Jane McLaughlin

In the face of unprecedented global challenges, cities are looking to innovate and scale-up solutions faster and further. The Lunar Works and Tynos Consulting work with cities to broker solutions - bringing together strategy, innovation and delivery in the pursuit of smart, human-centred resilient places and communities.

With over 29 years’ experience in delivering cross-sector, transformational projects, and drawing on my expertise in digital, communications and strategy, I believe that openness, collaboration and creativity are the keys to unlocking the new markets that are necessary for a better future.

I’ve been fortunate enough to live and work in many cities, large and small, across Europe and, while they are culturally and historically diverse, I have learned that cities share far more than what sets them apart.

From delivering the recent Smart Sustainable Cities series for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office - bringing together 50 cities from across Europe to share best practice and collaborate across key themes - to the NoiseAbility SynchroniCity Large Scale Pilot - currently taking place in Edinburgh, Bilbao and Eindhoven – I am ever more convinced of the importance of brokering cities and businesses to bring about agile, transformational change.