Andy has 35 years experience in the telecommunications and technology sector. He is currently Director of Private Mobile Networks at Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG), the UK’s leading provider of mobile-infrastructure-as-a-service to commercial and operation real estate including; shopping centres, stadiums, airports, hotels, offices and campus environments. Previously Andy has held senior positions at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and Virgin Media as well as a number of UK and US technology start-ups. The majority of his career has been spent developing and implementing solutions which create connected environments dedicated to supporting critical operational technology.

Arran joined CIM with a passion for combating climate change. He has a keen interest in how disruptive technology has the ability to remove barriers to delivering demand-side energy savings for large property owners & operators in a very short time frame. Previous to joining CIM, Arran worked for Total Energies in the UK developing his expertise in the UK Energy landscape. Arran has worked with leading brands such as Knight Frank and CBRE supporting them on their Net Zero journey, and sharing his drive for a sustainable future.

R8 Jenny is the first digital employee for commercial real estate that uses computational power to ensure healthy indoor climate cost-efficiently and with the smallest carbon footprint. Siim has more than 10 years experience in software development and buildings HVAC systems modelling.

Laura leads a team of asset managers, based in the London office, with c £2bn of office assets to manage across the UK, on behalf of international clients. She was appointed Client Experience Lead for EMEA offices in 2022. Defining the role as the first incumbent, Laura is building and developing a team to deliver excellent service to both clients and occupiers.
With 18 years’ experience, of which 16 years have been with CBRE IM, Laura has held a number of investment management and leadership roles within the business.
Laura is passionate about cities, having lived in New York and now London, and developing places within them for people to thrive. She has led repositioning projects such as Angel Central (a retail destination in Islington), 10 Brindley Place (the largest office refurbishment in Birmingham to complete in 2022) and Atlantic House (a City of London office refurbishment). Wellbeing, creativity, technology, adaptability and long term sustainability are at the heart of her projects.
As a mother of two young children, Laura has always been a strong advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion and has led a wellbeing and mental health working group at CBRE IM, which is all part of a wider initiative to provide a more inclusive environment for the team to work, learn and grow.

Eric Woods is a research director leading Guidehouse Insights’ smart cities and urban innovation services. In this role, he brings together his experience across the energy, mobility, buildings, and government technology sectors. As well as authoring a series of ground-breaking research reports on smart cities, Dr. Woods has led several major smart city consultancy projects.
He has almost 30 years of experience as an analyst and consultant on new technology trends including in-depth research in the areas of IT infrastructure, data analytics, knowledge management, public sector IT, and cleantech innovation. He is frequent speaker at industry conferences and is quoted regularly in major publications. He has worked on consultancy assignments to a wide range of clients, including public and private sector technology users, utilities, and global IT players, as well as many small and growing technology companies.

Robert leads IBM’s UK Digital Real Estate and Sustainability practice and has over 20 years experience helping Public Sector clients to optimise the way they manage the interface between their Physical Environment (buildings and assets) and their Digital Environments (the systems that support them).

Robert has advised and led a range of major worjplace programme for clients including the MOD, HMRC, the Home Office and the NHS. He is a leading proponent of applying user-centric design to support clients reinvent the way they apply smarter technologies to improve efficiency, experience, business outcomes and more sustainable ways of working.

Andres Guzman joined Tishman Speyer in 2022 as Head of ESG for Tishman Speyer’s European business. Andres oversees the integration and delivery of the firm’s European ESG strategy to ensure performance and manage associated risks, aligning with global goals. Andres has over 13 years of experience in driving responsible growth having previously focused on providing functional leadership to property consultancies. Most recently, he was Head of Sustainability for Colliers, embedding ESG into property investment strategies, chairing various ESG committees, and managing compliance with EU carbon legislation.

He is passionate about driving sustainability in real estate and has a proven track record of positive internal and external engagement to meet ambitious targets. Andres is a regular presenter on sustainability topics, has contributed to policy consultations on energy legislation, and participated in the World Green Building Council’s Better Places for People campaign.

Ashley spent 26 years working in the Defence Sector before to entering the commercial world of lighting. Realising the wider opportunity for connected lighting and how a wireless data backbone would enable valuable data insights, Ashley co-founded Chess and began introducing Mymesh to lighting OEMs and end users.

Over the last four years, Ashley has supported clients across both private and public sector to develop their smart building journey, realising a range of smart building programmes across verticals including healthcare, industry, office, education, and transportation.

He continues to be an advocate in seeking ways to develop sensor eco-systems that leverage the Mymesh backbone that will, through data acquisition, improve building insights and enable integration and interoperability with existing building services.

Mymesh, a secure and scalable wireless network that is designed to enable a smart built environment.

Sandeep setup the fast growing UK Launchpad in 2018 to support and guide tech companies with market entry into the UK market. As part of this he works with a large number of smart city solutions. He also Chairs on Smart Cities for Tech London Advocates and as part of this is very well connected to the Smart City ecosystem. As part of his roles he regularly organises and participates in a number of smart city events and talks.

Prior to this, Sandeep Arora spent 20 years as a senior executive across a number of investment banks such as JP Morgan and UBS, providing leadership in the areas of Risk Management, Policy and Compliance.

An experienced engineer and entrepreneur, Adam is a co-founder and Head of IoT at HomeLINK. He has a background in robotics & AI, secure military communications and deploying IoT solutions across multiple sectors. Passionate about bringing positive social change through the application of innovative technology.

Involved in the controls / BMS Industry for over 40 years, founding and heading up innovative businesses for over 30 years, leading into the Smart Buildings arena.

Advisor to the worlds leading consultancy practices

Entrepreneurial leader within the Internet of Things products both hardware and software

Now part of the EQUANS digital services sector and leading the drive towards the next generation of intelligent connected buildings.

Tom holds Fellowship status with CIBSE for his contribution to the Industry, a marker of his commitment to clients, projects and consultancy in the built environments. Tom has maintained strong links with local academia lecturing on the subject of ‘Building Management Systems & Technology. Tom also works closely with the wider industry, such as Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA) and CIBSE ICT and Controls committee. Tom sits on the judging panel for BCIA’s annual awards and is a working group member on the EU’s ‘Smart Ready Indicator’ assessment. Tom led the first building in the world to be accredited under the new smart building certification scheme SmartScore.

A star wars geek, car enthusiast, mum of 3, and massive lover of tequila and cake; Claire part owns the largest privately owned specialist M and E company in the UK. Next year she will become the 3rd female president of the UKs largest trade association in the built environment - BESA. Having trail blazed in a seriously male dominated sector, Linaker, Claire’s 4th child, has seen 120% organic growth in 4 years. A multi-award winning passionate pioneer of bringing your authentic self to work, she demonstrates why being everything anyone shouldn’t be; traditionally in the engineering sector, has been an asset not an obstacle to loving the journey.

With over 30 years as an Information and Communications Technology professional, Billy has covered a variety of roles in the U.K, Middle East, US and Europe. His work provides clients with unparalleled, in-depth and passionate market knowledge on areas such as ICT passive and active infrastructures, smart buildings, security systems and audio-visual systems.
Billy is recognised for his ability to translate business needs from strategy into structured value for money solutions, supporting company’s business objectives and successfully managing the integration of technology, staff, budgets and time frames, from brief development analysis to well thought-out, low-risk implemented solutions.
As the Divisional Director of ICT at HDR, Billy specialises in IT operations, project set-up, strategic design and the implementation of technology in support of the day-to-day operations of large global organisations.

Jim has worked within the building automation industry for 30 years and has extensive knowledge of Building Energy Management Systems (BeMS) and integration with other Building Automation Systems such as Fire, Security, Access & Lighting. He has supported selection and impementation of systems in a wide variety of projects including major office developments, research sites healtcare providers, schools and retail outlets.

Jim believes that integrated systems have a large role to play in making building environments efficient, safe, comfortable and can introduce automated processes that assist with compliance which is becoming increasingly more important.

Whilst Jim is relatively new to ABB he brings a wealth of industry knowledge to support the future of buildings using more intelligent IoT based devices to deliver efficient and safe buildings.

Alf has over 20 years’ technical experience working as a network engineer in LAN networking, WiFi, IT security and network management IT sectors. He provides valuable insights in practical ways to plan, install, maintain and troubleshooting IT networks, both in Data Centers and offices

For the last 11 years, Alf has specialised in LAN and WIFi network testing solutions, but now works for ‘AEM-Test & Measurement’ as their European ‘Technical Sales Manager’, who’s solutions provide testing and certification of structured cabling (copper and fibre).

Following my degree I worked in practical Archaeology before transferring my geotechnical skills into the growing UK Renewable Energy industry.

I have worked in building services since 2007, initially specialising in heat pumps and their integration with other renewable technologies.

I built on my technical and industry knowledge, along with project and people management skills, in positions for a multi-technology solution provider, two equipment manufacturers [prior to my current employer], and a high-end design and project company.

I am currently a Senior Design Support Partner for Trend Control Systems, part of the Honeywell Group. In this role I am responsible for ensuring the sound design, technical development, and project management of complex projects on behalf of end-users and contractors.

Mark Bouldin has an extensive history in digital transformation helping many clients adopt new approaches taking value from data to make informed decisions. Having worked with some major corporations such as Hitachi Vantara and Tyco Mark joined JCI as a Subject Matter expert helping organisations improve the use of buildings through the adoption of smart technologies combining AI/ML with IOT and Operational technologies affecting sustainability, health and wellbeing and improving occupant experience domains.

Jamie Cameron is the Director of Digital Solutions for Johnson Controls and runs the Sales, Professional Services and Partnering efforts for the UK. Jamie’s background is from technology focusing on Big Data and Analytics. He has a passion for delivering innovative and disruptive technologies to challenging business problems.

With a first class degree in Management Science from Loughborough University he is a keen footballer, golfer and kite-surfer.

Business Development Director of zencontrol, one of the most innovative lighting controls companies globally. I have worked in the lighting industry for over 30 years, specialising in lighting controls. Successfully launching a digital lighting platform in the UK during the 90’s and then worked at an international level promoting lighting controls across Europe, The Middle East and Far east. A member of the Lighting Industry Association for over 25 years in the UK I founded and chaired the controls group and represented the UK on lighting control and control gear technologies internationally. I currently represent zencontrol on the DALI Alliance Promotion Work Group. A Fellow of CIBSE Society of Light and Lighting and member of the communication group, I have lectured on both the degree and Masters in Lighting. A strong advocate of education and training, I firmly believe that education empowers and allows end users and engineers to fully understand and appreciate the benefits of control.

Kas Mohammed is the Vice President of the Digital Buildings division at Schneider Electric in the UK and Ireland. His team work within both new and existing buildings across Commercial Real Estate, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Education segments to deliver systems which ensure optimal efficiency and user comfort across all stages of the building life cycle. Kas is passionate about improving sustainability across the built environment and reducing carbon emissions in our sector.

An experienced engineer and entrepreneur, Adam is a co-founder and Head of IoT at HomeLINK. He has a background in robotics & AI, secure military communications and deploying IoT solutions across multiple sectors. Passionate about bringing positive social change through the application of innovative technology.

James is Managing Director of Memoori. A truly independent analyst company focused entirely on the smart building industry. Memoori delivers unrivalled research with deep domain knowledge on smart building technology and implementation.

After completing his apprenticeship and working as a manufacturing engineer, Ben acted as an Operation Manager for a large aerospace manufacturing company. He led his team through rapid Lean transformation and through the challenges the Covid pandemic presented, before joining the AMRC North West as the Low Carbon Smart Building Specialist.

In this role he specialises in taking knowledge of how facilities are run, transformation enacted and the current KPI's and adapting them to align with Sustainability and Smart Factory adaptation. This is then offered as tailored support to help businesses develop their own Smart Sustainability Road Map.