Riccardo, Enrico tested successfully his large scale D-Shape printer prototype and the following year he printed the Radiolaria, the first free-form building structure ever. Today Enrico Dini is immersed in developing D-Shape, 3D Printing Building technology to bring innovation to the architecture and construction industries.
MELISSA STERRYDesign Scientist & FuturistBionic City
Beyond Material Boundaries
Exploring the city as more than the sum of its material parts, Melissa will question some of the most fundamental assumptions commonly made about future cities. Drawing on her research into the city as a complex regenerative and adaptive system that mimics biological resilience strategies to worst-case natural hazard events, she will present how the ilk of big data, 3D printing, synthetic biology and self-assembly could enable a city that exits far beyond current material boundaries. Melissa will discuss how leading-edge science, technology and thinking could contribute to manifesting some of the most radical future city visions of the past, before presenting an overview of her Bionic City® project and some of the models she's researching and developing within it.
Design Scientist and Futurist Melissa Sterry is known as a champion of new science, technology and thinking that serves to make the world a better place. A visiting fellow/lecturer and guest critic at several leading built environment research institutes, she has been published in more than 60 titles worldwide. Recent works include authoring the biomimetics chapter for McGraw Hill Publishing's Global Science Innovation Handbook. A PhD researcher at the School of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich, her interests in science, technology and design converge in the Bionic City®, which posits the potential of the city as a complex regenerative and adaptive system that mimics biological resilience strategies. Underway since January 2010, the project engages a global community of interest through media including workshops, talks, publications and social media, including its magazine, which has over 85,000 readers.
PRIYA PRAKASHFounderDesign for Social Change
How to Prototype Better Cities with Smart Citizens?
This session will focus on current smart city & internet of things trends analysing the pros and cons of large-scale infrastructural rollouts which lacks citizen engagement/input in its design. By taking a case-study approach on how best to prototype better cities using people centred design, low-cost technology and mobile devices, the session explore how by harnessing neighbourhood loyalty, crowdsourcing, solving and funding community created solutions councils, businesses and cityplanners can co-create better cities with people who live in it. Finally learn an approach to co-create a better neighbourhood with your community using the mobile in your pocket.
Priya Prakash is the founder of Design for Social Change (D4SC), a social impact business marrying realtime citizen data with grassroots action to affect change in neighbourhoods through Changify, its mobile crowdpowered platform. Changify brings together brands, neighbours and councils in a win/win way informing brand reputation, customer loyalty and boosting local economies in communities. She has 12 years of hands-on strategic digital product design and leadership experience responsible in creating products with unique IP for household brands such as BBC iPlayer and Nokia Asha Phones. She is an invited speaker at SXSW, O'Reilly ETech, MEX, TEDx, FOWA, Design tutor at Mobile Academy at UCL and 2014 D&AD judge. Prakash is a RSA fellow with a MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art and holds patents for iPlayer & Nokia Asha phones.
MISCHA DOHLERChair Professor King’s College London
Designing Smart Cities in 2014
“Smart Cities” – a trendy phrase likely to be hackneyed before even having achieved anything tangible in improving urban living conditions. Consultants, policy makers, think tanks – they all paint a rosy future for and through these smart cities. However, there are a few of us out there who are actually sweating to make cities smart. Today. In this talk, I will review some 10 burning challenges we face as of the design year 2014, where focus is mainly on the use and deployment of smart city infrastructure rather than social, citizen and many other aspects.
Mischa Dohler is Chair Professor at King's College London, UK. He is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc and Editor-in-Chief of ETT. He has provided technical and thought leadership in wireless communications for 15 years, specifically in the fields of broadband 4G/5G wireless design, machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. He has an in-depth understanding of research, innovation and business. His groundbreaking contributions have featured in the Wall Street Journal and BBC. He is the cofounder of Worldsensing, a company which has become one of the world's leading instrumentation companies in the Smart City, Construction and Seismic Acquisition markets. He is also a tech company angel investor and fluent in 6 languages.
LEAN DOODYSmart Cities LeadArup
Léan has over 17 years experience working in the IT industry, from product management to business consulting. She started her career working as a product manager in a small Dublin start up which grew from 19 people to 800 and launched on NASDAQ in her five years there. In 2002, she completed a Masters degree in urban policy and design at the London School of Economics. Since then, her work has concentrated on the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in urban developments and the wider role of ICT in enabling sustainability. She leads Arup’s consulting work in Smart Cities looking at how ICT can better enable the operation of cities while also enabling better cities and more sustainable citizen behaviour. Recent project work has been in developing ICT strategies for new urban developments and cities in the UK, Finland, China and Qatar.
CLAUDIA PASQUEROCo-FounderecoLogicStudio
Sythesizing Renewable Energies into Food & Power
The Bio Urban Design Lab promotes a non anthropocentric understanding of the urban landscape, intended as a territory of self-organization and co-evolution of multiple systems, and prefigures a future bio-active city able to synthesize renewable energies into food and power as well as wastes into raw material for construction and growth. On one side we research bio-mimetic models of self-organization to develop adaptive urban planning strategies, while on the other we investigate the integration of bio-technological and digital communication systems for re-metabolising the urban fabric. The lecture introduces how social insects like ants can become valuable models of bottom up and adaptive design of new urban agriculture networks, and how urban microalgae can be grown in a new breed of digitally augmented "cyber-Gardens", installed in London, Paris, Milan and the Osterlin region of Sweden.
Claudia is an architect, engineer, author and educator. Claudia is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio and she has completed a public library in Turin, a Shopping Mall’s eco-roof in Milan among other projects. Claudia work investigates the boundaries between architecture, science and tradition; it has been exhibited at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006, in 2008, in 2010 and in ArchiLab 2014. Claudia has been Unit Master at the AA in London, Visiting Critic in Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and she is currently an academic at IAAC, Barcelona as well as academic stream leader of the MArch in Urban Morphogenesis and BIO-UD cluster director at the Bartlett UCL in London. The Book ‘Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City’ published by Rutledge in 2011 was co authored by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto.
MARCO POLETTOCo-FounderecoLogicStudio
Sythesizing Renewable Energies into Food & Power
The Bio Urban Design Lab promotes a non anthropocentric understanding of the urban landscape, intended as a territory of self-organization and co-evolution of multiple systems, and prefigures a future bio-active city able to synthesize renewable energies into food and power as well as wastes into raw material for construction and growth. On one side we research bio-mimetic models of self-organization to develop adaptive urban planning strategies, while on the other we investigate the integration of bio-technological and digital communication systems for re-metabolising the urban fabric. The lecture introduces how social insects like ants can become valuable models of bottom up and adaptive design of new urban agriculture networks, and how urban microalgae can be grown in a new breed of digitally augmented "cyber-Gardens", installed in London, Paris, Milan and the Osterlin region of Sweden.
Marco is an architect, author and educator. After graduating with Honors from Turin Polytechnic in Italy, Marco moved to London to study at the Architectural Association. He worked in London as an environmental designer with Battle McCarthy before co-founding the ecoLogicStudio in 2006. Marco has lectured and taught internationally and as been Unit Master at the AA in London from 2007 to 2012 and Visiting Lecturer at the IAAC, Barcelona, and Cornell University, Ithaca. He is co-author of “Systemic Architecture: operating manual for the self-organising city” published by Routledge in July 2012. He now leads the BIO Urban Design Research Cluster at the Bartlett , UCL.
TIA KANSARADirectorKansara Hackney Ltd
Community Architecture Workshop: How Entrepreneurship Will Lead Communities out of Poverty
Kansara Hackney Ltd (KH) aims to alleviate poverty through community architecture, which began when one of the two directors, Dr Rod Hackney, realized that the root of the sustainability debate lay in tapping neglected human potential. To satisfy the UN-Habitat alleviation of slum conditions, KH involves local slum dwellers with professional enablers, who live and work within the shantytowns, through a self-help programme of renovation and social improvement.
The slum-energizing programme began in 1971 with Dr Hackney’s house in Black Road, which like 1.5 million other UK homes, was classified by the government as "unfit for human habitation". Community Architecture’s role in resisting the inevitable demolition of houses and championing of an alternative sustainable self-build programme, involves all slum residents. Join the KH team and learn how to set-up your own Community Architecture Project. We work through the tools necessary, pit-falls and numerous examples to get your show on the road!
Tia is an award-winning director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. In 2010, she wrote the brief and appointed the architects Foster+Partners for SAMBA‘s multi-million dollar headquarters, as the first female to judge a LEED platinum building in Saudi Arabia. She’s on London Business School Global Energy Summit’s executive committee, Co-director of the international CleanTechChallenge, the Gulf ambassador of the UCL Bartlett, Siemen’s list of Future Influencers and Global Ambassador of the Sandbox Network.
Currently completing her Ph.D. at UCL on designing future cities whilst creating the first energy baseline in the Gulf.
Rod Hackney's Inner City objective is a simple one. Only by living in slums can professionals and communities efficiently work together to overcome crowded, dirty, and run-down environments. His successful results alleviated poverty, halted social decay, degradation and riots, whilst creating sustainable jobs, recycling waste, reducing harmful emissions and producing green environments. His slum upgrading skills were acknowledged by the Paris based Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). The UIA Sir Robert Mathew Prize citation stated that Rod Hackney’s "work represents an extremely innovative approach to community architecture. Here, as a member of the community, the architect assumes the role of organizer and teacher, helping people to improve their own living environment. The technology transfer is part of a process in community design and reconstruction”.
ROD HACKNEYDirectorKansara Hackney Ltd
JOSEF HARGRAVEForesight & InnovationArup
Future Londoners
A series of imaginary characters created to explore the possibilities of urban life in the future. It's 2023 in London. You can make a phone call on your watch and report a traffic jam with a button on your glasses. But how will we really live, work and play? What kinds of constraints and opportunities will future Londoners face? The profiles of these imaginary Londoners can never be perfect or all inclusive. They are a tool for exploring the needs and desires we should consider when designing a smarter London.
Josef Hargrave is a Senior Foresight and Innovation Consultant at Arup. He is responsible for our foresight activities and consulting services across the Europe Region. Josef manages the delivery of market-specific trend reports, visions, scenarios, innovation processes, and stakeholder workshops. His work supports corporate strategy processes, risk management, and the identification of future growth fields and innovation opportunities.
Josef works for clients spanning a wide variety of sectors and markets. His projects combine corporate foresight with Arup’s global engineering and consulting expertise, providing clients with unique insights on the future of the built environment. Recent work has included the future of museums, trends in zero-energy building design, the future of urban mobility, trends in workplace design and operation, and the future of the travel and tourism industry.
JOEL GETHIN LEWISCo-FounderHellicar & Lewis
Paper Prototyping the City
Joel Gethin Lewis, co-founder of Hellicar&Lewis will discuss paper prototyping and some previous outcomes of this technique related to how everyone can think about urban futures. Paper prototyping is a technique that allows individuals and groups to ignore awkward constraints on innovation such as funding, ability and experience to get to the core of an idea quickly - before large capital outlay. He will focus particularly on the filtering down of technologies from the military, to large corporations and finally to artists and individuals.
Joel Gethin Lewis first studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial, before completing an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in 2003. Post-graduation he worked at Benetton’s communication research centre, Fabrica, before returning to London where he worked as the interaction designer at UnitedVisualArtists - collaborating and touring with the likes of Battles, U2 and Massive Attack, as well as creating installation works such as Monolith, Volume and Hereafter. After discovering openFrameworks in 2007 through Chris O'Shea, Lewis co-founded Hellicar&Lewis in 2008 with Pete Hellicar. The business was founded with the aim of building a creative business around Open Source.
CHRIS BRAUERCAST Co-Director and Senior LecturerGoldsmiths, University of London
Wearable Tech and the Evolution of Cities
Research has compared the evolution of cities to human biology through both sublinear growth in relation to energy consumption and superlinear growth in relation to innovation and creativity. This talk explores the potential roles of two urban interventions - the 'human cloud' of wearable tech and cryptocurrencies - in the catabolism (build-up) and anabolism (break-down) of cities.
Dr Chris Brauer is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc Management of Innovation programme and the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies (CAST) in the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Chris was formerly a journalist and a programmer and his research interests are in the intersections of emerging technologies and social life, psychology, economics, and culture.
PAULA HIRSTFounding DirectorDisruptive Urbanism
Incentives for Collaboration
As more people move to cities, and more pressure is put on existing resources, increasingly many are asking whether there are better ways to conduct business, deliver public services, and plan and design cities. Innovate, do things differently, collaborate rather than work in silos, and yet often we don’t. And if we do, it’s frequently because we go the extra mile, rather than simply business as usual, as we often lack the right incentives to collaborate. Changing these incentives will be crucial to achieving the scale and pace of change needed if our cities are to remain competitive in the future.
Paula is the founding director of Disruptive Urbanism, adapting and creating new business models for sustainable urban development and regeneration to respond to changes in finance, technology, demographics, and the environment. Paula’s career spans the public and private sectors within the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East, including for Atkins, Mazars, the Greater London Authority, and the Olympic Delivery Authority, where as the Head of Sustainable Development she negotiated agreement to create one of the most sustainable urban developments in Western Europe. Paula is a passionate Londoner who in her spare time works to reinvigorate her local high street, Roman Road.
FAHIM KAWSARDirector, Internet of Things ResearchBell Laboratories
The Story of London: Understanding Urban Dynamics with Differential Trace Analysis
How Londoners move within the city? Is there any recognizable spatio-temporal pattern in their mobility structure? What these patterns tell us about the underlying behavior of the Londoners and their relationship with the city? Do the functional faces of different parts of the city influence Londoners mobility, and furthermore, how these faces evolve through out the day? Answers to such questions have implications ranging from urban infrastructure improvement to future urban planning to citizen life enhancement. Drawing upon a case study on London city, in this talk I will offer a reflection on how the combination of public transit traces and crowd-sourced geographical data can be used effectively to model the behavior of urban citizens and the city itself.
Fahim leads the Internet of Things Research group at Bell Labs. His current work focuses on building user centered systems for offering network Intelligence driven opportunistic interaction experience in a connected space. Fahim's work has been published widely in international books and journals, presented at conferences across the world and has had projects commissioned. Fahim has a PhD in Computer Science from Waseda University, has worked before at Nokia Research, and Lancaster University. His work and publications can be viewed at http://www.fahim-kawsar.net.
SIMON FRANTZEditorBBC Future
Simon is editor of BBC Future, BBC Worldwide’s science, technology and health online site that explores the ideas and breakthroughs that are changing our lives. After seven years in the laboratory studying the genetics of cardiovascular diseases, he became a health journalist at WebMD. Since then, he has been News Editor at Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and senior editor of the official Nobel Prize website.
JEMIMA KISSHead of TechnologyThe Guardian
Jemima Kiss joined the Guardian in 2006 and now leads the team covering big tech businesses, startups and consumer technology trends. She is a permanent fixture on the Tech Weekly podcast and sits on the British Journalism Review editorial board. A proud graduate of Dartington College of Arts, Jemima has covered technology and media online since 2002. So if the internet dies, everything she has ever done goes up in smoke.
SCOTT CAINStart-Up DirectorFuture Cities Catapult
Scott developed the Technology Strategy Board's investment case for the Future Cities Catapult - a world-leading technology & innovation centre - and led the £34.5m Future Cities Demonstrator programme. He is now the Start-Up Director for the Catapult - www.futurecities.catapult.org.uk. Scott is also the founding partner of The Long Run Venture, which develops entrepreneur-led solutions to complex, long-run challenges: things like changing climate, living well longer and cities. Scott co-founded and Chaired Global Entrepreneurship Week (www.unleashingideas.org), the rallying-point for a global movement of entrepreneurial young people now in over 100 countries. Scott previously was Deputy CEO and then CEO at Enterprise UK, the campaigning organisation to create a more entrepreneurial culture in the UK, working to a board of the Director Generals of the CBI, IoD, FSB and British Chambers of Commerce.
NICK BROMLEYProgramme Manager, EU iCity Smart CitiesGLA
Nick worked for Nokia and Fujitsu, before setting up an Autonomy consultancy. Nick has a lifelong interest in cities and transport. He surveyed central Milton Keynes; coded MOSS highways design system; and implemented systems in Kuala Lumpur, Sepang Airport, Avis, Malaysian Airlines, and TfL. As a technologist he recognised early on the power of mobile telephony tracking and the Internet in understanding and shaping future cities. He is managing the European iCity programme for the GLA, building on the knowledge of London Datastore, seeking out new applications for data, creating a city where information will become the new utility.
ALEX WOODEditorTech City News
Alex Wood is the editor of Tech City News the leading resource of news, events and information for the technology innovators of London. He previously covered technology for Bloomberg TV and is a visiting lecturer in Online Journalism at City University, London.
IAN ABBOTT-DONNELLYEuropean Smarter Cities InnovationIBM
Ian’s role in IBM is to lead European Smarter City Innovation for Software Group; pushing the boundaries of IBM in the areas of smarter city, smarter water management, and the application of information science to the challenges of environment and sustainability.
Prior to IBM Ian was Head of Technology for English Nature; Providing stewardship and regulation for over 4000 special protected sites for nature conservation across England (8% of the England).
Ian enjoys combining the diverse disciplines of 4 complementary domains: Technology, innovation, change and learning from nature to help him and others make sense of the world and try to make it work better.
JULIAN BLAKEEditorTechCity Insider
Julian Blake is a journalist and editor with 20 years’ experience covering business, social and political issues. He's the editor of Techcityinsider.net, providing content about technology business in London. He’s also written about housing, property, architecture, local government, charities and travel. He previously worked for homelessness charity Shelter and is a founder of environmental charity Trees for Cities, where he has organised 50+ fundraising club and cabaret events. In 2011, he spent a year travelling across Latin America and the US, blogging and taking photos.
RE.WORK Cities Summit
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• Discover cutting-edge technologies to re-shape our cities• Position your company as a leader in cutting-edge technology and innovation• Gain exposure for your business• Create new partnerships• Future-proof your business
• Make new partnerships• Commercialise your research• Meet investors and industry• Network with entrepreneurs• Collaborate with your peers
STARTUPS
ENTREPRENEURS
• Meet investors• Discover new breakthrough technologies• Get advice from experienced entrepreneurs & experts• Speed-networking with investors and mentors• Get one step ahead of your competition
• Discover the latest cutting-edge technologies• Collaborate with leading academics• Network with industry, investors and startups• Be inspired to solve BIG problems• Create new partnerships
INVESTORS• Discover the most exciting cutting-edge startups• Meet startups in speed-networking session• Learn about future technology trends• Network with leading entrepreneurs• Get ahead of your competitors
STUDENTS• Meet inspiring entrepreneurs• Discover the latest cutting-edge technologies• Learn about future technology trends• Be inspired to play your part in re-shaping cities• Network, network, network and make new contacts
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
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WHAT IS THE AGENDA?
Speed-Networking
‘Speed-dating’ for startups. Gain advice from
experienced entrepreneurs, mentors and investors.
‘What’s Next’ Sessions
Explore the key technologies and challenges that will
shape our future.
Deep-dive Workshops
A chance to rethink and dive deeper into specific topics in interactive and stimulating workshops.
Keynote Presentations
Hear inspiring presentations from the world’s leading
academics, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Fireside Chats
Get to know our speakers in intimate fireside chats in a more relaxed atmosphere.
Interactive Panel Sessions
A panel of experts discussing the key challenges we face
today.
Showcase Area
Discover the emerging technologies, new startups
and business services in the exhibition area.
RE.WORK Cities is a different type of summit. We’re not focusing on one main speaker. The event is designed to allow
our attendees to come together, collaborate and share ideas and
challenges. Get ready to ask questions, meet co-founders, new partners, learn,
discuss and THINK BIG
PREVIOUS AGENDA
08:20 REGISTRATION
09:00 WELCOME
Compere: Scott Cain, Start-Up Director, Future Cities Catapult
09:05 - 10:05 Urban Mobility in the Future City
Frauke Behrendt, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton Erik Schlangen, Chair of Experimental Micromechanics, Delft University of Technology Fahim Kawsar, Director, Internet of Things Research, Bell Laboratories Nick Bromley, Programme Manager, iCity Smart Cities, GLA Moderator: Kerwin Datu, Editor-in-Chief, The Global Urbanist
10:05 - 11:25 Cities of Tomorrow: Challenges for Integration with Future Cities Catapult
Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director, CASA at The Bartlett, UCL Paula Hirst, Founding Director, Disruptive Urbanism Lean Doody, Smart Cities Lead, Arup Manu Fernandez, Founder, Human Scale City Moderator: Scott Cain, Start-Up Director, Future Cities Catapult
11:25 - 11:30 Future Londoners A series of imaginary characters created to explore the possibilities of urban life in the future.
Josef Hargrave, Foresight & Innovation, Arup
11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE
12:00 - 13:00 Hacking, Prototyping and Smart Citizens Alicia Asin, Co-Founder & CEO, Libelium Joel Gethin Lewis, Co-Founder, Hellicar & Lewis Priya Prakash, Founder, Design for Social Change Sam Hill, Co-Founder, PAN Studio Moderator: Alex Wood, Editor, Tech City News
13:00 - 13:35 Creating the Sustainable City
Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities Allison Dring, Co-Founder, elegant embellishments Conor Riffle, Head of Cities, CDP Moderator: Ian Abbott-Donnelly, European Smarter Cities Innovation, IBM
13:35 - 14:35 LUNCH
Afternoon Compere: Julian Blake, Editor, Tech City Insider
14:35 - 15:25 The Internet of Things & the Socially Driven Smart City Carlo Ratti, Director, Senseable City Lab, MIT Marc Pous, Founder, theThings.IO Mischa Dohler, Chair Professor, King’s College London Moderator: Jemima Kiss, Head of Technology, The Guardian
AGENDA15:25 - 16:25 Synthetic Biology and the Living City David Benjamin, Founding Principal, The Living Melissa Sterry, Design Scientist & Futurist, Bionic City Neil Spiller, Dean of the School of Architecture, Design & Construction, University of Greenwich Claudia Pasquero, Co-Founder, ecoLogicStudio Marco Poletto, Co-Founder, ecoLogicStudio Moderator: Simon Frantz, Editor, BBC Future
16:25 - 17:15 Digital Fabrication & 3D Printing
Enrico Dini, Chairman, D-Shape Gilles Retsin, Co-Founder, SoftKill Design Fabio Gramazio, Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich Moderator: Shane Mitchell, Head of Programme Strategy, Urban Innovation Practice, Cisco
17:15 - 17:25 Wearable Tech & Challenge Pitch Awards
Chris Brauer, CAST Co-Director & Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
16:30 - 17:10 Community Architecture Workshop: How Entrepreneurship will Lead Communities out of Poverty
Tia Kansara, Director, Kansara Hackney LTD Rod Hackney, Director, Kansara Hackney LTD
Please note the agenda is subject to change.
PREVIOUS SPONSORS
The Future Cities Catapult is a global centre of excellence on urban innovation. A place where cities, businesses and
universities come together to develop solutions to the future needs of our cities. Future Cities Catapult is one of seven
‘Catapults' launched by the UK's Technology Strategy Board. The aim for each of them is to become a world-leading
innovation centre in its own specialist area.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITORS & SUPPORTING PARTNERS
Stampay is a data-centric loyalty platform providing in-store retailers the technology to create a more personalized
experience and a better understanding of their customers. Physical stores can act on the behavior and data of their
customers in compelling ways to engage, retain and attract with the utilization of online marketing tools and technology,
resulting in the empowerment of local stores. Stampay essentially creates a bridge between offline retail merchants
and online loyalty and marketing tools and provide the technology for retailers to leverage their physical stores as a competitive differentiator, as we think offline needs the same
tools as online.
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So, you’re a budding entrepreneur looking to advance your startup using emerging technology? An academic in need of an avenue to commercialise your research?
A business leader looking for the latest innovation to keep ahead of your competition and future-proof your business?
If the idea of meeting leading entrepreneurs, innovators, academics and business leaders to use technology to positively impact the future of our society and business gets your brain
whizzing then this is the place for you.
“If we get it right, we have an extraordinary future. If we get it wrong, we face a disruption that will set humanity back centuries. A drastic change is needed in the first half of the 21st
century to set the stage for extraordinary events in the rest of the century.”James Martin, The Meaning of the 21st Century
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