The Australian Smart Communities Association Summit will provide the first all-inclusive opportunity to connect with, be introduced to, learn from, and become inspired by national and international leaders at the forefront of what it takes to become a smart city or smart community.
Who should attend?
If you work in any capacity to make a community, region or city smarter through the use of information or communications technology to enhance diversity, support growth, enrich lives or solve social and infrastructure problems, then this Summit is for you.
Check out the Australian Smart Communities Association Summit website.
Keynote speaker to share world-first street technology
Dr Lutz Heuser, Chief Technology Officer at the Urban Software Institute (UI)
The UI is an innovation incubator for smart solutions, and Lutz’s work focuses on energy management and transport using sensor-based infrastructure.
He is also Chairman of the German Innovation Roundtable (IRT), a think tank of research-intense industry. In this role he engaged with EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on the Smart Cities and Communities Initiative to establish a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) in 2012. Lutz is also Industry Chairman of the Feldafinger Circle, a German think tank which makes information society recommendations.
At the 2016 ASCA Summit, Lutz will demonstrate world-first street technology never seen in Australia before.
Early bird registration available until 18 January 2016.
Australian Smart Communities Association Summit
Date: 2-4 March 2016
Venue: The Events Centre, Caloundra
Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast is proud to be a sponsor of this event.
