New Addition to ICF Canada’s Speakers Bureau

ICF Canada offers communities and organizations across Canada, USA and abroad access to qualified Canadian and International speakers who can discuss smart city and Intelligent Community issues, share best practices and expertise with case studies of successful communities.  All of the speakers are qualified to speak about the topics that they indicate in their bios. See: https://icf-canada.com/icf-canada-speakers-bureau/

This month learn more about an international speaker from Down Under!

Matthew Schultz is internationally recognized as a Smart City expert and Digital and Data Transformation practitioner from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Matthew is the National President of the Australian Smart Communities Association, a rapidly growing Australian peak industry association for Smart Community, Broadband and Digital Economic Development with members across Australia and New Zealand. He is also an inaugural Board Director of Open Data Australia, a member of Open and Agile Smart Cities Australia, Standards Australia IT­042 Internet of Things Standards Development Committee and Standards Australia Smart City Standards Development Committee.

He has extensive experience and leadership expertise in telecommunications connectivity, city data, internet of things and spatial visualization and analysis of data. He is an accomplished and experienced executive with over 24 years of experience, including expertise and expert knowledge in the Information Technology, Telecommunications, Digital Economic Development, Geospatial and Civil Engineering fields covering leadership, management, consulting, and technical roles. In recent years Matthew led the establishment of the award-winning Fire Station 101 (www.firestation101.com.au), the 1st fully funded local government Innovation and Startup Hub in Australia and currently oversees the award winning Ipswich Smart City Blueprint and Implementation Plan, which seeks to entrench Ipswich as Australia’s most progressive Smart and Connected City. In addition, Matthew has also positioned Ipswich City as a Top 7 worldwide Intelligent Community for 2015, 2017 and 2018.