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24/12/2024

🌍✨ Reflecting on a year of tremendous growth and positive impact!

SBS 2024 once again witnessed an incredible surge in registered delegates and speakers across four interactive plenaries, CPD sessions and workshops.

Our team's relentless efforts brought together global industry players dedicated to driving meaningful change in the built environment via the adoption of smart building technologies.

In 2025 we will continue our mission to propel us all towards a smarter, more sustainable future by addressing industry challenges and fostering collaboration across the whole supply chain.

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th September 2025 when SBS returns to the Vox Conference Centre!

In the meantime, thank you to you all for your continued support and we wish you and your families a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here’s to a positive year ahead filled with innovation, collaboration, and a sustainable future for all! 🌿🏢

24/10/2024

🌟 We’re excited to announce that all SBS 2024 speaker presentations are now available for download! 🌟

💬 To access these insightful presentations, check your emails. This exclusive content is available to all SBS 2024 attendees to ensure you continue to benefit from the wealth of knowledge shared during the forum.

✅ As a valued delegate, you can revisit the impactful sessions delivered by over 30 keynote speakers, covering a wide range of topics from intelligent buildings to sustainability innovations and digital healthcare advancements.

📅 If you didn’t attend SBS 2024, be sure to mark your calendar for SBS 2025, where we’ll bring even more industry-leading speakers and fresh insights.

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🌟 Call for Speakers 2025! 🌟✨ As we look ahead to SBS 2025, we are excited to invite industry thought-leaders to apply to...
17/10/2024

🌟 Call for Speakers 2025! 🌟

✨ As we look ahead to SBS 2025, we are excited to invite industry thought-leaders to apply to speak at next year’s event. If you are passionate about driving the future of smart buildings, integration of digital technologies and sustainability, we want would like to hear from you!

We welcome a balance of different perspectives across the supply chain, from customers/end-users, design consultants, main & subcontractors, building operators/FM companies, through to engineers and technology providers, to encourage lively debate across our main plenary themes:

📲 Technology & Strategic Insights
🏙 CIBSE’s IBG Intelligent Buildings & FM Services
🏥 Digital Healthcare, Smart Hospitals & Virtual Wards

🔗 To apply, please visit the SBS website [Call For Speakers - Smart Buildings and Sustainability Leaders Forum (www.sbsleadersforum.com/speak/)] and submit your talk overview. We can’t wait look forward to see the amazing ideas and solutions you will bring to the stage in 2025!

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📱 Networking App Update launched for Smart Buildings & Sustainability Leaders Forum! 🌟🌎The Smart Buildings & Sustainabil...
20/09/2024

📱 Networking App Update launched for Smart Buildings & Sustainability Leaders Forum! 🌟

🌎The Smart Buildings & Sustainability Leaders Forum is the premier UK networking event for leaders driving the agenda for sustainability, smart buildings and NetZero construction.

✨Today we are delighted to announce the launch of the updated SBS App for SBS 2024, which has been designed to enhance the delegate experience before, during and after the event.

Thanks to this year’s official App Sponsor, iSpayce™, delegates will be able to view floor plans, check speaker timings, workshop and CPD session agendas, as well as connect and message contacts directly to allow networking and collaboration.

🌟 Key Features:

- Connect & Collaborate: Connect with fellow delegates, exhibitors and speakers to initiate conversations via our new in-built messaging system.
- Personalized Agenda: View 2024 itineraries, floor plan, workshops, and refreshment times so you can organize your time and get the most out of attending the event.

🔗 How to Get the App:

(iPhone) App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sbs-leaders-forum/id6464077834

(Android) Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.istl.sbs&pli=1

Get Started:

SBS Delegates already registered can scan the QR code on their ticket, which they received via registration confirmation, to login to the SBS app and connect with other delegates of interest. Make sure you update your app first!

🎉 Download, explore, and let the collaborating begin! 🎉

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🌟 We are delighted to announce yet another great speaker for the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building and FM Services Plenar...
05/09/2024

🌟 We are delighted to announce yet another great speaker for the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building and FM Services Plenary at Smart Buildings & Sustainability 2024 🌟

John MacPherson is the Digital Director for Amey in Scotland, and will be adding his own perspective to the talk entitled, Optimising the User Experience through Intelligent Buildings, which will explore how advanced technology and systems integration can help achieve the crucial balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort by tapping into various information streams.

✨ About John ✨

John has 20 years of experience within the global infrastructure and asset portfolio space, in addition to construction, mining, transport, oil and gas. John has significant experience in asset maintenance and management compliance, and has implemented SaaS products as part of consulting solutions (COTS and customised products), and worked with a digital team of technical specialists, including application developers, analytics specialists and GIS specialists.

🌟 The SBS are delighted to welcome Saeed Talebi to speak at the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building & FM Services plenary a...
03/09/2024

🌟 The SBS are delighted to welcome Saeed Talebi to speak at the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building & FM Services plenary at SBS 2024 🌟

In Saeed's talk, 'When Virtual Meets Actual: Development and Deployment of Digital Twins for Buildings', Dr. Saeed Talebi will explore the critical role that digital twins play in the future of intelligent buildings and their ability to optimise energy consumption, enhance indoor air quality, and improve overall occupant comfort. Saeed will discuss the successes and challenges faced in integrating IoT sensors and AI-driven analytics within digital twin platforms, including common pitfalls in digital twin projects, as well as sharing best practice to ensure successful deployment. Finally, the talk will provide an overview of Saeed’s latest industry-led project—a state-of-the-art digital twin for Birmingham’s tallest building, One Eastside—and how this initiative contributes to sustainable development goals and future smart city infrastructures.

✨ About Saeed Talebi ✨

Dr Saeed Talebi is an Associate Professor in the College of Built Environment at Birmingham City University, with a strong focus on research and enterprise. His expertise lies in the development of digital twin technology for building operations and maintenance, digital examination of critical infrastructure using advanced optical methods and computer vision, and Platform Approach for Manufacture and Assembly in construction. He has delivered numerous industry-led projects for large enterprises, SMEs, and public sector clients and is committed to advancing industry productivity, safety, and sustainability.

🌟The Smart Buildings & Sustainability team are delighted to announce that Peter Shearman will be joining this year’s lin...
29/08/2024

🌟The Smart Buildings & Sustainability team are delighted to announce that Peter Shearman will be joining this year’s line-up for the new Intelligent, Sustainable Transport plenary at SBS on 26th September at the Vox, Birmingham. 🌟

Peter’s talk, entitled 'The Centrality of the Traveller Experience', will address how sustainable transport solutions (e.g. electric vehicles, active travel and public transport) need to be designed around the traveller experience, with the emphasis on improving that experience, in order to continue the movement towards more sustainable modes of travel.

✨ About Peter ✨

Peter Shearman is an Industry Specialist Advisor with Purple Transform, an AI start-up bringing monitoring and automation to complex industrial environments. He has extensive experience in creating, developing, and industrialising innovations. Prior to joining Purple Transform he spent over a decade driving Cisco’s UK innovation programme, working with customers, partners, start-ups and academics to create new solutions to the most challenging problems.

🌟 We are delighted to announce yet another great speaker for the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building and FM Services Plenar...
29/08/2024

🌟 We are delighted to announce yet another great speaker for the CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Building and FM Services Plenary at Smart Buildings & Sustainability 2024 🌟

David Aird, Director of Strategic Projects for Complex Facilities at Amey will join the line-up to present Optimising the User Experience through Intelligent Buildings, which will explore how advanced technology and systems integration can help achieve the crucial balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort by tapping into various information streams.

✨About David✨

With over 17 years of experience at Amey, David has a strong background in working in the public and private sector in operational and account management roles. David’s recent focus has been driving strategic initiatives within the Complex Facilities business unit. Leveraging his expertise in building management, project planning, and energy management, David has played a pivotal role in delivering projects alongside Amey's consulting team to help organisations decarbonise their estate and reach their net zero goals.

🌟 The SBS team are delighted to welcome Declan Hadley from Cisco as Co-Chair of the Digital Healthcare Plenary, who brin...
27/08/2024

🌟 The SBS team are delighted to welcome Declan Hadley from Cisco as Co-Chair of the Digital Healthcare Plenary, who bring decades of experience within the NHS and IT to this year’s SBS event! 🌟

🌐 Declan has a keen interest in consumer-centric technology and the Internet of Things, exploring how they can be used to empower people and enable them to manage aspects of their care whilst living in their own homes. Prior to joining Cisco in April 2021, Declan worked in the NHS for over thirty years, and started his career as a Psychiatric Nurse before moving into Information Management in the 1990s.

🔬 In 2001, Declan was appointed as Health Informatics Director at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, where he led on the development of innovative mobile solutions and new clinical applications. More recently, Declan has acted as Programme Director for the North West Coast Connected Health Cities Programme and Digital Associate for the Innovation Agency North West Coast.

✨ About Cisco ✨

🏢🌎 Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals.

🌟 We are delighted to announce Guy Collins-Down, Chief Operation Officer at Alleyn’s School, will be sharing an end-user...
22/08/2024

🌟 We are delighted to announce Guy Collins-Down, Chief Operation Officer at Alleyn’s School, will be sharing an end-user perspective in the Technology & Strategic Insights plenary at SBS 2024.🌟

Guy’s talk, 'Faster Horses: Reinventing Schools for The Future' will delve into the possibilities around smart technology in education and how this can unleash the minds of the future.

✨About Guy Collins-Down✨

Guy is one of the UK’s foremost experts in school design and operational management, with a career spanning prestigious schools including Harrow, Alleyn’s and South Hampstead High School. Throughout his career, his passion and vision for education environments has seen the design of over £1bn of new school buildings, the development of strategic national and international commercial partnerships and the pioneering of community use and enjoyment of school buildings.

Guy has a clear understanding of how the influence of light, space, texture and colour can completely transform a child’s wellbeing at school and firmly believes it is his duty to embrace innovation and design thinking so that schools are both equipped to educate children for the workplaces of the future and play a central role in their communities.

🌟 We are delighted to announce that Paul McCorquodale, CEO at Grid Edge, will be presenting at CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent B...
22/08/2024

🌟 We are delighted to announce that Paul McCorquodale, CEO at Grid Edge, will be presenting at CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Buildings plenary at SBS 2024.🌟

Paul’s talk, How Data can Enable Cross-Industry Collaboration, will acknowledge that whilst data may not be able to solve all complex industry challenges, it does play an increasingly crucial role in enabling cross-industry collaboration, informed decision-making processes and accelerating energy optimisation.

✨About Paul McCorquodale and Grid Edge✨

Paul has driven innovation in both fast-growing start-ups and FTSE 100 companies. Following the digital revolution across a number of industries, he brings his expertise from telecoms, ecommerce, energy and the built environment to solve real life problems. He is the CEO of Grid Edge, where his team is using AI to predict future energy profiles to help accelerate large commercial buildings to net zero, saving energy, carbon and money.

🌟 We are delighted to announce that Rob Price, CTO for the NBU at Logicalis UK, will be presenting at CIBSE IBG’s Intell...
20/08/2024

🌟 We are delighted to announce that Rob Price, CTO for the NBU at Logicalis UK, will be presenting at CIBSE IBG’s Intelligent Buildings plenary at SBS 2024.🌟

Rob’s talk, Smart Sustainable Buildings Powered by Next Generation Connectivity, will cover why capacity, reliability, scalability and security of the underlying IT infrastructure are all vital components of any organisation’s smart building and sustainability strategy.

✨About Rob Price✨

Rob has 35 years of IT industry experience and remains passionate about the potential of IT to deliver sustainable outcomes for businesses. He is currently the CTO for the Networking Business Unit at Logicalis UK and is responsible for Logicalis’s networking portfolio, working a range of public and private sector clients to optimise their Smart Building and IT strategies.

🌟We are delighted to announce that Jim Morrish, Founding Partner of Transforma Insights, will be speaking in the Technol...
14/08/2024

🌟We are delighted to announce that Jim Morrish, Founding Partner of Transforma Insights, will be speaking in the Technology & Strategic Insights plenary at SBS 2024.🌟

Jim’s talk, Digital Transformation for Smart Buildings and Associated Ecosystems, will provide an overview of the key domains of change that are enabling tomorrow’s smart buildings, together with the associated benefits including in terms of business and sustainability and for building occupants.

He will highlight how concepts such as energy management, servitisation and supply chain and field force management will interplay with smart building solutions, resulting in buildings becoming integrated into a range of wider ecosystems. Jim will also outline some of the key technologies enabling smart buildings, together with advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.

✨About Jim Morrish & Transforma Insights✨

Jim Morrish is a respected Digital Transformation and Internet of Things industry expert, with over 20 years’ experience of strategy consulting, operations management and telecoms research.

Transforma Insights is a leading research firm focused on the world of Digital Transformation (DX). Led by seasoned technology industry analysts we provide advice, recommendations and decision support tools for organisations seeking to understand how new technologies (such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Ledger, Edge Computing and Autonomous Robotic Systems) and new business models will change the markets in which they operate and necessitate significant internal transformation.

🌟We are delighted to announce that Alex Hindson, Partner and Head of Sustainability at Crowe UK LLP, will be speaking in...
09/08/2024

🌟We are delighted to announce that Alex Hindson, Partner and Head of Sustainability at Crowe UK LLP, will be speaking in the Technology & Strategic Insights plenary at SBS 2024.🌟

Alex’s talk, Sustainability: Threat or Opportunity, will look at the commercial business case for taking a positive stance on sustainability and the current regulatory landscape surrounding it. Alex will also address the importance of developing a sustainability strategy that balances securing business opportunities, whilst mitigating the threats.

✨About Alex Hindson & Crowe UK LLP✨

Crowe is a large audit, tax and consulting firm and Alex leads their sustainability consulting team. Alex was previously Chief Risk & Sustainability Officer at Argo Group and has also worked in senior positions at Amlin, Aon and AstraZeneca. He has a broad risk management and sustainability background, having been the Chair of the Institute of Risk Management, and also the LMA Chief Risk Officer Committee.

🌟 The SBS Leaders’ Forum are delighted to welcome Northumbria University’s Optical Communications Research Group (OCRG) ...
07/08/2024

🌟 The SBS Leaders’ Forum are delighted to welcome Northumbria University’s Optical Communications Research Group (OCRG) as a new Exhibitor to the event. 🌟

✨About Northumbria University's OCRG✨

Northumbria’s OCRG is world-renowned team specialising in optical wireless communication and fibre sensing. Their research has led to successful industry applications, including innovative LiFi, OCC, and biochemical sensing solutions.

The team have developed a high sensitivity, portable optical fibre biochemical sensor system, which is easily operable by a non-expert and offers cost-effective, real-time detection of various biochemical targets, including phosphate, ammonia, bacteria, heavy metal ions, AKT, TNF-α, etc. This disruptive technology has potential applications in water/air quality monitoring, point-of-care medical diagnostics and security/defence alarms.

The OCRG extends a warm welcome to all SBS attendees to visit their team on Stand 21 and view their portable biochemical system in action!

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🌟We are thrilled to welcome back Pressac as an SBS 2024 Sponsor! 🌟🌿 Pressac manufactures innovative, forward-thinking se...
01/08/2024

🌟We are thrilled to welcome back Pressac as an SBS 2024 Sponsor! 🌟

🌿 Pressac manufactures innovative, forward-thinking sensor technology that ensures smart building solutions are interoperable and scalable. Their portfolio of smart sensors provide the data required to create more efficient, sustainable buildings and improve user experience and wellbeing.

Pressac sensor technology is system-agnostic and can therefore be integrated into any application or system, allowing the client to remain in full control of their data.

✨A WORD FROM PRESSAC ✨

🌍 At Pressac, we provide sensing technology that makes buildings talk. Our smart building sensors and connected technology are already deployed in millions of businesses and homes worldwide. As a trusted sensor technology partner to some of the world’s leading organisations, we understand you need a cost-effective solution without compromising on performance, reliability or security. 💻

🔗Pressac extends a warm invitation to all SBS stakeholders to visit their stand to learn how the smart sensors can futureproof their buildings🤝

🌟 We are delighted to welcome Graham Martin to SBS 2024, as Chair of CPD Live! and valued member of the Technology and S...
23/07/2024

🌟 We are delighted to welcome Graham Martin to SBS 2024, as Chair of CPD Live! and valued member of the Technology and Strategic Insights steering committee.🌟

🌍 Graham Martin is founding CEO and Chairman of the EnOcean Alliance, a non-profit he founded in 2007. With over 40 years in the wireless industry, Graham’s expertise spans engineering, sales, and marketing across the USA, UK, Germany, Austria, and Norway. A pioneer in low power wireless sensor networks, Graham played a key role in several global companies and was previously Vice Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance

✨ Regarding EnOcean Alliance, Graham states: “Originally launched with 7 companies, the EnOcean Alliance now unites over 400 members worldwide and is one of the most successful alliances in the area of smart building monitoring and control. We are proud of our success story with millions of buildings now using our standard, helping to save energy, reduce CO2 output and creating smarter and healthier buildings.” 🏢🌎

As strategic partner for SBS 2024, EnOcean has invited several member companies to showcase their latest wireless sensor solutions for sustainable building digitalization, based on the international EnOcean Standard.

🌐 Public Sector professionals interested in transformative digital technologies can register for a complimentary SBS conference pass by emailing [email protected].

🌟 SBS is thrilled to announce that FMJ is an official SBS 2024 media partner! 🌟SBS 2024 provides a unique platform for i...
16/07/2024

🌟 SBS is thrilled to announce that FMJ is an official SBS 2024 media partner! 🌟

SBS 2024 provides a unique platform for industry leaders across the whole supply chain to congregate and exchange experience, knowledge and best practice, whilst fostering cross-industry collaboration. 🌐🏢

The FM community is a key part of the supply chain attending the SBS event. With FMJ’s knowledge and expertise of the sector and their extensive readership, FMJ will significantly extend the reach of SBS into the FM community and we are delighted to have FMJ as a media partner.

✨ ABOUT FMJ ✨

FMJ is a leading publication in the facilities management sector, dedicated to providing insightful news, analysis, and commentary on the latest trends and developments in the FM industry.

FMJ provides valuable insights and information to professionals in the FM sector, including the innovative solutions that will shape the future of facilities management. FMJ’s commitment to delivering high-quality content and staying at the forefront of industry trends makes them a trusted resource for facilities management professionals worldwide.

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