Where to start and how to make it happen now
Join us at the Smart Council Forum NSW – 2018, to explore the WHY and the HOW about the Internet of Things with solution experts and Smart Council leaders who have experienced first-hand the many benefits enabled by connecting their assets.
“You can not manage what you can not measure” – Peter Drucker
The ability to connect assets and extract data from these assets will open a wealth of opportunities not only to drive operational efficiencies for your Council, but to also make better informed decision for future allocation of assets and to contribute to your Local Community sustainability goals.
What would you expect to learn.
HEAR from two of the most technologically advanced councils in Australia – Ipswich and Coffs Harbour – and their innovation champions, Matt Schultz and Andrew Sales, about how they have taken bold steps to improve the way they collect information about their council’s assets to drive benefits for their Community.
ENGAGE with subject-matter experts in interactive roundtable sessions around critical issues and strategies that you currently face at your organisations (Waste, Water, Energy, Parking, Asset Tracking, Public Toilets…). Explore how the “Internet of Things” (IoT) can help you drive business value by improving control over your assets, reducing operation costs, and contributing to your Council sustainability goals, thereby providing better services to your Community. Learn through case studies and examples, how other organizations have successfully addressed similar issues with IoT.
EXCHANGE with our panel of solution experts about your own specific questions on the potential of the IoT, how the technology can help your organization address certain issues, how to get your LGA covered and IoT ready in a matter of weeks… in an open interactive plenary session.
CONNECT with your peers and our team of experts through multiple networking opportunities.
Attendees
A forum for executive delegates from NSW Councils to understand the benefits the Internet of Things can bring to their Council and Community, from the point of view of other advanced Councils & IoT experts. Only open to 100 delegates from NSW Councils.
SPEAKERS
Matthew Schultz
City Digital Officer
- Matthew is leading an ICT Digital City group delivering Smart City, Spatial, Web, Analytics and IoT services and is the Treasurer of the Australian Smart Communities Association.
- Ipswich in Queensland has become the only Australian city to score an award in IDC Asia Pacific’s list of the 19 most outstanding smart city projects.
Andrew Sales
Manager Telecommunications and New Technology
- Andrew designed and Developped products for local government market in the following area’s: Carrier grade Networks and award winning products for the sewerage & water industry.
- He also manages a customer focused standalone business unit: City Smart Solutions with Zero budget from the Coffs Harbour Council.
Regis Berdaa
Manager Smart Council Program
- Regis is in charge of Thinxtra Smart Councils program, helping councils understand the potential of IoT to reduce their costs and better support the communities they are serving.
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He is also working closely with a long list of local ecosystem partners that are bringing relevant solutions to market.
Kristin Vaughan
Director – Innovation Fund
- Kristin Vaughan is a Director at the CEFC. Kristin is responsible for originating and managing investments in early stage clean energy companies.
- The CEFC is responsible for investing $10 billion in clean energy projects on behalf of the Australian Government. Its goal is to help lower Australia’s carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies.
AGENDA
Sydney
Lendlease, Level 14, Tower Three, 300 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo NSW 2000
September 13th 2018
| 8:30am – 8:55am | Registration Coffee and Networking |
| 8:55am – 9:00am | Welcome from Lendlease |
| 9:00am – 9:10am | Opening Session – CEFC: Sustainability and smart cities |
| 9:10am – 9:30am | Keynote – Thinxtra: Smart Councils – Xcelerate and drive efficiencies now! |
| 9:30am – 9:45am | Keynote – Coffs Harbour: Smart City solutions, ready to replicate |
| 9:45am – 10:30am | Ideation 4x Roundtable Sessions: (you will need to select 1) Peter Marklew from IT Vision, Danielle Storey from STS, Guenter Hauber-Davidson from Watergroup, Regis Berdaa from Thinxtra |
| 10:30am – 10:50am | Panel Session 1 – Q&A with partners |
| 10:50am – 11:20am | Morning Tea and Networking |
| 11:20am – 11:30am | Keynote – (TBC) |
| 11:30am – 11:45am | Keynote – Ipswich: A vision for Smart City and the journey to win IDC award. |
| 11:45am – 12:30pm | Ideation 4x Roundtable Sessions: (you will need to select 1) Andrew Sales from CitySmart Solutions, Brett Orr from Bigmate, Nigel Sharplin from PiPIoT, Regis Berdaa from Thinxtra |
| 12:30pm – 12:50pm | Panel Session 2 – Q&A with partners |
| 12:50pm – 13:00pm | Closing Remarks from Thinxtra |
| 13:00pm – 14:00pm | Lunch and Networking |
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IDEATION ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS WITH SOLUTION EXPERTS
Gunter Hauber Davidson, CEO, Watergroup
Guenter is one of Australia’s leaders in the field of water efficiency. He works with large water users, water supply authorities and at regulatory level. He has a unique ability to see, design and deliver practical water management solutions inside the framework of each site’s and client’s complex and individual requirements.
He established WaterGroup in 2006 guiding the company to success in a wide range of water efficiency projects. He covers every aspect of achieving savings, from initial feasibility, through to concept, evaluation, design, implementation, monitoring and verification. Guenter’s involvement in the development of sustainable, integrated water conservation strategies has seen him securing funding for a number of key projects. His mission is to provide innovative and sustainable water solutions that save water and money as a step towards his grand vision: A world where not a drop of water is wasted, specially relevant in this time of massive drought.
Key topic: Think Xtra hard how much it will cost NOT knowing your water use.
Peter Marklew, Consulting Services Manager, IT Vision
Peter has been a professional in the IT industry for over 30 years and throughout that time has developed a broad set of technical, operational, and management skills. Peter has worked within small business, public listed companies, start-up businesses, national IT integration organisations, and held global roles. All the while delivering innovative technologies with a business focus to bring about increases in productivity and cost savings.
Key topic: Using IoT devices to deliver Sustainability and environmental awareness.
Danielle Storey, Chief Innovation Officer, Smarter Technology Solutions
As a passionate innovator, technologist and sustainability enthusiast, Dani is a driving force within the Smart City Technologies sector. Dani is passionate in the improvement of economy, livability and sustainability in our communities, using technology to solve modern issues. Dani and her organisation Smarter Technology Solutions have been involved in some of Australia’s leading Smart City pilots, living labs and landmark projects such as: Switching on Darwin, Sunshine Coast living lab and Ipswich City Council.
Key topic: Building your Smart City – A guided session to help you create the blueprint for your city.
Andrew Sales, Manager, CitySmart Solutions
As manager of City Smart Solutions, Andrew has always been looking fro technological solutions that would create efficiences for the Coffs Harbour Council. He defines himself as a self starting inventor and product developer, technology detective to new technology innovator, He has a broad and detail range of knowledge or technologies and is a designer & builder/installer of systems and always looks at ways to grow business and make operational savings. Via CitSmart Solutions, he is sharing that knowledge to benefit other councils.
Key topics: Water management, SCADA system, Asset monitoring
Brett Orr, CEO, Bigmate
A Sales and Management professional with 29 years experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry dealing with State and Federal government at Optus and Macquarie Telecom, Brett is now leading the Bigmate team to go beyond his core market: Telematics.
He has extensive experience with profit and loss ownership and multimillion dollar budgets. Internet security, Hosting, Data, Storage and Telco are all areas of expertise.
Key topics: Telematics, asset tracking and asset monitoring
Nigel Sharplin, CTO, PiPIoT
Nigel has 20 years of successful engineering career working for design consultancies and leading the mechanical design team for the revolutionary Fisher & Paykel Smartdrive washing machine. He is a founder and investing partner in four innovative new technology start-ups including InFact, Fibre-gen.com and PiP IoT. The PiP solution is enabling earlier intervention on water system failures, lower inspection costs and more efficient utilisation of water resources. Utilising data from devices connected over the global Sigfox network to the PiP Services platform, the solution is enabling more timely intervention of flood events; resulting in reduced contamination risks, lower network monitoring costs and more effective targeting of network maintenance resources.
Key topics: Delivering Solutions for waste management, smart water infrastructure and foot traffic
SOLUTION PARTNERS:
PiP IoT gives councils the power to make smarter business decisions faster and at lower cost through real-time information about the location and operating status of your distributed assets. PiP’s sensor devices are engineered for long-life performance assuring continuity of the data needed to transform operational effectiveness and service delivery experiences.
With over 15 years’ experience in the global field of Telematics and Internet of Assets (GPS monitoring and asset management technology), Bigmate is one of the brightest solution providers, offering cutting-edge productivity solutions to a broad range of industries and markets, with a specific focus into helping councils be more efificient.
Watergroup is one of Australia’s largest integrated corporate water savings companies to help large water users respond to the ever increasing need to manage water more efficiently. By leveraging the Internet of Things, innovation and sustainable solutions, WaterGroup’s services and products help water suppliers, their customers and municipalities save water and money.
As a business unit of Coffs Harbour City Council, City Smart Solutions understands a range of local government and business challenges and want to share their smart solutions that have worked for them with the wider community. City Smart Solutions provides IT/IoT/Telecom solutions to the Council and to many other councils. As a first forey in IoT, they have designed the first connected public toilets.
IT Vision has been developing Digital Enterprise Solutions for Local Government and a range of other industries for more than 30 years. They are working with Local Governments to design, evolve, and deliver Smart City initiatives across Australia, including the Cities of Stirling, Geraldton, Kalamunda, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, and the Australian Government funded Smart Cities programme for the City of Perth.
Smarter Technology Solutions (STS) are a vendor agnostic, Smart Cities enabler, using smart technology and the power of data. They do this by offering Smart City Consulting – strategy and roadmap development, Smart City Implementation – Selecting, implementing and integrating smart city elements and Smart City Operations – Ongoing support, management and training to help support and build smart city skills. Major references: Ipswich City Council, City of Darwin, Canterbury Bankstown Council, Gold Coast City Council, …
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