Steve Lewis

Steve Lewis is the CEO, Founder of Living PlanIT, the award winning international technology company that develops and licenses the Urban Operating System (UOS™) – the essential open software platform that enables the design, delivery, operations and enhancement of urban and rural environments, facilitating the interaction between people, places and things. He is member of the statutory board and chair of the Living PlanIT Advisory Council.

Formerly with Microsoft Corporation until May of 2004, where Steve served as General Manager of Market Development and Co-Chair of the Microsoft Business Development Forum. Steve was primarily responsible for understanding key market trends and developments to identify their strategic implications for Microsoft and the industry. He also led the company's strategic business development opportunities & commercial engagements leveraging Microsoft's portfolio of technology, research & development, services, marketing, distribution, partner ecosystem and investment capital.

Before joining Microsoft, Steve spent a couple of years raising capital for technology investments, mergers and acquisitions and participated on the boards of early through late stage development companies.

He served as General Manager of the Lotus Messaging and Collaboration division of IBM Corporation, having previously held key executive positions in areas of business development, product strategy, management, marketing, engineering and sales.

Steve, considered a thought leader and visionary by industry and market analysts in the development of smart cities and the industrialization of the Internet, frequently delivers the keynote address at key industry events. He is actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship, science and technology in further education, including lectures at the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Porto, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Cranfield School of Management, University College London and the London School of Economics.

He chaired the European Business Plan of the Year Award 2010 and 2011, became World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer in 2012 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.