In our latest podcast, Trowers' partner Kyle Holling, Michael Vogues, Executive Director of ARCO and Samantha Rolland, Head of Healthcare Valuations at Savills discuss the midmarket proposition for retirement communities.

Scott Dorling is joined by Steve Partridge, director of affordable housing consultancy at Savills UK, discussing the issues and opportunities around the so-called 'renaissance of council house building'.

Host Amardeep Gill discusses with data expert William Taaffe the ways in which we can effectively harness data in a smart city, how the possibilities of data can assist the smart city agenda and whether privacy will have to be sacrificed to secure the real benefits of data exploitation.

Scott Dorling and Helen Randall meet with Ed Hammond, Director of Research and Campaigns at the Centre for Public Scrutiny. Following our research, conducted over the last 12 months, on the resilience and continued relevance of local government, we discuss challenges, how authorities can further engage with stakeholders, its structure and what local government is truly for.

In this episode of our Smart City podcast series we discuss data protection issues with expert Claire Wright, who has worked with a broad range of organisations and sectors and has designed data protection strategies for FTSE 100 companies. We cover the perceived organisational risks of data sharing, businesses successfully balancing privacy with technological exploitation and key privacy issues in developing smart cities.

Partner and host Amardeep Gil is joined by Professor Prashant Pillai, a professor in cyber security and the director of Wolverhampton's cyber research institute, and the founder and CEO of Cydon Ltd, a distributed ledger technology based software solution. The pair will discuss artificial intelligence and how it is currently being used, whether the benefits of AI outweigh potential risks and examples of how AI is impacting our lives, now and in the future.

The first in our smart cities series, host Amardeep Gill speaks to expert Iain Mansell about what exactly a smart city is and how to encapsulate it, starting from base principles.

The pair will consider the key ingredients of a smart city, and what barriers might exist to creating one in the UK. With discussion around examples of smart cities in the UK and globally, future leadership will be key to achieve success in this area.