Manchester: Future City is an exciting project that will develop practical solutions to the challenges facing post-industrial cities as they seek to meet the energy, waste, water and transport needs of the future. This will focus on integrating systems and creating a knowledge platform for further intergation that will also stimulate innovation, support strategic decision making and respond to and shape consumer choice. the builds on existing projects to integrate systems and evaluate their impact on a wider area. The feasibility study will build on existing partnership across the City, including between the Universities, hospital, science park, public and private sector to develop a full Demonstrator proposal that shows the benefits and priorities for integration. These will be radical and transformative supporting Manchester's ambitions as a world class city.

CityVerve is based around the large-scale deployment of technologies, where everyday objects can be connected to a network in order to share data. This approach will demonstrate and evidence the benefits to citizens’ through environmental improvements, economic opportunities, and the more efficient and effective delivery of services such as transport, healthcare and energy. It will provide the ability to create new services and operating models through the interoperability between transport, healthcare and energy systems. The geographical focus of CityVerve will be Greater Manchester; a city region which has been at the forefront of the city devolution agenda, in particular health and social care provision, leading the way in designing new ways of delivering services and providing the blueprint for other cities in the UK and beyond. CityVerve will build on these opportunities to provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform healthcare and other city services around the needs of people, not only is this is an urgent priority for Greater Manchester, but a challenge faced by many global cities.