Smart Spaces & Public Realm
Innovator Directory
Jump to listings →
Smart Spaces & Public Realm Categories
Smart Spaces & Public Realm Listings
City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK. Having signed the Digital Declaration, the City of London Corporation is committed to designing new digital public services, challenging the technology market to offer the flexible tools and services, protecting people’s privacy and security and delivering better value for money.
Commonplace
Great places are created by understanding and responding to the needs of the community. Commonplace is the UK and Ireland’s most advanced solution for community engagement and co-design. We have created an inclusive and flexible platform designed to gather geolocated localised sentiment data around places and spaces. Commonplace not only enables broader community conversations – it turns those conversations into a rich, data-led understanding.
Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places.
Hello Lamp Post
Hello Lamp Post creates intelligent virtual agents for the real world. Their AI-driven chats put a digital assistant in any public space or location, making community engagement quicker, easier and cheaper. By making places interactive, anyone can share ideas, access public services and co-create solutions to global challenges from their mobile phones.
Lucy Zodion
From intelligent street lighting control to power distribution for entire lighting networks, Lucy Zodion help make urban spaces more liveable and manageable. “Lucy Zodion is going through a period of exciting change", says MD, John Fox. "From the innovation of progressive technologies, to building a team of skilled professionals, we have a road map full of revolutionary milestones for the business that will transform us into a smart city specialist".
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle Helix exists to help us all live better lives. Easier, healthier, smarter and longer. Our focus is on data science, urban science and life science. Together, we’re transforming the quality of life for families, communities and cities around the world.
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a multidisciplinary infrastructure and place consultancy shaping sustainable spaces across the UK. They work with local authorities and private developers to deliver civil infrastructure, support sustainable communities, and create vibrant, well-designed places. Project Centre's expertise spans highways and infrastructure design, kerbside and parking management, sustainable transport, and award-winning public realm projects including flood and water management, lighting and community engagement.
Scotscape
Cities occupy only 3% of our landmass but over 56% (and rising) of our population live here. Scotscape are an innovation led company that combine nature and technology to encourage biodiversity back into the built environment. Their product eco-system includes patented Living Walls and Living Pillars systems, Micro-Forests, LivingArt, and industry leading landscape maintenance – positioning Scotscape at the forefront of urban greening, to breathe life into cities around the world.
Signify
Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our energy efficient lighting products, systems and services enable our customers to enjoy a superior quality of light, and make people’s lives safer and more comfortable, businesses more productive and cities more liveable.
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.
Starship Technologies
Launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, Starship Technologies is the world leader in autonomous robot delivery. Operating at L4 autonomy in all weather conditions, Starship’s e-model robots have made more than 7 million deliveries globally, travelled over 13 million kilometres and cross 150,000 roads every day. Sustainable, scalable, ethical and efficient – Starship are revolutionising last-mile logistics.
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.
Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice dedicated to creating cities, buildings and places that will provide a lasting legacy. Through a shared design ethos, we work together to create places with a strong sense of identity where people and communities want to live, learn, shop, work and relax. Our collaborative approach to integrated sustainable design has enabled us to deliver award-winning projects at all scales across the world. Every project, from a strategic city plan to the craftmanship of a balustrade, reflects our passion for quality design and place-making.
Calvium
Calvium is a leading digital agency combining expertise in research, experience design, software engineering and mobile innovation.
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.
Lancaster University/ImaginationLancaster
ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory globally recognised design-led research lab at Lancaster University, one of the top 10 universities in the UK. We conduct interdisciplinary design and architecture research into current and future challenges facing cities, communities, factories, workplaces and homes.
Metis Consultants
Founded in 2009 and proudly certified as a B Corp since 2022, Metis are a value-driven environmental engineering consultancy providing sustainable engineering services to both the public and private sectors. Firmly rejecting the notion of a one-size-fits-all model, Metis offer a personal and agile alternative to the big civil engineering consultancies. Their talented and diverse team of professionals deliver expert services spanning infrastructure management, highway engineering, flood risk management and water engineering.
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
The Royal Town Planning Institute is the UK's leading planning body for spatial, sustainable and inclusive planning and is the largest planning institute in Europe with over 25,000 members. The Institute is embarking on a number of projects to explore how city-regions can plan more effectively by using data and technology.
Sparta Digital
Based in the heart of Manchester, Sparta Digital are a solutions provider for organisations looking to increase user engagement in an IoT connected world. We specialise in augmented reality, smart city solutions, data analysis and more.
Urban Foresight
With offices in Newcastle upon Tyne and Dundee, Urban Foresight was established as the world’s first dedicated smart cities consultancy. By combining, Founder & CEO, Dr David Beeton's twin passions of innovation and sustainable development, their diverse team of experts work with ambitious organisations around the world on projects that improve lives, protect the environment and boost local economies.
WSP UK
As one of the world’s leading engineering professional services consultancies, WSP brings clarity and vision to complex challenges. Our team of technical specialists and strategic advisers across the UK is part of a talented global family of expertise.
SYSTRA
SYSTRA is one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups, specialising in infrastructure and mobility solutions. In the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA has been creating, improving and modernising infrastructure for more than 50 years across the transport, energy, environmental and built-environment sectors. Their work creates inspirational places and systems that connect people seamlessly, enhance well-being, stimulate economies, and provide a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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.
University of Sheffield/School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
Our research changes lives and influences policy. We're addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, from developing new treatments for life-threatening diseases to solving the problem of feeding a world of 10 billion and driving low-carbon technology. The world-class research conducted by our School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) is influencing global health and policy.
Stay in touch
Sign up to Smart Classes Digest to receive the latest thought leadership, innovation insights and event updates straight into your inbox.
We offer great opportunities for our sponsors, and would love to hear from potential speakers, contributors or new partners.