Driving innovation and delivering sustainable solutions in Urban Environments
The final session of this year's Creating Sustainable Cities Conference will explore the vital role that sustainable solutions and innovations can play in delivering a more vibrant, sustainable future for the UK's cities and towns. New technologies and approaches to service delivery are being developed at a staggering rate and will bring enormous benefits to urban landscapes. However, the sustainable solutions and innovations will be meaningless unless we can identify ways to fund them. This session looks at how the sustainable city agenda is helping to drive innovation and how sustainable city projects can be delivered across the UK.
OUR SPEAKERS
FAYE SCOTT
HOST:
Faye Scott works to share the learning and experience of Ashden Award winners with policy makers. As cities around the UK develop their green agendas, Faye aims to ensure that their policies are informed by the experience of Ashden's winners, enabling them to thrive, and making it easier for similar projects to get off the ground in future. She will use her experience to host our Driving Innovation session, which features representatives from the public, private and academic sectors.
ASHDEN
UK RESEARCH & POLICY MANAGER
DR DANIELA
MELANDRI
FUTURE CITIES CATAPULT
RESEARCH & DEV. FUNDING MANAGER
Dr Daniela Melandri is the Future Cities Catapult Research and Development Funding Manager and works daily with UK, EU and International partners in shaping/delivering collaborative research and development projects in the Urban landscape. On behalf of Innovate UK, Daniela is coordinating the SUGI ERANET Call on Sustainable Urbanisation, which is a joint activities between the JPI Urban Europe and the Belmont Forum http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/calls/sugi/
SPEAKER:
DR JAMES TAPLIN
INNOVATE UK
LEAD TECHNOLOGIST FOR URBAN LIVING
Dr James Taplin joined Innovate UK in August 2014 to help shape and drive their new urban living innovation programme.The importance of understanding systems and the ways in which they interact to create strength and resilience has been a common thread running throughout James' work. This has been bolstered by working with a wide range of stakeholders both here and overseas – including government, business, and the third sector. With an academic background in ecology and environmental economics James is a fantastic addition to our speakers lineup.
SPEAKER:
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/
innovate-uk