Today's Guest:

Josh Sattler, GM of Innovation, Growth & Development Services, City of Darwin, Australia

Show Notes:

01:25 How did a surfer from the Gold Coast end out running the Smart City operations for Darwin?

02:30 Darwin, while only 130k people, has delivered Australia’s largest Smart City project. What are the types of solutions delivered as part of this initiative?

05:55 Overcoming the data privacy challenges - how to build trust with your citizens

11:10 How has Darwin been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic?

12:50 How can drones, robots & autonomous vehicles be used to help fight the coronavirus? And which ones have you looked at using in Darwin?

16:00 How AI - and facial recognition in particular - is being used to enforce violations against isolation and stay at home orders. 

20:00 How AI is being use for contact tracing

• Citizen opt-in: Singapore’s Trace Together
• Government enforced tracking through mobile networks
• Enterprise focused: Vault Intelligence
• China’s QR code system - the medical passport concept

27:40 What impact will coronavirus have on the near-term future of Smart Cities

• Funding: Budget shortfalls
• Impact on technology vendors
• Regulatory impact - setting acceptable use policies around drones, AV and AI

35:30 The press if filled with doom and gloom - tell us something positive that will come out of the coronavirus crisis