RICS European Smart Cities Conference

Building urban infrastructure for competitive real estate of the future

RICS European Smart Cities Conference 2015 brings together senior RICS leaders, industry experienced innovators, cutting-edge real estate and infrastructure professionals and those looking to learn more about the smart cities movement, progression and development across Europe through this one day programme tailored for surveyors and their role.

The conference will have interactive panel discussions, case-studies, explanation of the latest technologies and sessions highlighting the positive impacts that are changing the way a city, its infrastructure and its property operate to connect citizens and public services together to improve lives and remain internationally competitive.

This is the only surveyor-tailored conference examining the recent developments in the smart cities agenda, in terms of the connection with big data, infrastructure needs, BIM, investment, partnerships, local community engagement, project benefits, urban real estate and the business opportunity for the surveyors across the pipeline.

This programme is tailored for surveyors and particularly for those involved with commercial property, infrastructure, quantity surveying and construction, planning, development, telecommunications and general practice.

Keynote Speaker: Dan Byles
Dan Byles is the Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire and Bedworth and has a strong expertise in strategic UK energy policy. He sits on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee and served on the Energy Bill (2013) Committee. He is a Parliamentary advisor to the Green Alliance and he Chairs both the All Party Environment Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Unconventional Oil and Gas. He is the founder and Vice-Chair of the Smart Cities All Party Parliamentary Group. A former soldier, Dan was the youngest serving Major in the Army at the age of 27, and he holds two Guinness World Records for crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a wooden rowing boat and for walking to the Magnetic North Pole.

Artists / Speakers: Amanda Clack - RICS Senior Vice President (Conference Chair), Dan Byles MP - Founder and Vice-Chair - Smart Cities All Party Parliamentary Group (Opening Keynote), Louise Brooke-Smith - Director - Brooke Smith Planning and RICS President, Mark Bew - Chair - UK BIM Task Group, Dr Mike Short - Vice President - Public Affairs Telefonica Europe 02 and Former President - Institution of Engineering and Technology, Nick Tune - Director - Digital Products - BIM and Welsh office - BRE, Mark Talbot - Property and Infrastructure Technology - Arqiva and Chair - RICS Telecoms Forum, Simon Wainwright - Managing Director - J Peiser Wainwright Real Estate Advisers and Chair - RICS Commercial Property Markets Board, Paul Collins - Senior Lecturer Planning and Development - Nottingham Trent University and Chair RICS UK and International Planning and Development Professional Group Board, Dr Elsa Arcuate - Spatial Modelling and Complexity - Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Inete Ielite - Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) Management Board Member - Riga City Council (European Cultural City of the Year and World Top 20 Smart City), Professor Mark Deakin - Edinburgh Napier University, Dr Tom Knowland - Head - Sustainable Energy and Climate Change - Leeds City Council, Joe Mitton - Senior Advisor for Business and Enterprise - Mayor's Office - Greater London Authority, Matthias Krebbs - Director - Strategy - Mannheim City Council