Jacyl Shaw
Global Practice Director - Digital Innovation & Higher Education Lead
GHD Digital

• Building tangible targets and introducing measures that lay the groundwork
• Ensuring the alignment of outcomes with strategic goals
• Evaluating desired outcomes: beyond ROI
• Future proofing the city through new approaches to resource management

Julie Snell
CEO
Bristol is Open (UK)

Standards can provide a range of benefits to cities and the industries that support them. This session will outline some of the key advantages the smart cities movement can realise from embracing standards.

• Overview of Smart City Standards- Strategic, planning and technical level
• In-depth understanding of Australian Authorities actions, encouragement and expectations around smart cities and towns projects
• Main points being analysed by the Smart Cities Standards Reference Group

Vi Le
Stakeholder Engagement Manager
Standards Australia

PARTNERSHIPS & NEW TALENT

When you pair the domain expertise, networks, distribution channels, customers and resources of local government with the speed, talent and emerging technology of startups, you can deliver winning outcomes, fast. By collaborating with startups, cities can drive innovation while addressing complex community expectations.

• Why start-ups can be a clear partner on the innovation path
• How to encourage start-ups to improve outcomes for local communities
• How to leverage emerging technology while solving real community problems
• How to overcome barriers and challenges (eg. procurement)

Shay Namdarian
GM, Customer Strategy
Collective Campus

This session will explore how a human-centred and creative smart city approach can identify low investment projects and opportunities that deliver real value to council, business and the community

Megan Turnley
Strategy and Transformation Lead
Yarra CityLab

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss the biggest challenges your organisation and community are facing and brainstorm the solutions with your peers who are also trying to overcome similar issues.
The room will be divided in roundtables, and participants will be able to choose a key theme of discussion, including (but not limited to):

1. TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY

• Making driverless and electric cars game changers – milestones and challenges
• Paving the way for autonomous vehicles – from trials to broader adoption
• Integrating smart cities and transport infrastructure
• Master planning mobility into infrastructure plans
• Integrating transport with the city’s wide sustainability measures

2. FOSTERING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

• Instigating and navigating self-disruption, while continuing to deliver effective services and support
• How to sell the value of Smart Technology to Executives
• Technology is only 5% of the challenge – what is the rest?
• Maturing your service capability to make it all stick – sustainability is key
• Achieving organizational alignment during all stages of transformation

3. BEING SMARTER, BEING GREENER: MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS TO ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY

• Energy efficiency – micro grids and other innovative solutions
• Reducing energy consumption using space occupancy people counters
• The potential for more active use of building rooftops

4. OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT

• The role of IOT in waste collection and recovery
• What data can tell you about your waste –and how to reduce it
• Future of waste management – what should be done?

5. THE VALUE OF INVESTING IN INNOVATION TEAMS TO ACCELERATE SMART CITIES DEVELOPMENT

• Explore the value of innovation teams or labs and how they input to smart cities development
• How an innovation team can provide an emergent strategy

Each roundtable will nominate a participant to be the leader. All tables will have 10 minutes to discuss your challenges. Then, each leader will deliver a short presentations on their key challenges to the entire audience.
After the leaders of all tables present, they will turn to their tables, and all participants will engage in a group discussion to brainstorm and propose ideas and solutions.
At the end of the group discussion, the roundtable leaders will share the key points presented by their group to the entire audience.