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The objective of these listening exercises is to gain a deeper understanding of the needs of external partners, explore effective approaches, and discuss potential opportunities for engagement.
External collaboration offers numerous benefits, including access to people, expertise, processes, and funds. We are also currently witnessing a trend where involving an external partner has become a requirement to access Government funding. The purpose of these listening exercises is to delve deeper into understanding the requirements of external partners, investigate effective strategies, and deliberate on potential avenues for involvement.
This event, organised by the MAPS I&E team in collaboration with the Business and Innovation Partnerships (BIP) Team from UCL I&E, brought together a diverse group of experts from the MAPS Faculty interested in the intersection of climate change, climate tech, data, and sustainability.
The invited speakers, Patrick Bangert and Emily Walport, described the opportunities they see for new digital tools in tackling climate change and achieving net-zero targets. They also explained the best ways to approach industry experts and foster collaboration, identifying new avenues for impactful research and innovation in the field.
The Speakers:
Patrick Bangert is the senior vice-president for data, analytics, and AI at Searce, which provides professional services for cloud applications.
He heads the profit center that is responsible for all projects with a data scientific character globally. Until recently, Patrick led the AI Division of Samsung SDS from 2020 to 2023 bringing AI tools and services into Samsung Cloud for computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning with a particular focus on medical imaging. He holds a PhD in AI and has over 20 years of business experience.
Emily Walport is a senior materials engineer based in Arup Advanced Technology and Research team.
Emily is passionate about sustainability and the role materials and the construction industry can have in addressing the climate and environmental challenges we face as well as in improving the spaces we live and work in. Over the past few years, she has been committed to supporting the circular economy in the built environment agenda. She has worked on research projects looking to define effective circular economy principles for the industry as well as international projects, helping clients to understand what a transition to the circular economy means for their business and in identifying the first steps they can take to accelerate the transition.
