Our guest on this episode of the Chronicles, Kate Isles of Infinitum Partners, is an urban planner who has both worked in disaster response, and digital transformation. In her previous role at the Queensland Reconstruction Authority Kate was part of the long term response to one of the State of Queensland's most devastating series of natural disasters. And now, she is deep in the world of e-planning, potentially one of the most significant opportunities to accelerate city development and transformation in a time when agility and speed of economic stimulus is key.

Never before has the role of data come into the spotlight. As we are glued to our screens watching the models, bar charts and dashboard refresh, there is data behind the scenes feeding the insights we are so hungry for. In this episode of the Chronicles Neil Glentworth - Director of Community Data - shares insights on how cities can underpin their social and economic rebuild with a data driven approach in the months and years ahead.

This episode of the Chronicles takes us to Seattle WA in the USA, where we sit down with Kelsey Finch who is Senior Counsel with the Future of Privacy Forum. During this discussion we explore key elements of the 'city data governance' - what it means, what are its key elements and how we can approach our work to ensure that we build greater governance around our management and use of data.

With more than 6 years of global resilience thought leadership, city engagement and strategy development in her back pocket, Lauren Sorkin of the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN) is indeed working overtime right now. As Executive Director of the GRCN, and previously Managing Director at 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, Lauren shares with us in this session how cities around the world right now are adapting and building resilience to the global pandemic brought about by COVID-19. Lauren shares her thoughts around global leadership, transparency and what might come next as we help build the conditions for our cities to thrive again.

As we continue to discuss the role of data in accelerating sustainable outcomes in our cities, this episode of The Week In Data features a discussion with Don Sharples, Managing Director of Altometer Business Intelligence, appropriately covers data in the world of a global pandemic. Our discussion covers small business recovery, real-time data as a tool and how the values and behaviours of our communities is a more critical data set than ever. And what about innovation? How will this be different in a post COVID-19 world?

In this episode we unpack the work being led by Dominic Papa, Vice President of Smart State at the Arizona Commerce Authority. For over seven years Dominic has been helping lead the efforts in building the conditions for scaling smart cities success in the State of Arizona. First with the City of Phoenix, then with the Institute of Digital Progress and now with a collaborative public/private/academic partnership at the Arizona Commerce Authority. We talk tech, we talk data and we talk governance and resilience.

The timing, unfortunately, is perfect for this conversation. A summer bushfire crises, a global health pandemic..... Community resilience has never been as topical as right here and right now. So what is the relationship between smart cities and resilience? What could it be? Well, we explore the connective tissue between these two agenda's in this episode of the Chronicles, with our guest, Kieran Power - National Lead for Resilience and Climate Adaptation at WSP.

Well, there has never been a better time for this discussion! In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have Robert Linsdell from Vertiv join us for this episode of The Week in Data. With Vertiv's brand standing for 'Architects of Continuity', we have a very pointed discussion around resilience, data and what the world might look like when we come through the end of this major global disruption. We dig deep into business continuity, data storage trends and the interface with green building trends.

Do cities value data? Well, this is one of the many questions we unpacked on 'The Week in Data' with Andrea Di Giovanni, the Strategic Projects Lead for our member company Neighbourlytics. In this conversation we also talk about current topical issues such as COVID-19 and how its bringing data insights into our daily lives, as well as social wellbeing as a framework for national decision making, and the data that powers our understanding of how people's quality of life manifests.

Media headlines fill our feed with those multi-billion dollar estimates of the smart cities market, while cities relentlessly promote their latest ranking in yet another smart cities ranking. But what happens when you look peek behind the curtain, and compare the methodologies, metrics and outcomes? In this Episode on the Chronicles we sit down with Charles Reed-Anderson from Charles Reed-Anderson and Associates who took the time to compare the rankings and market valuations and as a result came up with some interesting conclusions and recommendations.