Smart Cities Chronicles

AWS and Ingram Micro have a full complement of strong partners in the IoT consulting ISV space and have been active in this area for about 10 years. The specific goal is to accelerate projects that that benefit both cities, all the stakeholders and solution providers. Hear more from Nathan Washington and Smart Cities Council's Philip Bane as they discuss cities going from concept to implementation.

In this episode Interim Executive Director for ANZ Jannat Maqbool talks to Mark Yee and Ben Cebuliak from the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment. As precincts start to adopt the newly released Movement and Place framework and apply the principles and practices, where can we look forward to seeing the greatest impact and what are the key challenges and opportunities? Let's dive in.

oin Junaid Islam, CTO of XQ Msg as he advocates for quick-deploy cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity can be frictionless if it starts with the data and is network agnostic.

Learn about the essentials of water equity - availability, potability and affordability.

Join Julie Pelletier, North American Regional Manager for Ecomesure as she reviews how clean air delivers multiple benefits to communities - and that with the upcoming EPA Community Air Pollution Grant pays for itself.

In this extended episode we share a recording from the opening plenary session at Digital Twin Week 2021. Moderated by Gavin Cotterill (Consulting Director Asia Pacific, PCSG), this dialogue followed a keynote presentation from Romilly Madew AO (CEO of Infrastructure Australia) that shared key outcomes and recommendations from the recently released Australia Infrastructure Plan, including gits call for the nation's infrastructure to be 'digital by default'. This panel session was a response...

In this episode we hear from three PlanTech champions, each from differing sectors (public, private and academia), passionate about the future of the planning profession. Claire Daniel, Prugya Maini and Sacha Nicholls share their views on the role of digital and data in the planning process and the opportunity for planners, the capability uplift required and the good things ahead on the PlanTech journey. All three of our guests are representatives of the Planning Institute of Australia...

We have all heard about the next generation telecommunication network - 5G. It's happening. But there is still more to come, for consumers, industry sectors and government. In this highly informative podcast episode, Ian Hatton (Smart City Lead at Complete Urban) walks us through some of the key attributes of being 5G 'ready'. We discuss potential impacts, risks, opportunities and what next might look like if your a local Council trying to navigate the space.

Welcome to the first of a number of special interviews as part of our Digital Twin series. In this episode we chat with Graeme Henderson - Global Practice Director at GHD Digital - on the demands that Infrastructure 4.0 is presenting to the market, and how we will benefit from the digital transformation of the infrastructure sector. Of course we talk about Digital Twin capability, but also how we resource this transformation process. As someone responsible for a global organisation's...

In this episode, we are joined by James Mant, Director of Places and Precincts at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in the Victorian government. As one of the nation's leading policymakers and advocates for 20min neighbourhoods, it is a timely catch up with James to discuss post-COVID musings on the relationships between people and place, and how the 20min neighbourhood model can be an underpinning of smarter and more sustainable communities.

In this episode we explore the NatureTech movement that is bringing technology, data and nature together at an eyewatering pace, and get hands on with the types of platforms bring us a new yet critical data set for urban planning. Thomas Gooch and Fang Yuan from OPO (the Office of Planetary Observations) share with us advancements in satellite imagery and data computation/analytics and how its providing the new green infrastructure data sets and insights that all city planners can now access.

In this episode we are joined by David Catalovski from GreenBe to share the latest approaches to community participation in our communities, and how the data gathered through emerging gamification platforms can enable the future of place.

In this episode we are joined by Anne Goodchild from the University of Washington to unpack the Seattle Neighbourhood Delivery Hub and discuss all things urban and micro freight and what it means for the future of place.

In this episode we are joined by Brad Chambers from Veris to discuss mobile laser scanning and how such an intensive and accurate data collection method enables us to create immersive place-based data sets.

What happens when you decide to have a conversation on smart cities, Building Information Modelling, Digital Twin and digital engineering with Rebecca De Cicco, Digital Operations Principal with Aurecon? Well, you will have to listen in. Be prepared for plenty of dialogue on the role of standards in industry transformation, what from the UK might rub off on Australia and New Zealand and where key opportunities lie in shaping digital enablement at an organisational level.

In this episode we are joined by Jonathan Cartledge and Helen Machalias from Infrastructure Australia to discuss national infrastructure policy and the future of place

In this episode, we are joined by Lisa Nisensen from WGI in Florida to discuss new mobility and the future of place.

In this episode we open up with the idea behind the Future of Place project, and what the merging relationships are between people, place, technology and data. Lucinda Hartley (Co-founder of Neighbourlytics) joins us to share her most recent experiences with data-inspired city shaping and what we are to expect as the Future of Place project evolves.

The inaugural New Zealand Digital Twin Summit was hosted in Wellington on Thursday 8th July 2021. Close to 100 policy makers, practitioners and academics gathered for a day of intensive dialogue and workshopping to set direction on building a thriving marketplace for this powerful data activation capability. We are joined by Aurecon's Digital Practice Lead for New Zealand, Keri Niven and SCCANZ's Jannat Maqbool, Director of New Zealand as we walk through the program and share the key...