About the Event
One of the largest-scale challenges facing societies today is the question of the transition to sustainability. The solutions being pursued bring together more stakeholders than ever before and involve technological, social, financial, ecological, and other implications. Entrepreneurship and innovation are indispensable skills in this process, helping us to not only design and implement new technologies but to identify both needs and opportunities, in order to pursue financially viable paths toward transformative projects like Smart Cities.
We are joined for this event by Dr. Robin Daniels, the Founder and Managing Director of innovation and strategy consultancy business, Redpill Group Ltd., who will speak on his own entrepreneurial journey and how he came to be involved in sustainability, the major challenges faced in this field, and important new paradigms and technologies which may offer impactful solutions - especially for Smart Cities. This event will be moderated by the WES founder and former President David Izuogu.
About the Panellists
Founder and Managing Director of Redpill Group Ltd
(an innovation and strategy consultancy business)
Dr Robin Daniels is Founder and Managing Director of innovation and strategy consultancy business, Redpill Group Ltd. Robin is a seasoned business leader, strategist and entrepreneur with a track record of driving rapid business growth and innovation across technologies, sectors and countries.
In addition, he holds a number of executive and non-executive Board positions in the UK, the US and Brazil.
Robin was formerly with Magma Innovations, the global Smart City, Internet of Things and Integrated Mobility consultancy, where he was Co-Founder and CEO. In this role he was responsible for leading the technology arm of Magma Group, the world’s leading automotive services business. His personal expertise includes technology commercialisation, strategic partnership development, deal structuring and execution, sales & marketing and technology investment.
Prior to Magma Innovations, Robin was an Advisory Board Member and Executive Vice President with Smart City software specialist and 2012 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Living PlanIT. Here he established and led global sales & marketing, corporate & business development and communications & PR.
Previously he was founding CEO of the Norwich Research Park, Europe’s largest single-site life science park and founding COO of the Centre for Scientific Enterprise Ltd, a joint venture between London Business School and University College London.
Robin has also held senior positions at Cambridge University, where he taught business leadership and innovation to executive Masters students and supervised Doctoral students researching technology entrepreneurship and investment. This followed an early career in production and general management roles, in the automotive and heavy engineering sectors.
He holds Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in engineering and organisational psychology from Loughborough University, is a Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Date: Monday 15 February 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:30 (GMT)
Location: Live across the listed platforms (see hyperlinks below)
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