Melbourne's smart city approach, identifying challenges and deploying small scale and collaborative pilots (multi-stream)
Tracks
Web & Digital/Comms Room: Matiu
| Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
| 1:40 PM - 2:10 PM |
| Breakout Room Matiu |
Overview
Gemma Baxter, City of Melbourne
Speaker
Gemma Baxter
Pilot And Trial Specialist
City Of Melbourne
Melbourne's smart city approach, identifying challenges and deploying small scale and collaborative pilots (multi-stream)
Abstract
City of Melbourne's smart city approach is uniquely collaborative, creative and transparent. Through identifying challenges where tech and data can make big impacts, and deploying small scale and collaborative pilots, they are uplifting the digital maturity not only of the organisation but also the community. Digital Innovation Challenges allow exciting industry-led pilots to come to fruition, investing in ideas and further fostering local innovation. Internal innovation pilots are breaking down silos and helping embed data in decision-making for city resilience.
Biography
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.
