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New Westminster Intelligent City Task Force

Report Presentation October 15, 2012

Intelligent City Task Force

Task Force Membership - Thank You

• Michael Hrybyk, City resident,

President & CEO, BC NET, the pioneer

• f Internet communications in BC and

primary provider of high speed data communications facilities to over sixty-eight research and higher education institutions across BC

• John Longbottom, IBM, Smarter

Cities Strategy Leader at IBM Canada Ltd.

• Mark Shieh, EDAC member, Owner of

River Market

• Piotr Kisiel, Director of the Centre for

Educational and Information Technology at Douglas College

• Nelson Eng, Department Chair,

Computing Science and Information Systems, Douglas College,

• Kirk Moir, EDAC member, City

resident, Founding President & CEO, In Motion Technology Inc., a communication technology company based in New Westminster

• City Staff:

– Rod Carle, General Manager, Electrical Utility – Alvin Chok, Chief Information Officer – Mitchell Edgar, Manager, Economic Development

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Task Force Mandate

The mandate of the New Westminster’s Intelligent City Task Force is to:

1. Investigate best practices of 'Intelligent City' initiatives for the City's Economic Development Advisory Committee; 2. Provide a mapping to City's economic development strategy (Livable City Strategy) with emphasis on potential benefits; 3. Examine and recommend how the City of New Westminster can best implement a Intelligent City vision and initiatives; 4. Report to the Economic Development Advisory Committee on the finding of the Task Force including proposed next steps;

Alignment with New Westminster’s Strategy Critical

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New Westminster’s Strategy

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Livable City Strategy

An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster

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Livable City Strategy

An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster

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Livable City Strategy

An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster

Top 2 Thrusts of New Westminster’s Livable City Strategy

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Great Vancouver Area (GVA) Employment Market Growth

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What’s an Intelligent City?

• Many definitions
• Two broad areas:

– Smarter City: focused on city operations and services – Intelligent Community: A much broader endeavor that involves preparing the “community” for the future

• Task force focused on “Intelligent Community”

and associated economic development

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IBM Perspective

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What’s the Intelligent Community Forum?

• Focus: create

prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where jobs, investment and knowledge increasingly depend on advances in communications.

• Community of

Communities

B R O A D B A N D

KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE INNOVATION

A D V O C A C Y

DIGITAL INCLUSION

“ICF seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth.”

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Why Intelligent City?

• “Future Centric” Economic Development:

– Stratford: RBC, ScotiaBank, U of Waterloo,/Opentext – Riverside: UofC, incubator & mentoring, SmartRiverside digital inclusion, digital classrooms – Fredericton: a number of startups sold for > $100M with investment back into the community – Chattanooga: 150% over job creation target, 60+ startups

• Intelligent Infrastructure:

– Tool for competitive advantage – Avoid multiple disruptions for new cable – Encourage new SPs to community – Extension/amplification of existing Utility asset

• Enable New Models for Education:

– “Invent the future” through improved education (Riverside CA model) – Create opportunities to support New West as destination for education (Douglas++)

• Vibrancy:

– Promote Living & Working in same community – Arts & Culture <> Innovation

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Why New Westminster?

• Compact
• Agile
• Changing Population (rise of Gen Y)
• Centrality
• Basic Infrastructure in place (City owned fibre

network, Wi-Fi Initiative, Electrical Utility)

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Recommended Next Steps for EDAC

1. Confirm alignment with the City’s strategic plan 2. Based on the City’s choice with respect to recommendation 1 , form a working group to:

– develop a Mission and Vision around Intelligent City – Formulate Detailed Roadmap based on recommendations in section 7.2 – Implement the New Westminster Intelligent City Roadmap

3. Collaborate with organizations pursuing similar strategies. Examples include:

– IBM’s Smarter City Challenge (see Appendix G) – Intelligent Community Forum’s Intelligent Communities of the Year (see Appendix H) – I-Canada

4. Work with the City’s Development Services and Engineering staff and other appropriate departments to take a proactive role with the Intelligent City working group in developing planning protocols appropriate for new digital communications infrastructure based on specific recommendations in Appendix E of the report.

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Next Steps: Planning and Implementation Process

• Pre-planning Organization
• Nov. – Dec. 2012

Vision & Strategy

• Jan. – Feb. 2013

Road Map

• Mar. – June 2013

Implementation June 2013 - Ongoing

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Thank You…

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