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Smart Cities - Session A2

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  • Session
  • Tuesday, 21 June 2016
  • 11:21 - 11:21
  • Duration: 8 mins
  • Publication date: 29 Jun 2016
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event 8th Future of Wireless International Conference

About the session

As one of the World’s Megacities London has many challenges to overcome in transport, energy and water management. Other cities in the UK are also pursuing their own smart city experience for their citizens. Different cities seek to embed their culture in their approaches to the technology enabled city, but do all these initiatives lead to fragmentation and ultimately stall the demand for technologies? How can UK cities and companies that invest in the UK benefit from activities happening in the UK and leverage the global network of connections to cities to create competitive product and service platforms. We will also explore how smart city initiatives around the globe have and are creating smart citizens.

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  • Aging population
  • Bluetooth
  • Cellular
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Connectivity
  • Home Area Networks
  • IoT
  • M2M
  • Mesh networks
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Mobile payments
  • NFC
  • Satellite systems
  • Singapore
  • Smart Nation
  • White Space
  • WiFi/IEEE 802.11x
  • urban density

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  • Steve Leonard

    Steve Leonard

    McLaren Applied Technologies, Chief Innovation Officer

    Mr Steve Leonard is a technology-industry leader with a wide range of experiences, having played key roles in building several global technology companies in Software, Hardware and Services. In his current role as Chief Executive of SG Innovate, Mr Leonard has been chartered to help translate some of the early tech R&D innovations that Singapore has gained a global reputation for, into commercial success by connecting them with the relevant industry corporates, start-ups and funds across sectors such as Digital Tech, FinTech, CleanTech and MedTech. Prior to his current role, Mr Leonard served as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) within the Singapore Government, focusing on further developing the Smart Nation vision for the nation. Prior to joining IDA, Mr Leonard served as President of EMC Asia Pacific and Japan for six years, and as President of Asia Pacific and Japan for Symantec/Veritas Software for three years. Mr Leonard also spent 18 years with EDS, where he led various European and Asian operations for the majority of that period.
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