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Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022

This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain
 

Digital twins offer great potential to improve performance, resource efficiency, monitoring and safety of complex infrastructure systems. Developing and using them also generates new questions about security, privacy, equity, and public and private interests.

In this event in the Benchmark series, hosted by the Centre for Digital Built Britain, leading experts will discuss ethics, value and public interest in relation to Digital Twins.

Chair: Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Academic Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge; Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering, Alan Turing Institute

Panel: Dr James Hetherington (Alan Turing Institute; Director of e-Infrastructure at UK Research and Innovation) and Miranda Sharp (Innovation Director, Ordnance Survey and Stream lead for the National Digital Twin Programme)

The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership between the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge to understand how the construction and infrastructure sectors could use a digital approach to better design, build, operate, and integrate the built environment. https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/

The Benchmark Initiative, delivered by Ordnance Survey's Geovation and supported by Omidyar Network, is exploring the challenges that arise from new sources and applications of location data and location-enabled data, and funding innovations that offer solutions.

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Tuesday, 17 March, 2020 - 16:00 to 18:30
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Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge