Results for Implementation
November 08, 2016
Principles for Reforming Public Services with Data
Data analytics is no cure-all; it cannot address every issue. So how do you work out where it has something to contribute?
Feature Event
2016 Alberta Smart City Symposium Highlights
The Alberta Smart City Symposium brought together 175+ of Alberta's Smart City innovators in the beautiful Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation in Banff, Alberta.
November 18, 2014
Brief Case Studies on Smart Cities around the World
Many cities around the world are persuing the implementation of smart technolgies, and here's 11 international examples.
Featured Event
2014 Alberta Smart City Symposium
The 2014 Alberta Smart City Symposium was a huge success, with 250 guests, a host of quality speakers and sponsors, high media attention, and tremendous collaboration
Town of High River To Operate High-Speed Internet Utility
Date - March 06, 2018 Author - High River Times
Businesses in town will have the opportunity to access services at speeds 100 times greater than what is currently offered
St. Albert Rolls Out Smart Water Meters
Date - November 29, 2017 Author - City of St. Albert
St. Albert to make it easier for the City and residents to monitor water consumption levels and provide more accurate and beneficial information
How Okotoks Became a Water Conservation Leader
Date - June 22, 2017 Author - Doug Peeples, Smart Cities Council
Okotoks has used a water infrastructure modernization project to revamp the way it manages its supply, and now has one of the lowest per capita water consumption rates on the continent.
Alberta Capital Region Moves Closer on Adopting Smart Fare
Date - June 06, 2017 Author - Metro News
Edmonton transit has picked a preferred operator to start work on a new fare system — meaning city bus riders are one step closer to electronic fare payment.
St. Albert Fire Services Gets Smart City Upgrade
Date - May 03, 2017 Author - Victoria Paterson, St. Albert Gazette
An upgrade to St. Albert firetrucks is giving firefighters more information about an incident before they arrive on scene.
St. Albert Sensor Project Takes Off
Date - March 18, 2017 Author - Doug Neuman, St. Albert Gazette
The City of St. Albert has begun the first of many pilot projects to look at what value wireless sensor networks could bring to the City and its residents
St. Albert Collaborates to Test Smart City Sensor Networks
Date - March 10, 2017 Author - City of St. Albert
The City of St. Albert has launched a Smart City sensor pilot project, which is the first pilot within a larger review of wireless sensor networks and management platforms throughout 2017.
Edmonton First in North America to Adopt Open Data Charter
Date - March 07, 2017 Author - City of Edmonton
Edmonton is the first municipality in Canada and the United States to adopt the International Open Data Charter.
'Real time' Parking Data Coming to Edmonton
Date - March 03, 2017 Author - Lynda Neufeld, CBC News
The City of Edmonton is researching technology that provides information on available parking stalls in "real time."
St. Albert Maps a Digital Future (Globe and Mail Article)
Date - March 03, 2017 Author - Sharon Crowder, The Globe and Mail
St. Albert, a small Alberta city, is moving forward on an ambitious plan for growth based on early adoption of new urban technologies
Smart City Alliance Brings Message to Ottawa
Date - February 16, 2017 Author - City of St. Albert
On February 16, 2017, two Alliance officials offered their perspective on Smart City challenges and opportunities before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities.
St. Albert Smart City Implementation Plan Approved
Date - December 07, 2016 Author - Doug Neuman, St. Albert Gazette
St. Albert will start to become a smarter city in 2017 after council approved a Smart City implementation and policy plan.
Government Announces "Smart Cities Challenge"
Date - November 02, 2016 Author - Smart City Alliance
To accelerate the planning and adoption of innovative urban infrastructure, the government proposes to launch a Smart Cities Challenge in 2017.
St. Albert's Smart City Master Plan Released for Comment
Date - May 25, 2016 Author - Victoria Paterson, St. Albert Gazette
St. Albert’s smart city master plan released for final stakeholder consultation, with expected approval September 2016 and inclusion in future budget deliberations.
New Ideas Embraced at Alberta Smart City Symposium
Date - April 23, 2016 Author - Victoria Paterson, St. Albert Gazette
You probably don’t know how smart your city already is. “You’re smarter than you think,” Maya Pungur-Buick, St. Albert’s general manager of corporate strategic services, told a crowd last week.
St. Albert First in Canada to Buy Electric Transit Buses
Date - March 04, 2016 Author - Business Wire
The City of St. Albert today announced that it has taken steps to become the first municipality in Canada to order long-range all-electric buses to deploy on city streets for public transit use.
St. Albert Installs Air Quality Monitoring Station
Date - November 04, 2015 Author - City of St. Albert
Installation of St. Albert’s air quality monitoring station in Salisbury Park will begin on November 9th, 2015
Calgary Launches App to Find Parking Spots
Date - December 19, 2012 Author - CBC News
The Calgary Parking Authority launched a new iPhone app on Wednesday with added features beyond paying for parking.
The Alberta Broadband Toolkit
Date - February, 2017 Author - University of Alberta
The Understanding Community Broadband: The Alberta Broadband Toolkit is intended to assist municipalities and community groups in Alberta in developing local broadband solutions.
Future of Pervasive ICT in Alberta
Date - December, 2016 Author - University of Alberta and University of Calgary
The last 50 years of ICT have demonstrated that even though one cannot predict, you can prepare and be ready to exploit new technologies as they arrive
Smart Cities Open Data Guide
Date - December, 2016 Author - Smart Cities Council
Open data is about transparency, about giving citizens access to the data their tax dollars help create and it’s about innovation
Smart Cities Readiness Guide
Date - December, 2016 Author - Smart Cities Council
The Smart Cities Readiness Guide® is the first collaborative and comprehensive framework for a smart city, against which cities can assess their readiness to innovate
City of St. Albert's Smart City Master Plan
Date - November, 2016 Author - Smart City Alliance
The City of St. Albert has approved an innovative and unique strategy which sets out a vision of how the community can grow as a Smart City
Summary of 2016 Ideas to Implementation Session
Date - May, 2016 Author - Drs Anshuman Khare and Terry Beckman, Athabasca University
Drs Anshuman Khare and Terry Beckman at Athabasca University have provided a summary of the results of the “Ideas to Implementation” collaboration session at the 2016 Smart City Symposium.
Big Data Toronto 2018
June 12 – 13, 2018
2018 is the year of intelligence and big data continues to be a driving force in innovative Canadian businesses.
2018 Canadian Smart Cities Challenge - Q&A Session
January 23, 2018
Webinar on the Canadian Smart Cities Challenge, geared towards applicants – municipalities, local or regional governments, or Indigenous communities.
2017 AUMA Convention - Smart Cities Session
November 23, 2017
Join experts from the Alberta Smart City Alliance at the 2017 AUMA Convention to discuss the importance of a Smart City approach for your community and hear practical stories and advice on how to move forward.
Cyber Summit 2017
November 07 – 09, 2017
Cyber Summit 2017 will focus on the issues surrounding technology disparities and how they affect different regions, and different sectors.
Smart Cities Workshop - Banff
November 7, 2017
On November 7th 2017, as part of the 2017 Cyber Summit, Smart Cities experts and practitioners from municipalities, universities and industry will meet to discuss key concepts and implementations.
ITS World Congress 2017
October 29 – 02, 2017
The ITS World Congress brings together global leaders in intelligent and transformative transportation to showcase and evaluate the latest innovative concepts, active prototypes, and live systems.
Harvard University Course - Future Cities
September 21 – 22, 2017
Learn how to build collaborative eco-system that will provide for a sustainable journey to sustainable cities.
Smart Cities Webinar - OpenNorth
August 30, 2017
This interactive webinar will present findings thus far from the Open Smart Cities in Canada project.
Harvard University Course - Digital Buildings
June 28 – 28, 2017
Learn how to leverage the Internet of Things in order to make buildings more efficient, sustainable, productive, and future-ready.
Clean Technologies Conference
March 23 – 24, 2017
Conference for addressing CleanTech as an imperative in local economic development.
Municipal Information Systems Conference 2017
March 20 – 22, 2017
The MISA Prairies Annual Conference and Trade Show is the principle municipal information technology conference in the Prairies.
Intelligent Cities Summit
November 08 – 09, 2016
The Intelligent Cities Summit Canada brings together municipal professionals from across Canadian cities
Alberta Open Data Summit
October 14 – 16, 2016
The inaugural Alberta Open Data Summit will be held October 14 & 15 at the Stanley A. Milner Library in downtown Edmonton.
Transforming Local Governments - Free Online Training
October 13, 2016
A smarter government is one that is able to make use of all the information available to better understand and optimize its operations and limited resources.
DAMA Analytics and Business Intelligence Conference
September 30 – 01, 2016
Second Annual DMC Canada Data Analytics Business Intelligence Conference
NEXT GENERATION ITS: Connectivity, Proximity and Mobility
May 01 – 04, 2016
19th annual conference and exhibition of the Intelligent Transportation System Society of Canada, showcasing innovative systems and technologies from Alberta.
Alliance "Investment and Intelligence Mission"
November 06 – 20, 2015
Smart City Alliance European Mission
2015 AUMA Pre-Convention Session
September 22, 2015
2015 AUMA Pre-Convention Session
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