Sarah Hayes is an economist specialised in data, digitalisation and regulation and works as an independent consultant. Sarah leads on engagement for CReDo the Climate Resilience Demonstrator project working with Connected Places Catapult. She led the first phase of CReDo through the Centre for Digital Built Britain and set up the demonstrator project to show how it’s possible to share data across energy, water and telecoms sectors to increase climate resilience across the infrastructure system. Sarah was the lead author on the National Infrastructure Commission report Data for the public good which set the vision for a National Digital Twin as an ecosystem of connected digital twins. Sarah has advised Ofgem on the development of a data sharing infrastructure and is currently supporting Connected Places Catapult on the National Cyber Physical Infrastructure roadmap. Sarah supports Innovate UK as a member of the Strategic Innovation Fund Advisory Group and Ofgem as a member of the Digitalisation Technical Advisory Group. Sarah is an Ambassador for Connected Places Catapult and chairs the DT Hub Data Sharing Working Group.