Archives: Speakers

Spencer works with cornerstone clients supporting execution of clinical programs across a wide range of therapeutic areas including vaccines.  Spencer and his team specialize in strategic planning initiatives and bring effective solutions for streamlining and standardization of study operations from start-up to close-out

Alexandra Bolton has been CDBB’s Executive Director since the Centre came to Cambridge in August 2017. She works across CDBB’s programmes, including the National Digital Twin programme and the Construction Innovation Hub, to advance the digital transformation of the built environment in order to improve people’s quality of life through improving social, economic and environmental outcomes. She joined the University of Cambridge in 2014, where she previously held roles within the Department of Engineering. She has had a varied career, having worked in industry and the City including as an oil trader for a world leading commodities house, and as a chemical engineer for one of the oil majors. She holds an MA in Chemical Engineering and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law

Mark is a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models and he is particularly interested in transformational change in the infrastructure industry (including: digital transformation, Smart Infrastructure, low-carbon sustainable solutions, platform-based delivery and design for manufacture and assembly). As Mott MacDonald’s Chief Technical Officer, he is accountable to the Executive Board for technical excellence across the Group. As the Head of the National Digital Twin Programme within the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Mark provides leadership for this ambitious programme.  In addition, he is the Digital Transformation workstream lead on “Project 13” for the Infrastructure Client Group, which represents the UK’s major infrastructure client organisations.  Mark was the Lead Author of the Infrastructure Carbon Review, published by HM Treasury.

Tim Fendley is an information designer with over 25 years’ experience creating system architecture for some of the world’s most important cities. In 2003, Tim founded Applied Information Group on the premise that a city has to be treated as one entity in the eyes of the public. Now an established, award-winning practice working with governmental organisations, Applied’s portfolio spans citywide wayfinding for London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Edmonton, Cleveland, Seattle, Lusail and Sentosa Island, transport systems for Vancouver, Dublin and Toronto, and system architecture for global companies and institutions such as the MET, the National Gallery, London, Google and Princeton University. Tim coined the term ‘Legible London’ with the original London wayfinding study for TfL, an innovative approach to implementing a system in a global city and one which forms the basis for many of the practice’s projects today.

Outside of Applied, Tim co-established the renowned information design company MetaDesign with Prof. Dr. Erik Spiekermann, responsible for designing Audi and VW identities, redesign of the Economist and the first citywide wayfinding system in Bristol, UK. He is also the Founder of Living Map, a mapping technology company designed to deliver public access to smart city initiatives. A campaigner for the development of accessible wayfinding systems for public places, Tim has held talks on the subject at the London School of Economics, Reading University, Sign Design Society and the International Institute for Information Design, Vienna, and has been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art working with the Helen Hamlyn Centre, a department focused on inclusive design.