Theo Blackwell MBE - gifts and hospitality
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 December 2023 | Flight and Hotel to attend AI to Benefit Humanity conference in New York. 7-9 December 2023 | The Rockefeller Foundation | £4,077.37 ($5160.09 USD) for flights and accommodation | Attending Conference/Speaking Engagement - Attending on behalf of London 2-day 'AI the Benefit Humanity: A Global Conversation on City Use Cases' sponsored by Rockefeller and OpenAI. |
| 07 November 2023 | Hotel for 3 Nights to Attend Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona - 7-9 November 2023 | London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI) | £506.90 | Attending Conference/Speaking Engagement - Guest of the London Office of Technology and Innovation at London Councils |
| 05 July 2023 | techUK Annual Dinner | techUK/Computacenter/FDM | £73 | Business networking |
| 16 May 2023 | Dinner | Glasgow City Council | £60 | Attending Glasgow City Leadership Forum on Digitalisation |
| 15 May 2023 | Rail tickets (return) £126.58 Hotel (x2 nights) £220 (15-17 May) | Cities Today Institute | £346.58 | Attending Glasgow City Leadership Forum on Digitalisation |
| 02 May 2023 | Taxi transfers (Airport/Hotel) £116.27 Return flights (London to Stockholm) – £291.48 Hotel (x2 nights) - £374 | Nordic Live Expo | £781.75 | Attending Conference/Speaking Engagement – Smart City Expo Stockholm |
| 21 March 2023 | Attending Dinner with the Ambassador of Estonia (Mr Luukas Ilves CIO Estonian Government attending – Mr Ilves oversees digital transformation of the country) | Estonian Embassy in London | £100 | Business Networking |
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 October 2022 | Return Flights to Amsterdam | The Aspen Institute | £156 | Attending the Bloomberg CityLab Amsterdam 2022 Summit |
| 08 October 2022 | 3 nights hotel accommodation | The Aspen Institute | £921 | Attending the Bloomberg CityLab Amsterdam 2020 Summit |
| 30 May 2022 | London Government Dinner | The Lord Mayor and The Lady Mayoress Alderman Vincent and Mrs Amanda Keaveny | £35.34 | Networking with industry colleagus |
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January 2020 | London Government Dinner | City of London | £72.00 | Invitation to annual dinner and relevance to role |
| 09 January 2020 | Welcome dinner at Tate Modern - European Cities Digital Innovation Initiative Kick-Off - Bloomberg | Bloomberg | £100.00 | Invitation and relevance to role |
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2019 | Smart City Expo World Congress - flights and accommodation | Bloomberg | £417.99 | Offer of compensation for travel and accommodation as speaking on panel |
| 25 October 2019 | Flights and accommodation to Washington DC for CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges conference | The Aspen Institute | £1142.23 | Attended at the request of Bloomberg Associates, relating to the Mayor's Smarter London Together Roadmap |
| 08 October 2019 | Helsinki Impact Conference - accommodation and flights | City of Helsinki | £702.56 | Attended the Helsinki Impact Conference and the GLA are working closely with Helsinki. |
| 04 September 2019 | European Capital of Innovation Awards 2019. Theo presented to the Jury in Brussels. | Theo Blackwell | £255.42 | Offer of compensation of travel. The winning city received a grant of £1million euros and runner-up cities received 100,000 euros. Theo also used this opportunity to meet with the European team. |
| 07 August 2019 | Return train ticket to Oxford to visit the DRIVEN Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) project run by Oxbotica. | GLA/ Capita Travel | £39.20 | To attend a meeting |
| 22 July 2019 | Development in partnership with communities - what's next meeting and dinner at Claridges | Kanda/ Cllr Peter John (Leader of Southward Council and Chair of London Councils) | £155.00 | Invitation and relevance to role |
| 25 June 2019 | London First Summer Business lunch with attendees from business and government | London First | £95.00 | Invitation by Londonn First network with London Business leaders |
| 25 February 2019 | Founders Intelligence / WPP Dinner alongside corporate CDOs and CIOs. | Founders Intelligence | £100.00 | Invitation by leading founders of tech companies to understand priorities |
| 05 February 2019 | Hotel for the 5th, 6th and 7th of February - Theo will be attending the Council of the Global City CIO's Europeam meting (CGCC EU) in Athens on the 7th and 8th February 2019 | Theo Blackwell | £386.39 | An need has been identified for a collective and governing body to bring together CIO's from major cities to share data and use technology to transform cities and works towards building a common frameworks. |
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 December 2018 | Flights from London to Dublin - Theo is speaking on a roundtable discussion at 14.30 on Tuesday 4th December at the 20-20 Cities Urban Innovation event in Dublin Ireland. It is a platform to engage and increase knowledge sharing among cities to find common solutions across the latest urban tech, data management and intelligent infrastructure challenges. | Theo Blackwell | £166.20 | "Invited to speak on the New approach to City/ Industry Alliances |
| 06 November 2018 | Train fare London to Manchester 6th November 2018 | Theo Blackwell | £58.00 | Theo is speaking on a panel “view from the CDO’ at mySociety’s first TICTeC Local event in Manchester. |
| 06 November 2018 | Train fare London to Manchester 6th November 2018 | Theo Blackwell | £58.00 | Theo is speaking on a panel “view from the CDO’ at mySociety’s first TICTeC Local event in Manchester. |
| 31 October 2018 | 2 nights Accomodation for Challenges of Government conference | Theo Blackwell | £216.00 | Theo is speaking on a panel: 9:55-11:10 Plenary: The technological revolution — the end of government as we know it? |
| 31 October 2018 | Accommodation on 31st October for 1st November for Challenges of Government conference | Theo Blackwell | £216.00 | Theo is speaking on a panel: 9:55-11:10 Plenary: The technological revolution - the end of government as we know it? |
| 09 October 2018 | Theo will be presenting ‘Digitalization and the Transformation of Cities hospitality and Communities’ at the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) 5th Annual Meeting to be held on October 10-11, 2018 at Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, Japan. The Forum gathers international leading figures tackling climate change through technological Innovation.The conference will help foster international best practice as per the GLAs Smarter London Together roadmap. | Theo Blackwell | £7893.93 | Speaking at the STS and ICEF conferences |
| 07 October 2018 | Theo will be speaking at the 15th Annual Meeting of Science and hospitality Technology in Society forum (STS forum) in Kyoto, Japan, in October 2018. Theo will be covering” Smart and Resilient Cities on Monday, October 8, 2018, 10:30— 12:30 at the Kyoto International Conference Centre, Japan. The STS forum, aims to provide a platform for the world leaders in the fields of policy making, academia and industries to gather and discuss how to deal with science and technology issues from a long-term perspective. | Theo Blackwell | £463.83 | Speaking at the STS conference. |
| Date gifted | Details | Donor / Provider | Estimated value | Reason for acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 December 2017 | Return travel to Manchester | UK Cloud | £80.00 | Travel fare for a speaking engagement |
| 07 December 2017 | Bottle of Port | UK Cloud | £40.00 | Unsolicited gift sent for speaking at their event - impolite to return at taxpayers' expense |
| 26 October 2017 | Dinner | Bloomberg Associates | £70.00 | Introduction to CDO Partnerships with Bloomberg Associates |
| 19 September 2017 | Dinner with Global Counsel | OpenGov | £50.00 | Introduction to 'OpenGov' |