Smart Cities Magazine: The Competitive Edge Driving Australia's Smart Cities

A BI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION FEATURING FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS

SEPTEMBER 2015

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A MESSAGE FROM THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR

AUSTRALIA’S FIRST NATIONAL BUSINESS FORUM DEDICATED TO SMART CITIES This first National Business Forum dedicated to Smart Cities is steered by the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce in the name of “Team France”, a major collaboration with Business France, the French Foreign Trade Advisors’ Group in Australia and the Embassy of France to Australia.

This Magazine, published by the FACCI, is intended to give a detailed overview of today’s first National Business Forum, reflecting the actual agenda and session topics, and featuring some major “Smart City” initiatives from our key speakers, contributors or sponsors.

Team France is a major collaboration between the French Embassy, Business France, the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and the French Foreign Trade Advisors Group.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS A Message from the French Ambassador & the President of French-Australian Chamber of Commerce

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France, world leader of the Smart City: Revolution or Evolution?

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Messages from the Deputy Prime Minister, the NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure and the CEO of Committee for Sydney

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Session: Smart Transportation - Light Rail

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Bouygues-Alstom addressing the transport needs of Tomorrow’s Cities

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Session: Smart System Operator

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Keolis Downer: Connectivity is the key to mobility

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Thales: Security & Mobility for Smarter Cities

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VINCI in Australia

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Session: Smart Telecommunications

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Peugeot – Citroën: Smart Vehicles for Smart Cities

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Session: Smart Grid and Utilities

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Session: Smart Urban Mobility

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Session: Smart Healthcare & Demographics

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Safran Morpho: Global Leader in Security Solutions & Polyglot Group is assisting Global Renewable Energy companies

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The New Caledonia: a country resolutely committed to sustainable development

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Lycee Condorcet & Alliance Française: Academic Excellence

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Final Session: Visions of the future

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elations between France and Australia have never been as close as they are today, as illustrated by President Hollande’s fruitful visit last November.

This special bond between our two countries has been key to facing diplomatic and strategic challenges all over the world. Our economic partnership has also continued to grow strongly. The “Team France” that I launched during the Presidential visit is the backbone of the French-Australian economic partnership.

This first National Business Forum dedicated to Smart Cities, organised by “Team France”, is a major collaborative event between the FrenchAustralian Chamber of Commerce (FACCI), Business France, the French Foreign Trade Advisors’ Group in Australia under the patronage of the Embassy and all its Departments. It gives a strong signal of France’s deep interest, both in answering key environmental questions and being part of a new economic model based on a smart economy. This action is also the perfect example of a “creative France” being able to reinvent itself and build a green and digital economy in which transport, housing, production and also education have been redesigned, requiring a harmonised

approach across industry, science and technology.

In 2014, Australia’s eight capital cities were home to two thirds of the country’s population and 79% of the estimated 364,900 new Australian residents since 2013 settled down in an urban environment.

Looking at these figures, it is hard to downplay the critical importance of creating “smarter” and sustainable cities, in Australia and around the world.

The combined potential for the “Smart City” market in the energy, transportation, healthcare, building, infrastructure, and governance sectors has been estimated at US$1.5 trillion (AU$ 2.05 trillion) globally by 2020.

Cities all around the world have already started to show strong signs of this interconnectedness and willingness to take proactive action on global issues. In the lead-up to COP21, 411 cities around the world - including Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia - have committed to audacious action plans to address the biggest global challenge of our century. Paris is setting

a strong example, with 18 commitments registered in the Agenda of Solutions to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, reporting publicly and annually on progress. In Australia, Sydney is leading the way with 12 different commitments registered as part of the Agenda of Solutions.

Representing merely 2% of the planet’s surface, cities nonetheless account for 75% of the world’s energy consumption and 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These figures make it obvious that the environmental challenge we are facing will be overcome by cities. In the words of the French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar: “Cities bear the marks of the passage of time, and occasionally the promises of future ages.” Solutions will come from cities through cutting-edge research being applied in innovative ways by the business sector, and it is therefore the cities’ responsibility to create, through policy and investment, an environment that is favourable to such business opportunities.

CHRISTOPHE LECOURTIER AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE IN AUSTRALIA

A MESSAGE FROM THE FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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he French-Australian Chamber is proud to present its first forum focusing on Smart Cities. This forum provides a great platform for French companies to exchange with local partners from the private and public sectors, and to share challenges and solutions to make our cities more efficient, sustainable and competitive.

We are particularly pleased to introduce a panel of companies and members of the French-Australian Chamber which will bring relevant expertise, ideas and innovations to this forum. This exchange of CEO and government perspectives enables us to appreciate how Australia and France already contribute to building a vision to make our cities smarter.

Keolis Downer, Thales and Alstom have lengthy experience in public transport and in future mobility systems and we all know how critical planning multimodal transport links is for the growth and attractiveness of a modern city.

Bouygues Construction and VINCI Construction can design and deliver transport infrastructure and energy-efficient buildings necessary for the fully-integrated city space of the future.

Schneider Electric and Cofely (Engie) provide grid infrastructure and solutions helping major Australian cities to sustainably manage the increasing needs for precious utilities such as energy and water. Citelum (EDF) also focuses on advanced grid systems that help cities, such as the Sunshine Coast, meet their energy goals for street lighting.

Alcatel-Lucent, one the biggest suppliers to the National Broadband Network (NBN), helps government deploy networks to deliver on national, rural, and municipal broadband plans and telecommunication projects for a community and workforce becoming more mobile and connected than ever.

Technologies and connectivity increasingly support populations and demographics, including the healthcare system which benefits from the experience of Ramsay Health Care (leading private hospital operator in France) and Safran Morpho in facilitating information collection and sharing to respond to the needs and life of a growing silver population.

Dassault Systèmes contributes in making smart nations through Virtual Singapore, a 3D collaborative platform with a rich data environment and visualisation techniques that

will be used by Singapore’s citizens, businesses, government and the research community to develop tools and services that address the emerging and complex challenges faced by the City-State.

These examples and stories reflect the value, dynamism and diversity of the broad network of the French-Australian Chamber. Established in Sydney in 1899, the Chamber aims to promote and foster the bilateral economic relationship, including overseas France and the neighbouring New Caledonia, which is sponsoring the Smart Cities event. Today, with some 650 members and more than 100 events organised each year across our 6 State chapters, we are proud to offer one of the most vibrant bilateral forums in Australia.

We hope you will enjoy reading this publication, and that doing so will give you greater insight into the French perspectives for smart and competitive cities and into the expertise and solutions offered for building a smarter and greener future together.

FRANÇOIS ROMANET CHAIRMAN, FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CEO, SAFRAN PACIFIC

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REVOLUTION OR EVOLUTION?

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n February this year, Nice was ranked the world’s 4th Smart City in Juniper’s 2015 Smart City Rankings, behind Barcelona, New York and London. Following this result, the NiceCôte d’Azur Metropolis opened its Smart City Innovation Centre (SCIC), a collaborative platform bringing researchers and educators together with leading companies involved in smart cities at Nice Méridia, the city’s new urban “technopolis” development project.

Through the SCIC, manufacturers will be able to pool their knowledge and data for the first time, increasing opportunities to experiment with new uses and services in synergy with the academic world of the university. This level of integration and sharing in terms of the Smart City is unique in France and will make the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis a European benchmark.

From Smart Cities to worldwide French Universities

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mart Cities are not only more sustainable, more liveable places; they are also hotspots of culture and science, home to world-class universities and research centres attracting the best talent worldwide. Investing in training as well as attracting and retaining this human capital has been shown to be a viable strategy for cities to increase the rate and quality of their urban development.

WORLD LEADER IN SMART CITIES Fostering collaboration in science and innovation.

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his is the core activity of the Science and Technology Section (STS) of the French Embassy in Australia, in cooperation with stakeholders ranging from businesses to universities.

France and Australia share a history of academic and technological excellence, which led the Embassy of France to organise the French Innovation and the Future of Transport in Australia symposium in Sydney in August 2011.

This event facilitated dialogue between scientists, policy-makers and corporate representatives from both countries, a crucial step in identifying and addressing future challenges in the Australian transport industry.

Yet, there are multiple fields in which smart relationship building can have a positive impact on our increasingly urbanised lifestyle.

Based on the success of such events, the STS launched the French Researchers in Australia Network (FRAN) in 2012, taking advantage of the capacity of social networks to connect and interact with the community of French

“The FASIC Grants foster bilateral collaboration, mobility and sustained bonds across cities” researchers studying and working on a wide range of fields in Australian universities and research organisations. From humble beginnings, FRAN has grown to a dynamic gathering of 440 members today, meeting annually in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and this year in Brisbane to discuss and exchange ideas with Australian and French stakeholders regarding cutting-edge innovative research being carried out in strategic fields such as biosciences, climate change and most recently in Brisbane, Innovative ICT Research applied to global challenges.

The growth and geographical spread of the FRAN community underpins the attraction French students, academics and researchers have for Australian cities, with over 90% of its members living and working in one of the capitals. Through travel programs such as the

flagship French-Australian Science Innovation Collaboration (FASIC) Grants, the Embassy has spent nearly $1.8 million over the last 11 years to fund the travel of 180 French researchers to Australia, where they have been able to initiate, develop and complete cutting-edge research projects in a range of fields, all the while forging scientific and cultural bonds with their Australian partners and the cities they live and work in.

In this way, FASIC and other programs of the Embassy fostering bilateral collaboration and mobility, such as the Scientific Mobilisation Program, contribute not only to the crossfertilisation and dissemination of ideas, but also to the creation of sustained individual and institutional bonds across cities.

At the forefront of this movement, the ParisSaclay COMUE brings together two Universities, ten ‘Grandes Ecoles’ and seven Research Institutes, host to 300 laboratories and 15,000 researchers and students – including two Nobel Laureates and six Fields medallists.

A 1.8 billion euro (AUD 2.72 billion) budget has been set aside to build the 7700 hectare campus which, by 2020, will represent a “city in the city”.

By pooling resources, infrastructure and expertise, and with further support from specialised technology and knowledge transfer bodies, the members of these structures take

“At the forefront of this movement, the Paris-Saclay COMUE brings together two Universities, ten ‘Grandes Ecoles’ and seven Research Institutes, host to 300 laboratories and 15,000 researchers and students – including two Nobel Laureates and six Fields medallists.”

As a result, and through the implementation of the Investment for the Future policy, France is currently restructuring its academic and industrial landscape by linking actors in research and innovation located in close geographical proximity in integrated structures such as the 71 Competitiveness Clusters –akin to the Australian government’s Industry Growth Centres – and the 23 Communities of Universities and Institutions (COMUEs).

a proactive role in the emergence of worldclass centres of excellence that will attract talent and investment benefiting the local economy, and turn cutting-edge academic research into innovative technology, ready to be commercialised. Today, concrete examples illustrate the way France tackles major urban challenges through public-private collaboration.

In France, the ISSYGRID project aims to develop the world’s first smart neighbourhood

energy network, combining the latest innovations designed for cities, from Smart Grids to decentralised production of green energy to electric cars. Management of the whole area, including its smart buildings, will be achieved through a central monitoring and analysis node.

Making this project a reality required breaking down sectorial boundaries and reinventing the way all actors involved interact together. As a result, ISSYGRID involves innovative start-ups such as EMBIX, IJENKO, NAVIDIS and SEVIL, alongside multinationals from various sectors: Bouygues Immobilier (urban infrastructure); Alstom, EDF, ERDF, Schneider Electric and Total (Energy); Bouygues Telecom, Microsoft and Steria (ICT).

Rethinking the way we do business to make the best out of these new opportunities is essential.

Further afield, the VIVAPOLIS brand promotes a “French” vision of the sustainable city, abroad, built around its inhabitants while tackling the energy challenge through strong and participative governance.

Through this program, companies such as Eiffage, VINCI and Véolia receive support from the French government to develop 3D modelling and urban planning tools for cities around the world.

Astana in Kazakhstan and Santiago de Chile already benefit from French know-how in the field of modelling to facilitate decision-making on large urban development projects.

RESOURCES EMBASSY OF FRANCE IN AUSTRALIA www.ambafrance-au.org ECONOMIC SECTION www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr SCIENCE SECTION science.canberra-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr JOIN THE “FRENCH RESEARCHERS IN AUSTRALIA NETWORK (FRAN)” GROUP ON LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=5171128 HAVE YOU STUDIED OR WORKED IN FRANCE? Would you like to “continue your French connection”? Then sign up to France Alumni Australie: https://www.francealumni.fr/fr/poste/australie

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AUTHORITIES

NSW MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

FRANCE AND AUSTRALIA ABIDING VALUES AND INTERESTS

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rance and Australia share a rich common history and values, with vital strategic, economic, and cultural links.

Our shared history began with the arrival of the great French navigator and explorer, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, within days of the first European settlement in Australia.

France established diplomatic and consular relations with the young Australian colonies as early as 1842. Our joint history has since traversed two world wars and our efforts to deal with the multiple and often difficult challenges of the early 21st century.

Our two nations have deep and abiding interests in the growth and prosperity of the Pacific region. Since 2012, the Joint Statement of Strategic Partnership between Australia and France has provided the framework for strengthening our bilateral engagement, including in the political, defence, security, economic and development fields.

France and Australia are substantial trading partners, with Australian airlines being regular importers, for example, of French manufactured

aircraft. French investment in Australia totaled A$15.7 billion in 2013 – and helped create more than 70,000 Australian jobs.

Like France, Australia has world-class infrastructure and transport systems, but we still face development challenges, including in our North. These challenges are a focus of the Australian Government’s own efforts, and we certainly welcome the participation of French investors in meeting these challenges, and making the most of the economic opportunities they create.

It is crucial that we further strengthen FrenchAustralian relationships on both sides and in all areas, and the Smart Cities Forum is an excellent contribution to this effort. The Forum addresses critical issues for dealing with contemporary challenges. Most of the world’s people now live in cities. There is therefore a global challenge to develop cities, and the regions in which they are located, as both productive centres of growth and good places to live.

An important part of developing smarter cities is to ensure that we support them with intelligently planned and developed transport

and communications infrastructure that is ‘future-proof’ against emerging challenges. This is a complex task that involves multiple efforts.

These include a robust infrastructure investment framework that manages the task of delivering the infrastructure modern nations need – but which also recognises the limits on what modern governments can fund and finance from taxpayer funds alone.

These efforts also include making the most of the often breathtaking technological advances in intelligent transport systems that improve the way we move from place-to-place, and the workplace technologies that transform the way we can add value in work-places.

These are all vital issues – and very interesting ones.I look forward to participating in the Forum, and to meeting many of you there.

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• $9 billion for public transport • Over $5 billion for hospital upgrades, redevelopments and expansions • Around $2.1 billion for education and training projects

On top of this, the partial lease of poles and wire will provide a further $20 billion boost to infrastructure. These leases are a game changer for NSW and will take our great State to the next level, boosting the State’s economy by $300 billion over the next 20 years.

We will speed up delivery by flexing the strength of the State’s balance and the Government’s AAA credit rating to bring forward $591 million of funding in the upcoming financial year for planning and development, so we can get these projects going as soon as possible.

A number of major projects have already begun including: • the Sydney Metro; • the WestConnex and NorthConnex motorways; • the redevelopment at Barangaroo in central Sydney; and

To improve the efficiency of our existing infrastructure the Government’s Innovation Initiative included the Managed Motorways project that through the use of technology could increase the capacity of the M4 by 30 per cent by 2018. We think that in transport we can save 40 per cent in operational efficiencies across Sydney and NSW trains just through better work practices.

Another advance is the potential of big data, particularly Opal data, to better tailor transport services to demand. In a complex system it has been difficult to determine how to efficiently allocate resources that best meet demand. We have all seen the stories of buses running with no one on them while others resemble a mosh pit on New Year’s Eve. Opal data will help Transport for NSW to more efficiently allocate resources in real time and design better timetables for a system that better meets people’s needs.

THE HON. ANDREW CONSTANCE MP NSW MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

• the redevelopment of Sydney’s Darling Harbour to create a world class major events destination.

THE HON. WARREN TRUSS MP DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER & MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE H.E. Mr Christophe Lecourtier, Ambassador of France to Australia Francois Romanet, FACCI Chairman, Safran Pacific, Chief Executive Officer Bruce Baird, Deputy Chairman, Former NSW Minister for Transport Cedric Binoit, FACCI Victoria President, Michelin Australia Managing Director Christine Caseris, FACCI WA President Wivina Chaneliere, Groupe Seb Australia & New Zealand, Managing Director Pierre-Antoine Chauvet, Alcatel-Lucent, Chief Commercial Officer Dennis Cliche, WestConnex, Chief Executive Officer Benedicte Colin, Keolis Downer, Chief Executive Officer Jean-Christophe Coutures, Pernod Ricard Australia, Chief Executive Officer Francois Diethelm, French Foreign Trade Advisors’ Group in Australia President, Bureau Veritas, Chief Financial Officer Nick Farr-Jones, Taurus Funds Management, Director William Fisher, Researcher Australian National University (Former Ambassador of Australia to France)

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his Government has three key things that it wants to achieve in the next four years in Transport and Infrastructure.

First, ensure that the massive investment that we are making in infrastructure is delivered on time and on budget with a minimal amount of disruption. The second is to ensure that we can continue the current high level of investment in infrastructure so that we create a virtuous cycle of investment and growth.

Finally, use the opportunities that modern technology and management practices provides in order to improve the efficiency of our existing infrastructure. The state’s infrastructure program received a major boost in the 2015-16 budget, with a record commitment of $68.6 billion over the next four years, including:

Eric Gernath, Suez Environnement Australia, Chief Executive Officer Justin Hocevar, Renault Australia, Managing Director Chris Jenkins, Thales Australia, Chief Executive Officer Brian Lorigan, FACCI Queensland President Paul McClintock, Chairman Myer and Chairman CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) Simon McGrath, Accor Pacific, Chief Operation Officer Zoe McKenzie, Office of the Minister for Trade and Investment, Chief of Staff David Mendelson, Total E&P Australia, Managing Director Gareth O’Reilly, Schneider Electric, Zone President Pacific Chris Rex, Ramsay Health Care, Chief Executive Officer Frank Ribuot, FACCI NSW President; Randstad Australia, Chief Executive Officer John Wylie, Tanarra Group, Chief Executive Officer

A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE FOR SYDNEY

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he Committee for Sydney is an independent think tank and champion for Greater Sydney, developing policy for the city beyond electoral cycles. Two years ago in our publication, #wethecity, we identified, in collaboration with Committee member Cisco, some of the opportunities and challenges for Sydney and Sydneysiders arising from ‘digital disruption’.

The emphasis was on how digital platforms now enable more and more people in our city to be involved in shaping their city and providing more shared solutions to its challenges. The report identified a number of case studies of global cities pioneering engagement, problem solving or data analytics initiatives to help them understand and manage their cities better.

As a result of that report the NSW Government began looking at a new Metro governance

initiative for Greater Sydney and the creation of a ‘digital dashboard’ to monitor Sydney’s key performance indicators and enable a better civic dialogue across the city.

The Committee believes deeply that ‘Smart Cities’ need ‘smart governance’ to enable them to maximise the opportunities of the internet of things and the ‘wisdom of crowds’ in improving the performance of their city.

In this and my previous roles I have written a number of digital strategies for Australian councils, and am currently working with Committee member Microsoft, as well as other members specialist or active in this policy area and market – and leading councils in Sydney – on #wethecity2.

I will be sharing highlights from this second report and exploring how we can learn from global cities’ best practice, including some cities

and infrastructure initiatives in France, to add to the momentum underway in Sydney. I will also reflect on the work the Committee has been doing to establish a fintech hub in Sydney and the overlap between that initiative and the Digital Creative Knowledge Hub being established in Sydney; the ICT, financial services and start-up capital of Australia.

TIM WILLIAMS CEO, COMMITTEE FOR SYDNEY

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SMART TRANSPORTATION - LIGHT RAIL

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ffective transport is central to a city’s economic competitiveness, with severe congestion a serious economic cost to any Smart City. For example, the cost of traffic congestion in Australian cities has been estimated to be $12.8 billion per year – which is expected to almost triple by 2031.

Travel times are estimated to increase by at least 20%1, fuelled largely by Australia’s growing population (from 22.3 million in 2011 to 30.5 million in 2031) and its dependence on road use.

City transportation is also an experience that directly affects the quality of life of its citizens. It is also responsible for a large share of emissions with direct health and ecological implications.

Travel for work, shopping, personal business and recreation is estimated to be responsible for 34% of household greenhouse gas emissions – hence the drive to increase public transport use and the related significant cut in an individual’s carbon footprint.

With urbanisation, unprecedented pressures are being placed on existing transport networks and the solution does not wholly lie in increasing the existing physical infrastructure.

For example by building more roads, not by putting in place more buses and trains.

Physical infrastructure includes vehicles that move goods from one place to another (e.g. cars, boats, rail), the means that allow movement to take place (e.g. roads, rail lines, shipping lanes) and terminals where journeys

begin and end or where passengers transfer from one mode of transportation to another (e.g. stations, car parks, airports, and ports).

Physical infrastructure can be optimised however by developing other modes of transport which can complement existing transport modes. The Light Rail system is a good example of this “newer” transport mode and globally, Light Rail has been introduced to over 100 cities in the past decade. In Australia, Light Rail projects are expanding in Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra.

Light Rail infrastructure has a low impact on the urban environment, with rails unobtrusively laid along existing roadways and stops along median strips. Light Rail can draw on any electrical energy source including renewable energy and regenerative energy and therefore, can reduce the Smart City’s consumption of liquid fuels. A recent ‘Canberra Urban Regional Futures’2 report has found that Light Rail has the potential to increase public transport patronage, to deliver benefits to landowners and to create flow-on effects in diversifying the economy, improving liveability and increasing sustainability. This report used the cities of Freiberg (Germany), Edmonton (Canada) and Bergen (Norway) as case studies for its analyses.

In Sydney, the critical first stage of the Western Sydney Light Rail Network, funded by the NSW government, will provide the “Smart” route linking residential and employment

precincts of Westmead, Carlingford, Camellia and Olympic Park, making Light Rail one of the four major public transport modes, alongside train, bus and ferry. Light Rail networks will be incorporated into the existing network of public transport services, providing services on major feeder routes. This ambitious project would also vitally ensure that the Light Rail is complemented by other sustainable modes of transport, such as cycle-ways and dedicated pedestrian flows.3 Light Rail, however, is only one of many possible new transportation options for the future. Personal mobility devices such as Segways may have an important place in ground transportation, while in the air, logistics drones, smaller commercial heli-drones and unmanned aerial vehicles are currently being developed.

The key to Smarter Transportation, however, is not about developing different modes of transport in silos, but is about constructing an “integrated multi-modal” system of transport, superimposed by a digital infrastructure with Smart technologies and services at critical points within that transportation ecosystem, to connect the various disparate networks.

RESOURCES 1 www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au 2 www.curf.com.au 3 transport.nsw.gov.au › Projects › Sydney Light Rail Program

SESSION DETAILS

This session will use the Light Rail system as an example of a physical infrastructure that is currently being constructed to complement traditional transport modes such as road, bus and rail. More importantly, it will highlight the need to develop the Light Rail system, not as a separate mode, but as part of an integrated multimodal system of transport in order to become a Smarter City.

The second theme of the session is about the Joint Association of Urban Transport for Greater Noumea. The SMTU is also the authority that pilots the project Néobus, which is a Rapid Bus Transit (BRT) of 14 kilometres that will serve the main centres of the agglomeration.

SPEAKERS PHILIPPE BOUQUET, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION AUSTRALIA Bouygues Construction is a global player in the building, civil engineering, energy and services markets, offering a fully integrated design, build, finance and operate service to its clients. Active in Australia for over 20 years, Bouygues has been responsible for the successful delivery of a number of transport infrastructure projects including Airport Link and the North Strathfield rail project in Sydney; the Go Between Bridge in Brisbane and currently the NorthConnex road tunnel link, again in Sydney.

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BERNARD JOYCE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ALSTOM TRANSPORT Alstom designs, builds and maintains rail systems to meet the challenges of smarter mobility. For Alstom success is when passengers enjoy seamless and safe journeys making our solutions their own and fully integrating them into their lifestyle. Alstom’s portfolio spans the urban, suburban, regional mainline and freight rail markets, supported by a comprehensive knowledge of trains, signaling, infrastructure, and maintenance services.

MARC ZEISEL, PRESIDENT OF THE SMTU (NEOBUS PROJECT) The SMTU is the transport authority that controls the Noumea public transport network and coordinates the different transport companies operating in the agglomeration of Great Noumea.

BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION & ALSTOM TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS FOR TOMORROW’S SMART CITIES

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n 2012, the European Commission launched a European Innovation Partnership with the aim of fostering the development of the cities of the future or “Smart Cities”. Sustainable urban mobility, energy-efficient buildings, and connected and integrated energy and transport networks; these are the pillars upon which the High Level Group (HLG) was established by the Commission, of which Alstom and Bouygues are key participants. A Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) was approved by the HLG and is based on three vertical priorities:

system which combines train control automation with safe traffic management, and Hesop a smart energy efficient reversible substation which optimizes the use of electricity in traction and braking mode. These technologies can be rolled out across any urban rail, metro or light rail platform solutions.

energy efficiency of our buildings, the complete lifecycle of buildings and infrastructure from ecodesign to demolition and the efficiency of our operation and services. Bouygues’ sustainable construction strategy is therefore inextricably linked to the broader context of the “sustainable or Smart City”.

• Sustainable mobility, • Sustainable construction, and • Network and process integration in the fields of energy, ICTs and transport.

Smart mobility solutions are designed to make transport systems more agile, optimise network capacity and efficiency, and facilitate travel while improving traffic flows, saving energy and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Developing sustainable turnkey transport networks and process integration: Reims Light Rail story

Sustainable mobility Alstom designs mobility solutions that are sustainable and reduce the environmental footprint at all stages of their lifecycle: from design and manufacturing, to operation and maintenance and ultimately their disposal.

For several years now, Alstom has considered environmental issues at a very early stage in its solutions design. Eco-design is a reality at Alstom and has resulted in environmental performance applied for each mobility solution, for instance, achieving up to 95% recyclable components on trains.

In addition to the efforts made in design, Alstom has developed technology solutions that help to manage and reduce the energy used to operate the train.

Alstom innovative technology also spans across the rail signaling systems and infrastructure. This includes the Urbalis signaling

Sustainable construction Bouygues’ customers are becoming more acutely aware of the key issues of sustainable construction, whether they are political, economic, environmental or relating to image.

They are looking to us for solutions that are efficient with regard to energy conservation, but also want us to provide support for the occupants during the operational phase in order to optimize sustainability of their buildings.

This is not just a question of energy efficiency but also covers a wide range of issues including energy and water consumption, methods of waste recovery, biodiversity and solutions that help to strengthen social links.

With a view across the entire design and construction process, it encourages us to think about the urban integration of our projects, the

Alstom and Bouygues have combined their expertise for the design and delivery of the Reims Urban Light Rail network.

The project has served as a platform for a brand new master plan for the city centre and suburbs of Reims. Meeting all the objectives of the project included improved accessibility to the city centre, expanded pedestrian zones and a reduced road network footprint. In addition, the project has improved connectivity to other transport modes (high speed, regional and suburban rail networks). It has also completely revitalized the heritage and public space landscape, acting as a catalyst for broader urban regeneration.

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SMART SYSTEM OPERATORS

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ity infrastructure is the backbone of cities, delivering necessary services to the population and creating the conditions for citizens to develop their professional, social and cultural activities.

City infrastructure includes electrical grids, gas and water distribution systems, public and private transportation systems, commercial buildings, hospitals and homes - all contributing to the city’s efficiency, liveability and sustainability. Until now, city infrastructure has been built independently and operated separately in parallel silos. Unfortunately, Smart Cities simply cannot be developed through this patchwork and uncoordinated approach.

While technological innovations are important for the development of various city infrastructures, it is not the main driver for the development of Smart Cities. What is critical is having appropriate framework conditions that enable the large scale deployment of Smart City technologies in an integrated fashion.

Technology integration includes vertical integration from sensors, real time analysis and control, to horizontal integration of historically isolated systems1.

Smart City “Operating Systems” (OS) are development platforms that adopt this important “city-as-platform” or “system of systems”

approach to allow different parties to build and add on new applications and services for city management and citizen engagement. They are technological platforms that allow a Smart City to perform better than the sum of its individual parts.

An example is the “Urban OS”, launched in the Greenwich Peninsula (London), to provide a platform to efficiently connect its citizens and services. The Urban OS uses software that takes in data from sensors dotted around the city to keep an eye on what is happening.

in significant cost savings, implementation consistency, quality and manageability2.

Interoperability is key to creating successful city operating systems like Urban OS. With the revolution of “internet of things” (IoT), driven by the appearance of smart devices such as wireless sensors, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and IP-enabled devices, different producers are generating technologies using their own communication specifications and data protocols. Future interoperability can

“Urban OS in operation at the Greenwich Peninsula, London, provides a platform to efficiently connect its citizens and services in way that enriches quality of life.”

The sensors monitor everything from large scale events such as traffic flows across the entire city, down to more local phenomena such as temperature sensors inside individual rooms. The OS completely bypasses humans to manage communication between sensors and devices such as traffic lights, air conditioning or water pumps that influence the quality of city life. Having one platform managing the entire urban landscape of a city may potentially result

only be guaranteed through the existence of international standards ensuring that components from different suppliers and technologies can interact seamlessly3.

RESOURCES 1,3 International Electrotechnical Commission www.iec.ch/whitepaper 2 McLaren Electronic Systems www.mclaren.com

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This session will bring together different system operators to highlight the challenges in creating the “City Operating System” to make a Smart City economically, environmentally and socially sustainable.

CHAIRMAN ANDREW MCCUSKER, DIRECTOR, RAIL LOGISTICS – UOW SMART INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITY SPEAKERS BENEDICTE COLIN, CEO, KEOLIS DOWNER Keolis Downer is Australia’s largest private provider of multi-modal public transport, including light rail and bus operations, providing services to 210 million passengers each year.

MICK SPIERS, VICE PRESIDENT GROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, THALES Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace, Transport, Defence and Security markets. Thales Australia is a trusted partner of the ADF and is also presently involved in commercial applications ranging from air traffic management and ground transport systems to security systems and services.

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PAUL MCBARRON, REGIONAL DIRECTOR OCEANIA, VINCI CONSTRUCTION VINCI is a global player in concessions and contracting, employing more than 185,000 people in over 100 countries. VINCI Concessions designs, finances, builds and operates infrastructure and public amenities, while VINCI Contracting consists of VINCI Construction, Eurovia and VINCI Energies forming an unrivalled network of technical expertise and experience.

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he world is becoming more connected.

More than eight in every 10 people now have a smartphone in their hand or pocket and a tablet in their bag or on their coffee table. These devices, and the information they access, are reshaping the way we interact with each other as well as with our cities.

Before leaving the house in the morning, you can pre-order your coffee, check the hourly weather forecast and chat to family and friends across the globe. With transport apps like tramTRACKER, you can see when the next tram will arrive so you can finish chatting in time to catch it. This rich seam of data has changed the way people travel and the shape of our cities.

city. Operators must be flexible and responsive, adjusting to ever changing travel patterns.

Transport operators must understand their passengers’ journeys from door-to-door, beyond a single transport mode. This door-to-door approach matches network design and service provision to

“ A network redesign in Orleans has seen growth of 15 per cent in a single year.”

Keolis is one of the world’s largest public transport providers, and has undertaken research into French cities and travel patterns. This research, known as Keoscopie, has found that there is greater variety in the way people travel than we might think.

Established transport planning theories believe weekday travel patterns are generally consistent across the medium term. Keoscopie has shown that in fact, only a tiny fraction of people make the same journeys each day. Day to day, more than 60 per cent of passengers will change. Across a three day period this rises to 90 per cent.

The impact of wet weather, children’s sport or changing work hours, means smart transport services must be in tune with the rhythm of the

customer needs. The idea is to turn a journey from something that passengers have to endure into something they choose. Equipped with real time information, passengers can carefully weigh up travel times, costs and convenience.

Across the world, network revision has not kept pace with change. Too often, a train leaves a station as a bus arrives. Or worse still, the bus stops kilometres from the train station. Smart networks provide seamless connections for passengers between modes.

This approach ensures services are coordinated and organised around people, not theoretical networks or engineering fixes. This approach can deliver substantial increases in public transport use and customer satisfaction

without additional cost. Following network reorganisation and the introduction of light rail, public transport use in Dijon, France, has increased by 30 per cent in three years. Similarly, after network redesign, Orleans has seen growth of 15 per cent in a single year.

Smart cities will put the knowledge and information that people need to choose between transport modes at their fingertips. Empowered passengers have the information they require to choose an efficient journey from the moment they begin to think about their trip. This requires the delivery of accurate, real-time information.

This occurs before they board a train or tram. It begins before they even leave the house.

The digital footprint of transport networks must therefore extend beyond the train platform or bus stop into customers’ hands. The objective is to empower passengers. To turn every smartphone into a multi-modal transport control room.

By unlocking big data, operators can offer services that match the needs of passengers and customers can make rational, informed choices that reduce the pressure on transport networks.

Where operators are equally joined up, transport providers can deliver a flexible, integrated network management able to respond to surges in demand, without the need for costly new infrastructure investment.

Keolis Downer is Australia’s largest private provider of multi-modal public transport.

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SECURITY & MOBILITY FOR SMARTER CITIES

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hales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace, Transport, Defence and Security markets. With 61,000 employees in 56 countries, sales of €13 billion in 2014, and over 20,000 engineers and researchers, we have a unique capability to design and deploy equipment, systems and services to meet the most complex security requirements.

Our unique international footprint allows us to work closely with customers all over the world.

Around the world, new technologies are bringing numerous advantages to transport infrastructure – from more efficient rail networks to greater automation and safety. These technologies are the fibre and enabler of smart,

Mobility & Security Mobility solutions are designed to make transport systems more agile, optimise network capacity and efficiency, and facilitate travel while improving traffic flows, saving energy and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Thales Australia – Ground Transportation Systems Together with our customers we innovate to deliver greater productivity, optimising operations and performance, and maximising asset utilisation.

Thales transport solutions focus on:

“New technologies are bringing numerous advantages to transport infrastructure... [they] are the fibre and enabler of smart, liveable cities.”

• Improving transport safety and security • Increasing network capacity • Delivering greater productivity • Enhancing reliability • Optimising operations

liveable cities. The challenge is to optimise the use of existing infrastructure while building innovative new systems and commercial models that will benefit citizens in an era of increasing population densities.

With a proven track record spanning more than 25 years, a detailed understanding of our customers’ activities and a broad portfolio of solutions and credentials, we have the experience and expertise to meet the concerns of city authorities, with a particular focus on mobility and security.

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Security solutions cover such areas as citizen protection, anti-terrorism, protection of critical infrastructure and information systems security.

Our Smart City platform enables closer integration of these solutions and other systems to coordinate day-to-day operations, plan and manage major events, and provide high-level oversight in crisis situations.

• Maximising return on investment from new and existing infrastructure Thales Australia’s transportation solutions are backed by extensive systems design, testing and integration, project management, and throughlife support capabilities.

INCI is a global player in concessions and construction, employing more than 185,000 people in some 100 countries. VINCI Concessions is Europe’s leading transport infrastructure concession operator. It operates in the motorway, airport, bridge and tunnel, rail, stadium and parking facility sectors.

VINCI Contracting, consisting of VINCI Energies, Eurovia and VINCI Construction, forms an unrivalled network of companies and expertise across the world.

In 2014, 171,600 employees worked on 260,000 projects in 110 countries.

The VINCI Group has provided over a century of construction and services for the greater wellbeing of people.

Created in 1899 by French engineers Alexandre Giros and Louis Loucheur, VINCI has become the largest company in concession, construction and related services worldwide.

The group’s strategic priority is to advance its international expansion. Oceania, Asia and North and South America provide the perfect platform to increase the field of activity based upon the group’s proven track record and knowledge.

In Oceania, VINCI Construction has been active for more than 50 years via its specialised contracting division. Marketed under the banner of Soletanche Freyssinet it operates in the field of soil, and structural engineering. With involvement in some of Australia’s iconic structures like the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge,

Anzac Bridge and Melbourne’s Western Link, to the foundations of the Barangaroo Centre and the upgrade of Sydney’s MLC tower, Soletanche Freyssinet generates over $250m annually.

In addition, VINCI Major Project’s companies have been operating at remote sites in Western Australia and in the Highlands of PNG. In Onslow at the Wheatstone facility, VINCI is constructing LNG storage tanks and in the jungles of PNG the group has installed over 800km of gas pipeline to bring the natural gas from the Highlands to the export terminal on the coast.

The group’s progress and direction has been achieved by organic growth in the existing marketplace and by strategic acquisitions. Since 2010 the group has acquired three specialised foundation companies giving the group strategic geotechnical expertise from Western Australia, to the east coast and onto New Zealand.

In 2014 VINCI Energies acquired the Electrix Company, based in New Zealand and Australia.

Its principal activity is in the very-high-to lowvoltage electricity network installation and

“VINCI has been involved with many iconic structures such as the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.”

maintenance market, and serving the industrial and commercial sector.

Electrix generated revenue in the vicinity of $400 million in 2013 and employs approximately 2,000 staff.

In 2015 the group has continued its international expansion by acquiring New Zealand contractor HEB Construction.

HEB is predominantly a civil engineering and infrastructure company that undertakes hydraulic engineering, motorways, earthworks and port construction. In 2014 it had a turnover of $260m.

VINCI’s acquisition strategy is intended to give it a position in high-growth markets. In the case of New Zealand, GDP is expected to increase by more than 3% in 2016, of which the construction and infrastructure sectors are set to benefit.

By 2016, VINCI will generate over $1,000m of activity in the construction and energy sectors of Oceania. This continued expansion and commitment from the group has been driven by the underlying belief in the Oceania region, fuelled by the committed desire and need of regional governments to provide quality infrastructure in the coming decades.

These ambitions mirror VINCI’s desires to be a regional player that can design, finance, build and operate infrastructure and facilities to help and improve the mobility of the people in Oceania.

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SMART TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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igh speed, high reliability and high availability telecommunication networks - coupled with the capacity to quickly adapt to changing needs - is critical to facilitate comfortable living in Smart Cities.

Telecommunication technology is constantly evolving, and the current innovation storm is happening across Big Data, analytics, cloud, mobile, social, smart computing technologies and fast broadband.

The greater use of cloud services and visual communication tools using high-speed broadband communication networks in the corporate and local government sectors is improving business efficiency and convenience, while also being a source of new value creation.

Improved sensor networks utilizing a variety of wireless technologies give access to information on the flow of goods and the status of equipment and the environment, as well as facilitating the use of remote control.

In the home, network connections for products such as home appliances and cars - as well as telephones and personal computers - have made life more enjoyable, secure, and

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“Sensor networks utilizing wireless technologies give access to information on the flow of goods and the status of equipment and the environment.” comfortable. In the cities, transportation, distribution, finance, and energy services are connected to interact and provide more reliable, convenient, and environmentally conscious new services.

To make the best use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Smart Cities, there needs to be a deployment of broadband networks throughout the city to maximise connectivity and bandwidth. In 2009, the Australian government changed its broadband infrastructure plan from a regional to a national one, creating NBN Co (National Broadband Network).

After a three year period of architecture design, the rollout commenced in 2012 with a vision to deliver Australia’s first national wholesale-only, open access broadband network. At the same time, the government

SESSION DETAILS

This Session will focus on the key ingredients needed to build comprehensive ICT solutions for Smart Cities, and the potential impact of these solutions on the economy, social interactions and environment.

CHAIRMAN PROF. GUOQIANG MAO, DIRECTOR UTS CENTRE FOR REAL-TIME INFORMATION NETWORKS PANELISTS CATHERINE CARUANA-MCMANUS, DIRECTOR SMARTER INDUSTRIES AND CITIES, IBM International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation.

WARREN LEMMENS, CTO OCEANIA, ALCATEL-LUCENT Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP networking, ultra-broadband access and cloud technology specialist. Alcatel-Lucent is dedicated to making global communications more innovative, sustainable and accessible for people, businesses and governments worldwide. The mission: to invent and deliver trusted networks to help customers unleash their value. Every success has its network.

ALEXANDRE PARILUSYAN, VP OF 3DS BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION FOR ASIA PACIFIC SOUTH, DASSAULT SYSTÈMES Dassault Systèmes “The 3DEXPERIENCE Company”, is a European multinational software company, world leader in the production of 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.

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linked the development of the “digital economy” and launched supporting policies in e-commerce, e-health, e-education and smart grid- all aimed at leveraging the NBN. Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to hold the key to the Smart transformation of the telecommunications domain. IoT refers to the network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices.

IoT allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems. Each item is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate

within the existing Internet infrastructure.

In Santander (Spain), one of the first, largescale, award-winning IoT projects involved the installation of over 20,000 devices, sensors, cameras and mobiles throughout the city to carry out day-to-day intelligent tasks such as traffic advice, public transportation conditions and timetables, air quality reports and water needs.

Yarra Trams is the largest operating tram network in the world with more than 250km

of double tracks, 91,000 pieces of equipment and 487 trams traveling on 29 different routes.

It uses IoT technology to prevent service disruptions, schedule predictive maintenance, quickly re-route trams and better communicate information about tram services to passengers1.

IoT technology is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and covers a variety of protocols, domains and applications.

The interconnection of these embedded devices (including smart objects) will result in automation in nearly all fields, as well as enabling advanced applications like Smart Grid2.

RESOURCES 1 Smart Cities are built on The Internet Of Things Lopez Research 2 www.iso.org

PEUGEOT CITROËN SMART VEHICLES FOR SMART CITIES: R&D TO LEAD THE WAY FOR PSA

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nnovation is one of the key factors of PSA Peugeot Citroën’s strategy for remaining at the cutting edge of vehicle technology, connectivity and vehicle emissions. In 2014, PSA demonstrated its unmatched investment in research and development by filing no fewer than 1,063 French patents - more than any other company for the eighth year in succession.

The 1000 plus patents related to three main R&D challenges: emission reduction, connected services and the development of automated systems that will ultimately drive the autonomous vehicle.

One major area of innovation for PSA, drivetrains, was recognized at the 2015 International Engine of the Year awards for its work on the leading PureTech range of three cylinder drivetrains.

But innovation is more than the powerplant driving the vehicle and PSA is investing significantly in R&D for the future of motoring and connected cities. By 2020* it is estimated that the number of cars connected worldwide will grow to a quarter billion.

In early 2015, PSA and IBM announced an extended seven year partnership in which the two organisations agree to share the responsibilities of developing, selling and marketing - as well as delivering and implementing - the next generation of connected services to new and existing clients.

future of motoring, under a two phased plan for the future.

In phase one, PSA aims to take the hard work out of driving, automating certain features that make driving tasks safer - particularly mundane ones that breed carelessness - thereby helping to

“...the concept of a connected vehicle opens up significant opportunities for productivity and safety gains” The seven-year agreement will focus on commercializing services and building nextgeneration technical solutions necessary to deliver connected services.

For next generation cities, the concept of a connected vehicle opens up significant opportunities for productivity and safety gains.

While the widespread availability of “selfdriving” vehicles will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, PSA today has developed a number of vehicles that give a glimpse into the

prevent accidents caused by human error.

In a second phase, PSA aims to introduce completely autonomous driving features. Here the driver will be able to give the car full control without any further involvement and without compromising on safety, resulting in more time for other activities and a more pleasant trip.

In essence, commuters would be free to use what was once considered lost time as productive time – with the potential for a significant productivity upside.

*Alfonso Velosa, “Predicts 2015: The Internet of Things,” Gartner, December 30, 2014.

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SMART GRID & UTILITIES

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ustralians pay the most expensive electricity prices in the world, with the nearest competitor being the European Union, which is almost 1.5 times lower1.

At the same time, overall electricity demand and consumption in Australia is currently on a general downward trend, with growth that is expected to be significantly slower than Gross Domestic Product (GDP)2.

There is overwhelming consensus regarding Australia’s need for a more advanced, responsive grid that incorporates innovative technologies - which increase the decisionmaking capacity of electricity network operators. This need largely drove the development of the Smart Grid, Smart City program launched in 2010, and saw the trial of Australia’s first commercial-scale smart grid rollout. A key feature of the project was the inclusion of approximately 17,000 electricity customers in consumer-focused trials examining how residential customers could contribute to peak demand management through behavioural changes.

After four years, a final report3 was released in July 2014 offering valuable insights into Smart Grid technologies. The report found

“Smart Grid technologies in Australia could yield an economic benefit of up to $28 billion over twenty years” that deployment of Smart Grid technologies in Australia would have the potential to yield a net economic benefit of up to $28 billion over the next 20 years. However, these benefits could only be achieved through four key factors: • Technological development and deployment of enabling (smart grid) technologies.

• The introduction of cost reflective electricity pricing - including dynamic tariffs.

• Consumer behaviour change with respect to electricity consumption (to better manage any future growth in peak demand).

• Energy market reform The report stressed the importance of an “integrated” solution to harness these new technologies allowing them to co-exist alongside existing technologies - with this transitioning phase to be supported by common ICT platforms with interoperability standards.

This would result in a more dynamic and adaptable grid that would represent significant

cost savings and greater choice for consumers.

The “Smart Grid, Smart City” program also delivered a solid framework upon which other utilities such as urban water could base further investigations into the rollout of their own Smart grids and associated reforms. In contrast to electricity, Australia’s water is a highly variable resource, with the national supply of water projected to double by 20314. The $1.5 billion Australian Government’s Water Smart Australia Program - although launched before “Smart Grid, Smart City” in 2005 - had the aim of accelerating the development and uptake of Smart technologies and practices in water use across the country. The program is still ongoing, drawing lessons from “Smart Grid, Smart City” and is also focused on advancing the implementation of the National Water Initiative - Australia’s enduring blueprint for national water reform5.

With the knowledge base soundly established, we would expect to witness continuing innovation across the entire utilities domain – electricity, water and gas - over the next few years as Australian cities transform further into Smarter Cities.

SESSION DETAILS

In this session, participants will discuss the ongoing changing landscape of Australian Utilities in the setting of ongoing reforms in regulatory frameworks, policies and standards.

CHAIRMAN PROF. STUART WHITE, DIRECTOR – UTS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES PANELISTS VAUGHAN FURNISS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGIE, COFELY AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED Cofely offers a unique global expertise in energy and environmental efficiency services from industrial to tertiary and public customers. Our comprehensive approach is based on experience, innovation and bespoke solutions with our customers. Cofely and its parent company Engie aim to become the worldwide development leader of the cities of tomorrow.

JOE CRAPAROTTA, VP ENERGY BUSINESS, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC As the global specialist in automation and energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in Utilities & Infrastructure, Industries & Machines Manufacturers, Nonresidential Building, Data Centers & Networks and in Residential. Schneider Electric is focused on making energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and sustainable.

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obility underpins everything we do as individuals and as communities.

People need to move around to secure basic human needs, but mobility also contributes to quality of life by enabling leisure and recreation. With increasing urbanisation and growing populations in Australia, there are intense pressures on existing mobility systems.

Cities have traditionally sought to solve such challenges by adding new capacity to match demand. The provision of physical infrastructure is fundamental to enable mobility. However, there is a tipping-point when a capacitybuilding approach alone is neither efficient nor sustainable in servicing demand.

One of the main reasons for this is that mobility can no longer just be viewed as a “product” of vehicles, fuels and infrastructure.

Increasingly, mobility is approached as a “service” – the method we engage in economic activity, how we go about everyday life, how we access entertainment and how we interact with family and friends.

A key component of mobility as a “service” is the ability to access all transportation services from any origin to any destination in the most efficient way possible – the principle of seamless and integrated multimodality.

Mobility as a “service” also implies shared use systems where Smart mobility integrates mass

“Smarter Mobility is not about bigger infrastructure, but considering how well one arrives at a destination.” transit and ride-sharing, allowing multiple users to share vehicles at the same time, and car and bike sharing. For people to be willing to share assets there must be a seamless, low-friction way to do so. The advent of the Internet and wireless networks made the vehicle-sharing business model possible around 2000.

Smart Mobility also needs to reflect the changing face of work practices – with people’s work environments shifting from the traditional workplace-based employment to a model of “anytime, anywhere” workplaces. With almost 1 in 4 people predicted to be working from home by 2050 (Snapshot of Australia’s Digital Future, 2012 – IBIS World), teleworking will need to be well supported in Smart Cities. Smart flexible office-spaces, supported by an efficient on-line reservation system, will be well matched to the changing nature of work becoming more outcomes-based.

One of the challenges in Smart mobility is to find appropriate solutions addressing the inherent demand variability between peak and off-peak hours, where significant underutilization of existing infrastructure exists during large portions of any 24-hour period. Smart

Cities need to be built to accommodate peak travel demand, without causing a huge surplus of capacity in off-peak hours within the network.

Therefore, the key for Smart Urban Mobility is to maximize the utility of existing and planned infrastructure by distributing demand across modes, routes - as well as time, allowing cities to do more with less.

Smart mobility solutions ultimately need to be focused on optimising the consumer experience. Transport operators must understand the passengers’ journeys from door-to-door, beyond a single transport mode.

This door-to-door approach matches network design and service provision to customer needs.

Equipped with real time information, passengers can carefully weigh up travel times, costs and convenience. Smarter Mobility is not about bigger infrastructure to take users from one place to another, but on how well one arrives at the destination – allowing for improved work outcomes and life activities.

RESOURCES 1 www.smartutilities.com.au/electricity-price-rise-inaustralia/ 2 www.infrastructureaustralia.org 3 www.smartgridsmartcity.gov.au 4 www.infrastructureaustralia.org 5 www.environment.gov.au/water

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In this Session, participants will present strategies to improve the flexibility and affordability of mobility assets. The discussion will cast light on the various challenges that innovators face in the process of Smart City transformation and offer case studies on how businesses have approached these challenges.

CHAIRMAN BENJAMIN JONHSTON, CORE MEMBER, CENTRE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTATION AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

JEREMY DAUNAY, INNOVATION LEADER, IJINUS AUSTRALASIA IJINUS is a French SME playing a key role in the smart city revolution. IJINUS manufactures remote monitoring solutions, assisting water utilities with their instrumentation needs. 35,000 IJINUS products have been installed to date around the world. In Australia, IJINUS is currently implementing solutions in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

PAUL BANFIELD, ADVANCED NETWORK SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST, SUEZ SUEZ provides smart and reliable management solutions to make the best use of water and waste resources for towns, cities, business and industry. It currently supplies seven million Australians with clean drinking water, divert 880,000 tonnes of waste from landfill, and enable the oil and gas sector to process resources in a sustainable and efficient way.

PANELISTS TRISTAN SENDER, CEO, GOGET CARSHARE GoGet is operated by CarShare Australia, formed to bring car sharing services to Australia. Founded by Directors Nic Lowe and Bruce Jeffreys in 2003 with three vehicles and 12 members, today GoGet has over 2,000 vehicles and 70,000 members.

PAUL MIGLIORINI, CEO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND, REGUS Operating in over 3000 locations worldwide, Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and virtual offices.

FRANCK VITTE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BLUE SOLUTIONS Blue Solutions are innovative concepts and practical approaches that inspire and facilitate an aim of achieving healthy and productive marine and coastal ecosystems.

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ustralia’s population is expected to grow from 22.3 million in 2011 to 30.5 million in 2031. In the same period, our four largest cities – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth – are projected to grow by 45%. Outside the capitals and surrounding regions, the population is projected to grow by 22 per cent1.

Apart from a growing population, Australia is getting older - with the number of people over 85 forecast to quadruple to 1.6 million by 2047. Healthcare expenditure is exponentially increasing with the percentage of GDP spent on health projected to double in a generation.

In the setting of a rapidly growing and aging population, many of the current healthcare problems need to be addressed in a Smarter way. These issues include rising costs, over stretched services, high error rates, gaps in coverage, poorly coordinated responses to chronic disease and the lengthy development cycles for new medicines.

Emerging Smart technologies provide an opportunity to radically transform the Australian healthcare system by optimising operational performance to deliver patientcentric care; and to make better use of health information. This Smarter, single, health system should be integrated more broadly with government policy to leverage and influence health outcomes.

A Smarter healthcare system starts with better connections, better data, and faster and more detailed analysis. It should give individuals the opportunity for greater ownership of their own health information.

It should employ Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to reduce medical errors and improve efficiencies. On a population level, it should involve applying advanced analytics to vast amounts of health data to support improved population health outcomes.

The Smart Healthcare system should also focus on patient-centred activities. This would involve connecting remote communities with skilled healthcare professionals through the

ID documents. They must be able to effectively manage and secure the entire value chain from registration and verification, to issuing and managing an identity.

Digitally supported solutions with sophisticated biometrics and ID management technology would facilitate Smarter processes for population / voter registration, criminal identification, e-ID and third generation travel documents.

Imagine a Smart City where Smart technology gives doctors totally secure access to patients’ medical records from a tablet or smartphone. Authentication could be based on biometrics allowing doctors access to

“Advanced analytics applied to vast amounts of health data will support improved population health outcomes.” use of wireless broadband technology and videoconferencing, while also adopting new models of care, such as Hospital-in-thehome programs.

Apart from a connected Healthcare system, a growing Smart City must have proper identification systems to facilitate seamless and secure interactions. Governments today must do more than simply issue secure and reliable

patients’ medical records on a secure Internet site, anywhere, anytime. Governments would be able to perform population registration based on each citizen’s uniqueness through trusted biometrics, to eradicate identity fraud completely. The possibilities are endless.

RESOURCES 1 www.infrastructureaustralia.gov

SESSION DETAILS

This session will discuss the implications of a rapidly growing population in transforming Australian Cities into Smart Cities, with a focus on how to optimise health-care delivery and implement appropriate population tracking measures and to facilitate secure and efficient interactions between individuals, governments and the private sector.

CHAIRMAN PROF. BARRY BROOK, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA SPEAKERS TIM FERRIS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, SAFRAN MORPHO Morpho (Safran) is a global leader in security and identity solutions that provides cutting edge technologies for a wide range of markets and applications for citizens, governments and business. Morpho employs more than 8,600 people in 55 countries and generated revenues of more than €1.5 billion in 2014.

JOHN SUTHERLAND, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, RAMSAY HEALTH CARE Ramsay is an ASX50 listed company, operating 212 private hospitals across five countries and employing over 50,000 people. It is the largest private hospital provider in Australia, ranking in the top five operators globally.

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DOMINIQUE MICHAUD, AREA GENERAL MANAGER, STARWOODS HOTELS The Domaine de Deva project, tourism in the heart of a sustainable and cultural development of a smart village in New Caledonia DOMINIQUE CHEVEAU, DIRECTOR, MEDIPOLE HOSPITAL Le Médipôle - Nouméa is setting the future standard as a referral hospital in the South Pacific, implementing the methods and principals of the French Academy of Medicine, equipped with technical facilities incorporating cutting edge technology and the latest digital advances. Furthermore, one of the first French hospitals to qualify for a “High Environmental Quality” rating in recognition of its architectural design features and construction techniques.

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It employs more than 8,400 people in 40 countries. Its unique expertise lies in providing cutting edge security solutions for Civil Identification, Criminal Justice and Public Security, Transport and Border Control, Critical Infrastructure, Digital ID and Smart Transactions markets.

Morpho is the world leader in biometric identity solutions, automated identification systems based on fingerprint, iris and face recognition, and Computed Tomography (CT)based Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) for hold baggage. It is one of the leading suppliers of trace detection solutions for the aviation market, road safety solutions, SIM cards, banking cards and gaming terminals. With integrated systems operating in more than 100 countries, the

company’s solutions secure and simplify the lives of people around the world.

Morpho has long operated in Australasia, providing critical biometric solutions for the criminal justice, public safety, border control, detection and smart transaction markets.

For example, Australian State and Federal police forces use Morpho’s biometric solutions to identify criminals in real time, thanks to CrimTrac’s National Automated Fingerprint Recognition System, one of the world’s largest fingerprint and palm print databases.

Both the Australian and New Zealand Custom Services use Morpho’s facial recognition

technology to give eligible travellers the option of self-processing through passport control via SmartGate automated control gates, now deployed at all major international airports in the region. Morpho also provides a facial recognition system that helps detect multiple driving licence registrations to combat identity fraud in New South Wales.

Morpho opened a support centre in Canberra in 2011. Open 24x7, it is a dedicated facility with top security clearance that supports key customers such as CrimTrac, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Customs and Border Services.

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POLYGLOT GROUP IS ASSISTING GLOBAL RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES AND THEIR PROJECTS WITH RECRUITMENT, HR OUTSOURCING AND TRANSLATIONS ALL AROUND THE GLOBE

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an Rieche, Polyglot’s General Manager for Renewable Energy and Infrastructure, has been collaborating with several Renewable Energy Companies in order to establish their operations in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in several European countries and more recently in Latin America.

With the desire to deliver the best possible recruitment searches and to offer excellent HR-advice, Polyglot’s global team is constantly engaged in sourcing candidates or preparing translations of marketing material and technical specifications for several energy companies around the world. Thanks to the Group’s international network of boutique offices in all

major time zones, Polyglot can do this effectively by having dedicated consultants working in the increasingly multinational renewable energy space in different parts of the world. Moreover, the added value that Polyglot brings to project developers in the renewable energy industry consists of offering a service agreement which includes finding, employing and managing top talent. This allows project developers to plan expenditure costs effectively and keep cost of labour down.

According to Jan, one of the main issues facing renewable energy and infrastructure projects – particularly in Australia, but also in many other countries, is the high cost of highly qualified labour coupled with often remote project sites,

which requires companies to resort to a FIFO scenario. Managing this as well as the often complex HR and OHS laws of different states in Australia or countries around the world, helps project developers as well as renewable energy equipment manufacturers reduce their cost and accurately forecast their budgets.

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ocated in the South Pacific, 1,500 km East of the Australian Coast line, and 1,700km north of New Zealand, New Caledonia is a French territory of 18,576 sq. km. Its exclusive economic zone stretches over 1, 4 million square kilometres, around 13% of the French economic zone. New Caledonia has a population of 270,000 with near to 100,000 inhabitants living in Noumea, the nation’s capital.

Estimated at AUD 41,800 per resident in 2012, the gross domestic product per resident is greater than those of other economies in the South Pacific and French overseas territories.

The wealth of the territory is sourced by its residents at a level similar to that of New Zealand, after Australia.

For the past several decades, the New Caledonian economy has been reliant on

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the nickel industry, which has shifted in the last thirty years to industry and tourism. The country has also become more engaged in a modernisation of its infrastructure and taken a more open approach to the environment of the Pacific.

Recently the country has voluntarily signed up to an approach of sustainable development of its economy and society. The New Caledonian Government is currently developing several schemes and public policies to reinforce initiatives and innovative projects in this domain.

In the sector of the “Strategic innovation of New Caledonia”, the government is thus providing support to projects in research and innovation, in specific channels such as aquaculture, bio-agriculture, Information Technologies (IT), Communications and Social

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Innovation. The techno-pole, created four years ago, is specifically developing fish culture and marine algae and a “nursery of innovative businesses” lodged within the Institute of Research for Development (Institute of French Research).

New Caledonia has also been engaged over several years in a move towards an eco-responsible modernisation of its public amenities, enhancing and promoting the use of renewable sources of energy, putting in place procedures of recuperation and enhancement of waste products and supporting the project of transport for a clean area in the urban areas of Greater Noumea.

The following two projects are testament to the commitment of the Caledonian Government to enrol in an approach towards sustainable development and eco-responsibility.

To accompany the sustainable development of the urban area of Greater Noumea through the project of clean public transport: The “Neobus” project, a model of clean public transport, was created to face the evolution of needs in travel. This new measure will ensure easy accessibility from the city centre of Noumea to the principal poles of the urban area.

The first stage of redevelopment includes a deep re-structuring of the existing bus routes.

This will consist of the implementation of two framework lines, making the link between the city centre and the main points of the urban areas, ensuring service to public facilities such as the Medipole Hospital.

This project corresponds to the voluntarist policies led by the public power in favour of urban travel, all the while pursuing the main goal of preserving the environment and reducing CO2 emissions. The Neobus network will spread out across 13.3 km with the ambition to transport up to 25,000 passengers each day with a bus every five minutes. The lines will begin service in 2019.

Neobus is the starting point for the construction of future public transport systems for Greater Noumea that will be redesigned as part of a stronger and more efficient single network.

New bus lines will be created, existing lines will be strengthened and the information system for travellers will be accessible throughout the buses, a new ticketing system will be put in place and the quality of service will improve to such a level that this transport will become a strong alternative to using cars.

The high level of service will pass through information on the services of the buses closest to the passenger according to his/her needs. Live train times and waiting times will be displayed in the station or can be sent by SMS, the creation of a mobile phone app, and GPS maps in the bus showing the bus’s exact location, will all contribute to the quality of service.

Furthermore to the project’s design to create a modern and high performing transport system, Neobus will contribute to improving the quality of life and the development of the urban area.

Giving attention to certain places reserved for pedestrians, reducing automobile traffic, reducing noise and air pollution, increasing the cycling network, and increased accessibility to transport are all elements which will contribute to improving the quality of life for the people in the urban area of Greater Noumea.

The New Caledonian Sheraton Deva Golf Resort and Spa: the newest of New Caledonia’s premier resorts Located in Bourail north of Noumea, a 90 minute drive from Tontouta international airport within the Deva provincial domain, the Sheraton New Caledonia Deva Spa & Golf Resort opened its doors in August 2014.

The resort complex, located in the 8,000 hectare domain and along a 13 km stretch of beach, offers a unique potential range of activities (nautical activities, trekking, mountain bike and horseback riding trails) within one central area.

Boasting 180 units of accommodation from luxurious bungalows, to family suites and comfortable guestrooms, the resorts also features 2 restaurants, one bar and a vast swimming pool.

A supervised Kid’s Club and 700 m² Deep Nature Spa are also available to guests.

AVENIR EXPORT (AVEX) The AVENIR EXPORT cluster, created in March 2015, adopts an approach in the development of the economy through the enhancement of New Caledonia, through networks and development of partners.

A tool for New Caledonian business executives to develop their export operational capacity, AVEX constitutes a cluster of a new generation through its transversal and non-sector based organisation. In less than six months, AVEX has attained more than 35 active members through

its channels, representing more than 1000 jobs.

The missions of the cluster aim mainly to: • Help businesses in their approach to export by sharing the means; • Help the businesses in the regional integration; • Help investors or distributors who want to work with New Caledonian businesses to develop their activities in the region.

This resort also showcases an 18 hole golf course designed by the American golf designer Cynthia DYE, adding a 4th golf course to New Caledonian’s selection after Dumbéa, Ouenghi, Tina.

Managed by “Exclusiv Golf”, DYE has succeeded in perfectly integrating the course in within the surrounding hills and plains of the Deva region whilst respecting its eco-system and topography as much as possible.

Tourism at the heart of an economic rebalance: A hotel development within a rural community, and a social and cultural transformation The Tourism development project from the Deva Estate aims to achieve several goals: developing and stabilising the economy between the northern and southern provinces of New Caledonia, promoting and showcasing of New Caledonian natural and cultural heritage and enhancing respect for the environment.

The Deva Estate Development project, which is a large scale initiative that reunites a range of both private and corporate local actors, is considered a priority for policy on sustainable development and regional planning. The estate comprises 8,000 hectares including natural reserves and ecological sites of significant marine and terrestrial biodiversity. The coastline spans 13km of beach and reef as well as a lagoon listed

by UNESCO as World Heritage The conceptualization of the project was aligned with a commitment to sustainable and participatory development in the region. Designed in a virgin wilderness, project engineers chose to initiate an extensive dialogue with the local population, engaging in particular with Estate users and residents of the main village Bourail (4,500 inhabitants), as well as neighbouring tribes.

In an effort to preserve and make known the history of the site and its ancestral populations, archaeological sites have been carefully maintained and preserved during construction, now on exhibition within the Deva Estate.

In a subtle blend of Melanesian tradition and French influence, the architecture and design of the hotel has tapped into the local culture and traditions serving as an enhancement of the extraordinary natural site. The surrounding hills and the plains of the Deva Estate have been married with an exclusive Golf Course which has been constructed while respecting the natural ecosystems and topography.

From an economic perspective, hotel staff have been predominantly recruited locally, and training adapted to the needs of the local communities has been put in place to support their development. To date, the project has created more than 150 direct, and 50 indirect jobs, with an aim to generate 500 jobs in total (the equivalent to 10,000 jobs for a city of 100,000 people).

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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

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he International French School of Sydney has implemented a sustainability policy allowing everyone to apprehend the world’s complexity from a scientific, ethical and civic point of view. This education is part of the school’s mission and is integrated in the curriculum from preschool to year 12. It covers a broad spectrum of themes: fighting global warming, fair trade, biodiversity, health, energy, sustainable city, transport and mobility, territorial planning and development, sustainable agriculture and feeding the global population as well as demographic challenges.

The aim of this program is to educate students about the complexities of sustainability challenges and to implement concepts in various aspects- be they environmental, economic, social

or cultural. Inter-disciplinary teaching methods help develop a global perspective.

However, sustainability at school is not only an educational issue- it is also an issue of practice which is progressively integrated in the school’s organisation. The International French School of Sydney has conducted extensive audits covering its day to day functioning which include resources management, links with the community and biodiversity. All aspects of the school were analysed and an action programs were developed in priority areas such as transport, biodiversity, energy and waste management. A committee composed of the school community stakeholders is responsible for its implementation and evaluation.

Moreover, the International French School of Sydney is seeking to have this sustainability

SMART THINKING AND SMART COMPANIES MAKING CITIES SMARTER program officially recognise which involves a labelling process.

Finally, the school aims to give the students a vision of tomorrow’s economic climate by establishing strong links with the economic sector. Therefore, by combining academic excellence and a strong awareness of environmental issues, the International French School of Sydney helps students understand the world and get them involved in future challenges.

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The Past to Present of Alliance Francaise

he Alliance Française’s mission within Australia is to promote French language and culture and to encourage cultural, intellectual and artistic exchanges between Australia and the French-speaking world. In 2015, the Alliance Française celebrates its 125th anniversary in Melbourne, and 116th anniversary in Sydney.

In 2014, more than 10,000 Australians studied French at an Alliance Francaise in Australia.

Alliances Francaise in Australia organise 150 cultural events nationally per year.

There are 30 Alliances Françaises in Australia: the largest ones being Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, and Adelaide, who organise the Alliance Française French Film Festival, which was our most successful event with 157,000

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viewers in 2015 and is now the largest French film festival outside of France.

Multilingualism in the modern city Physiological studies have found that speaking two or more languages is a great asset to the cognitive process. The brains of bilingual people operate differently than monolinguists, and these differences offer a variety of mental benefits.

Furthermore, speaking a second language can help your resume stand out. For companies that deal regularly with international clients, bilingualism is an attractive skill in a candidate.

Bilingualism also appeals to companies interested in entering new markets. In our globalised, modern world, having a multicultural and multilingual background can be an advantage as it provides a better understanding and ability to adapt to your environment.

Technology facilitating Smart Learning At the Alliance Francaise we use interactive whiteboards that display digital content and can be modified directly by touching the screen.

Our students greatly enjoy studying with these modern devices and technology. Classrooms are no longer dull, lecture style lessons; we have entered into a new, interactive and modern era. We use all forms of media in our class: internet sites, videos, Facebook, Twitter, and other apps which can help and develop our communication skills, all in French! We already offer distance classes, or so-called ‘connected classes’, for primary school students by using videoconference.

We are also working on developing e-learning programs, and an app to teach and communicate with our students.

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oday, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050.

Projections show that the world’s urban population is expected to surpass six billion by 2045, with close to 90 per cent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa.

Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century. Urban areas undergoing transformation into Smart Cities may have different challenges. However, more often than not, they share a common vision - to become efficient, responsive urban hubs of the future which are safe, secure, efficient and green where all structures are designed, constructed, and maintained utilising advanced, integrated, materials, sensors, electronics, and networks - interfaced with computerized systems comprised of databases, tracking, and decisionmaking algorithms.

Electing to become a Smart City is a major milestone for any city. It is also a challenge that will touch every citizen, but one that should lead to a better life for all - bringing greater efficiencies and cost effectiveness. It is a decision that requires strong leadership, vision and courage to hold the course on a long journey of many steps, projects and initiatives

The Virtual Singapore Platform case study is a good example of the 3DEXPERIENCity approach.

Virtual Singapore is a collaborative platform with a rich data environment and visualization techniques that will be used by Singapore’s citizens, businesses, government and research community to develop tools and services that address the emerging and complex challenges Singapore faces.

This project will build upon 3DEXPERIENCity to create a dynamic, 3D digital model of Singapore and connect all stakeholders in a secured and controlled environment. The model will employ data analytics and simulate modeling capabilities for testing concepts and services, planning,

“The 3DEXPERIENCE takes on the perspective that cities need to be viewed and planned as living entities.” that collectively combine to build a Smart City.

“Cities are some of the most complex ‘products’ created by humanity. Through more efficient and accurate predictions of future experiences within these cities, using state-of-the-art tools and applications, we can better anticipate national resource planning or provision of services and contribute towards a more sustainable quality of life,” Bernard Charlès, President & CEO, Dassault Systèmes has stated.

In trying to achieve the vision of a Smart City, it is futile to adopt yesterday’s thinking to solve tomorrow’s problems. Dassault Systèmes has successfully risen to this challenge. Developer of the 3DEXPERIENCE, Dassault Systèmes believes in creating holistic, virtual models of cities. It provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its 3DEXPERIENCE creates “social enterprises” where businesses can involve their customers in the innovation process.

With its online architecture, the 3DEXPERIENCE environment helps businesses to test and evaluate — anywhere in the development

decision-making, researching technologies and generating community collaboration.

With images and data collected from various public agencies, including geometric, geospatial and topology - as well as legacy and real-time data such as demographics, movement or climate Virtual Singapore users will be able to create rich visual models and realistic large-scale simulations of Singapore. Users can digitally explore the impact of urbanization on the city-state and develop solutions that optimize logistics, governance and operations related to environmental and disaster management, infrastructure, homeland security or community services.

Virtual Singapore was launched in December 2014 as part of Singapore’s Smart N With the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, the Virtual Singapore platform is expected to be completed by 2018.

lifecycle of a product or service — the eventual experience they will deliver to their customers.

While traditional planning is built on the idea that efficiency is achieved by standardizing every element, the 3DEXPERIENCE takes on the perspective that cities need to be viewed and planned as living entities, where every element and every citizen is part of a whole. Changes – no matter how small – cannot be made without examining their impact on the entire organism and its environment.

This approach is at the cutting edge of architecture where new technologies like 3DEXPERIENCity project would allow urban planners to digitally study and test ideas, empowering them to constantly consider the impact urbanization has on the entire planet and its resources.

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