Sensing Leeds: Shaping the Future of Urban Environmental Data

03 Mar 2026
Innovation Hub (Ground Floor)
Cities, Communities & Nature

Join us for an inspiring session as we unveil Sensing Leeds, an innovative digital platform set to transform how we understand and shape our urban environment. Discover how a new, open-access web-portal brings together data from over 100 sensors across the Leeds city area, seamlessly integrating data from universities, the city council, and beyond.

Learn how this unified dataset can empower researchers, policymakers, and communities to monitor Leeds’ environmental transformation as it embraces modern transit solutions, sustainable regeneration, and adapts to a changing climate.

Meet the visionary team behind the project, including experts from Leeds Beckett University, the University of Leeds, Leeds City Council, and SimAnalytica. Together, explore how data-driven insights, advanced visualisation, and SimAnalytica’s novel knowledge graph technology applications are being harnessed to drive adaptation, decarbonisation, resilience, and fair economic growth in West Yorkshire.

Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the future of urban intelligence and join the conversation on building greener, smarter cities!

Speakers
Jim McQuaid
Jim McQuaid, Atmospheric Scientist - The Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science at University of Leeds
Jim Parker
Jim Parker, Reader - Leeds Sustainability Institute at Leeds Beckett University
David Blaney
David Blaney, Head of Engineering - SimAnalytica