Smart(er) Mid-Sized Cities. Mid-Sized Cities Researcher + Practitioner Roundtable May 16, 2018 Museum London, London, Ontario

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1 Smart(er) Mid-Sized Cities Mid-Sized Cities Researcher + Practitioner Roundtable May 16, 2018 Museum London, London, Ontario 5

2 Smart City Initiatives Andrea McKinney Chief Digital Officer

3 Introduction Smart City Strategy and Roadmap in progress Top 7 Intelligent Community - Global Award June 2018 Smart Cities Challenge - proposal submitted CityLAB - Innovation hub Open data 2

4 A Smart City uses technology to improve quality of life for residents, maximize limited resources, and enable sustainability. 3

5 What s driving Smart Cities? Urban Growth People want to live in thriving cities that are convenient and offer greater opportunities Limited Resources Maximize limited resources to enable sustainability Complexity Technological disruption is rapidly changing the world and creating new data 4

6 Lots of examples - where to start Water Monitoring Transportation Parking Waste Management Emergency Management & Response Air Quality Monitoring Health Data Aggregation 5

7 What we re focusing on What problems are we trying to solve? What are residents telling us? What are our biggest opportunities? What data do we need? 6

8 Smart Cities Leverage Partnerships Innovation hub Driving innovation and collaboration between the City and Hamilton s post-secondary institutions Co-design Moving City s Strategic Priorities forward Focus on city challenges 7

9 Making it open Open data program launched in includes: Continuing to expand data sets Moving to an open data portal Hack-a-thons More advanced public engagement 8

10 THANK YOU

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12 Mid-Sized Insight Brief Event: Mid-Sized Cities Roundtable Smart(er) Mid-Sized Cities Session Presenter: Kejo Buchanan May 16, 2018 toronto.theodi.org

13 Mid-Sized Open Gov Tracking progress and growth opportunity by marking midsized cities across Canada listed in community (McKinney) open dataset, national Open Gov site, both and unknown initiatives. toronto.theodi.org

14 Mid-Sized Open Gov London Ontario A sample of content description as well closer insight to areas of improvement. toronto.theodi.org

15 London Community Needs Dashboard style graphic generated from human resource referrals and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to illustrate highest areas of need for this specific community toronto.theodi.org

16 Acknowledgments 211 Ontario Civic Tech Community Evergreen London City Clerk s Office Toronto ODI Team Thank you! References 211 Ontario. (2018). 211 Referrals [CSV]. Toronto: 211 Ontario. Evergreen. (2018). List of Midsize Cities [XLS]. Toronto: Evergreen. London, Ontario. (2018) MFIPPA Requests Summary [PDF]. London, Ontario: City Clerk s Office. McKinney, J. (2016). Canadian open government data catalogs [Data file]. Retrieved April 09, 2018, from Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (2018). Open Government. Retrieved April 10, 2018, from toronto.theodi.org

17 Kejo toronto.theodi.org

18 Smart (er) Cities Adventures in innovation procurement Jenny Smith E.

19 In the beginning

20 civic tech lab in the City challenge based procurement incentivising start ups solving complex problems business supports de-risk

21 credit: brookfieldinstitute.ca/research-analysis/civic-accelerator-guelph-experiment/

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23 Procurement and beyond

24 iterate, iterate, iterate soil conditions cultures matter support from the top match make well challenge selection sustaining focus a real need to solve the problem on someone s work plan, in a strategy, resources aligned no obvious tried and true solution this is new for everyone support generously move from transactional to partnership be open and be clear catalyst for change builds competency, culture new BFFs and ecosystem open innovation

25 Introducing the MIX The City of Guelph s Municipal Innovation Exchange (MIX) is a new virtual centre of excellence multiple cities multiple partners multiple challenges multiple learning channels

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27 We sharing. Join in.