Future Cities

Future Cities

AI Across the World: Top 10 Cities in 2019

AI has often been described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It has become a top priority for companies, with many actively investing and exploring the capabilities of AI....

Future Cities

How Can We Plan for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments?

Offering increased productivity, accessibility, efficiency, a more positive impact on the environment, and the potential for additional safety, autonomous vehicles are widely regarded as the future of urban transportation. But how can self-driving...

Energy

How Can Machine Learning Create a Smarter Grid?

Across the globe, energy systems are changing and creating unprecedented challenges for the organisations tasked with ensuring the lights stay on. In the UK, National Grid is facing shrinking margins, looming capacity shortages...

Future Cities

Recap: Videos From RE•WORK Connected City Summit 2016

On 16-17 March in London, we held the third annual RE•WORK Connected City Summit, bringing together city and government representatives, industry innovators, exciting startups and leading academics for two days of discussions...

Future Cities

Women in Tech: Equality, Challenges & Advice with Tia Kansara

To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the sector....

Big Data

Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement for a Truly Connected City

Finding the time and space for everyone to meet to present, properly understand and then discuss a project can be time-consuming and difficult. Many online collaboration solutions provide for communications within a project...

Future Cities

How Can We Make Cities Smart?

Graham Southorn is a freelance science and technology writer and a former editor of BBC Focus magazine. He covers the science behind navigation and mapping for the HERE 360 blog. Thanks to social...

Future Cities

How Can We Ensure Equality in Science and Technology?

To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we’ve interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the...

Future Cities

Can We Crowdfund Our Way to Smarter Cities?

Whether you want to transform a playground, bring an old building back to life, spruce up a park, repurpose an unused area or create something completely new, crowdfunding enables people to attract support...

Connected Home

How Will Renewable Energy & Machine Learning Change Our Future Homes?

In Stuttgart, Germany, a prototype house is demonstrating what is possible with state-of-the-art renewable energy and building automation technology.The Aktivhaus B10 is part of a research project exploring how materials, design and...

Energy

Smart Cities: What Can We Expect in the Next 5 Years?

Cities are a focal point in the mission to create a sustainable planet for future generations, as urban areas are at the heart of unprecedented population growth and subsequent global challenges such as...

Future Cities

International Day of Women & Girls in Science: Part 2

This is Part 2 of 3 in our celebrations for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! As science and technology companies continue to grow rapidly, with tech giants like Facebook and...

Future Cities

Designing Intelligent Data Infrastructures for Smart Cities

Dr. Larissa Suzuki is a Researcher at University College of London, where her innovative research contributes to a growing body of knowledge in smart cities and urban data management, as well as City...

Future Cities

Creating Pollution-Eating Facades for Cleaner Cities

We are facing an era of rapid urbanization, with 70% of the world's population expected to be living in urban areas by 2050. As our cities grow at an exponential rate, how will...

Future Cities

3D Printing Bio-inspired Materials for Future Cities

David Correa is a designer, doctoral candidate and instructor at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart. At the ICD, David is leading the research field of bio-inspired 3D...

Big Data

Leveraging Data Mining & Visualization in Future Cities

The number of people living in urban areas is expected to double by 2050, and the challenge of supporting sustainable growth without exceeding the capacity of infrastructure, as well as meeting key carbon...

Future Cities

IoT & Smart Cities: Not Horizontal, Cross Vertical!

Robert Russell is Chief Technology Officer at Senseye, an easy-to-use, online service that takes data from equipment, sensors and the environment to provide predictions and forecasts that keep businesses one step ahead. Connect...

Big Data

Future Cities & Smart Citizens: Envisioning the Connected City of the Future

Discover how sensors, robotics, collective intelligence and a network of connected devices are disrupting future cities. The 3rd annual RE.WORK Connected City Summit will showcase the latest technology advancements across IoT, sensors,...

Future Cities

Agtech for the Masses: Using Smartphones to Grow Food

How can we use emerging technology to positively impact food production and ensure a sustainable future?Niwa is a visionary company aiming to do just that: by building a smart connected platform, enabling...

Future Cities

Behind the Face: Augmented Reality Takes Over London

If you're at the Future Technology Summit today, you may have already 'blipped' a #BehindTheFace poster!#BehindTheFace is a project by Unbox London, who's mission is to stretch the realms of imagination, using...

Energy

Spotlight on Connected Core Services in Smart Cities

As global Smart Cities flourish, Bigbelly is transforming one of the least efficient core services – public waste collection. It’s not the only innovation expanding connected street furniture like payphones, trash cans, park...

Energy

Soofa Is Creating Smart, Sustainable & Social Spaces

Smart phones are no longer just a phone - so why should benches just be a seat? More than half of the world’s population lives in an urban environment, and wants to...

Big Data

The Science of Traffic: Can IoT Help End Congestion?

Like most great ideas, they appear simple and logical once they’re created. INRIX is no different. When the company was founded nearly a decade ago, drivers and departments of transportation relied on...

Smart Transport

A $7 Trillion Opportunity: Introducing Boston's Next Generation of IoT Disruptors

IDC have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) market will reach $7 trillion in just five years. However, despite this, a recent study found that 73% of companies have yet to make any...

Energy

Reward a Startup Trying to Make the World More Sustainable for Future Generations

To celebrate this year's Earth Day we are offering a free exhibit space to a startup at any RE.WORK event taking place within 2015. The startup must be working within sustainability &...