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Introduce Yourself
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- Who are you? Tech curious director of Builders by Design, with reservations about how the industry intends to iterate and agree the changes in processes needed to achieve stakeholders aspirations for the optimal solution. Working towards integrating lidar point cloud capture, fully parametric design, MMC, and retrofit of energy efficient solutions as a template for a data-sharing, collaborative SME project delivery system.
- What is your industry and profession? A Design and Build contractor and manufacturer in the private residential sector, based in London.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Building a parametric library of elements, assemblies, and design templates as the catalyst for a lean purpose-driven framework for specialist SMEs to create a community working together to improve outcomes.
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? Believing that legacy AEC tools and existing business models are a major friction to achieving a roadmap to sustainability and efficiency across the industry, especially at SME level, where many are being left behind in the technology race. Not looking to win any popularity contests on the DTHub, but possibly identify others who share my concerns about the speed and direction of travel?
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Not yet. I recently joined.
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? We are on that learning curve, using Solid Edge as our principle design tool, having a long history of delivering DT in other industries that are often cited for comparison purposes with AEC.
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Who are you? I’m Khezar Khan, I advise and create Digital Twins & Intelligent Buildings at Ridge & Partners LLP.
What is your industry and profession? I am a Chartered Architect that has a passion for efficiency and utilising and leveraging cyber and physical systems to gain the most efficient outcome. When I’m not working on the Digital Twin Hub I am a keen explorer of data science and quantum physics as well as an amateur programmer.
Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Personally I am looking to deliver value and enable the public to benefit; both in terms of better and safer, more efficient services, and a sustainable natural environment for growth and development. Professionally it has quenched an appetite to explore and code and pioneer new technologies and systems.
Why have you decided to join the DTHub? To learn, educate and develop. Also to raise awareness of our commercial expertise as well as our standing in the industry.
Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Upon signing up I have registered for several events.
Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? At Ridge & Partners LLP we have been developing our living laboratory which essentially is all things R&D & development and we are actively developing and promoting our interconnected system abilities.
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- Who are you?
I am Aurelien SEUGNET, a French former engineer now focusing on promoting Digital Twin solution provided by my company SIRADEL.
- What is your industry and profession?
There are some clues here before 😊 I am a sales working on Telecom and Digital Twin ecosystems.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally?
Mostly professionally, to bring our expertise on Digital Twin projects.
Professionally, I would be glad if it allows me to open an office in UK for my company to spend a few years here with my family!
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub?
Understand the market, its potential and see where we can bring our value.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events?
Yes – Amazed by the maturity of the community on the digital Twin topic
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins?
Many, but I do not want to be “too sales” here 😊. You can have a look on our blog here & here. Feel free to contact me for more information about our projects & reference in Digital Twin for Cities & Territories.
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Hello
- Who are you?
Prof. Kanjo is currently a Professor of Pervasie Sensing and head of the Smart Sensing Lab http://www.smartsensinglsb.com. She conducts research in Mobile Sensing, Urban Computing.
I am a technologist who works closely with industry, local authorities and end user organisations to solve real-world problems. She works closely with Nottingham County Council and Nottingham City Council on developing its Smart Cities strategy and she is the technical lead of the NTU Smart Campus project.
- What is your industry and profession?
Academic and technologiest with focus on applie research
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally?
I currently manage few projects with focus on smart building, digital infrastructure and work cloeley with local authrties in Nottingham and London on smart initiatives
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub?
To showcase ome of our work that might be of interest fo the DT comunity
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events?
Not yet
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins?
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Who are you? A Part 2 architect, developing a platform concept for socio-ecological development. Here is a landing page with a general overview of the project https://wildeyes.glide.page/ I’m also currently involved with the core team of an NGO supporting refugees, CEO of Wastevine – a waste reuse app for makers, and currently designing a spinning water filter for coastal water pollution.
What is your industry and profession? Socio-ecological design, web 3, connecting designers with data, ecosystem services, refugee emergency response and resettlement
Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Testing transdisciplinary socio-ecological designs, VR experience, design impact analysis
Why have you decided to join the DTHub? To explore collaboration, to connect with others in the field, to keep up to date with digital twin development
Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Not yet, sadly I couldn’t make recent ones due to emergency situation in eastern europe, I look forward to joining soon!
Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? Yes – I have made many 3D models for my architectural designs and research
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- Who are you? Ian Bailey – CTO @ Telicent – I have extensive experience in developing and implementing 4D ontologies. First degree in engineering, PhD in data mapping. Author of two ISO standards, subject matter expert in enterprise architecture.
- What is your industry and profession? Software – we started Telicent in 2020 to build a secure, but open platform for integrating data from multiple sources and formats. We’re using 4D ontologies in our Telicent CORE platform, and a 4D machine learning approach in our GEO product.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? – implementing the integration architecture in the National Digital Twin
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? – to help with our work on the NDT programme
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? – yes, the IMF Rat Pack, occasionally the Gemini calls. Have presented at the 4DSIG
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? – yes, this has been presented at the 4DSIG, Gemini Call and at the Newton Gateway event.
Blog below explains the kinds of problems we’re solving with Telicent CORE:
https://medium.com/@ian_bailey_blog/software-as-a-knot-f95668456037
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- Who are you? – Hi all, I am Steven Jupp, a software development veteran with a background in cyber security, network infrastructure and enterprise solutions
- What is your industry and profession? – Cloud operating systems and centralised / decentralised technologies. I am CEO of EyA Global which provides a new CeDe solution for the digital twins of things
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? – Professionally in the main, but my home is filling with digital twins, including my wife!
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? – Want to give back to the community and see how we can work together to build the future of everything
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? – Teams meets, but will be attending in person soon
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? – We have mapped a complex facility in Scotland and also agriculture too
Looking forward to some great chats with you all. All the best, Steven J
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- Who are you? Mark Hodgson, Alliances and Ecosystem Enablement Manager for Bentley Systems iTwins Platform
- What is your industry and profession? Background in Civil Engineering, Software Development and Business Development
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Bentley is actively seeking partners with subject matter and domain expertise to develop and take to market Digital Twins solutions built on our iTwins platform as a service (PaaS)
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? to stay up to date with and contribute to thought leadership, innovation and seek our business partnerships
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Bentley would welcome the opportunity to do so
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? numerous – iTwins is being used on a number of very high profile projects across the world including; HS2, Crossrail, Porto water authority, … our website has many other examples. Digital Twin Services for Infrastructure | Bentley Systems
I’d welcome contact from other DT Hum members with a view to partnering – my email address is: mark.hodgson@bentley.com
Looking forward to working with you.
Thanks
Mark
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- Who are you? Scott Durno, I have been working in Infrastructure and the Built Environment for just over a decade, initially as a CAD Technician, before moving into BIM, first as a BIM Coordinator, then a BIM Manager and lastly a BIM Consultant, before making the move to High Speed 1 to work on the operational client side of Engineering, having always been in Design Consultancy and Construction roles prior. Now, I’m the Information Manager at HS1 which covers a few things, including Asset Information Maturity Improvement, BIM Implementation, and Common Data Environment reconfiguration. The cherry on the cake is that I get to lead our Research and Development and Innovation Portfolio, a £2m fund over 5 years with 3 years left to run, where we’ve so far spent around £1m and made operational efficiencies of £2.1m.
- What is your industry and profession? Infrastructure, Transport, Rail and I’m an Information Manager and R&D/Innovation Lead.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Both! I have a dream of a Digital Twin of my own assets, but professionally, we have big plans at High Speed 1 for a system-wide Digital Twin that not only looks at our assets, but powers our decisions around our commercial decisions such as our retail offering at the iconic St. Pancras International Station. We also want to use our Digital Twin to plan our climate resilience and understand demographics better in order to ensure we’re providing a high-class, high-speed rail experience for our customers and passengers!
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? I’ve been fortunate enough to present during a Gemini Call about what we’re doing at High Speed 1 and it’s given me the desire to get more involved so we can share and learn.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? The Gemini Calls
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? Yes! Check out the High Speed 1 5G Augmented Reality Digital Twin in the press and on the DTHub!
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- Who are you? Geospatial systems lead at Northern Gas Networks. Experience in delivering targeted Geospatial solutions to deliver key operational efficiencies and improved data quality to drive sound business decisions.
- What is your industry and profession? Utilities
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Support and play a part in the delivery of a national digital twin that delivers key benefits. Northern Gas Networks are keen to play a leading role in helping shape the future
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? Curiosity & learning
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? No – I came across this initiative and the recent ESRI UK conference
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? No – but this is an area I feel opens huge possibilities at both an organisation and social perspective.
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I’m John Parker, head of marketing for Reveal. Reveal has built the world’s largest subsurface digital twin in Wellington, New Zealand (contact me for a demo!) and we’re looking to take our platform to the world over the next 2 years.
I’d like to connect with other companies and professionals in the infrastructure/utilities/smart cities space, and raise awareness about our solution and the benefits of incorporating digital twin technology in the design phase of critical infrastructure projects to achieve cost and time savings, improve health and safety outcomes, and achieve carbon emissions and sustainability targets.
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Who are you? Hello! I’m John Tapsfield – CTO of Urban Hawk Ltd a massive massive realtime engine for simulation of GIS and internal spaces (and data, RF, Teleco and Network access data – and even radar data).
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What is your industry and profession? Product & Project management, design and one time Drupal Web Development company owner (everything needs more abstraction layers…) – for Urban Hawk it’s all about finding the right partners to provide data and the right customers to offer data back into. Our focus is transport but a lot of queries are very similar and we’re looking at more hollistic modelling- e.g. beyond the digital twin of a key point of infrastructure to include the externalities and transport and logistics that serve it – since nothing exists in a void (except CAD models and time expired 3D twins). Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally?
For the benefit of the community and develop a network which will allow us to tie together lots of disparate capabilities. Inherently we have a positive sum benefit to seeing a common standard emerge – however we can also be a point of conversion (a neccessity given our product) since not everyone needs the huge 3D or 4D datasets (we do spatial data over time – which gets horrendously large quickly).
In short we want to move the needle along – its’ not certain yet if our front end is just a feature or a service – since a lot of the customers we’ve spoken to like the effects they can render in Unreal or Unity – but the data layer beneath is often just a model *(ie strip away a wall / change something and it’s just an empty mesh beneath).
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Why have you decided to join the DTHub?
The network benefits and to see what the SOTA and what opportunities exist with the Digital Twin Hub and it’s membership.
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Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events?
Not yet, but I am tracking them and hope to attend soon – life and schedules are very busy on all fronts at the moment!
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Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins?
We’ve pulled in an open street map database of the UK and can instantiate massive chunks of it at the same time – then zoom down to station level. So 50m > 10cm.
It depends on the use case of course – and we’ve simulated everything from ship wakes – to sense through the wall radars for firefighter tracking. To quote Start Trek – Context is for Kings – and we wish to provide that to our user base.
You can see some of the publicly published work here:
We’re open to partnerships, proposals and invitations! Do please get in touch. We’re always happy to speak to people in this field.
Thanks and looking forward to hearing more from you all!
John
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Who are you? Hello! I’m John Tapsfield – CTO of Urban Hawk Ltd a massive massive realtime engine for simulation of GIS and internal spaces (and data, RF, Teleco and Network access data – and even radar data).
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- Who are you? Interim Executive Director at Smart Cities Council ANZ based in New Zealand
- What is your industry and profession? We bring together demand and supply in the smart cities, towns and regions space through active engagement, value drive propositions, and impact initiatives. As part of this we also host the Australia New Zealand Digital Twin Hub.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? We host the ANZ Digital Twin Hub, but I also have a personal interest in data 🙂
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? I am supporting the DT Hub Community Council but also keen to stay connected to what is happening in the DT space around the world.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Not yet
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? http://www.digitaltwinhub.org
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Welcome to the team Jannat. Delighted to have you as part of the community and to link up the DT Hub and the DT Hub!
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- Who are you? Founding Director of VU.CITY
- What is your industry and profession? VU.CITY is a technology software business, offering a SAAS platform for interactive Digital Twins of our towns and cities. Our main vertical at the moment is Planning and Real Estate, but we are now venturing into Telecoms and Security.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? I am really interested in finding like minded businesses and technology providers who recognise the importance of interoperability.
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? Recognising the importance of a national centre of excellence for all technology surrounding Digital Twins is a must for VU.CITY.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Yes we have attended sessions and had direct discussions with CDBB.
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Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? We currently have 26 highly accurate digital models of UK cities and towns. The largest is our model of London at 1,617 sq km. We have more than half of the Top 100 Architects in the UK using the platform together with 56 Local Authorities and Councils and 1000s of users subscribed to the Platform.
Please take a look at our site: https://www.vu.city/
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