This presentation will discuss how these trends are being surfaced across a number of industry verticals and tools and methods that can be used to stay abreast of these emerging trends.

Digital technology is moving at an incredible pace with new services and alternative ways to deliver information impacting how Councils provide services and how consumers consume information.  In this presentation we will look at the local government Digital Journey assessment service to assess Councils digital maturity and provide actions for improving digital use.  We will also review digital plans/strategies across NZ and what initiatives local authorities are focusing on.

Technology Worthy of our Trust

The Internet of Things is here and growing at an ever increasing pace.  It is present in all aspects of our lives as individuals and in our communities at work and at play.  It has the potential to bring us a cornucopia of opportunities for benefits and savings.

It also brings risks which must be recognised and carefully managed to ensure our increasing dependence on technology is not compromised by accidents and malicious attacks from criminals and other bad actors.

This talk will explore the risks which come with the IoT and identify what can and should be done to ensure we maximise benefits and minimise harm.  To round off the talk we will review what is new in the IoT in the last 30 days.

In which we review the bleeding edge of GIS; in a world where an Internet of Things is sensing our environment in real time, and reacting in microseconds or sending event streams to be crunched on elastic grids in the cloud, with the intelligence derived being rendered as augmented reality - all while digital fairy dust falls on magical ponies wearing Smartwatches.

All good fun, but where are the practical opportunities?  What can we do that Google can't do better and cheaper?  A mix of geogeek-porn, pulpit thumping and useful ideas.