FUTURE CITIES FORUM

The Wall Street Journal has quite rightly highlighted Singapore's interest in staying ahead with smart technology. Data has now been fed into an online platform 'Virtual Singapore' it records, that allows the government in Singapore to predict how an infectious disease might spread or how crowds could react to an explosion in a shopping mall. There are now plans to share data with the private sector in an attempt to encourage innovation. The market for smart-city technology i

Silver Spring Networks has been extremely successful worldwide at delivering data platforms to drive innovation. So it was a pleasure to invite the European Commercial Director, Smart Cities and Lighting, Brian McGuigan to talk to us at our Future Cities Forum on 6th March at the IET, London about city attitudes to embracing the Internet of Things. Brian was clear that within Europe there are different cultural histories meaning that there is a variance in attitude. However t

Concern is growing that future smart technology will overwhelm the individual character of our cities and existing neighbourhoods and may fail to meet the needs of our local communities. This is according to former Director of Environment at Cambridge City Council, Simon Payne, who has worked in local government for over 40 years, now runs his own business Lambsquay Consulting of Cambridge Ltd. He warns that citizens might increasingly feel threatened by their loss of local

The complexity of outlining a risk plan for cyber security has been discussed by EY and Coventry University with our future cities safety in mind. So much of our future cities' success will depend on smart technology. We are sharing the video below on the day that a new college at Bletchley Park to train workers to deal with cyber attacks has been announced. Steve Holt, Partner in the Financial Services Advisory team at EY, says that company boards need to really understand w