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  • Digital Twins, Collaborative Wins: Leveraging Data and Diversity for Organisational Success | Interview with jeff sharp

    Jeff Sharp is an Associate Partner at EY in Australia working in Transport Technology. He has a career that spans the Telecommunications and Transport sectors and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Australia with a background in leveraging data analytics and machine learning for Transport use cases.

    What you’ll learn about:

    • What is a Digital Twin?
    • What is an example of Digital Twin technology?
    • How to leverage non-monetary value exchange to achieve positive outcomes for joint customers?
    • What is the role of different kinds of diversity in organisation success?
    • 22 min
    • Democratising curb-side Electric Vehicle charging | Interview with Tiya Gordon

      Tiya holds 20 years of experience in design, leadership, and operations across a range of disciplines for some of the country’s top firms and institutions. She is now venturing to spend the next 20 years on projects that use design to wage war against the Climate Crisis. Tiya's work has received the industry’s top accolades, including The National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the SXSW Innovation Award for Urban Infrastructure; the Inaugural Cannes Gold Lion for Creative Data; the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival; and the designation of the second-most innovative design firm in the world by Fast Company.

      What you’ll learn:

      • About It’s Electric and the purpose behind the company

      • The importance of equal access to public electric charging infrastructure

      • Challenges faced in setting up It’s Electric

      • About Movmi and their global EmpowerWISM competition

      • 24 min
      • ITLS Transport Opinion Survey: How has public sentiment towards transport changed? | Interview with David Hensher

        David Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS): The Australian Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management in The Business School at The University of Sydney. David has published over 600 papers in leading international transport and economics journals, as well as 16 books. In January 2023, he was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (OA).

        David is also responsible for the ITLS Transport Opinion Survey (TOPS). The biannual survey measures the public's opinion on transport-related issues; It’s the only regular national survey that tracks changes in the public's views around public transport.


        What you’ll learn:

        • What is the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies?

        • What is the Transport Opinion Survey (TOPS)?

        • Some of the key headline figures from the latest TOPS, released in March 2023

        • How public sentiment towards transport has changed over time and differs between states and territories.

        • 26 min
        • Enabling data for public transport and last-mile mobility | Interview with Monalisha Thakur

          Monalisha Thakur is a co-founder and the CMO at Tummoc - the first Made-in-India transit application that provides accurate real-time public transport information, easy ticketing options and last-mile connectivity. Monalisha has over 11 years of experience in high-pressure sales jobs at companies like HCL, AMX, Harman, Crestron & Christie.

          What you’ll learn:

          • About Tummoc - an Indian transit application that provides real-time public transport data and last-mile connectivity

            • About Movmi’s global EmpowerWISM competition for women-run mobility businesses

            • The importance of user feedback

            • The importance of finding solutions to the ‘unsexy’ transport and mobility problems

            • 21 min
            • Tour de Joy: Lowering the barriers to bike ownership | Interview with Kari Anne Solfjeld Eid

              Kari Anne Solfjeld Eid is a designer, founder of Whee!, and activist working to transform urban mobility by lowering the barriers for families to use cargo bikes for everyday trips. Kari Anne was also the winner of the 2023 Movmi global EmpowerWISM program.

              What you'll learn:

              • About Whee! and the purpose behind the company
              • Exclusionary cycling culture has a marketing problem
              • About Movmi's global EmpowerWISM mobility program
              • The importance of balancing innovation with the triple-bottom-line
              • 27 min
              • Do Androids Dream of Electric Vehicles? Decarbonisation and the role of EVs | Interview with David Trousdale

                David is a UK-based mobility transport and EV specialist with a wealth of experience in developing mobility strategies, shaping and procuring mobility solutions, platforms and systems. He is an innovation transport leader in Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Solutions with capabilities across a range of areas including future developments in charging infrastructure, rail, urban design, local and strategic highways.

                What you’ll learn:

                • The role of Electric Vehicles in net zero and decarbonisation strategies
                • Challenges facing EV uptake - pressure on energy grids and infrastructure.
                • What is charging utilisation modelling and why it’s important
                • Real-world case study of utilisation modelling for charging infrastructure
                • 40 min
                • One Man's Trash is Another Man's Data | Interview with Dean Calapai

                  Dean Calapai is the Global MD & Founder of IntelliTrac - an Australian telematics company specialising in automotive electronics, GPS Telematics, GIS Mapping & Business Mobility Apps.

                  In this episode you'll learn:

                  • What is telematics and how it’s used
                  • How telematics is being used to improve your weekly rubbish pick-up
                  • How are local councils using telematics data and what this means for communities and Smart Cities
                  • 16 min
                  • Cyber Security in Tech-enabled Smart Cities | Interview with Charlie Hales

                    Charlie has worked in the technology sector for nearly 20 years. During this time, she received a degree in Aerospace Engineering and was involved in coding for Black Hawk helicopters. As Managing Director of Waterstons Australia, Charlie has been based in Australia since early 2020. Passionate about all things tech, Charlie has deep experience in cyber security.


                    What you'll learn:

                    • What's involved in Cyber Security?
                    • What are we getting right in Australia?
                    • Where are the opportunities to improve?
                    • How do you respond and recover from a cyber attack?
                    • 27 min
                    • Truth and Myth: EVs and strata just don't mix | Interview with Amanda Farmer

                      In this episode, we sat down with Amanda Farmer - a property lawyer, dedicated to helping people who live in strata apartments, and the founder of Your Strata Property.

                      What you'll learn:

                      • Common myths about Electric Vehicles in apartment buildings
                      • Resources to find out more about EVs, government incentives, and strata schemes
                      • Tips and advice for those who would like to start conversations within their strata or building committees about installing EV infrastructure.
                      • 28 min

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