David Alexander - CEO, Mydex

David is the Chief Executive of Mydex CIC, who run a digital trust platform forming part of the next generation of infrastructure for cities.  Mydex supports the safe and secure collection, storage and distribution of verified personal data to underpin a diverse range of transactions including identity assurance, age verification, proof of entitlement and status, travel, transport and planning.  Mydex equips citizens with a personal data store and privacy protecting set of identity credentials both under their control and free for life so that they can be be active participants in the digital economy independent of service providers across all sectors.  David is an advocate of person centred design a concept that places the individual at the centre, able to easily, safely and securely manage where, when and how their personal data and identity is used for what purposes.  Enabling a distributed ecosystem increases security, flexibility and removes the threats in inherent in traditional organisational centric approaches. Mydex is working with a number of cities and innovators delivering services into Cities of the future.

David Brown - Founding Director, Futurehand Ltd

David has spent the past 15 years helping start-up/scale-up companies in the UK build successful Customer Service, Customer Success, and Professional Services teams. He has done this mainly as a player/coach; initially working with customers himself and only building teams once he’s gained a clear understanding of what's needed to support the company's unique customer base.

In 2015, he used the knowledge gained from years of working in web analytics to found Adavow, an ad suppression platform that enables advertisers and ad networks to stop serving digital ads to consumers who have recently purchased a similar item, which increases digital budget efficiency by 10% or more.

David is a keen believer that the best way to become successful is to help others become successful and "What comes around, goes around."

Lorcan Burke - Think Smarter Analytics

Lorcan Burke, is an Advisor to Dublin City on Smart City strategy and implementation and Chairperson of Thinksmarter Analytics, a business focusing on decision making analytics using WiFi, mobile and IoT sensor data. Thinksmarter are currently deployed in large venues and cities such as FIRA in Barcelona, Dublin City and Cities, Retail, Stadium, Airports in all major geographies. Lorcan was Cisco’s Global CTO for Mobility covering all technologies including Smart Cities, IoT, WiFi. Previous to joining Cisco in 2011, Mr. Burke has started and fund raised for several companies and worked across the venture capital, security, mobile, technology, and computing sectors, at such innovation leaders as Nortel, Ericsson, Adaptive Mobile Security, Firstmark where he built national and dense urban networks in France, Germany, UK, Italy and others. Based in Dublin Lorcan enjoys road riding, sailing and restoring classic motorcycles.

Paul Copping - CTO, Fawley Waterside, CEO, Maxathon Ltd

Paul Copping has had a career spanning software  telecoms, transport and smart cities. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Fawley Waterside,  a new build "intelligent merchant city" on the Solent waterfront and backing on to the New Forest National Park.  With 1500 homes and a large commercial and Innovation campus, this development has the opportunity to implement best practice in every phase of its design, build an operations. 

Stephen Lorimer - Smart London Strategy and Delivery Officer for the Mayor of London, Greater London Authority

Dr. Stephen Lorimer is the Smart London Strategy and Delivery Officer for the Mayor of London at the Greater London Authority. He works in the Smart London Team who is responsible for the Mayor's plans and programmes in smart city technologies and innovation in digital public services. This includes drafting and implementing the Mayor’s roadmap to make London the smartest city in the world and managing the Smart London Board.  Before his work for the Mayor, he was an academic in city technology plans and advanced spatial analysis in London and New York after a career as an urban planning and design consultant to local authorities across the UK, Ireland, and France. 

Llewelyn Morgan - Service Manager – Infrastructure and Innovation. Co-founder and Co-chair of Oxford Smart City , Oxfordshire County Council

Llewelyn leads a newly established service area within Oxfordshire County Council that leads on Innovation for the Council. The Service has been built up by Llewelyn and colleagues, starting as a small outward focused Research and Innovation team, leading on developing innovative strategies and projects in Transport and Environment it is now broadening its scope to encompass challenges in Social Care, Education, Public Health supporting these directorates to work collaboratively on innovative solutions to long held or increasing problems. The service has built up a good reputation working on 24 IUK, H2020 and EIB projects to date such as the DRIVEN CAV2 project and a new V2G project, a number of EV and CAV3 projects. These are delivered in partnership with Oxford’s and other UK/international Universities and private sector partners. Llewelyn leads work on developing collaborative approaches to real world problems, this has lead to collaborations such as MobOx, Culham City (AV Test Bed), Zipabout Platform development. Along with City Council colleagues he established the Smart Oxford group with Oxford’s Universities, LEP and local businesses to establish the “Smart City” vision for the Oxford City Region and develop collaborations, providing the opportunity for innovative organisations to meet Oxfordshire’s challenges and at the same time develop worldwide market opportunities.

Felix Sanchez-Garcia - Lead Data Scientist, GeoSpock

Felix is a leading expert in Machine Learning and Data Science. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Columbia University in New York and has accumulated more than 10 years of experience applying Data Science in contrasting fields (news and media, cancer research, e-commerce and telecommunications).

Tony Sceales - Head of Programme Development, 5G Programme, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)

Tony Sceales is Head of Programme Development on the DCMS 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme.

The £200m Programme has been central to the funding and development of a wide range of 5G testbeds, creating momentum and accelerating deployment of 5G networks across the UK.

Tony has spent over 25 years in the telecoms and technology industries, working on major projects at global firms including BT, IBM, Telstra, KPN, Swisscom, Prudential and China Gas, as well as with growth start-up innovators.

He is an Ambassador and former Executive Committee member of the TM Forum, and collaborated in producing some of the key thinking around partnership business models and B2B2X trading.

His role at DCMS is to drive engagement with key players across industry sectors to encourage successful 5G investment and adoption in the UK.

Dejan Bojic - Head of Technical Advisory, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Director, High Summits Consulting

Dejan is a senior consultant who has advised a range of clients across both public and private sectors. His particular focus is development of open and shared connectivity and data infrastructure to support product development and service transformation within complex innovation ecosystems.

Dejan’s currently employed by the UK government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) where he leads the technology advisory team within Future Networks Programme. Prior to this role he has successfully delivered Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) programme for DSIT/DCMS.

A firm believer in creating value through collaboration between public and private sectors and across technology layers, Dejan’s aspiration as a SIG Champion is to shine a spotlight on market innovation opportunities through CW’s uniquely rich network of experts and influencers.

David Brown - Founding Director, Futurehand Ltd

David has spent the past 15 years helping start-up/scale-up companies in the UK build successful Customer Service, Customer Success, and Professional Services teams. He has done this mainly as a player/coach; initially working with customers himself and only building teams once he’s gained a clear understanding of what's needed to support the company's unique customer base.

In 2015, he used the knowledge gained from years of working in web analytics to found Adavow, an ad suppression platform that enables advertisers and ad networks to stop serving digital ads to consumers who have recently purchased a similar item, which increases digital budget efficiency by 10% or more.

David is a keen believer that the best way to become successful is to help others become successful and "What comes around, goes around."

Mary-Ann Claridge - Founder, Mandrel Systems

Mary-Ann is the Lead data scientist at Mandrel Systems. She started her career with research into sonar (think Hunt for Red October without Sean Connery). She is now embracing application and technical domains including education (all the analysis, modelling and visualisation for BestCourse4Me), smart city, retail, voice and speech recognition, and financial and logistical optimisation.

Daniel Clarke - Head of Technology and Innovation, Greater Cambridge Partnership

Dan leads the Smart Cambridge Programme which was set up to explore how data, innovative technology and better connectivity can be used to transform the way people live, work and travel in the Greater Cambridge area and beyond. Local councils, technology businesses, university researchers and partner organisations are working together to find smart ways to tackle city challenges, such as transport and air quality.

John Davies - International Trade Adviser – Technology, Department for Business and Trade, Director, Strategy 4 Technology Ltd, Thematic Group Co-Leader, United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC)

John has carried out a unique mix of strategic and operational roles with placements in the USA and Europe and partnerships in Asia. Over recent years much of his private sector and Government activities has been in the area of mobile and wireless communications, digital media, Smart Cities, Cloud and Big Data and M2M/IoT as well as emerging and disruptive technologies. Helping technology start ups in the UK and internationally sourcing technology and partners as well as provide due diligence in areas of M&A and stock listings. Operating as a UK Government Advisor John has briefed both UK and International Government Ministers and Departments on Smart Cities and respective technologies and applications. This has included providing international workshops, mentoring and consulting at senior levels. John has designed and ran awareness and implementation workshops for international companies and led international delegations to overseas markets, the most recent to Singapore and Malaysia in partnership with InnovateUK. John is an active member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Smart Cities. John will be engaging with potential new international companies and organisations, and supporting CW member companies.