In this presentation, Megan Beange speaks from her knowledge as an individual participating in international discourse as well as a member of the Canadian Digital Construction Community. Pulling from her experience abroad, her research and teachings at Algonquin College, and her work within Public Service, Megan presents a new perspective on publicly available information and highlights what would logically be the next step in the Canadian Construction Sector and Government adoption of digital transformation. Sharing her personal opinion in reconstructing the hints and trends in the greater Canadian landscape, Megan sets a national context for the Smart City discussions of later presenters.

IBI Group's Smart City Platform creates a portal through which people can connect to and interact with pertinent information about their surrounding built form. This system can be catered towards specific needs, types of data, and desired outcomes. Over the past decade, technology has changed at a rapid pace, and it will continue to do so in the years to come. Society has become accustom to access to information and thus have grown the expectation that this said information will be ever-present. As an industry, we need to build and maintain a constant connection with the ever-changing world and harness current and new technologies to ensure appropriately-paced advancements. The Smart City Sandbox will facilitate incubation of ideas to provide measurable economic and society benefits for our society.

"Why is the world moving towards an Innovation Economy and what are the key factors, like AI, Blockchain, 5G, etc. that are radically accelerating innovation and business" – Why an Innovation Economy? – Explanations of AI, Blockchain, 5G, Cloud, Industry 4.0 and examples around us today and how they work together? – Why a creative a culture in the only sustainable advantage

Brian Crombie, as Chair of Transit Alliance, a GTA civic transit organization, will speak on Transformational Transit. Brian will review the critical role Connectedness and Social Capital plays in the prosperous development of Cities and Clusters. He will then show that as Cities grow, transit that allows that Connectedness to not only exist but improve, dramatically impacts the ability of Cities to prosper, create good high paying jobs and entrepreneurship. Brian will put forward the thesis of the software and hardware Cities need to have to be truly Connected and thereby Prosperous. Brian will quickly outline the research that supports this contention, show international examples of good transit development, provoke with some new innovations and some interesting ideas for Toronto and Canada and finish with some lessons learned.

Next to corporate salaries and benefits, corporate real estate accounts for the second largest expense for all organizations. To date, real estate had been considered as a fixed bricks and mortar story with workspace being static. With the global trends of mobility, video and IOT (Internet of Things), space design is not simply being driven by a sqft per person #, but is now being tailored towards Activity Based Work, Employee Personas, Journey Maps and Flexibility. To dynamically adjust and predict the usage and layout of space, BIG Data, IOT and Integration is being combined by organizations. The combination is driving business value in the areas of CAPEX, OPEX and Employee Experience and Retention.

Attendee's will get a high-level understanding of the Autodesk Forge platform as initial context for the presentation. The main goal of the presentation will be to present customer and partner use cases on how they were able to create Smart Building and Operation handover applications to extend their business. We will talk about how the customers were looking to differentiate themselves in their market and add more value to the client relationships. Some short videos will be used to help attendees understand what the customers were able to build, and problems/workflows they were able to create to address their client’s needs. We will wrap up with how they can get started building their own applications. Depending on the time provided, I could take questions from the audience as well.

To create a smarter built environment standardized information structures are needed. If standardized digital information is generated for our buildings and surrounding infrastructure then this information can be used to monitor real-time performance and more easily maintain. The specification data in the design and then ultimately in the hand-over record is key to this. Equally the information within and attached to the 3D model is critical. NBS deliver a free-to-use BIM library of generic and manufacturer standardized objects which is now offering Canadian specific content. Digicon is now part of NBS and in this presentation Dave and Stephen will give a first demonstration in Canada of Digicon CMS specification content within this digital ecosystem. In this presentation, delegates will see how specifications now integrate within a BIM environment. Standard structures including COBie and Uniclass 2015 will be presented. Delegates will also see examples of the work that NBS is currently doing with key customers such as Next Architecture in the Canadian market and UK Government funded projects into digital object identifiers to help with smart city vision.

The presentation is examining current technologies being implemented in vertical transportation and how the technologies are the building blocks for future innovations. We will discuss how current and emerging technology can used in planning super high building to prevent an exponential use of the building core for vertical transportation. How we can invest in platforms that allow growth with building use and greater integration with building systems. Lets look at what is next.

Siemens broad portfolio has helped cities and towns worldwide to modernize infrastructure, improve resilience, digitalize services while improving efficiency, reducing operating costs and CO2 emissions. Siemens offers solutions for cities such as:

• smart buildings
• fire and security
• power generation
• transmission
• power distribution energy infrastructure, energy storage
• transportation
• smart grid
• microgrid
• distributed energy
• digitalization
• electrification including modernizing electrical infrastructure for transit, water and waste water plants.