Data as Infrastructure for Smart Cities

Dr Larissa Suzuki (Ph.D., FRSA, AFHEA, MIET) is an award-winning computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. Her career includes +11 years advancing many fields of computer science and engineering, including smart cities, data infrastructures, emerging technology, AI, and computing applied to medicine and operations research. Her continuing academic work is based at UCL where she serves as an Honorary Research Associate in Computer Science. Her industry appointments include Founders4Schools, RedPill Group, Greater London Authority, ARUP, IBM, among others. She has published several research papers in leading academic journals, books and conferences, is a frequent Keynote, conference, panel and tutorial speaker (including a TEDx and Insight Speaker at the IET Turing Lecture). She is the chair and founder of the Tech London Advocates Smart Cities, serves as a judge and reviewer of the ACM Research competition, and a reviewer of scientific journals of the IEEE and Springer.

Prof Anthony Finkelstein holds a Chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London, UK, a senior appointment in HM Government and his continuing academic work is based at The Alan Turing Institute (ATI). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2016.