Euan Mills was Head of Digital Planning at Connected Places Catapult where he led a programme of work looking at how new technology can help us plan cities better. His background before this includes 16 years working in the built environment industry. Six of these were spent providing design advice to the Mayor of London and his planning team, contributing towards a number of key planning policy and research documents and negotiating major development proposals on behalf of the Mayor. He also worked as an urban designer at Urban Initiatives, developing masterplans and design codes. He set up the Chatsworth Road Neighbourhood Forum and is a visiting lecturer at a number of universities, and has written articles and spoken at conferences on the impact of technology on cities.