SAVE YOUR SEAT AT THIS AMAZING SHOWCASE OF WESTERN CITIES
Dec 6th, 8:30am-10:30am PST
TECHNICITY WEST is designed for municipal decision makers, private sector IT influencers, digital entrepreneurs interested in the public sector space, and individual businesses interested in the changing face of digital government. There is no charge to qualified attendees thanks to corporate sponsorship, but pre-registration is mandatory to receive access to the platform, the session presentations, and the Town Hall discussion.
SAVE YOUR SEAT AT THIS AMAZING SHOWCASE OF WESTERN CITIES
Dec 6th, 8:30am-11:00am PST
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SPONSORED BY
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AGENDA
Opening Remarks
Fawn Annan, CIO & CMO, ITWC
Keynote Address
Grow West: The vision by Westerners for Western Canada over the next ten years is its ability to work and attract knowledge-based industries to create new jobs and reduce vulnerability to low commodity prices. Such outcomes lead to communities better connected to the innovation economy, regardless of size or location.
Lloyd Brierley, City Manager, The City of Lethbridge
FireSide Chat: A Focus on the City of Calgary
Jim Love, CIO, ITWC
Jan Bradley, Director/ Chief Information Technology Officer, The City of Calgary
Panel: Intelligent Cities in the Post-Pandemic World
Digital investment in our cities makes them more attractive, creating an opportunity to manage a post-pandemic environment via innovative technologies effectively. The panel will highlight Intelligent cities across the globe that are investing in sensors, IoT, digital twins, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence for better outcomes that incorporate lessons from COVID-19 and what the future might hold.
Panelists:
Natalia Madden, Head of IT, County of Grand Praries
Jazz Pabla, CIO, City of Kelowna, BC
Bachar Khawajah, CIO, City of Burnaby, BC
Fireside Chat: Enabling a mobile government workforce – Sponsored by Citrix
Fawn Annan, CIO & CMO, ITWC
David Byerly, VP and General Manager, Citrix
Panel: Data-driven Strategies for Cities – Sponsored by VMware
Big Data technologies will change sustainable urbanism by bringing new and innovative ways of monitoring, understanding, analyzing, planning, and significantly improving performance for “data-driven smart sustainable cities.” The panel will discuss the complexities big data helps solve for development planning, operational management, and design strategies for Intelligent growing cities.
Moderator:
Mai Nguyen, VMWare
Panelists:
Mike Palmer, CIO, Victoria
Marty Robinson, CIO and Dir of IT, City of Medicine Hat
Mario Lebar, CIO, University of Manitoba, MB
Panel: Enhancing the Citizen Experience using Security and Privacy – Sponsored by Ricoh
Technology and data serve the public good, create new risks, and mitigate threats. Security must be the constant shield of protection to avoid modern hazards that can bring down a citizen portal or a government defence application. This panel will explore the many options for keeping municipalities and stakeholders safe.
Moderator:
Richard Freeman, Certified Information Professional (CIP), ECM Portfolio Manager, Enterprise Workflow Solutions, Ricoh
Panelists:
Trevor Butler, GM & IT Digital Transformation, City of Lethbridge, AB
Darin Young, CIO, City of Delta, BC
Brad Labrenz, Chief Security Officer, City of Calgary, AB
Peter Holowka, Director of Educational Technology, Vancouver, BC
Wrap Up
Fawn Annan, CIO & CMO, ITWC
SPEAKERS
FEATURED CITY: MISSISSAUGA
Mississauga is the place to be for innovation. The City continues to invest in developing the right tools, resources and physical assets to support its entrepreneurs, and creating a culture of innovation that spurs growth and leading-edge solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.
A new innovation hub – IDEA Square One – is the nexus of the City of Mississauga’s strategic plan to retain and attract ambitious entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups.
Mississauga has become a top Canadian city for innovative and technologically driven companies to call home and is gaining global attention in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector with a growing number of international investments including Cognizant, HCL Technologies, and Infosys.
Named one of the Top 7 Intelligent Communities of the Year based on its survey of communities from around the world, Mississauga shares “74 Reasons Why Mississauga is a top Intelligent Community.” These include initiatives and services that foster innovation, inclusion and transparency.
Downtown Mississauga is a healthy mix of employment and residential land uses, and is an ideal location for the tech industry and its employees. The city’s downtown offers an abundance of amenities and an active nightlife, direct routes to Pearson International Airport and transit connections to anywhere across the region.
The 20-acre Lakeview Innovation District will include 1.5 million square feet of flexible office and co-working spaces, and state-of-the-art labs and research facilities across 12 to 14 buildings. At full buildout, it will employ 9,000 people in knowledge-intensive jobs.
NEXT TECHNICITY EVENT - TECHNICITY GTA
WHO WILL ATTEND?
TECHNICITY GTA is designed for municipal decision makers, private sector IT influencers, digital entrepreneurs interested in the public sector space, and individual businesses interested in the changing face of digital government. The conference will be available on-demand to resonate throughout the year.
THE FORMAT
Returning as a hybrid and interactive experience that combines live presentations, recorded panels, networking breakout rooms at Toronto City Hall, Technicity GTA will explore the power of partnerships and technology to spur economic growth; the innovative digital strategies that are driving internal collaboration and efficiency; and how taxpayers are reaping the rewards.
Opening Keynote
Co-host Presentation: Josie Scioli, City Deputy Manager, City of Toronto
Panel 1: City Building
The change in consumer behaviour since COVID-19 has had a huge impact on city centre areas. The changing retail and service habits, dependence on the automobile, increased dependence on remote work alongside better connectivity, and the rising cost of land in downtown cores, feed into
the argument that there are fewer reasons to live and work in city centre regions. Downtown revitalization efforts are necessary to attract and generate significant economic activity placing focus on new policies and investments that ensure a healthy centre. Cities are undergoing major digital transformations to stay competitive and attract the businesses and citizens required to keep a city vibrant and competitive in the short, medium, and long term. This session will examine what is necessary to keep innovation and investment moving forward.
Mayor of Mississauga, Bonnie Crombie
Citizen Modernization
City modernization and urbanization result primarily from technological advancements. The importance to improve technological infrastructure, with municipalities owning or managing 60% of city infrastructure, helps to attract higher human capital needed to support systems for future development. There is a growing belief to push for bold and sometimes radical yet sustainable solutions to meet future city requirements. Citizens and businesses are demanding such results. This session explores current and future activities for planning, maintaining, and growing great cities.
End-to-End Customer Experiences
The citizen experience, from individual to enterprise business perspectives, comes with expectations for all services offered by a municipality. Rethinking serving the customer by government departments and agencies is now top-of-mind. The pandemic built higher reliability and dependence on the city customer, radically altering expectations. Products and their designs, technology, processes, and policies are being revamped. This session will discuss the changes, the new technologies allowing for radical changes and policy thinking to place the customer first.
Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge
Smart city technologies are promoted as an effective way to counter and manage uncertainty and urban risks through the effective and efficient delivery of services, yet paradoxically they create new vulnerabilities and threats, including making city infrastructure and services insecure, brittle, and open to extended forms of criminal activity. Deloitte states three factors that influence the potential cyber risk in a smart city ecosystem. From the convergence of cyber and physical worlds to the integration of disparate city services while enabling improved infrastructure spells vulnerability. This session will discuss how to manage the cyber risk landscape.
Wrap-Up
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