Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future

1. SEARCHING
FOR THE CITY
OF THE
FUTURE
15 March 2016
Smart Cities & Communities:
Shaping the Future
Manchester Conference Centre
Ewen Gibb
Innovation & the Lab
@futurecitiescat

2. WE ARE
FUTURE CITIES
CATAPULT
A UK Government-backed
organisation making cities
better places to live.

3. The Catapult
Family
Closing the gap between concept and
commercialisation
Unlocking opportunity and reducing
innovation risk
Offshore Renewable Energy
Glasgow
High Value Manufacturing
AFRC – Strathclyde
CPI – Wilton/Sedgefield
AMRC & NAMRC – Rotherham
WMG – Coventry
MTC – Anstry
NCC – Bristol
Transport Systems
Milton Keynes
Connected Digital
Economy
London
Future Cities
London
Cell Therapy
London
Satellite Applications
London

4. Cities of the Future
By 2050 almost 70 percent of us will live
in urban areas. The cities of the future
must be adaptable and resilient if they
are to respond to the changing needs of
their citizens.
We know that the ideas to improve our cities already
exist - in businesses, city leadership and citizens. Our
purpose is to find the solutions, test them and bring
them to market, positioning the UK as a leader in the
global smart-cities economy.

5. How we
collaborate
We are a project based organisation and
like to work with partners in a number of
different ways:
Bid for funding from a range of sources
(including EU H2020, Newton Fund, and
others)
Core Grant Commercial Collaborative R&D
Streams of revenue
Delivering innovation projects that advance
the mission of Future Cities Catapult
We invest our core grant in the Urban
Innovation Centre as well as internal
innovation projects

6. EXAMPLES OF
WORK

7. City Initiatives for Technology, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (CITIE) is a framework to help
city governments develop practical policy,
which supports innovation and
entrepreneurship.
We have collaborated to shape the thinking and
developed a website to articulate and visualise
the CITIE tool.
(See more at http://www.citie.org)
CITIE Index

8. Only by
understanding
cities can we
improve them

9. As part of our regular future-gazing research,
we’ve explored how five existing and near-
future technologies could support the way-
finding, route choices and safety of cyclists on
the city’s busy roads.
IoT for Cycling

10. Testing and
prototyping
@ Somerset House

11.
The role of the
demonstrator

12. Small and large
scale urban
laboratories

13. Charles
Montgomery
“It is impossible to separate
the life and design of a city
from the attempt to
understand happiness, to
experience it, and to build it
for society.
The search shapes cities, and
cities shape the search in
return.”

14. Thank You
www.futurecities.catapult.org.uk
@futurecitiescat