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Bristol is Open (BiO)/Bristol City Council
Between 2013 and 2014, Bristol City Council was awarded £5.3m funding to develop a ‘research and development test bed’ which was a part of the ‘Gigabit Bristol Programme ‘funded by DCMS/BDUK’s Super- Connected Cities programme. Bristol is Open (BiO) was set up to deliver this test bed as a joint venture between Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol, which has resulted in a Smart City Research and Development network platform of multiple communications technologies installed around the city.


Leeds City Council/Smart Leeds
Leeds is the second largest metropolitan district in England, with a population of over 715,000 and covering an area of 552 square kilometres.Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to the people of Leeds. SMART LEEDS is the Leeds City Council-led programme created to identify and deliver new technologies and innovative solutions to help make Leeds the best place to live, work and visit. Building the smart city is the means to an end rather than the end itself. That’s why we’re embedding smart city principles into everything we do.

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.


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.

Calvium
Calvium is a leading digital agency combining expertise in research, experience design, software engineering and mobile innovation.

Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR)
CCHPR’s team of researchers are dedicated to carrying out innovative research that is relevant for policy and practice, and to providing an evidence base for making positive change with a view to reducing inequality, and improving housing supply and affordability.

Centre for Cities
Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns. Working closely with urban leaders, Whitehall, business and academia, they produce rigorous, data-driven research and policy ideas to help cities, large towns and Government address the challenges and opportunities they face – from boosting productivity and wages to preparing for the changing world of work.

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.

Imactivate
We are imactivate. We write software and work with data to tell stories in a digital world. Closely connected to the vibrant creative scene in Leeds, the North of England, and beyond, we're highly-experienced scientists comfortable with the technical details that stop many great ideas becoming a reality.


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 Open University
We are the leading university for flexible, innovative teaching and world-leading research in the United Kingdom and in 157 countries worldwide.

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.

Brunel University London
Founded in 1966, Brunel is a leading technology university renowned for its education and research and its spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Centre for London
Centre for London is the capital’s dedicated think tank. Our mission is to develop new solutions to London’s critical challenges and advocate for a fair and prosperous global city.

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.

Delta-ee
Delta-ee provides research and consulting services helping organisations to develop the best strategies, business models and customer propositions for the energy transition. Since 2004, we have provided our clients with the leading information, analysis, insight and advice in emerging distributed energy markets. We help our clients exploit opportunities in the change in energy markets from ‘old’ to ‘new’ energy and make the best decisions for their business.

IoT Analytics
IoT Analytics is a leading provider of market insights and strategic business intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0. We are trusted by 600+ leading companies around the world including globally leading software and industrial players. Our key workstreams across the tech stack include IoT applications, IoT Platforms & Software, IoT Connectivity & Hardware with a special focus on Industrial IoT and Smart City.

QRoutes
QRoutes helps local authorities find both budget and emissions savings in home to school transport planning. Since its launch in 2016, QRoutes has helped its customers find over £4.5m (and counting) in contract costs. It also helps teams find the answers they need in a fraction of the time and deliver improved services to clients. QRoutes can be used for both mainstream and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities planning.

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.

The Bartlett
The Bartlett is UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. We explore human spaces, the physical structures like homes, office blocks and cities, as well as the invisible systems that govern them: our laws and political systems, our family groupings and social norms.

Transport Research Institute – Edinburgh Napier University
The Transport Research Institute is Scotland's largest and longest established transport research group. Established in 1996 we have an enviable track record in delivering high quality transport research, consultancy and other knowledge transfer projects in applied settings.

University of Leeds
Leeds is among the top ten universities for research power in the UK. Our academic breadth, commitment to quality and determination to make a genuine impact on the world around us enables us to achieve extraordinary results in: • Creating knowledge through research and innovation • Disseminating it through excellent student education • Applying it to make a difference to society, culture and the economy
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