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Smart Cities Engagement Session Applied Research and Innovation Centre, Selkirk College, Castlegar BC – March 8 from 9am to 1pm Participants: Lisa Pasin (City of Trail), Jesse Teindl (Martech Electrical), Ian Parfitt (Selkirk College – Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre), Erik Kalacis (Community Futures Trail), Brian Fry (i4C), Terry Van Horn (Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation), Mark Laver (City of Castlegar), Darin Recchi (Thought Exchange), Tjaart Vandenberg (LandInfo Technologies), Andre Vandenberg (LandInfo Technologies), Jason Taylor (Selkirk College), Kathy Moore (City of Rossland), Kevin Cormack (City of Nelson), Justin Robinson (Selkirk College – Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre), Andrea Wilkey (Community Futures Central Kootenay) / Facilitator: Terri MacDonald (Selkirk College – Regional Innovation Chair) Desired Outcomes Participants identify how data and connected technology can be used to solve a complex challenge, including:

o Identification of 2-3 challenges o Description of activities and progress indicators for each challenge o Identification of next steps including engagement process to select top challenge

Session Agenda • Welcome and introductions

• Background

• Review emerging themes, identify focus areas/draft challenge statements and select top 2-3

• Identify key assets

• Focus Area Deep Dives

• What is the nature of the challenge / opportunity as it relates to this focus area? • What is the related challenge statement? • What could we do to address these challenges/opportunities – brainstorm 3 • Describe actions in more detail for your top opportunity • What does success look like for each action?

• Thank you and next steps

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Introductions and Assets

• Lisa (Trail) • Terry Van Horn (Lower Columbia Initiative Corp)

o Metal Tech Alley (Terry) o LCDDTS Volunteers o LCIC – independent Economic Development office o Columbia River

• Jesse (Martech) o IOT residential, commercial, municipal o Electricians o Running fibre o Large employer

• Ian (Selkirk College - SGRC) o Open Data project for Open Government o Limited rural research o Student co-ops – o Internet Mapping Course – student looking for projects o Lidar

digital twinning of natural environment ‘Smart Landscapes’

• Eric (CF-Trail/Rossland) o Data centre with high speed fibre o Office Space – South Kootenay Centre o Economic development specialists o Loans, clients, SME relationships

• Brian (i4C) o Industry 4.0 o Making use of Big Data – ‘cutting edge’ data processing o 6,000 sq. foot building

Lab space Clean room Sensor assembly

o Data acquisition department (‘all things sensors) o 15 growing to 25 employees o Augmented intelligence

o Block chain expertise • Mark (City of Castlegar)

o Big Data experience o Market research in energy and tech sector o Bring industry to the table o Airline industry contacts

• Darin (ThoughtExchange) o Software

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o Business intel o Engaged in the community

• Tjaart (Land Info Technologies) o Mapping o Infrastructure management GIS o Small community specific o FCM funding – working with municipalities and Selkirk o Asset management data for our communities o Open source software

• Andre (Land Info Technologies) o Office in Nova Scotia – province has adopted software o Open Source software is critical

• Jason Taylor (Selkirk College) o Applied research o Digital fabrication o Students / Future students o MIDAS

• Kathy (City of Rossland) o Strong tourism o Highways Coalition

Great contract with all mayors o Lots of nomadic entrepreneurs / forward-thinking assets o Highly educated activist population o Broadband

• Kevin (City of Nelson) o Fibre o New webpage & new features / tools o Co-location space o Nelson Hydro – EcoSave Program o Solar Garden o 5000 Facebook followers o Data on all aspects (transit, H2O, Economic Development, Planning Documents) o Relationship with RD for GIS o RDCK – flood creek assessment of every creek o Wildfire plans and mitigation strategies o Strong tech sector

• Justin (Selkirk College - SGRC) • Andrea (Community Futures Central Kootenay)

o Project management o Apply for funding o Help coordinate / implement project o 600 members on Facebook o Technology and knowledge workers o NAEDP – provide input o Innovation Centre o Intelligent Community o KAST

• Broadband IPV6

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o Can handle big data o Direct connectivity / fibre o Unlimited IP addressing

• Selkirk is connected to CANAIRE post-secondary research network

Is anything missing from the Thought Exchange data?

• Our Trust, Our Future – alignment • Provincial Engagement – regional priorities also indentified • West Kootenay Transit Plan • Castlegar Airport Study • Trail Airport Study • Mental health & addictions challenges • Electric cars and related plan • Climate Adaptation – work linked to our transportation theme

Making it Easier to Move Around Our Communities and The World

Nature of the Challenge:

• Transport history • Proximity to US border • Weather • Transport options • Remote work • Commuting • Lack of population density • Driverless cars will have trouble with our roads • Trucking

o Local board o Supplies to more rural communities o Supplies in & out and volume o Urban expectation – next day delivery

• Improved corridors • Road closures, Flooding, Wildlife • Car culture • Geography (rivers, valleys) • Road maintenance • Air technology / mountains • Connectivity (eg. Backcountry) • Re-fueling / re-charging • Accidents and emergency response • Ride sharing • Communication coordination • Roads per citizen • Accessibility / mobility (eg. Wheelchair) • Lack of alternate route • Ferries

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Ideas:

• Open access to remote meeting space tools (eg. Zoom) o Needs to be connected to our super broadband

• Airlines – coordinate plan B • Link transit to ride share. • Kootenay Ride Share and beyond Nelson / Uber • Connect everything and everyone to our super network • Platform giving residents weather and road conditions data in real time • Ideal testing site for driverless cars / related new technologies • Pilot chariot in rural area – 4 vans driving around / ride share • Load Share

o Empty trucks coming into region and vice-versa o Include private sector – actively engage o Could go to Nakusp/Kaslo 2 days per week vs. 1 week o Distribution Centre o Cold freight o Need data to demonstrate this need

• Our Challenges – Caric aerospace research • Share costs associated with conditions of roads / shared approach (joint RFP/tender) / Platform (coordination of

information)

Open Data / Citizen Engagement / Municipal Services

Nature of the Challenge

• Lack of data sharing and knowledge o Coordinate / Consolidate – all in one place

• Easily accessible • Non-profits

o Connecting / Mobilizing assets and the need o Challenge platform, finding those challenges

• Common data standards o Data-sharing agreements (eg. Build in data sharing into contracts) o Infrastructure, Land Use o Builds critical mass o Lack of open data policies o Structure and standardization at municipal level

• Community challenges will flow out o Economies of scale / Sharing of resources = Costs savings for residents

• Community Open Data / Citizen Engagement o Eg. Ride Sharing, non-profit needs, food security o Common platform o Common use analytics / tools online (‘do it yourself’ analytics) o Other non-municipal data – eg. Snowpack data

Common municipal challenges What data is needed? Work together to get.

o T-Modeling – online helps residents to understand • Brokering and aggregating the data – Smart contracts

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o Data collection gaps – students o Access for residential data – water and power monitoring

Incentivize the response by municipality / utility Could share social media – promote behavioural change

o Kingmi (Kingston) Local government app. / outreach / interaction

• Extend Nelson example

Use Technology to Earn a Good Living

• Understand and share existing assets and resources o So many organizations are doing great things o Need to coordinate response / duplication happening

• Need to be better at communicating to businesses and outreach o What is our story? Package it together – Branding – Attracting Tech Workers

• Existing workers – how to work remotely • Incentives for small and home-based businesses to adopt technology • Connecting tech workers

o Collective work spaces o Building the tech community

• Reduce all barriers to people working remotely • Broadband to residential • Sharing physical costs of infrastructure • Base solution on the challenge • Future opportunities for businesses

o Strategy around our strengths • Lack connection amongst tech businesses • R&D around our industrial assets (eg. Byproducts of Teck)

o We need them to come here • Work with the willing • Remote communications

o Show urban companies how o iPads on mobile

• Work-Life balance • Pilot to demonstrate remote communication apps

o We are the trainers o Selkirk partners with Sauder to become remote communications remote training hub

• Coordinated strategy – Promotion across organizations • Utilize 1k platform / KAST • Build community of existing tech workers

o Happening on Facebook • Match employers with incoming workers

o Online match-making – need a physical person to support this • Kickstarter of business ideas • Attracting early stage companies

Smart Cities Engagement Session

Thursday, March 8, 20189am - 1pm

Applied Research and Innovation Centre, Selkirk College

What focus areas should we focus on?

1. Realizing efficiencies and responsiveness of municipal services

2. Making it easier to move around our communities, including external

3. Environment / alternative energy

4. Poverty reduction and social inclusion

5. Technology enabled workforce / earn a good living

6. Open data and citizen engagement

Focus area 1

Focus Area 1: Making it easier to move around our communities and our world

Opportunities

Open access meeting space / supporting businesses with cloud based business services that allow for remote work / connect everything and everyone to our super network

Ride share 2.0 – connects Kootenay rideshare with transit options, ensure active private sector engagement, Chariot, autonomous technology / Load share – could eventually lead to distribution centre/ Application coordinating plan B for cancelled air travel

Testing ground for technology solutions in mountainous regions, eg. Caric aerospace research

Platform giving residents weather and road conditions data in real time

Municipal coordination of transportation assets – technology to identify related costs, plan and share costs through joint rfps

What actions should we focus on?1. Open access / internet for all2. Ride share

2.0/Chariot/loadshare/Plan B3. Testing ground for new

technologies to address mountains

4. Platform giving residents real time road and weather data/micro scale

5. Coordination of asset mgt / shared costs

Focus Area 1: Moving Around

Combined to create focus area 2

*second vote to break the tie

Focus area 3

Opportunities

Open data portal with municipal data – including standardization and building data sharing into contracts, ‘ analytics built in

Challenge exchange platform – non profits can link with others to help address their challenges / needs

Addressing specific municipal challenges (e.g water resources) with Selkirk brokering data , analytics deployed (e.g. modelling) and shared with citizens online/Residential water and power data shared and energy saving response incentivized / use social media to promote behavioural change

Addressing data gaps through primary data collection

local government / citizen engagement app – scale out Nelson model

Focus Area 2: Realizing municipal service efficiencies and engaging our citizens using technology and open data

What actions should we focus on?1. Local government open data

portal2. Challenge exchange platform3. Municipal challenges platform4. Addressing data gaps5. Local government / citizen

engagement app

Focus Area 2: Municipal Services / Open Data / Citizen Engagement

OpportunitiesDemonstrate the power of remote communications – pilot with an urban company, Selkirk partners with Sauder school, we become the training hub for remote communications

Pursue a coordinated technology worker attraction strategy across organizations – leverage KAST / IK efforts, attract early stage companies

Match employers with incoming workers – online matchmaking / requires a physical person also to support this

Kick starter of business ideas

Focus Area 3: Using technology to earn a good living / remote working

What actions should we focus on?1. Remote communications2. Coordinated strategy – leverage

IK / KAST efforts3. Match making employers /

employees4. Kick starter of emerging ideas

Focus Area 3: Remote Working

Did this session meet your expectations?

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Do you plan to pursue any actions based on your conversations today?

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Would you participate in future rural engagement sessions?

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