City of London Corporation Innovation & Growth – TechPitch 4.5
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli Broad Street Ward & Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group Limited [email protected] Z/Yen Group Limited 5 February 2015 Risk Reward Managers 90 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5AY United Kingdom tel: +44 (20) 7562-9562 www.zyen.com A Unique Organisation
• 1200 years of continuous government • 477 acres – Magna Carta • Unique constitution and electoral system, non party–political
Services for 350,000 workers and 9,000 residents: – Education – Social Services – Housing – Libraries – Town Planning – Highways Management – Street Cleansing – Waste Collection & Disposal – Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Licensing – Open Spaces
… And Much More
• Promoting the world’s Leading International Financial & Business Centre • City of London Police • Barbican Centre & Guildhall School • London-Wide role (e.g. City Bridge Trust) • City of London Schools & Academies • Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath – Open Spaces • Port Health Authority • Wholesale Markets • Central Criminal Court • Five London Bridges Long View Since Time Immemorial
• Insurance - Lloyd’s of London, Great Tower Street, 30 St Mary Axe, Marsh Tower • Banking - Fleet Street, 2 King Edward Street, The Bank of England, Lombard Street • Markets - Gresham College and Hatton Garden, Smithfield Market, London Stock Exchange, The Royal Exchange • Shipping - Queenhithe to Billingsgate, The Baltic Exchange, Trinity House, Tower Bridge and the Port of London Enterprise support •Lord Mayor’s overseas promotion •Innovate Finance •Entrepreneur Academe •TeenTech City, Tech City News & ‘Elevator Pitch’ awards, Digital Derry •Digital Shoreditch festival, Entrepreneur First (including Code First), New Entrepreneurs Foundation, Remix symposium & research paper on cultural entrepreneurship •Centre for London’s ‘Connecting Tech City’ web-based platform •110 Livery Companies’ charitable support Enterprise financing •Angels in the City Innovation •Sponsoring Tech London Advocates & Property and planning •Innovation Warehouse & FinTech Innovation Lab at Level 39 Growth •City Property Advisory Team Programmes •Google Campus and Central Working’s Shoreditch facility Digital innovation and the Arts •Hack the Barbican •‘Fish Island Labs’ in Hackney Wick •‘Digital Revolution’ programme at Barbican Research – Economic Development Office
Personal Knowledge
• Eco-transportation company • Survey app firm • Barter exchanges • Novel sandwich company • Gaming firm • Cryptocurrencies • FairBanking standard • Social impact investing • Overseas financial boutique, cargo company Z/Yen
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Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize 2012 for The Price of Fish British Computer Society IT Director of the Year 2004 for PropheZy and VizZy DTI Smart Award 2003 for PropheZy Sunday Times Book of the Week, Clean Business Cuisine £1.9M Foresight Challenge Award for Financial £aboratory visualising financial risk 1997
CAA 2009 Satisfaction with the City ‘Performing Excellently’ Residents: 92% Two Green Flags Businesses: 84%
Investors in People 15 Green Flags 2005; 2008; 2011 8 Green Heritage Sites
HOW Beacon Status ARE WE Equality Framework for Tackling Climate Change DOING? (2008/9) Local Government: Street and Highway Works ‘Achieving Authority’ (2003/4)
Britain’s Cleanest City Carbon Trust 2005/06 Standard bearer Thank you!
“Get a big picture grip on the details.” http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/ Chao Kli Ning