Our April Webinar, will be hosted by Brook Dixon, Managing Director at Delos Delta, former ASCA President, and long-term ASCA member. Brook's observation: smart city leaders and winners invest in ‘maturity’, building holistic organisational and eco-system capacity and capability to ensure activity and impact over the long-term. 

To kick off our Webinar Series for 2024, we will be hearing from Peter Ruchie, Natural Hazards and Smart Cities Theme Lead at NSW Smart Sensing Network.

This year's ASCA Annual General Meeting will be held online at 4:30pm (AEST) on Wednesday 6th December 2023. 2024 Board Member nominations are now open.  

The webinar will discuss how Christchurch has learnt from a decade of fire, floods and earthquakes to make our Community more resilient and ready for an uncertain future.

The webinar to discuss the role of parks and how they are forever changing and how there is a disconnect between the aspirations of smart cities, and where you can physically install technology within parks.

The webinar will provide valuable insights into developing strong business cases for urban technology projects, learn strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, and discover how to streamline implementation processes for improved outcomes, all from a tech-agnostic perspective.

Join ASCA and the City of Greater Geelong’s Smart City Team for an in-person study tour, workshop and networking event on the afternoon of Thursday, 15 June 2023.

Learn about the award winning data art project that is bringing smart city movement data alive for the City of Casey Community.

Explore how Smart Data is being utilised to help plan and report back on economic development initiaties such as events and activations.

In this presentation Jason Dean, Data Analyst with Glenelg Shire Council, will share how the creation of a Smart City Framework helped shape the ongoing development and understanding of Smart City within the Shire as well as the lessons learned. 

ASCA's Smart Parking Community of Practice

Early in 2019 Neil Temperley established and now convenes a Smart Parking Community of Practice with the support of ASCA. The purpose of the group is to provide mutual support for the "users" i.e. councils, of Smart Parking solutions and technologies. In this webinar, Neil will explain how the group operates and some of the challenges and opportunities Australia facing in Smart Parking and mobility in general. Topics covered will include:

What is the Smart Parking Community of Practice, why have one, and how does it operate?

Status of Smart Parking and technology in Australia today

Where next with Smart Parking?

Where does 'parking' fit into the broader future mobility and congestion picture?

What is flash parking?

What does the CoP want to see Australia do differently?

Presenter: Neil Temperley (PhD) - Future Cities Data & Technology Strategy; Transport & Logistics; Clusters & Living Labs

Dr Neil Temperley has operated at the intersection of successful publicly funded research innovation and the far more challenging real-world application of innovation for most of his working life at CSIRO, NICTA and most recently at Data61. He’s applied his hands-on experience and broad insights in facilitating collaborative projects in Transport and Logistics, smart devices (Embedded Systems & Internet of Things) and more recently to Smart Cities in general. Some of the Smart City insights have been captured in a recent white paper “Future Cities Thinking — Future Cities and Communities by Design. A fresh look at data and future cities”.

Neil understands first-hand the innovation journey from idea to prototype to final product — which is exactly the challenge that every aspiring smart city faces. As a result, with a strong customer focus and as a leading data & solution strategist, he now advocates a fresh approach, a rethink, applied to developing future cities — particularly the ‘mobility of people and things’.

At NICTA (then Data61) Neil helped found a cluster in smart electronics and led Australia’s first Living Lab which focused on Future Transport and Logistics. He has established now convenes a user-led ‘Smart Parking Community of Practice’. Recent consultancy work has established Neil as one of Australia’s lead investigators in understanding local governments and the challenges they face in becoming ‘smarter cities’.

Presentation followed by Q&A

ASCA Members: Complimentary ; Non members: $33 (includes GST)

At ASCA we know how important it is to capture and share lessons learned. Join us to hear 3 ASCA members share their Smart City journeys. You will learn about the initiatives adopted, ways these were implemented, results achieved and lessons learned.

Our speakers:

James Peet - Chief Digital Officer at Moreton Bay Regional Council (QLD)

James Vidler - Smart City Analyst at Newcastle City Council (NSW)

Adam Mowlam - Manager Smart City Office at Wyndham City Council (Vic)

Date: Friday 8th of November, 12pm-1pm (AEDT)

Free for ASCA Members, $33 for non-members.

Smart Mobility is an increasingly important topic in the Smart Cities and Communities conversation. However, it can be easy to get caught in the hype of automated vehicles and other emerging transport technology and miss the other important aspects of this subject.

During this webinar we will hear from ASCA board member and 2018 Churchill Fellow Zoe Eather, who recently returned from a 2 month trip around the world investigating Smart Mobility. From March to May 2019, Zoe visited the USA, Mexico, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa and South Korea, meeting with a variety of stakeholders in the Smart Mobility space and gathering real learnings about how these technologies are being integrated in each place. 

Zoe will share her insights from her Churchil Fellowship experience, focusing on what we are not talking about enough in the realm of Smart Mobility and how this can enable more liveable Australian communities.

Objectives:

Provide members with insights into the challenges and opportunities of Smart Mobility integration around the world and how this can apply to Australian communities.

Our speaker:

Zoe Eather - 2018 Churchill Fellow, ASCA Board Member, Founder of My Smart Community

Date: Wednesday 31st of July, 10am-11am

Free for ASCA Members, $33 for non-members.

Data sharing is rapidly becoming a norm across many organisations. Without a doubt this trend helps drive creation of new products and services, encourages citizen collaboration, solves problems more effectively and can assist in developing an agile and resilient workforce.

However, before embracing data sharing, organisations go through rigorous review of data sharing processes & policies.

Some organisations stall here, paralysed by fear of risks and the unknown and failing to understand how data sharing can drive success across multiple strategic directions.

During this webinar we will hear from both camps: those that share their data and those that built new innovative solutions using open data. We will hear about motivations and hurdles both camps faced, as well as benefits they are seeing.

Objectives:

Provide members with insights into the experiences of organisations who have developed or are developing data sharing strategies.

Speakers:

Chris Bennetts - Executive Director at Transport for NSW

Fiona Woodger - Manager, Strategic Policy in the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy

Lachlan Spedding - CEO and Founder of Orbmaps

Ryan Prosser - CTO and Co-Founder at Floodmapp

Moderated by Jesse Cardey - Open Data evangelist at City of Greater Geelong.

Date: Tuesday 4th of June, 10am-11am

Free for ASCA Members, $33 for non-members. Register here

New smart city technologies generate lots of data - pedestrian movement, cctv, lighting, environmental and other data are just some examples. This data is a valuable resource that can be tapped by councils and communities to gain new insights and provide new and improved services.

Managing, using this data and making it available to those who can benefit from it are challenges that all councils will face. Fortunately some councils have already been tackling this - this webinar is an opportunity to hear their experiences in developing data strategies for their communities.

The webinar will be interactive with opportunities for members to ask questions of the panel.

Free for ASCA Members, $33 for non-members. Register here

Robert’s seminar will centre around the question of ‘what critical infrastructure do I need to support my smart city project?’

Presented by Robert Linsdell - Managing Director Australia & New Zealand - Vertiv