As City of Melbourne Pilot and Trial Specialist, Gemma seeks projects that impact people. With a career spanning architecture, fashion design, branding and marketing, service design and smart cities, Gemma contributes rigorous trialling processes, a passion for storytelling, an appetite for solving complex problems, the ability to bring together diverse teams to collaborate meaningfully and a community-centric mindset to the multi-disciplinary Smart City Incubator team in Melbourne.
She has helped develop key communication tools to drive meaningful community involvement in smart city projects and been an active contributor to the local smart cities ecosystem. The Smart City Incubator at City of Melbourne has been acknowledged with three awards recently, from their leading work across open space sensing (Data in the Park), community engagement tools and a digitally-enabled community space – Micro-Labs.