Smart Cities: Facilitating Technology Innovation for Better Decisions

Smart Cities are not just about deploying new technologies — they are about making better decisions, faster, in complex and uncertain environments. Calgary’s Smart City approach focuses on facilitating experimentation with new technology to enable informed investment decisions, improve service delivery and prepare for future disruptors.

In this informative session, you will learn:

• 🌇 Examples from Calgary’s Smart Cities work
• 🧭 How Strategic Foresight can be used to design strategy
• 🙌🏼 How facilitation techniques can help narrow down problems that technology might be able to help
• 🔵 Experiencing AI Problem Framing Methodology (Design Sprint Academy)

About the speaker:
Luis has been with the City of Calgary for 13 years. He is currently the Program Manager in the Smart Cities section leading the portfolio of Digital Equity, Partnerships and Regional Collaboration. His role includes working with Calgary’s Smart City team to advance Smart Calgary strategy, from making the new Wave Tech Centre a reality to working with community members to address the digital divide to building relationships to foster a regional approach to Smart Cities. During the journey with The City he provided consulting services to several business units and departments across the corporation on strategic planning, governance and project and program management. He also worked with the business community to make Calgary more business friendly and with The City's senior leadership to design and implement corporate strategic initiatives. Behind every project and initiative Luis works, he brings the power of design, futures thinking and engaging facilitation skills to solve complex systemic issues. Luis has an MBA from the University of Bradford in the UK

Why attend?

• Learn about disruptive methodologies
• Discover how The City of Calgary applies technology to scale the City's services
• Explore how AI is applied to the public sector

Come with questions, ideas, or just curiosity - leave with clarity and community.