Future Engineering Club

Dr. Huang has been working in advanced conductors in the past 10 years, and over 20 years prior experience in composite material technologies (A350, A380, 787, 737, F35, V22, F18). He is a member of the CIGRE B2 Technical Advisory Group 6 (Conductor & Fitting) since 2010, and is regarded as one of the utility industry’s leading experts in composite core wire and cable technology. Before forming TS...

Using data to transform energy - Matt Webb, Head of Enterprise Data Mgmt at UK Power Networks by Future Engineering Club

Paul Campion has been the CEO of TRL since July 2019. TRL is a world-renowned research, consultancy and software company which started life as the UK Government’s Transport Research Laboratory and has been working to make transport safer, cleaner and better for over 85 years. Previously Paul was the CEO of the Transport Systems Catapult, a not-for-profit organisation created by the government as p...

Reversing climate change using Direct Air Capture - René Haas, CEO at NeoCarbon by Future Engineering Club

Matt Chagan is a partner at Sustainable Future Ventures. Prior to joining SFV, Matt was a partner at Rich Products Ventures. Matt has over 20 years of experience as a technology investor, most of which was spent in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his role at Rich Products Ventures, he was previously a co-founder of Synapse Partners and a principal at Trident Capital. He has invested acr...

Greg Lawton is an Astrophysicist who spent the last 7 years of his career in BAE Systems (UK). He managed large defence programmes (£100M+), advised the Board of Directors on International Strategy, and owned key relationships with the UK Government and MoD.

Melissa Zanocco OBE is Head of Programmes for the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG), as well as one of the instigators of Our Vision for the Built Environment, and is committed to transforming the built environment sector to produce better outcomes for people and nature. She is Co-Chair of both the Project 13 Adopter Community and the Digital Twin Hub Community Council as well as a member of the U...

Kingma Ma is Managing Director at PropTech1, a VC investing in European early stage startups that transform the built environment across two funds. He has worked in the proptech VC ecosystem for 4 years. Prior to VC, Kingma worked as a product manager for early stage startups, and founded his own startup in the therapy sector.

Using AI to automate infrastructure design - Grzeg Marecki, CEO at Continuum Industries by Future Engineering Club

With over 25 years’ experience in advanced manufacturing, Milan Kocic is currently the head of Sixth Sense Open Innovation Platform. His mission is to create an environment where start-ups can explore possibilities for growth with Hexagon’s wide network of product, services, and customers. He himself has spent last 15 years bringing many innovative new products and services like PULSE and MyCare t...

Anneli is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tangible, a software platform for sustainable building materials. Before Tangible, Anneli built her expertise in the world of real estate sustainability; she worked for The Better Buildings Partnership in London before helping real estate sustainability consultancy Longevity Partners open up their U.S. operations. Anneli has always been fascinated by the interse...

David is Head of Net Zero Innovation in EDF’s Research and Development team based in the UK. His mission is to lead innovations that accelerate the world’s journey towards net zero. David has two decades of international experience in sustainability and innovation, living and working in the UK, France and China. After gaining an MSc from Imperial College, the first half of David’s career was in su...

Henry is CEO of Big White Wall, a digital 24/7, clinically moderated, anonymous peer-to-peer community for those with anxiety and depression. Henry has over 25 years of experience in disruptive services and technology companies. Most recently, before the acquisition of Aconex by Oracle, Henry was Executive Vice President for International Growth at Aconex. During his time there he was part of the...

This episode I’ll be interviewing Alice Leung, investor at Brick and Mortar Ventures based in San Francisco, hearing about her work investing in startups that disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built world. Alice started her career in the AEC industry with DPR Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area building UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Lucile Packard Children’s Hos...

This episode I’ll be interviewing Chris Thomas, Head of Business Improvement and Innovation at Bristol Water, hearing his work connecting new ventures to corporate and balancing innovation across the OpEx and CapEx.

Join me as I explore the future of commercial real estate, benefiting from improvements brought about through PropTech, discussing the implications of buildings on our health and wellbeing, and what this could mean for the likes of commercial real estate giants like JLL and Tishman Speyer

James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making logistics more efficient. He has run a number of businesses as well as serving as an officer in the Australian and British Armies with tours of duty in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded the US Bronze Star, the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation's Outstanding Service Award and the Australian Join...

Offsite manufacturing goes back to the end of World War One and is now considered critical to our sector. What led to the inception of this process, what are the benefits and how does this align with the UK's National Infrastructure Delivery Plan?

Peter Mildon is a Co-founder and COO of Vivacity Labs. He comes from an engineering background, meeting his co-founder at university designing and building a solar powered car. They founded Vivacity in late 2015 with a view to bring Artificial Intelligence into the road infrastructure space and have launched an Intellegent video sensor and traffic prediction product to date.

Covid-19 has impacted the World as we know it. Citizens and organisations both public and private now face an uncertain period ahead. With the UK now almost 8 weeks in Lockdown, businesses have been forced to adjust to new ways of working, with remote working now the standard. But what does this mean for us as constraints begin to ease? Over the next few minutes, I’ll be exploring what this means...