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Brightly, a Siemens company
Brightly is the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions – because we know that smarter assets drive more sustainable communities. Brightly pairs its complete suite of intuitive software - including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement - with tailored consultancies and award-winning support services to light the way to a bright future where we can all thrive.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
In Greater Manchester, we are doing digital differently. We are committed to being a digital city-region that puts our residents at the heart of our plans and are working towards our ambitions to be recognised as a world leading digital city-region.

IoT Horizon
New research suggests that 55.7 billion connected IoT devices will be in circulation by 2025, generating almost 80B zettabytes of data. Internet of Things Solutions Provider IoT Horizon helps clients to collect data on their people, buildings, processes, and assets so that they can make better and more informed decisions. With this data, management teams can build data-driven business cases to clearly demonstrate why it is critical to invest in technology that improves productivity, health, and safety or reduces energy consumption.

Mark Allison Consulting
Our mission is to drive sustainability throughout industry by leveraging a common voice and by engaging with business, suppliers, stakeholders and related sectors. We make environmental management and sustainability in your organisation easy and hassle-free.

Perform Green
Perform Green is a values-led consulting business, helping clients to deliver digitally inspired change for good. We help cities and communities to transform into Smarter Places, through the adoption of advanced digital, data and network connectivity. And we help organisations of all sizes to innovate, improve productivity and improve the quality of service to their clients, their customers and the communities they serve.


Smart Belfast
The Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework aims to stimulate collaborative innovation between industry, SMEs, academia, government and communities to tackle some of Belfast’s most complex urban challenges. Our ambition is to find ways to harness this innovation to better support Belfast’s transformation into a more productive and sustainable city that provides a rich quality of life for our citizens.


Sunderland Our Smart City
Our smart City Plan provides the insight and blueprint to effect change over the next ten years and beyond. It is built around three interdependent themes: our dynamic smart city, our healthy smart city and our vibrant smart city. Aligned to these three core elements, we will support access to education, employment and economic prosperity for Sunderland and our people.

Vortex IoT, part of Marston Holdings
Vortex is a young, dynamic and market-leading company at the forefront of smart city technologies. The company builds environmental sensors, networks and data solutions to support decarbonisation efforts globally. As experts in the latest IoT, AI, 5G and LiDAR technology, Vortex enables smart cities & smart infrastructures to become more efficient, safer and greener.

Yotta
Yotta is a global connected asset management software and services provider. We empower organisations to make better, more intelligent decisions by ensuring our Customers systems, assets and people are connected, and the data they produce is structured and captured to provide operational insight.

City REDI (City Region Economic Development Institute)
Based at the University of Birmingham, City REDI is a brand new research institute focused on developing an academic understanding of major city regions across the globe to develop practical policy which better informs and influences regional and national economic growth policies. City REDI delivers policy, strategy and research which supports economic growth and prosperity by undertaking work that explores the complex and inter-related way in which people and systems work across urban areas.

Crimson Tide mpro
Crimson Tide provides mpro5, a field service management software platform. Trusted by businesses across industries, from hospitals and train stations to convenience stores, cleaning companies and student housing. mpro5 is used in over 260,000 locations, helping clients overcome paper trail inefficiencies, unlocking substantial cost savings and boosting productivity through digital transformation.

Esri
As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location.

F17
F17 helps apply technology to transform customer experience and efficiency in the transport sector. We have a flexible approach, and a breadth of skills across a range of intelligent mobility areas - often getting involved in the early stages of transformation programmes to help identify opportunities and set strategic direction.

KnowNow Information
KnowNow help places become smart communities. Using a method based on the BSI and ISO Smart community standards (ISO37106), KnowNow provides strategic planning & roadmap creation; requirements definition and IT masterplans; help with supplier evaluation and quality assurance of ongoing smart projects.


LSE Cities
LSE Cities is an award winning international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. It studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.

The Data City
The Data City is a tech start up that creates the best lists of classified companies and company details in the UK. Our industrial classification system for the new economy allows policy makers, economists, investors and analysts to understand the emerging economy and markets in real time. We are working to replace SIC codes as the foundation of industrial data in the UK.

University of Stirling/CRISP
Stirling is one of the UK’s leading research universities in the fields of health and wellbeing, the environment and people, culture and society, enterprise and the economy, and sport. The Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) aims to become one of the leading research and knowledge exchange centres in Europe studying the many dimensions of the surveillance society and its consequences.

Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield School of Management is one of the oldest business schools in Europe. As part of Cranfield University, the UK’s only wholly postgraduate university, we are uniquely placed to connect technology and leadership. Our contribution to global innovation is world-leading, changing the way society thinks, works and learns.

Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

STL Partners
STL Partners helps telcos and their partners innovate, grow and stay ahead of the competition. We work globally to provide actionable insights and practical guidance on emerging challenges and opportunities.

Tessellate Advisory
Tessellate Advisory is a boutique firm with global reach. Combining traditional advisory methods and creativity, we're quicker, more agile and pragmatic than the "big guys". Through our swift collaborative approach, we help organisations navigate constant change. Our expertise lies in ecosystem creation and management.

The HBAR Foundation
The HBAR Foundation’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build economies on the Hedera network. We do this through a comprehensive grant program that provides financial backing for projects, expert support across technology, marketing, and business development; and access to a thriving ecosystem that helps to raise awareness of projects, accelerate innovation, and scale adoption.
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