SmartSheffield #17 - Looking to the Future
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About this Event
It's our first SmartSheffield event for more than six months and after so much disruption to our lives and our city, we want to Look to the Future!
It's been a long hard year, but as we head into an uncertain 2021 we want to find out what some of our major urban technology programmes are planning, and what efforts are being made to support the most vulnerable among us and what role technology has played.
The event will be held online, of course, but we're also going to try to keep to our original format as far as possible: we'll host a few short talks and then use our time to meet and connect with each other around these topics. There will be no Q&A after each talk, but questions can be asked of the speakers in breakout areas, after all the talks are over. We can't offer food and refreshments, unfortunately, but we are going to make a effort to provide you with breaks, and spaces for engaging discussion and conversation despite everyone being remote. We should also hopefully attract people from further afield.
Our speaker line-up is still forming, and we'll be announcing new speakers over the coming weeks, but we're confident that we're going to be hearing from the following:
- Prof John Clark: " Looking to the Future: towards a connected resilient society with IoT". John is the director of Pitch-In at the University of Sheffield, which addresses the barriers to adoption of Internet of Things technologies in cities and industry.
- Andy Saunders from IoT Tribe North joins us to present the next instalment of the internet of things accelerator, which will welcome it's 3rd cohort to Barnsley Digital Media Centre in the new year.
- The Urban Flows Observatory at the University of Sheffield, which has created static and mobile sensor networks across the city to measure Sheffield's 'urban metabolism'.
- Rob Bullock from Connexin and Darren Butt from Amey on Sheffield's new CityOS-based smart sensor system and their plans for 2021.
- Sam Chapman from The Floow on the Sheffield Covid-19 traffic analysis they have undertaken, and another study looking at "rat-runs" and how changes can be made in anticipation of the return of high-traffic levels next year.
- An overview from Sheffield Digital of the ways in which Sheffield's digital technology industry has responded to Covid-19.
There will also be a meeting of The Things Network Sheffield at 5pm beforehand. Please book your ticket to this meeting when you register for the main meetup!
ABOUT SMARTSHEFFIELD
The SmartSheffield meetup is a free and inclusive open forum and social meeting space for anyone interested in 'smart cities' or urban innovation, and everyone is welcome.
The group is open for anyone to come along, find out what’s going on and contribute - the main aims are to bring people together who share an interest in using technology to improve the city and the lives of its citizens, and to discover, discuss, get involved in and give birth to local smart city projects and initiatives.
We employ Sheffield Digital's Code of Conduct and abide by the standards it lays down.
To get an idea of the kinds of topics we cover, please read about the previous meetups at https://SmartSheffield.city
We really look forward to seeing you there and hope you can make it!
Chris Dymond - Unfolding.
Arup is a global independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services to shape the future of the built environment.The firm's independent spirit, culture of responsibility and unorthodox approach stem in part from its ownership structure, as it is owned in trust on behalf of its staff.Sheffield was Arup's first UK office to open outside of London and has become embedded in the regeneration of the city, continuously contributing to the region’s transformation.
Pitch-In - Connecting Capabilities for the Internet of Things
The Pitch-In project (which stands for Promoting the Internet of Things via Collaboration between HEIs and Industry) will extract benefit for the UK from IoT technologies and expertise via wide-ranging collaboration between academic institutions and the public and private sectors.
Funded until 2021 through Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund, the four university partners - Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge and Newcastle - are investigating the adoption of Internet of Things technologies across four priority sectors: Cities, Energy, Health & Wellbeing, and Manufacturing.
Creative Space is an award winning property management and consultancy company that operates workspaces and urban realm for clusters of knowledge based businesses including digital, creative industries, advanced manufacturing, science and technology sectors. Specifically targeted at innovation and high growth sectors, Creative Space provides managed workspace solutions as well as meanwhile use strategies to reduce liabilities for property owners and to stimulate business growth and enterprise.
Creative Space operate the Electric Works, at the heart of Sheffield's Digital Campus just a few minutes walk from the Train Station, Sheffield Hallam University's city campus and the Cultural Industries Quarter.
Sheffield Digital is the association for the people and businesses of Sheffield's digital industries. Founded in 2015 it aims to help develop the best possible environment for setting up, working in and growing digital businesses in Sheffield and the surrounding region.
Sheffield Digital does this by concentrating on three things:
CONNECT – bringing together the people and businesses that are Sheffield’s digital industries, to foster collaboration and learning, and to have fun.
REPRESENT – providing a single, powerful voice for the digital community in order to influence policy makers and educators.
PROMOTE – shouting about our digital businesses and their capabilities locally, nationally and internationally.
Sheffield Digital operates on a not-for-profit basis, with any income made going back into running the organisation and supporting the work it does.
