An Introduction toBristol The Open Programmable City

• The world’s first open programmable city - Why?

• In the context of five mega-trends shaping the next decade

• How? – ‘City Experimentation as a Service’ - Mass Co-Creation

• Using an Open Software Defined Network, IoT & Big Data

• Who & When to engage

Agenda

‘I see Bristol as a laboratory for urban change’ Mayor George Ferguson

BIG DATA GENERATION

Why? - our philosophy of innovation, city-scale co-creation, enabled by a JV

Why? Use cases

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TMT businesses& academia

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Culture & creative content

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People, community,service delivery___________

Bettercity management

Source: McKinsey

Mega Trend #1 Technology and data continue to grow

Top 10 Country Average Connection Rates

UK ranks 28th with av. 29.4 Mb

Fastest Consumer Connection Rate in the World

South Korea offers 1Gb connection rate to consumers

The fastest consumer rate in the UK is 152Mb

Connectivity for R&D partners

Every R&D partner in Bristol Is Open can use at least 30Gb, and lots more if needed

Mega Trend #2 People move to cities, using more tech

Source: McKinsey

Rapid Growth In World Population

7bn people in 2012

9bn people by 2040

Most of this Growth will be in Cities

Most people live in cities

CongestionBristol is 3rd most congested city in UK

Population - Bristol has fastest growth of under 4 children in UK cities & 50% growth in 85+ over 10yrs

Living on 2.3 planetsBristol is home to UK's largest biomass boiler cluster

Pollution – increase in health problems, 60,000 UK deaths pa

Less Govt expenditureWe need smarter ways of working

More home working

Energy requirementsBristol has the first local authority large-scale wind turbine

Urban Challenges Worldwide have a very real local echo

Mega Trend #3 Liveable, Sustainable & Resilient Cities Win

Mega Trend #4 Citizens want more control over daily life

Source: McKinsey

Mega Trend #5: A City Operating System

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Gartner’s Hype Cycle July 2014

OUR RESPONSE…

A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED

NEEDS GOOD ORGANISATION &A CITY-REGION

A city-scale digital research infrastructure

3G, 4G, LTE & 5G Technologies

An RF Mesh (canopy of connectivity) across the city

Being tested in the centre of Bristol now

Phase II, wider City-Region, live in stages 2015-17Work in progress

A CityOS: built from a Software Defined Network

SDN + IoT + Big Data Analytics = foundation for developing livable smart city applications

Co-production - local people, businesses, academics, and local government

High Definition, Digital Data Dome, on the Bristol network

Societal – why?

Academic urban researchers

Large Corporations that work in cities

Small companies & communities

Micro users – apps, games & creative

Academic technology researchers

Large technology corporations

Small technology companies

Things connecting to other things (M2M)

Technical – how?

Eight types of network user

When will it work for who? Societal – why?

Academic urban researchers

Large Corporations that work in cities

Small companies & communities

Micro users – apps, games & creative

Academic technology researchers

Large technology corporations

Small technology companies

Things connecting to other things (M2M)

Technical – how?

Late Summer 2015 Late Summer 2015 Autumn 2015 Spring 2016

Autumn 2015 Autumn 2015 Winter 2015 Summer 2016

£75m investment

How to get involved

Bristol Is Open Paul Wilson Managing Director@bristolisopen@__paulwilson