FUTURE CITIES FORUM

We are delighted that the Director of the Office for Life Sciences, Tamsin Berry, will speak at our Cambridge forum in November which will discuss the strategies required to create success for the UK's innovation hubs. Our 'science cities' forum will be held at Selwyn College Cambridge on 20th November 2019 where we will be discussing the best approaches to creating knowledge hubs and clusters within cities that are both economically and socially successful - and very importa

Our second summer housing research round table looks at 'building better, building beautiful' following the government's insistence that new planning and design should be of the highest quality. It is being held at UCL's new campus at HereEast and will inform our debate at our larger September forum on city planning which takes place on the Greenwich Peninsula. Approaches to redesigning and regenerating shopping centres and retail parks for residential use will be discussed.

We are very pleased to announce that the CEO of Innovation Birmingham, Dr David Hardman MBE will be speaking at our 'science cities' forum to be held in November at Cambridge University. We will be discussing the best strategies for creating world leading science knowledge hubs. David has had a twenty year plus career in knowledge transfer, using his expertise and interests to promote the development and success of cross-sector knowledge based businesses. He started his care

We are delighted that Kim Smith, Head of Smart Mobility dg:cities, will be speaking at our 18th September forum at Ravensbourne University London. Kim is a transport specialist with over 25 years in transport planning, project delivery, policy formation and high-level strategy and dg:cities is moving its base into the university campus shortly. dg:cities is an urban innovation company specialising in the integration of 'smart city' technologies and approaches to maximise thei

We are delighted that Robin North, CEO and Co-Founder of Immense Simulations will be speaking at our Future Cities Forum on 18th September in Greenwich, London. Immense are a software company enabling intelligent mobility, that is already helping transport stakeholders, including Highways England and leading local authorities across the UK, make informed decisions associated with the movement of people and goods. Immense also works with clients in the USA and the EU. It is wo

We are extremely pleased that the highly experienced planner, Sharon Strutt, working in the London Borough of Redbridge, will be speaking at our Future Cities Forum on 18th September to be held on the Greenwich Peninsula at Ravensbourne University London. A Chartered Town Planner, Sharon has a wealth of expertise developing and delivering large and complex regeneration projects, with over 10 years’ experience as a Head of Service in north and east London. Sharon led producti

Image - Waterbeach masterplan looking south towards Cambridge (Urban & Civic Plc / Fletcher Priest Architects on land owned by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation) As the UK Prime Minister urges making visa applications easier for leading scientists and their families to work in the UK, we speak to the Director of Planning and Economic Development at Cambridge City Council, Stephen Kelly on creating the best environment for attracting global talent. Stephen will be joini

Energy prices and protection for the customer is a topic in our future energy blog series, that Future Cities Forum is following closely this autumn as Ofgem has recently announced price caps which it says will aim to lower bills this winter. We spoke to Mark Bramah, Strategy Lead for Robin Hood Energy, who joined our energy infrastructure panel discussions at our June London City Hall forum, to ask him for a reaction to this important announcement from Ofgem. Robin Hood Ener

We are delighted that Dominic Eaton, Director and Head of Residential at the architecture firm Stride Treglown will be speaking at our September forum on the Greenwich Peninsula at Ravensbourne University London. We will be holding discussions about best practice in designing housing in new districts but with an eye to the recent government announcement that more care should be taken to make sure developments should add to their environment, in short a policy of 'building bea

We are delighted that Ivan Harbour, Partner at the leading international architecture practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, will be speaking at Future Cities Forum in September. Our forum takes place at Ravensbourne University London, next to the O2 Arena in one of London's most important areas of rapid change and development, the Greenwich Peninsula. New housing, retail and entertainment are key to this important district, which faces Canary Wharf and the emerging cultu