NZ Chapter

Offering a wide range of developments in sustainable, smart, urban, street, public and outdoor connected lighting, the Australian Smart Lighting Summit returns for its 6th year. This is Australia’s largest event of its kind, attracting over 250 delegates annually. The event will bring together over 30 senior-level speakers to provide local and global smart lighting key insights and developments.

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Smart City Expo is organising the 5th Annual Smart City Expo with the collaboration of the Australian Government on the theme of Smart City and Internet of Things (IoT) from 3rd-4th September 2018 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
The details of the event can be found at: www.SmartCityExpo.com.au

It's worth mentioning that we are now offering booths for startups at just $700AUD instead of $2000AUD. It will be your greatest opportunity to increase sales as we are having Government High Officials and Executives From Multi-National companies. Be there to open up new doors of success for your business.

SPEAKERS FOR SMART CITY EXPO SEPTEMBER 2018:

- The Hon. David Davis, MP, Shadow Minister for Public Transport and Planning, Victoria, Australia
- The Hon. Pat Conroy MP,  Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure, Climate Change & Energy, Australia
- The Hon. David Southwick, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Energy and Resources and Renewables, Victoria, Australia
- Jackie Watts, Councillor, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Craig Chung, Councillor, City of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Declan Clausen, Deputy Lord Mayor, The City of Newcastle, Australia
- Cr Ben Moroney, Councillor, Campbelltown City Council, Australia
- Mayor Albert Jacob, Mayor, City of Joondalup, Perth, Australia
- Sara Stace, Manager Strategic Transport, Waverley Council, Sydney, Australia
- Dr. David Soldani, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Huawei, Sydney, Australia
- Matthew Jones, Director of Channel Management, Leadsun Australia, Melbourne, Australia
- John Marinopoulos, Partner, Infrastructure and Urban Renewal, PwC, Melbourne, Australia
- Bob Sharon, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Blue IoT, Australia
- Erik van Vulpen, Manager Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Abbas Rajabifard, Professor and Head, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

We genuinely hope that you will join us. Looking forward to enjoy a great day with you. Kindly confirm your participation as soon as possible as we are very near to the event.

To contact Smart City Expo, please click here.

Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across Australia’s engineering sector. The initiative is providing women working in the sector with grants to enable participation in a range of leadership development programs. 
The leadership development programs are part-time and delivered nationally via WLA’s blended learning model. Scholarship funding is strictly limited and will be awarded based on a set of selection criteria being met.

Funding must be apportioned by the end of September and it is unsure when these grants will be available again. Find out more and register your interest by completing the Expression of Interest form prior to 5pm on the 21st of September: https://www.wla.edu.au/consteng.html

IES: The Lighting Society invites members to apply for the Gwenyth Ewens Memorial Bursary. Gwenyth, a strong advocate of the IES and education and research, bequeathed a sum of money to the IES from which the earnings support the bursary (see attached for more information on Gwenyth Ewens). The bursary is to provide a contribution towards the expenses of a member participating in an educational or research based professional development activity in lighting.

Bursary Application

Recently our CEO Kirsty Kelly was a guest of the Australia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) at their Brisbane networking lunch with Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities, The Hon Paul Fletcher MP.

In speaking to the gathered crowd of some 50 CEO’s across the association sector and industry, the Minister highlighted the Government’s commitment to major infrastructure and continued population growth. Touching briefly on the quality of the built environment, he acknowledged to importance of creating great urban areas and the necessary supporting public infrastructure and community facilities to accommodate a growing population.  

It is pleasing to see IES on the advocacy and political radar, with an invitation to this gathering, which included several former State and Federal Ministers, and the former state Premier.

August 2018