Henry Fenby-Taylor is a leader in digital transformation, research, and communications, with a focus on Digital Twins and cyber-physical infrastructure.
Henry represents Spinview, a company transforming building management with digital twin technology. Spinview’s visualisation and data capabilities drive cost savings, enhance asset efficiency, and create safer, healthier environments.
Henry has delivered world-leading transformational change, shaping policy for Innovate UK in the Fenby-Taylor review of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure. Henry works globally with governments to advance Responsive Infrastructure, integrating data, digital twins, and cyber-physical systems to benefit citizens, governments, and infrastructure owners.
Previously Head of Information Management at CDBB, he led the UK BIM Framework, drove national standards, and oversaw all UK research on information management.
Henry chairs the CIC 2050 Group, the future leaders group for the Construction Industry Council, which promotes the built environment to the next generation, tackles climate change, and advances EDI. He is also a core member of Zero Construct and a director of Women in BIM, actively advocating for inclusivity and change in the sector.
With a 19-year career spanning digital strategy, research, and industry transformation, Henry remains committed to driving innovation and progress in the built environment.
Lord Rees of Easton, OBE, is a British Labour Party politician and former Mayor of Bristol (2016–2024), celebrated as the first person of Black African heritage to be elected mayor of a major European city.
Rees began his career with Tearfund, a leading international development agency, before moving to the USA to work with Sojourners, a social justice organization. Upon returning to the UK, he worked with BBC Bristol and later joined NHS Bristol’s Public Health team.
His tenure as mayor was marked by transformative political leadership, urban regeneration, and social impact, earning him international recognition for driving meaningful change. Key achievements include:
• Delivering over 14,000 new homes to address housing challenges.
• Leading Temple Quarter, one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects.
• Spearheading Bristol City Leap, a groundbreaking £1 billion public-private partnership to decarbonize the city’s energy system.
Beyond Bristol, Rees remains a global advocate for urban leadership, migration, and climate action. As Co-Chair of the Mayors Migration Council, he collaborates with city leaders worldwide to shape inclusive policies and create economic opportunities for migrants and refugees.
Rees is a Yale World Fellow, a graduate of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and a UPenn Perry World House Fellow. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Swansea University and serves as an Honorary Industrial Professor at the University of Bristol.
His lived experience—growing up as the mixed-race son of a single mother in 1970s and 80s Britain—fuels his lifelong dedication to social justice, urban transformation, and social mobility. Now, as Lord Rees of Easton, he continues to champion inclusive cities, climate action, and economic opportunity for all.
Tim began his career as an architect in the UK, where he managed projects from initial concept through construction completion for both homes and commercial buildings. This experience honed his ability to maintain technical precision while effectively coordinating diverse teams of contractors, engineers, consultants, and clients.
Later at Design Council, Tim led innovation programmes for public and private sector clients. A standout project examined workplace impacts on employee health, conducted in partnership with Impact on Urban Health. The initiative focused on uncovering insights about employer knowledge, workplace culture, and working conditions.
Tim now leads a tech startup that provides critical data infrastructure for insurers and property owners to quantify the value of nature-based retrofits in mitigating physical risk and improving climate resilience.
You. Smart. Thing is the leading travel management platform for destinations, venues, and live events. Our map-based travel assistant enhances visitor experience & increases revenues whilst reducing the disproportionate carbon footprint created by travel.
As Head of Client Development, Emma support existing clients to increase the engagement of their visitors with their Travel Assistant, and to meet their organisational objectives including net zero targets, improved visitor experience, increased revenue and operational solutions. Emma leads the Regional Smart Travel Partnership strategy, enabling clients to work together to optimise the opportunities of the travel assistants through their local authorities, DMO’s and via innovation project funding.
You. Smart. Thing is Personalised, Accessible & Sustainable with nothing to download or install. Our Travel Assistant enables venues and events to optimise data capture, people flow, dwell time & revenue generation. The ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ travel assistant can be tailored to enable organisations to offer content-enhanced wayfinding and curated low-carbon door-to-door travel plans that nudge visitors towards net-zero travel. Easily embedded within web, mobile, ticket booking and customer relationship management systems, ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ adds an additional personalisation layer, allowing destination operators to capture and maintain the visitor relationship.
Gordon is the CEO of the Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RiDC), responsible for running the organisation and leading the call for inclusive research when designing products and services.
Before that, Gordon was CEO of Community Southwark for seven years (a membership and infrastructure organisation). During that time, he led and developed an organisation dedicated to animating, supporting, and championing voluntary and community organisations to give communities the skills to fulfil their potential. Prior to that, he was deputy director of the Institute of Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) and head of research for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA).
Gordon has held a number of public appointments with the Northern Ireland Statistics Research Agency as well as a number of charity trustee roles. He is currently the chair of the 999 Club, a homelessness charity in South London.
