Smart Mobility Summit

The Telegraph Smart Mobility Summit on Wednesday - 12th Nov at The Hilton, London


We had two fantastic keynotes in the shape of Florence Eshalomi, deputy chair, London Transport Committee and Alejandro Agag, CEO, Formula E Holdings, opening and closing the day respectively. 

The panel discussions provided lively debate, aided with intuitive questions from the audience, whilst the interactive roundtables and presentations supplied some great food for thought.

• Paul Copping, chief innovation officer, Digital Greenwich

Smart mobility is a very broad area of opportunity for local government services and we are likely to be the market makers for volume deployments. We can take an integrated approach to low carbon autonomy, inclusivity, energy management, space utilisation and emissions. In this way local government can take an active integration role in delivery and strongly influence the overall citizen experience of future technologies. Generally, we love disruptive technology, which can bring dividends in terms of cost reduction and more effective delivery. So there is no threat to local government in my view, but those most at risk are suppliers who fail to innovate.

• Matthew Avery, director of research, Thatcham Research Centre, 

 Insurers have a pivotal role to play. As having insurance for your vehicle is a legal requirement there will be a need to move to a more strict liability-type system, where insurance risk focuses on the car and less the driver. Also, under the terms of the Automated and Electric Vehicle Bill, insurers will be obliged to cover automated vehicles, even though a driver may not be in control. Therefore, the provision of insurance needs to change, and the industry is working very closely with the Government around this. However, if insurers are taking on the potential risk of an automated vehicle, they need to be convinced and ensure firstly that they are safe, and secondly that data is openly accessible to identify who was driving at the time of the collision.

• Frantz Saintellemy, president and chief operating officer, LeddarTech, 

Autonomous vehicles are no longer the stuff of sci-fi novels and movies, and are fast becoming a reality. Google’s self-driving cars, now called Waymo, were first trialled on US roads in 2015 and Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors recently collaborated on similar trials using the latest technology on public roads in Coventry.

Key to the success of autonomous cars is for the vehicle to be able to view its surroundings in 360 degrees, just as a human driver does. For this, LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology plays a vital role alongside other technologies such as radar, camera and GPS. Simon Ellison, technology capability director, Costain, 

• Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, chief executive officer, Latent Logic, 

Latent Logic is an Oxford start-up that builds realistic AI-based human behaviour models to enable safe testing of autonomous vehicles. Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, an experienced automotive entrepreneur and chief executive officer of the company, answers questions on government investment and the regulation frameworks that are taking shape.

• Katy Medlock, head of UK, Drivy, 

Spearheading the company's growth in the car hire industry, Katy Medlock is passionate about the environment and reducing the number of vehicles on the UK's congested roads.

Ms Medlock took the time to talk to The Telegraph on how Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) models are shaking up the sector and the role that Drivy is playing in the transport revolution

LONDON2050 CISCO

-The Future of Innovation in Banking (Blockchain, AI and Fintech)

- Cisco: A Connected Future

-The Future of AI and Machine Learning Panel

Britain's Future: Is It All About Brexit Panel

A great discussion about the Artificial intelligence and Machine learning from the team along with few of the boards of speaker which was very knowledgeable and informative.

AI will treats job - The strategy decision making is different in beginning. Its a customer journey  is through chat bot which is managed. There are challenges with human, how effectively we would talk about things

Women in Construction at Turner and Townshed

Women in construction at New change, London

Pleasure to be part of Women in Construction in Turner & Townsend a multinational professional services company headquartered in Leeds, United Kingdom specialising in programme management, project management and construction industry.

Shaping new industry - digital, design for manufacture, plan cities, make it for effective, so that lifestyle will be better. Construction should be on peak. Major city win the world needs construction in digital. Skills and diverse business.\Social mobility is important.Localisation is important - with best facilities and enhancing the women in construction to be on board. Best practise with best services. Virgin Hyperloop in Pune done by T&T.

Managing Director - Patricia Moore .Diverse pool for female talent. Profession with office space work and field creative work. Coulport extension for reuse the estimate at Scotland. Shallow raft under-need the water. It was the super structure with 6 years duration, its a post contract work. Jubilee line project as a fundamental project- 3 years duration. Heavy engineering works for property scheme for diverse experience , Wellcome trust HQ at London project, Darwin centre- natural history museum - concept was to try to bring public to the science.80 m long and 10 m depth cocoon was the size with 7 floors , it was framed in glass box.

Crossrail - lead the team at site and Heathrow project - it was fundamental project - 12 people to max the project, it was a successful project- commercial contract for UK. Then the high speed two, benefits of the project- examine the scheme for six months with different phases. Construction field, project management, procurement.

Aykon - 350 pound project 0 PM team - meeting the clients, deep discussion about project.client was from Dubai with different project style of working.front end of business - feasibility study, project life cycle - end of phase one- contract completed with snag list.

Refursement project - major globe project- managing self and learn from it. 

Land access and referencing , public consultant, communications and negotiation, negotiation with land oweners, environmental and ground investigations surveys and working closely with legal team.

BREXIT logistics issues

CENTRE OF BREXIT STUDIES and Bite-Sized Books

A Major Book series on Brexit

Birmingham City University

Centre of Brexit studies, BCU, Visitng professor John Clancy 10th Dec 2018

The voting could be organised again to check with the European union, to get the withdrawal of the unit. The integrity is so important to check and position the European county. Its complication to take out in favour to take out. It is possible to see the legislation in the house of commons to see and uncertainty of the proposal.

There is huge spectrum with regard to the GDP, to see smooth transaction, the final judgement needs to be seen the backstrip and see the charge of the country to potentially on 29th march to get a series of talk to explain the Brexit 4.5 billion in year we pay which is small- Liverpool and new ham in London was developed because of EU economy. The bank of England and others have calculated that its lost about 2% of GDP because of EU impact. Productivity is about same —seeing the forecast of the to stabilise the memorandum. There were about 60 billion of economic seen, worrying about financial stability. 

 Professor Alex De Ruyter of the Centre of Brexit Studies had explained and provided a argument on the macro and micro of Brexit.

With the just in time and huge logistics, it explains the spectrum of foreign responses to Brexit, the negotiations and further outcomes for the UK and its partners.

3D Model Talk of a Square Mile

Briefing of City: District Surveyors at The City Centre, London

It was great to meet and greet Gwyn Richards Assistant Director, Development Design , City of London Corporation who is heading the design of city of London.

Also joined, Mark Pundsack Assistant District Surveyor from City of London corporation who have about 20 years of building experience in surveyors subject.

It was a 20 minute talks around the City of London's official architectural model of the square mile.

One of the knowledgeable team introduced the 1:500 scale interactive model, revealing what it teaches about the history, present and future of the City of London.

Detailing every existing building and planned new development in the City the model is a fascinating record of its built environment, allowing a panoramic birds eye view of the area.

Had a wonderful experience attending this talk which also shared the experience of tall buildings in the development schemes in the city as well as the strategic 3D modelling project currently underway in the city of London to scope future and growth opportunities in the eastern cluster of London. ↑

Also shared the project work of city of Westminster council and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea which was fascinating and really committed!!

Expert Perspective

Smart Perspective 

@ County hall, Riverside Bldg, London

I was actively involved in this Breakout group session discussion along with Steve Welch, Director of Smart specialization Hub and others.

The keynote address was mostly on Innovation, regional of economic growth in UK to provide a detailed productivity problem as stated by Richard Jones, professor of Physics, University of Sheffield.

Furthermore we had a Perspective on Place based strategy and Analysis of data by Howard Partidge, Regional manger of East of England, Innovate UK

Developing Evidence for local Industrial strategies as predicted by Will Lord, Senior Policy Advisory, cities and Local growth unit , Ministry of housing communicates and Local Government of UK and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

 However our main focus was to understand Local contributions to R&D - in the context of the 2.4% national target explained by Paul Darbwell, Deputy director of science, Research and Innovation, BEIS

We were divided in a group of 10 people to share and discuss about the Harnessing Data and evidence to measure and predict local economic performance , well contained and briefly described by Howard Partridge, Smart specialization lead and Regional Manager for the east of England , Innovate UK.

I spoke on the data collection and the noise available in the data when generated during the data pre-processing step in Data scientist method.

There were another group of breakout explaining the ideas and local industrial strategy for the cities and local growth units through out the world.

 In the UK, this has masked the fact that it represents a wider trend in a larger number of countries towards place-based innovation strategies.

Smart Specialization: An International Perspective, aims to give an overview of Smart Specialization at an international level, comparison of regional data for selected OECD countries, and more detailed analysis of the situation in Canada and Korea as two benchmark countries outside the EU. 

Finally, conclusions are derived regarding the possibility of collaboration between UK and regions in these countries.

Digital Turn in Architectural Design

Digital Turn at Building Centre, London

I had attended the exhibition organised by Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL)  exhibition supported by Environmental Trust dated 23th Nov 2018

The space created was magnificent with creation of Abstract model in the exhibition with digital technology.


Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) who shared their current work, practices and research agendas along with those of their graduates, to show how innovative digital design and research tools in educational and experimental establishments are put into practice, changing the conventions of design and fabrication.


Opening the exhibition from AADRL director Theodore Spyropoulos who was speaking and conversing with alumna Melike Altınışık, founder of Melike Altınışık Architects and project director of Istanbul's 365 meter-tall Telecom Tower, opening in 2019.

The London model had explained the geo spatial analysis of the creation of space which was more defined and explanatory with massive collection.

The Model were casted on the mesh shaped cubes to house it which explains the topography and scale of the structure with more condensed and depth in creative and deep thinking with help of digital technology.

 The region wise planning was in-depth with analysis of each space with buildings in polygon, point and line type of style. It had a very clear and definite style of representation of the architecture that must be really a well thought behind the content.

A wonderful learning experience in Architecture in London and vast knowledge

to gather and research on. Happy to be part of such a marvelous exhibition on Architecture digital turn at Building centre in London.