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lo local le al level el

Debra Lam Capital Ideas 5 December 2018

Drivers for Innovation

What are the key factors driving innovation?

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“More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities.”

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Source: NASA/JPL- Caltech

Infrastructure

Source: American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card 2017

Aging Society

Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2013

Source: Flickr

Digital Natives

Inequality

Lo Local Go al Governme ment

Smart cities are largely an invention of the private sector— an effort to create a market within government

Bianca Wylie, Tech Reset Canada

Welcome to GT

Nat-Intl GA MetroATL GT Campus

• Front Porch with Backyard
• Research + Campus

Operations

• Living Lab

Source: Travis Salters/Emily Hoberman, via Atlanta City Council Twitter

How smart cities can support innovation?

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Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation Framework

Al All commu mmuniti ties es can be e sma mart

• How to translate to other governments

and geographies?

• What are known solutions and new

challenges at different scales and jurisdictions?

• How to bridge the various socio-

economic gaps, disparities, and discrepancies?

City-University Partnership

We provide a platform to:

Catalyze research on the ground Cultivate GT thought leadership Create innovative partnerships

Ol Old Problem- Be Better er Th Thinking g Ne New T Tools

Source: Wikimedia Commons

GT Smart Campus

Campus as a Living Laboratory

• Operations + Research +

Student Engagement

• Campus Data and Digital Twin
• International campus in France

and China

City of Atlanta and North Avenue Smart Corridor

Source: City of Atlanta Mobility Project Award at the Global Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona

As technology advances, these types of mobility vehicles will

• nly expand and diversify. Now

is the time to double down on developing multi-modal lanes where bikes, skateboards, scooters and whatever mobility

• ption comes next can travel

safely and separately from both cars and pedestrians.

Midtown Alliance CEO Kevin Green

GA SMART

“I am particularly thrilled about staff working with their GT research partner to help

us ch challen allenge t e the s e status q quo, mak make b e bold ld r rec ecommen mmendatio ions, e exper erien ience an ce and ad adap apt te

• technology. Together, using a sm

smart rt ri risk sk approa

• ach, we can implement a traffic system

which is at the cutting edge of what is possible with recent scientific advances.”

Charlotte Nash, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Chairman

Innovative Partnerships

Innovative Partnerships

Thought Leadership

40+

national and local news articles

1500

subscriber network

140K

twitter impressions

25+

speaking events

5

webinars

GT GT Commitment to Li Lifetime me Education

• “…envisions continual engagement with

learners that extends from kindergarten to forever. [It] means integration with primary and secondary schools, flexible learning options, connectivity that enables learning beyond traditional college years, and a network that supports learners all over the world.”

Rafeal L. Bras, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Tech

Understand your citizens

Source: Pew Research Center

A majority of Americans express some level of worry about driverless cars with a similar percentage choosing not to ride in one if given an

• ption.

Stakeholder Engagement How stakeholders perceive and understand smart technologies and how they might be affected by them in the future?

• Drs. Carl DiSalvo and Chris

Le Dantec

It's the kind of positive

• utcome that occurs when

you aren't afraid to try something new. Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh

Nat-Intl GA MetroATL GT Campus

Th Thank k you