Michael Mulquin has spent nearly 30 years partnering with cities, rural areas, and industry on how technology can help neighbourhoods and cities work better. For the last ten years he has been focusing on the development and implementation of smart city standards.
He is technical author of two BSI publications: PD8100 Smart cities overview – Guide and PD8101 Smart cities – Guide to the role of the planning and development process. He is Chair of the IEC Smart Cities Systems Committee and Co-Chair of the IEC-ISO-ITU Joint Smart Cities Task Group. He is City Standards Associate with the Connected Places Catapult and a member of the UK Government External Advisory Group on Secure Connected Communities.
He works with Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) to support the development of the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) that provide focused sets of requirements to support different aspects of building a local data sharing ecosystem.