A dedicated global strategist, Joshua Sattler is the CEO of Dantia - Lake Macquarie City’s economic development company. He is an accomplished driver of economic development in destinations across the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and America. He has managed large global projects and operations as well as community engagement programs with impressive triple-bottom-line success across multiple international accreditation platforms and frameworks
Josh is responsible for shaping the future of the City of Darwin through planning and delivery of growth and development opportunities that incorporate Smart Cities’ philosophies, digital transformation, economic and tourism development opportunities, climate change, international relations, resilience and environmental improvement opportunities. The City of Darwin has transformed over the past 3 years and is now a global leader in the smart city arena and provided a citizen-centric approach to innovation and economic stimulus based on data that enables our community to better engage, understand and trust local government.
His drive has always been to invest in the community and build better lives for the people he represents, enabling change, education instead of informing, and leading decision-making rather than following.
What you’ll learn:
About Dantia and their role in Lake Macquarie
What does ‘smart city’ mean anyway - demystifying terminology and cutting through the snake-oil
The importance of public-private partnerships to get things done
Why you need to build in the capacity to make mistakes and
Why they are essential to innovation
Quotes:
”When people talk about smart cities, you sort of imply that you’re a ‘dumb city’ if you don't do this sort of stuff, and it's got a real negative connotation to it”.
“For our community and as citizens, we've really got to enable our city to talk to us and talk to us in a rapid form that we can make informed decisions based on data, to make our lives better moving forward”.
“I think that's really, really important not to do [Smart City innovation] in isolation, but to do it collaboratively”.
“[Built-in failure] is so critical. Like if you're building out mistake-making, you're pretty much building out innovation. You need to reshape and change your thinking all the time”.
“Into your innovation ecosystem or framework, you have to build mistakes in to actually get better. So I think you need to ingest mistake making and you need to be better for it.”
“From [Dantia’s] perspective, those private-public partnerships are critical; it's really important that the learnings are shared.”
“The better you are dealing with mistakes, the better you are at identifying a mistake, the better you will be at the other end”.
“Embrace mistake-making, and learn from it, but learn from it quickly.”
Links
The Lake Macquarie Economic Development Board’s Linkedin
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Connect:
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