 Milton Keynes is the UK's fastest growing city. Like all growing cities, it's going to need more water efficiency, cleverer energy usage and better transport solutions if this growth is going to be sustainable. Milton Keynes is growing really quickly. We've got plans for 28,000 new homes and that's going to place enormous pressure on our existing infrastructure. We can't just continue to do things in the way that we have done today. We've got to find new and innovative ways of dealing with that. It's a big issue and not just for Milton Keynes but for pretty much everybody in the UK and most people on the planet. 90% of us in the UK live in cities and for the first time in history more of the global population live in growing urban areas. I work at Open University on a project we are leading called MKSmart which is looking at how to make Milton Keynes and in turn other cities a lot smarter. MKSmart is a 16 million pound investment in Milton Keynes. We are working with key players like Milton Keynes Council, Cambridge University, University of Bedfordshire, British Telecom and others to harness data and develop new solutions as Milton Keynes grows. It's about using data from data centres like these to help people manage their water and energy use more efficiently and to move around Milton Keynes more easily. Let's look at one very simple example a data-driven solution that helps people to manage water usage in their garden. I grew up in Sicily. Believe it or not, my hometown in Sicily actually gets more rainfall per annum than Milton Keynes so it's clearly necessary to improve Milton Keynes' water management. When there are water shortages, hotspike bans are introduced. But how can we advise people to use water more efficiently to prevent such shortages? Well, one way to do this will be to provide an app on a smartphone or a tablet which provides you with a customized calendar which tells you whether your garden needs watering now or in the next few days. The app is integrating data from weather forecasts, satellite observations, ground sensors and air temperatures to provide you with very specific advice about when to water the garden. So this is just one example of what our work in MKSmart would make possible. Using real-time information to help everyone in the city to make better use of water, energy and transport. Milton Keynes is a cool place to live with the best you would expect from the fastest growing seed in the UK. But this growth has to be sustainable and this is what MKSmart is all about.