1. Smart Cities Are Not That Smart!
IPWEAQ Conference Debate
Townsville October 2017

2. Team scants They call me Bruce!
Sandra ‘the Professor’ Burke – the Wonderwoman of public debating
Ren ‘the Suit’ Niemann – World Champion debater

9. Autonomous Vehicles

11. Drones

13. Definition of Smart
Verb – to be a source of sharp, local and usually superficial pain
Adjective – clean, tidy and well dressed

14. Definition of City A large town!
An inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village

15. Definition – Smart City
A large town that has a tendency to be a source of sharp, local pain
An inhabited large place that is clean, tidy and well dressed!

16. Definition – Smart city
Smart - is associated with quick mental alertness, resourcefulness, capability of independent and intelligent actions and ability to reason. 

18. Cities cannot be smart!
Cities need humans to drive the smarts
Without citizens cities are dumb
A sensor can’t think through a problem it can only provide you with data
A smart bin cannot reason
A smart card cannot have independent thought
CCTV camera is only useful if a person is looking at the footage

23. Smart vs Happy, Safe Cities Index
Rank
Smart
Happy
Safe 1
Vienna
Rio
Tokyo 2
Toronto
Sydney
Singapore 3
Paris
Barcelona
Osaka 4
New York
Amsterdam 5
London
Melbourne 6
Madrid 7
Berlin
San Francisco 8
Copenhagen
Rome
Stockholm 9
Hong Kong 10
Buenos Aries
Zurich
Smart Cities are not that SMART

24. Smart Cities - healthy humans? (not)
Smart Cities are not that SMART

25. Closing slides

26. Smart water

28. Smart homes