Join this week’s Gemini Call with John Easton, Heriot-Watt University, for an insightful session exploring why interoperability is essential to connecting data, systems and models across sectors — and how it can enable smarter, faster and more joined-up decision-making. Drawing on research and practical examples, John will show how better integration can turn fragmented data into usable infrastructure and open up new cross-sector value. This session will examine the barriers that still prevent interoperability at scale, from commercial incentives and ecosystem silos to the challenges of interconnection and synchronisation. It will also highlight how knowledge graphs, ontologies and federated models can help bridge those gaps, with examples from the TransiT programme showing how transport and supporting infrastructure can be brought together in more meaningful and usable ways.

Why attend?

If you are working with digital twins, infrastructure data or complex systems, interoperability is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a critical enabler of collaboration, richer insights and better outcomes across organisational and sector boundaries.

What you'll learn:

• Why interoperability is fundamental to unlocking cross-sector value
• What common barriers still limit integration across data, systems and ecosystems
• How ontologies and knowledge graphs can turn fragmented data into usable infrastructure
• How federated models can support collaboration across transport modes and supporting systems
• Why faster, smarter decision-making depends on more connected and interoperable digital environments

Who should attend?

This session is ideal for digital twin practitioners, data and interoperability specialists, transport and infrastructure professionals, researchers, policymakers and anyone interested in making connected systems work better across sectors.

About the speaker

John Easton is from Heriot-Watt University and will share insights from his work on interoperability, data integration and cross-sector modelling, including examples from the TransiT programme.

Register now for free to discover how interoperability can move digital twins beyond isolated use cases and towards wider, cross-sector impact.

Can’t attend live? Gemini Call sessions are recorded and shared with the community for continued learning.

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