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New Westminster Intelligent City Task Force Report Presentation October 15, 2012

Task Force Membership - Thank You Michael Hrybyk , City resident, Nelson Eng , Department Chair, • • President & CEO, BC NET, the pioneer Computing Science and Information of Internet communications in BC and Systems, Douglas College, primary provider of high speed data communications facilities to over Kirk Moir , EDAC member, City • sixty-eight research and higher resident, Founding President & CEO, education institutions across BC In Motion Technology Inc., a communication technology company John Longbottom , IBM, Smarter based in New Westminster • Cities Strategy Leader at IBM Canada Ltd. City Staff: • Rod Carle , General Manager, Electrical – Mark Shieh , EDAC member, Owner of Utility • River Market Alvin Chok , Chief Information Officer – Mitchell Edgar , Manager, Economic – Development Piotr Kisiel , Director of the Centre for • Educational and Information Technology at Douglas College Intelligent City Task Force 2

Task Force Mandate The mandate of the New Westminster’s Intelligent City Task Force is to: 1. Investigate best practices of 'Intelligent City' initiatives for the City's Economic Development Advisory Committee; 2. Provide a mapping to City's economic development strategy (Livable City Strategy) with emphasis on potential benefits; 3. Examine and recommend how the City of New Westminster can best implement a Intelligent City vision and initiatives; 4. Report to the Economic Development Advisory Committee on the finding of the Task Force including proposed next steps; Alignment with New Westminster’s Strategy Critical Intelligent City Task Force 3

New Westminster’s Strategy Intelligent City Task Force 4

Livable City Strategy An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster Intelligent City Task Force 5

Livable City Strategy An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster Intelligent City Task Force 6

Livable City Strategy An Economic Development Plan for New Westminster Top 2 Thrusts of New Westminster’s Livable City Strategy Intelligent City Task Force 7

Great Vancouver Area (GVA) Employment Market Growth Intelligent City Task Force 8

What’s an Intelligent City? • Many definitions • Two broad areas: – Smarter City: focused on city operations and services – Intelligent Community: A much broader endeavor that involves preparing the “community” for the future • Task force focused on “Intelligent Community” and associated economic development Intelligent City Task Force 9

IBM Perspective Intelligent City Task Force 10

What’s the Intelligent Community Forum? • Focus: create prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where jobs, investment and KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION B A R WORKFORCE knowledge increasingly D O V A depend on advances in O D B C communications. A A N C DIGITAL INCLUSION D Y • Community of Communities “ICF seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth.” Intelligent City Task Force 11

Why Intelligent City? “ Future Centric” Economic Development: • Stratford: RBC, ScotiaBank, U of Waterloo,/Opentext – Riverside: UofC, incubator & mentoring, SmartRiverside digital inclusion, digital classrooms – Fredericton: a number of startups sold for > $100M with investment back into the community – Chattanooga: 150% over job creation target, 60+ startups – Intelligent Infrastructure: • Tool for competitive advantage – Avoid multiple disruptions for new cable – Encourage new SPs to community – Extension/amplification of existing Utility asset – Enable New Models for Education: • “Invent the future” through improved education (Riverside CA model) – Create opportunities to support New West as destination for education (Douglas++) – Vibrancy: • Promote Living & Working in same community – Arts & Culture <> Innovation – Intelligent City Task Force 13

Why New Westminster? • Compact • Agile • Changing Population (rise of Gen Y) • Centrality • Basic Infrastructure in place (City owned fibre network, Wi-Fi Initiative, Electrical Utility) Intelligent City Task Force 14

Recommended Next Steps for EDAC 1. Confirm alignment with the City’s strategic plan 2. Based on the City’s choice with respect to recommendation 1 , form a working group to : – develop a Mission and Vision around Intelligent City – Formulate Detailed Roadmap based on recommendations in section 7.2 – Implement the New Westminster Intelligent City Roadmap 3. Collaborate with organizations pursuing similar strategies. Examples include : – IBM’s Smarter City Challenge (see Appendix G) – Intelligent Community Forum’s Intelligent Communities of the Year (see Appendix H) – I-Canada 4. Work with the City’s Development Services and Engineering staff and other appropriate departments to take a proactive role with the Intelligent City working group in developing planning protocols appropriate for new digital communications infrastructure based on specific recommendations in Appendix E of the report. Intelligent City Task Force 15

Next Steps: Planning and Implementation Process • Pre-planning Organization Nov. – Dec. 2012 Vision & Strategy Jan. – Feb. 2013 Road Map Mar. – June 2013 Implementation June 2013 - Ongoing Intelligent City Task Force 16

Thank You… Intelligent City Task Force 17