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Alastair Moore is a lecturer in the UCL School of Management with a PhD in computer science and over ten years of experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has a strong background in user experience design, marketplaces, and early-stage technology innovation. Alastair was part of the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and has been involved with the venture-backed Wearepopup.com. His activities at UCL include contributing to the establishment of the Mobile Academy at the IDEALondon innovation centre, which is a joint initiative with Cisco and DC Thomson. Alastair is a member of the Special Group on Entrepreneurship at the British Computer Society and has mentored various programs such as Wayra Academy and Startupbootcamp IoT. He has been instrumental in designing and administering innovation and startup support programs at the UCL Centre of Entrepreneurship. His current projects involve developing innovation business models for 5G networked environments and providing support to SMEs in need of big data and analytics expertise, focusing on the commercialization of smart city platforms using semantic web technology.