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MC Announcement: Innovation Summit MC Graham Colclough Urban DNA

Graham has worked internationally all his career, firstly across four continents with the oil and gas giant Shell, then globally with Capgemini, now as a smart city adviser with UrbanDNA.

Whilst at Shell, Graham held a broad number of roles, ranging from desert oilfield operations to major offshore field development, and also corporate roles in standardisation and risk management.

Graham led Capgemini’s global activities in cities, and with the European Commission, drawing upon extensive experience in public and private sector policy, strategy, transformation and technology-enablement programmes; including major restructuring of international corporations, an award-winning national eGov programme, a variety of European programmes including the annual pan-European eGov benchmark.

Graham is now a founding partner of UrbanDNA, a niche organisation seeking to support transformation of the cities market globally.

Graham is a recognised thought leader on issues of public services futures, city governance, customer-centric service transformation, urban mobility, technology enablement and the like. He is an active shaper of new smart city and eGovernment thinking. He holds positions within the European Commission Smart Cities Innovation Partnership (chair for integrated infrastructure and data); UK Smart Cities Forum; 6-Nations Smart City Forum; City Protocol Society; chair of the ISO Smart City Strategic Advisory Group; and an active member of the UK BSI Smart Cities Advisory Group including a number of recent publications. Graham is a regular speaker and chair of conferences and workshops