OnDemand: How can we use data and technology to make our cities and places smart?

Melissa Zanocco 

Head of Programme

Infrastructure Client Group

As Head of Programmes for the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG), I bring together the most progressive infrastructure clients, industry leaders, Government representatives and the wider built environment ecosystem in the UK, to share best practice in order to accelerate change and improve the performance of infrastructure. ICG leads the Construction Leadership Council Infrastructure Industry Working Group to amplify its impact across the wider industry.

My areas of focus are: a systems approach to managing the built environment; Project 13, the outcome-focused, collaborative delivery model; digital transformation (including smart infrastructure, digital delivery, connected digital twins, data and information); carbon reduction, circular economy & biodiversity and equality, diversity & inclusion – in the knowledge that it is the combination of these things that will bring about change.

Molly Blatchly-Lewis

Global Cities, Transport & Infrastructure - Europe Lead

Accenture UK

Molly Blatchly-Lewis is a Strategist within Accenture’s Global Cities, Transport and Infrastructure Practice. She has worked with a wide range of government and private sector clients in the UK and internationally, specialising in sustainability, urban mobility, economic development, and emerging technologies such as 5G and digital twins. As a strategist, her focus is on how systems thinking can be used to tackle urban challenges, developing innovative, practical policies and solutions for sustainable impact.

Ali Nicholl 

Communication & Engagement

Iotics

Ali is part of the founding team at IOTICS, the game-changing start-up that is transforming how the world uses and shares data. Part of the leadership team he is responsible for driving awareness, acceptance and adoption of a new approach to delivering flourishing systems and services.

Ali’s passion is liberating the creative potential of communities of individuals, organisations and enterprises through safe secure interactions. Whether creating new services or tackling global crises the problem isn’t a lack of data, collectively we are awash with data. The challenge is access and security.

Luke Antoniou

Senior Editor

SmartCitiesWorld

Luke has been reporting on the implementation of smart technologies that benefit the public and public sector for four years.

He has particularly keen interest in smart and sustainable mobility and its role in influencing the decisions of urban planners, citizens and governments alike.