🌉 TLA Taiwan × TLA Smart Cities Build Jam. AIoT and Smart Cities
🌉 Build Jam. AIoT and Smart Cities
A London × Taiwan Innovation Exchange
Build Jam is a short-format, collaborative session focused on AI-assisted exploration and idea-building rather than full technical development.
Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 17:00–20:30
Venue Sponsor: Gravita, Aldgate Tower, 2 Leman St, London E1 8FA, United Kingdom
Organiser: Tech London Advocates. Taiwan Working Group and TLA Smart Cities
Sponsor: NTSC (National Science and Technology Council)
Dinner Bento: Ni Fon Kitchen
About the Event
How is AI reshaping the physical world around us?
From offices and homes to transport systems and entire neighbourhoods, data and connected technologies are changing how buildings operate, how energy is used, how movement flows, and how cities respond in real time.
What does this look like in practice?
AI in the built environment is already being applied in areas such as:
• Office spaces that automatically adjust heating, lighting, and ventilation based on real-time occupancy
• Transport systems that predict congestion and dynamically optimise signal timing
• Energy grids that forecast neighbourhood demand and balance renewable supply
• Residential buildings that detect abnormal energy use and reduce operating costs
• District dashboards that simulate how policy changes affect traffic, emissions, or public space usage
• "What if" scenario models that help planners test infrastructure decisions before investing
This Build Jam explores how these layers connect — from a single room sensor to a city-wide decision engine.
Build Jam is a collaborative, short-format session focused on AI beyond chatbots and into the environments we live and work in.
Rather than a technical hackathon, this is an interactive evening of shared exploration. Participants will work in small groups using accessible AI tools to develop early-stage ideas and practical concepts, guided by real-world examples from both the UK and Taiwan.
Inspiration from the UK and Taiwan
🎤 Roy Lin — City AI, Taipei Urban Intelligence Center Sharing how city-scale data and modelling can support smarter infrastructure and policy decisions.
🎤 Ian Tsern — Chung-En Tsern is a Data Scientist at Urban Intelligence Lab (Urban Initiatives). He specialises in applying data science and AI within urban infrastructures and strategic masterplans. Bringing a practitioner’s lens to R&D, Chung-En focuses on transforming complex urban data into actionable intelligence for global, large-scale projects.
🎤 Paul Sheedy — UNIFI.ID Demonstrating real-time building sensing and occupancy intelligence.
Together, these perspectives connect room-level insight with district and city-wide thinking.
As both Taiwan and the UK advance in applied AI and connected environments, this session creates space to explore how sensing, data, and AI interact across layers.
In the spirit of collaboration over competition, the emphasis is on exchange, experimentation, and learning across ecosystems.
Why Attend
This session is relevant for:
• Founders exploring AI in the physical world
• Property and PropTech professionals
• Construction and infrastructure innovators
• Sustainability and climate tech practitioners
• Urban and transport specialists
• Students and technologists interested in applied AI
No advanced technical background required. Curiosity and collaboration encouraged.
Event Objectives
• Explore how building-level intelligence can scale into district and city insight
• Highlight complementary UK and Taiwan strengths in applied AI and connected infrastructure
• Enable hands-on concept development using accessible AI tools
• Deepen UK–Taiwan dialogue across technology, sustainability, and urban life
Agenda
17:00 – 17:30 Registration and networking
17:30 – 18:20 Inspiration talks and AI tool introductions
18:20 – 19:50 Build Jam session and dinner
From Building Intelligence to City Intelligence Small team exploration of ideas and use cases
19:50 – 20:20 Concept sharing Each group presents for 3 minutes
20:20 – 20:30 Closing and acknowledgements 🏆 Light-hearted awards to conclude the evening.
🏆 Fun Awards
One light-hearted award per team.
About TLA Taiwan TLA Taiwan connects the UK and Taiwan innovation ecosystems through practical collaboration across technology, culture, and applied innovation. Through curated gatherings and build sessions, it creates space for early exploration and long-term partnership.
About TLA Smart Cities TLA Smart Cities brings together technologists, founders, policymakers, investors, and researchers to explore how digital infrastructure and emerging technologies can improve how cities function and serve their communities.