PropTech Innovation Fund Round 6 - Virtual Kickoff: Meet the Finalists
Join us to hear from the 11 consortia finalists of Round 6, split across three challenge-focused panel discussions, and introduced by three key policymakers from MHCLG!
✳️ Panel 1: 10:00 - 10:50am
Theme: Enabling a Regional Evidence Base for Plan-Making
This session will focus on how digital innovation can help the creation of spatial evidence bases that can be shared across local authority boundaries and different types of plans within the same region. This theme is especially relevant for stakeholders interested in the production of Spatial Development Strategies (SDS) and plan-making from a regional lens.
The session will include a keynote from Arthur Young (MHCLG Deputy Director for Development Plans), followed by a moderated discussion between 5 funded pilots:
Pilot 1: City Science, in partnership with Plymouth City Council, Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority, Cheltenham Borough Council, and Tewkesbury Borough Council
Pilot 2: ESRI UK, in partnership with LANDCLAN, Oxfordshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, Surrey County Council, and Spelthorne Borough Council
Pilot 3: Prior + Partners, in partnership with Essex County Council, Thurrock Council, Southend-on-Sea City Council, and Lancashire Combined County Authority
Pilot 4: SimAnalytica, in partnership with Digital Task Force for Planning, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and Salford City Council
Pilot 5: Bioregional Development Group, in partnership with Space Syntax, Central Lincolnshire, and Gloucester City Council
Break: 10:50 - 11:00am
✳️ Panel 2: 11:00 - 11:45am
Theme: Improving Key Elements of the Evidence Base
This session will focus on how digital innovation can improve specific parts of the plan-making evidence base, such as housing capacity, biodiversity, and infrastructure. These elements of the evidence base are often the most complex and time-consuming. This theme is most relevant for stakeholders interested in streamlining the production of the plan-making evidence base, particularly for the new 30-month Local Plan production window.
The session will include a keynote from King Abeyie (MHCLG Head of Digital Spatial Development Strategies and Growth Tech), followed by a moderated discussion between 3 funded pilots:
Pilot 1: AiDASH, in partnership with Lancaster City Council and Newark & Sherwood District Council
Pilot 2: Advanced Infrastructure, in partnership with North Somerset Council and Bristol City Council
Pilot 3: Blocktype, in partnership with University of Liverpool, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, and West Midlands Combined Authority
✳️ Panel 3: 11:45am - 12:30pm
Theme: Streamlining the S106 Process to Support Planning Decisions
This session will focus on how digital innovation can improve the process of developing and negotiating Section 106 agreements, including by streamlining financial viability appraisals, benchmarking, and collaboration on Section 106 workflows. Improving this process could support the speed and quality of planning decisions. This theme is most relevant for stakeholders interested in improving the Section 106 process on both the private and public sector side.
The session will include a keynote from Lydia Mihailovic (MHCLG Head of Developer Contributions), followed by a moderated discussion between 3 funded pilots:
Pilot 1: AI Gizmo, in partnership with Birmingham City Council, Reading Borough Council, Zen Living Management, and University of Wolverhampton
Pilot 2: Gpeto AI, in partnership with Uttlesford District Council and Harlow Council
Pilot 3: Planning Hub, in partnership with Tower Hamlets, BeFist Barking & Dagenham, and Aster Group
PLEASE NOTE: Meeting link will be shared after confirmation of registration.