Digital Futures Workshop – the outputs

Developing a Digital Futures Prospectus for HS2 Midlands Held at EY on Wednesday 24th February 2016

Hello Birmingham and the Midlands

1. images of the day

2. overview

3. roadmap to June

4. snapshot of what’s happening now

5. theme 1 - people

6. theme 2 - place

7. theme 3 - business

appendices:

1. stakeholders to engage

2. task & finish group

3. attendees

how we structured the day people place business

1. images of the day

• EY was very proud to host a workshop with cross-sector regional leaders to help scope the HS2 Digital Futures Prospectus for delivery in June 2016. It’s now over to the Task & Finish group, led by Raj Mack, to take this work and make it happen!

• The event studied the impact of HS2 on Curzon Street, Birmingham and the wider Region. It also explored the impact of these on HS2, using the three focus areas HS2 uses - People, Place and Business. This document reflects this 3 focus structure.

• This produced a huge set of content and thinking and we all heard that consensus was reached around five main messages, with the first, Innovation, being the most consistent and powerfully shared:

Innovation across all activity, never being satisfied with the status quo, is further underpinned by….

• So, this document captures the outputs of the day, brings it all together into a plan for the Task & Finish group and reinforces the pivotal importance of commitment, contribution and delivery – both of the Digital Prospectus and the ongoing work with HS2.

• This was the start of a journey, a complex and challenging journey which requires a range of capabilities to deliver. EY really enjoyed working with Digital Birmingham and wish them luck going forward and delivering the Prospectus by June 2016 – a critical milestone in shaping and delivering a Digital Region, harnessing the power of HS2. Amanda Clack Head of Infrastructure (UK & Ireland)

Better Integration & connectivity

We need to make sure that the various initiatives join up to make a powerful whole. It is hard to ensure this unless we integrate the initiatives and apply systems thinking, removing unnecessary duplication and focusing on the ‘Big Picture’

Simplified Governance

With a very complex stakeholder landscape and traditional governance mechanisms, even simple decisions take very long – reducing the level of governance and bureaucracy is essential for the pace and innovation needed

Innovative funding & financing

High and sustained levels of investment will be required – needing different funding sources and incentives to attract public and private sector capital, especially in the face of stiff competition from a wide range of cities and national programmes

Engaged stakeholders

With so much happening, it is hard for policy makers, businesses and communities to keep up. We need to generate awareness and excitement around a collective digital future – to truly make the region the ‘heartbeat of the nation’

people place business

Innovation is key – we see a proliferation of tech innovation, but need to see innovation catch-up across other critical elements like…regulation & governance, funding and finance, ethics, engagement, contracting & procurement, supply chain & cost-stabilisation.

2. an overview

3. roadmap to June

So what needs to happen now? 1. Confirm Task & Finish Group membership

with open door for others to be involved

2. Kick-off meeting for April where we will:

• Share vision and prospectus framework

• Present and confirm scope of proposed key themes under the People, Business Place strands

• Provide initial focus on several key HS2 developments & localities (e.g. stations; depots; National College for High Speed Rail) to develop the state of the art & future state showstoppers

• Incorporate learning from Old Oak and Park Royal and work undertaken by Hypercat (OPDC Smart Strategy Report) to help accelerate approach and thinking and collaborative opportunities

• Divide & conquer – set out the activities; tasks; responsibilities to make this happen

Digbeth digital

industry

Tourist trail

Jewellery ‘information’

quarter

Life sciences corridor

Crowd funding

Mobile user profiling and

tracking

Curzon Masterplan Birmingham

New Street Station

Data Centre / Business

Data Centres

Eastern Corridor Smart Demonstrator

Endoscope on iPhones

City4Age

Bulbs with 7 different sensors

National College for High

Speed Rail & Supply Chain

E4F Inspire

Appointment reminder

texts - NHS Accord technologies for assisted

living IoT formal

training

Mayor for business?

BIM regional hubs & scheme

modelling

Incubators at Asian Science

Park

EV & AV trials

Working Groups • Smart cities • Science City

Alliance • Creative City

iCentrum Innovation Incubator

5g Broadband in city centre

Smart motorways,

pavements & totems

Systems analytics

into industry

iCentrum Innovation

Hub

Entertainment Quarter

Learning Quarter

4. a snapshot of what’s already happening…

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theme 1: people

The ambition is to make the West Midlands region truly the ‘heartbeat’ of the nation with…

• Vibrant and healthier communities: Using technology for creating a fun-filled environment for people in the region and having more robust health solutions

• High quality of life: A place which is an exemplar for the quality of life it offers people living in it, working in it or even simply visiting it…

The heartbeat

Using smart and digital technology for…

• Connecting people: Personalised solutions to connect, both professionally and socially

• Generating awareness: Educating people and generating excitement about the plethora of opportunities that a digitally enabled future brings

• Giving people a choice: Choices - around where they live, what careers they pursue, how they travel, how long they participate in the workforce etc…

Offering greater opportunity and life-

choices

To create a region that not only values but also celebrates…

• Equality: Greater opportunities and choices enable a more equal society

• Diversity: A digitally connected and open society where diversity is genuinely an advantage

• Accessibility: A society that is more accessible and offers greater freedom to travel, think and participate

• Inclusion: A society that brings out the best of everybody…

Promoting equality, diversity, accessibility

& inclusion

The purpose of ‘People’ is to…“Make my life better”: Transform the West Midlands and make it the best place to live and work in the UK…

people: what is the purpose for this theme?

Students and Citizens

Visitors and Businesses

Integrated, Connected &

Systems approach to these themes

Deliver information portal/ app

while in transit Ensure

productive travel

Making engagement with public services positive and simple

Provide reliable travel information

for onward connections to city locations

Create awareness – what’s going on, pricing, demand

patterns

Use digital technology to

improve: Accessibility

and Resilience

Use multimodal processes – make it easy

Lower level of formality – Make Birmingham an inviting place

Provide services that navigate to

individuals

Workforce and Elderly

Innovative funding and

financing

Streamlined governance

Knowledge and education

Make use of national and international traveller insight/ marketing

Improve underlying infrastructure

Simpler ways of using transport

Remote monitoring – health watch

hmm… so what else needs to be done?

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theme 2: place

• Making living and working easier through availability of real time, relevant, information & data

• An honest place – ethics in its DNA

• A better place for financial investment

• A dynamic and responsive HS2 driven landscape that reflects and is adaptive to the changing needs and wants of citizens and business

• Provide relevant information to empower people and communities

• Ensure life is constantly improving

Making living and working easier

• Creating dynamic on-demand places

• A place of digital diversity and innovation

• Giving people choice

• A place where relevant digital services are accessible and non-intrusive / non-controlling

• Efficient and transparent production and sharing of valuable data

• Promoting HS2 as catalyst for city transformation

Removing physical barriers through digital

solutions

• A digital connected city is personal to me and my relationship to HS2

• Digital interaction with the city & HS2

• Personalised way-finding and engagement

• Creating connected places that people want to be in

• A place where experimentation and innovation enables businesses and citizens to thrive

• Creating happy, sustainable communities connected via HS2

Personalised connection

The purpose of ‘Place’ is to…make living and working easier by removing physical barriers through digital solutions, delivering a truly personalised connection.

place: what is the purpose for this theme?

“Personalised” “Any business here”

Integrated, Connected &

Systems approach to these themes

Free wi-fi / blutooth

Wayfinding and open data

Enhance user

experiences

Tech / SME cluster

leadership

Future-proofing place

by BIM and agile design

Businesses to promote themselves

as digital leaders

Employees to allow different working

patterns and work places

Personalising place for the individual -A sense of place –

“A digital connected city is personal to me.”

“It’s all about place”

Knowledge and education

Connectivity to enable

HS2 Board to ‘be the glue’?

Analysis of demographics – Who is there and what do they do when there?

A place where relevant digital services are accessible and non-intrusive/non-controlling

Make community space safer – online, offline and in real time

hmm… so what else needs to be done?

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theme 3: business

• Business can play a key role in empowering the individual to engage in economic activity by removing the friction between working and the worker – personalised user and employee experience

• Business can own leadership of excellence in skills, innovation, building agility and iteration to drive constructive discomfort in existing models and enhancing skills.

• The test of success will be sustainable increase in economic activity above & beyond of what the Curzon St area currently delivers.

Stimulate economic activity

• Business can help Birmingham, HS2 & Curzon St, as well its users and citizens, connect and think globally whilst delivering and connecting locally.

• Shape & grow the sharing economy – business brings innovation to working relationships, ownership structures (automotive etc) to increase inclusion.

• Drive closer and faster connectivity across the following realms:

• Physical - easier • Digital - bespoke • Social - aspiration • Spatial - inclusive • Economic - beneficial

Increase connectivity across the city &

citizens

• Business can help the city connect with HS2 and help HS2 connect with the city.

• Travellers, users, bloggers, colleagues are all the same people! Help them get mobile and connect with business.

• Mobility is a service – build this into business partnerships & ventures

• Remain inclusive – not everyone will want to connect using one of these…

Be a catalyst for true mobility

The purpose of ‘Business’ is to…stimulate and connect, both physically and digitally, to enhance economic and social prosperity

business: what is the purpose for this theme?

“Business bespokes” “Stimulate &

Connect to grow”

Integrated, Connected &

Systems approach to these themes

Focus on economic

growth themes then projects

Ethical digital &

commercial leadership

Open data access and

ensure connectivity

Ensure governance and regulation has a positive effect

Personalising place for the individual -A sense of place –

“A digital connected city is personal to me.”

“Business improves place”

Skills are our asset base

Ubiquitous connectivity

New frameworks for Govt & Business

partnerships

Sustainable energy (both as a source and a user)

Business to push commercial

innovation – new funding, new financing and

new regulation

hmm… so what else needs to be done?

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appendix

The task & finish group should validate and segment stakeholders. Here’s the list from a fast-paced session at the workshop:

1. HS2 & High Speed Rail Group

2. Transport for London

3. Smart City Alliance – use as existing vehicle

4. W.M. Open Data Forum

5. Financing Groups & Finance community

6. UKTI

7. Catapults

8. Combined Authority

9. People – Citizens, businesses, students

10. Business Professional Services Birmingham

11. Schools

12. Innovation hubs

13. Government departments (DfT, BIS, UKTI, HMT, etc)

14. Land owners and developers (NEC, special events)

15. Network Rail & Digital Railway program

16. Centro

17. Third sector

18. Utilities

19. Etc…

stakeholders to engage

Task & finish group notes to self…

Relentless stakeholder

engagement – leverage technology

Broad and complex stakeholder sets

Take time to understand what's really important to them, and why

people place business

people place business task & finish group The following workshop attendees signed up to join the Task and Finish Group, however this is a open invitation for others to join:

First Name Surname Job Title Company

Ardavan Amini Associate Professor Birmingham City University

Steve Bishop Steer Davies Gleave

Paul Brodrick Head of Connected Communities Siemens

Mike Brooman CEO Vanti Systems

Paul Brown Associate Director EY

Nicola Bryant Business Development Manager Digital Birmingham

Amanda Clack Partner EY

David Cuckow Business Development Director Flexeye

Robin Daniels Managing Director Redpill Group Ltd

Rivali Dass Associate Consultant EY

Chris Deery Head of housing IT Solihull council

Callum Dick Director Community Fibre Ltd

Joe Dignan Head of Business Development Future Cities Catapult

John Easton Lecturer BCRRE, University of Birmingham

Sean Farrell Development Manager Staffordshire University

Mark Gamble Senior Development Planning Officer BCC

Stephen George Strategic Accounts Manager - Local Government

Cisco

Daniel Gipple CEO RYW BetterPoints

Sarah Hall Sales Director Bronze Software Labs

Sam Hardy Business Lead - Energy & Cities Warwick University

Stuart Higgins Head of Digital Impact Cisco

Natalie Jones Business Support Manager Ashrammoseley Housing

Aditi Kejriwal Director EY

Jon Kerbey Director, BIM HS2

Annette King Innovation Manager Digital Birmingham

Ravi Kumar Economic Development Coordinator Black Country Consortium Ltd

Chris Lane Swift Commercial Specialist Centro

Kathryn Lennon Johnson Skills Lead (Construction) Skills & Brokerage Partnership - HS2

1 January 2014 Presentation title

people place business

First Name Surname Job Title Company

Raj Mack Head of Digital Birmingham Digital Birmingham/ BCC

Nathan Marsh Director EY

Max Martinez Associate Director Space Syntax

Luke Morgan Senior Consultant Arup

Jonathan Moseley Executive Director EY

Karen Newman Director BOM (Birmingham Open Media)

Craig Newton Managing Director Horsebridge

Thomas O'Reilly Senior Consultant Siemens Plc

Azhar Quaiyoom Project Engineer Network Rail

Andy Reeve Director of Urban Innovation Impact Hub Birmingham

John Richards Funding and Industry Partner Aston University

David Roberts CEO Action Starter Limited

Hugo Russell Project Manager / Technologist Innovation Birmingham

Louis Sebastian Solicitor Trowers & Hamlins

Mohamed Sedky Director AVA Technologies

Anne Shaw Director of Transportation & Connectivity Birmingham City Council

Jason Smith Projects Director City ID

Keith Stanley SME Engagement Manager University Hospitals Birmingham

Penny Stocks Partner EY

Kate Terriere Manager EY

Chris Thompson CSO Enable iD

Craig Wakeman HS2 Programme Manager GBSLEP Birmingham City Council

Samuel Watkins Data Scientist Transport Systems Catapult

Julian Watts Head of Asset Transformation Atkins Ltd

Sonia Zahiroddiny BIM Strategy Manager HS2

Hai Zhuge Professor Aston University

attendees