How can tech help grow good communities - looking at example of London's development around Kings Cross & Euston

1. “Good Neighbours - how tech can help
grow communities”
20/20 Vision

2. Somers Town is where we are all meant to be right now….

3. Celebrating another banner year for technology

4. Personal
computing
The Web
Mobile
computing
Cloud
computing
Tech seems impervious, to even
the worst economic crises

6. How much do we know about where we actually are?

7. How good is our vision?
“Having 20/20 vision does not necessarily mean you have perfect vision.
20/20 vision only indicates the sharpness or clarity of vision at a distance.
Other important vision skills, including peripheral awareness or side
vision, eye coordination, depth perception, focusing ability and color
vision, contribute to your overall visual ability.”

8. By 2022, the economic centre of London will
change for the first time in nearly 2000 years…..
City of London -
GVA £46.6bn
Camden & Islington -
GVA £43.4bn
Source: BEIS Knowledge Quarter London Summary Report

9. It’s a rapidly evolving neighborhood

20. We need to rethink our relationship
to place and our neighborhoods

27. Could Somers Town be a new Palo Alto in the next 20 years?
45 mins 90 mins 120 mins 120 mins 150 mins
120 mins 150 mins 240 mins

28. We are incredibly well positioned
AI Neuroscience Genomics
DLT Space Mixed Reality
Robotics
41m people, 150 unicorns and $128bn
of annual enterprise IT spend
The 4hr train ride from Somers Town
connects to....
Profound strength in strategic sectors

29. At what point will we catch Palo Alto?
Palo Alto New Palo Alto
Unicorns 211 150
Unicorn Employees 170k 57k
Venture Investment (2018) $49bn $10bn
4hr Train Cities San Jose
San Fran
Oakland
London (13.7m)
Oxbridge (540k)
Manchester (2.5m)
Birmingham (3.7m)
Bristol (1m)
Paris (12m)
Leeds (2.3m)
Brussels (2.1m)
Edinburgh (750k)
Amsterdam (2.4m)
Top 50 Unis 2 9
Consumers (Pop.) 10m 41m
Forbes 2000 Enterprises 63 153
Enterprise IT Budgets $57bn $128bn
Government DC Whitehall
Elysee
Brussels & EU
Global India China
India
Africa
Capital Markets NYC London
Experience
Potential
Markets
Source: Wikipedia, Forbes 2000, Times

30. Ambition
Capability
Alignment
Proximity
Adoption
Focus
More importantly, what kind of an ecosystem do we want to build?
Works for Everyone
Mega Corns
Missions
Walk Cycle Train
Works in Cities
Ethics
Works for Me
Smart Capital
Industrial Strategy/UCL
Drive Fly
Works in Suburbs
Exits
Experienced Talent
Zinc/LSE CDL/Oxford

31. AI Neuroscience Genomics
DLT Space Mixed Reality
Robotics
41m people, 150 unicorns and $128bn
of annual enterprise IT spend
The 4hr train ride from Phoenix Court
encompasses....
Profound strength in strategic sectors
We have incredible potential just on our doorstep

33. The Ossulston Street Opportunity 2020-2040
● Insight +
● Access
=> Opportunity
● Social Mobility
● Income Inequality

34. New mindsets are the most
important new frontier

35. Ambition
Capability
Alignment
Proximity
Adoption
Focus
What compounds ecosystems?
Works for Everyone
Mega Corns
Missions
Walk Cycle Train
Works in Cities
Ethics
Works for Me
Smart Capital
Industrial Strategy/UCL
Drive Fly
Works in Suburbs
Exits
Experienced Talent
Zinc/LSE CDL/Oxford
Vote!
http://bit.ly/newpaloalto

36. Ambition
Capability
Alignment
Proximity
Adoption
Focus
What compounds ecosystems?
Works for Everyone
Mega Corns
Missions
Walk Cycle Train
Works in Cities
Ethics
Works for Me
Smart Capital
Industrial Strategy/UCL
Drive Fly
Works in Suburbs
Exits
Experienced Talent
Zinc/LSE CDL/Oxford
Results
https://bit.ly/3dMuqAB

37. Appendix

39. Bay Area Beijing New Palo Alto

41. The Journey
● Previously occupied by Camden Council, and used as Trade Union
overflow offices
...And the building works were
completed in December 2018
● Signed a lease in October 2017...

42. Designed together with award winning Spanish
architects SelgasCano
FACT! There are approximately:
- 110 plants
- 6000 cable ties
- 4000 meters of data cabling
- 700 meters of LED strip

43. The case for putting
philosophers into
company boardrooms
Businesses must satisfy; philosophy is
concerned with what makes a good life,
says Alain de Botton (FT, Jan 1, 2014)

45. 2019 Results