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Simon is a principal of London-based architects Henley Halebrown. The practice has been shortlisted twice for the RIBA Stirling Prize. First, in 2018 for the Chadwick Hall student housing for the University of Roehampton and this year, in 2022, for Hackney New Primary School & 333 Kingsland Road which is also shortlisted for the Neave Brown Award for Housing. Chadwick Hall was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award EU Prize in 2019; and in 2020 won the Fritz Höger Silver Award for Brick Architecture. In 2018 Quart Verlag published a monograph on the practice in the De Aedibus International series.

For more than 20 years Simon has advocated for a palpably sustainable architecture, one that people understand, engage with and participate in as occupants. He explores these ideas in his essay ‘Façade Studies’ in The Hybrid Practitioner published by Leuven University Press (2022). Crucially, he strives through the work of the practice to facilitate a sustainable way of life.

Simon studied at the University of Liverpool and the University of Oregon, USA. He combines practice with teaching, writing and research, and is the author of Redefining Brutalism (2017) and The Architecture of Parking (2007) which won the RIBA International Book Award for Construction. Simon is a postgraduate unit master at the Kingston School of Art.

Rich has more than 20 years of experience in Data, Analytics and CRM.  He has spent the vast majority of that time in HSBC.   In his current role he is business lead for the Data and Messaging Value Stream in the Wealth and Personal banking business line (WPB).  This means he is responsible for all data, analytics and CRM (messaging) platforms across the wealth and retail bank globally.   Over the last few years he has led the move of the data platform to the cloud and is now running a unit which delivers over 100 data services to 9 geographies.  Some of these services use ML techniques for the benefit of HSBC customers and the business.  On the CRM side, the team use ML to make decisions and apply it to more than 30M customers in 15 different markets.

Richard has experience of hands on analytics having previously ran the Commercial Banking analytics team for the UK bank and in his last role he built and scaled a significant CRM programme which delivered north of 100M of benefits and is still going strong today.    Richard has a track record of delivering outcomes, with a specific expertise in data and analytics/machine learning.   He runs a direct team of circa 40 people who in turn lead a team of approximately 300+ data engineers.

He holds a bachelor degree in business studies and professional qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Direct Marketing.

He spends most of his spare time either traveling, with his family or on one of his bikes as he’s an active ride leader in a local cycling club.

Emma Taylor is an Associate Analyst in GlobalData’s Thematic Intelligence Team specialising in Machine Learning, AI regulation, and cybersecurity. Before joining GlobalData Emma completed a Master’s degree in ‘Big Data in Culture and Society’ conducting research on data law, algorithmic bias, surveillance and Facial Recognition Technology.