Valerie Williams is Senior Innovation & Influencing Manager at Siemens Smart Infrastructure Buildings, UK & Ireland, where she works across partner ecosystems and Siemens’ Advanta, Digital Industries and Smart Infrastructure divisions to bring emerging technology into live building and infrastructure programmes. She brings over a decade of international Siemens experience across Canada, the US and the UK, giving her a cross-market view of how the built environment adopts new technology at scale — from early-stage partner ecosystems through to full-scale deployment