Glenn Woodcock, a Director of Oxygen House (formerly Andromeda Capital) seeks a meeting with Karime Hassan to discuss ways to contribute to accelerating Exeter’s move towards achieving a truly zero-carbon city.
Glenn Woodcock meets Karime Hassan and discusses ideas around a low-carbon agenda for Exeter and how data and analytics can be used to stimulate change.
Innovate UK launch Internet of Things Demonstrator competition, offering an opportunity for Exeter City Council and Oxygen House to work together on a project to use data to solve city-wide problems of congestion and energy use.
Report made to Executive Committee to provide an overview the Internet of Things Demonstrator bid and outline initial plans for Exeter City Futures Community Interest Company - an organisation to be wholly owned by the City - to manage delivery of the IoT programme and ensure engagement around a future vision for the city.
The Executive Committee resolved to endorse Exeter City Futures as a vehicle for better understanding and addressing the transportation, energy and health challenges and opportunities facing the City; Exeter bid for the ‘Internet of Things’ demonstrator city competition.
The communications framework outlined in the report to begin engagement with the Exeter population about the overarching ambition of Exeter City Futures.
Exeter Submits application to Innovate UK Internet of Things Demonstrator competition
Exeter City Futures Community Interest Company incorporated with the purpose to promote and work towards the decarbonisation of the City of Exeter and find solutions to issues relating to health, transport and energy. See our articles of association on Companies House.
Exeter City Futures public launch with the mission to make Exeter congestion free and energy independent by 2025.
Oxygen House start to recruit a team to lead Exeter City Futures’ consultation and engagement work with residents and businesses to define the goals of the City and to design the long-term operational model for the company.
Exeter City Council seeks approval from Executive Committee to become a member of a Community Interest Company (CIC) to facilitate the delivery of the Exeter City Futures vision. Members were also asked to recommend that Council agree to the allocation of £50,000 as a one-off payment as a working budget to facilitate the start-up and promotion of the Exeter City Futures programme.
Exeter City Council joins Exeter City Futures Community Interest Company and appoints Cllr Rosie Denham as Member Director. Cllr Rosie Denham was allocated the City transformation portfolio to recognise the priority attached to Exeter City Futures.
Oxygen House recognise that they have assembled a unique resource that has the potential to support this change across more cities. Global City Futures is incorporated as a consultancy organisation and the team transferred from Oxygen House to Global City Futures. Global City Futures continue to underwrite the delivery costs of Exeter City Futures CIC.
Exeter City Council launched the Exeter Data Mill, a new open data platform developed in collaboration with Exeter City Futures. For Exeter City Council the intention to make the City’s data more accessible and discoverable for everyone. For Exeter City Futures this also enables us to track and measure progress against our goals for the City of Exeter.
The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab receives funding from the European Regional Development Fund. This project seeks to bring the area’s world-class R&D assets together within a business-focussed innovation ecosystem that stimulates the development of new products and services and provides the support required to see these through to market success. The overall objective of the Impact Lab is to stimulate inward investment and productivity-led growth by positioning HotSW as a national and international centre for environmental / Big Data analytics.
This £6.4m project will be delivered by the following seven partner organisations: University of Exeter, Plymouth University, the Met Office, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Rothamsted Research, Plymouth College of Art and Exeter City Futures. The initial project will run for three years from January 2018.
Exeter City Futures are proud to be part of the ERDF Big Data and Environmental Impacts Lab project. This project provides funding for our data analyst to develop a city data store (Exeter Data Mill) that can underpin and analyse city challenges and enable innovators to access data to build new services.
Exeter City Council make changes at senior management level to support the delivery of the council’s priorities. Exeter City Council appoint a Programme Director for Exeter City Futures. The operational costs of Exeter City Futures continues to be underwritten by Global City Futures.
The role of the Programme Director is to define the mission of congestion free and energy independent in a way that is specific and measurable. through extensive review with stakeholders, the Programme Director is to develop the final operational model for the CIC and recruit key public sector institutions to the Board of Exeter City Futures (University of Exeter, Devon County Council, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust, Exeter College).
Council Launch 2018-2021 Corporate plan formally citing Exeter City Futures CIC as the mechanism through which they are seeking to address their strategic priority of tackling congestion and accessibility.
