The Connected Knowledge Economy:

An Australian Opportunity

@mikebriersIoT Alliance Australia

KEi @ UTS

RadComms 2016

Consider thisA survey of 267 global senior

executives:● 66% say collaboration is

increasingly important to achieving strategic goals

● 61% have started collaborating with startups and entrepreneurs

● 53% say they cannot rely on internal innovation alone

But:

Only 10% are very effective at sourcing

collaboration partners

Vision:To be a leading IoT industry body shaping regulation & collaboration to harness IoT enabled opportunities for Australian industry.

The Alliance aims to define the IoT eco-system, inform and enable Australian companies to exploit the business opportunities afforded by IoT technology and services.

Goal:By mid-2016 have an activated Australian IoT industry community, with a future strategy and vision that is understood and supported by industry and aligned with Federal Government policy directions.

Status:1. Initial study to set framework: Completed & Launched 30 Oct. 20152. Six Workstreams established: All launched by February, 2016

IoT Alliance Australia**Formerly Comms Alliance IoT Think Tank

IoT AllianceExec Council

IoT Alliance Coordination

Work stream 1Collaboration

Work stream 2Sector Engagement

Work stream 3Open Data

Work stream 4Spectrum

Work stream 5Security

Work stream 6Start-up community

IoT AA Structure

Chair: John Stanton - Comms Alliance• Establish and directly influence the objectives and

priority activities of the Alliance.• Define the timeframes for milestones and

deliverables of the Alliance.• Provide workstream oversight and guidance in

accordance with Alliance objectives.

Chair: Chris McClaren - KPMG

Establish and directly develop a coherent, collaborative and globally-aware Australian IoT community with industry, Government and other key stakeholders to foster innovation and inform appropriate policy and regulatory settings.

Chair: Catherine Caruana-McManus

Develop sectoral IoT advancement and alignment with key sectors, including through Government Industry Growth Centre Activities, Infrastructure Australia and key sectoral bodies – with an initial focus on Resources management (with focus on Water and Energy), Agriculture, Transport and Smart Cities.

Chair: Peter Leonard - Gilbert and Tobin

Develop IoT open data and data sharing principles and guidelines – with possible sectoral focus. Develop privacy guidelines for use of IoT data

Chair: Nevio Marinelli - ACMA

Working party including the ACMA and broader stakeholders to address the spectrum settings and licencing needs for low-bit rate wireless services, such as LPWA

Chair: Malcolm Shore - BAE

Develop security guidelines for IoT services and service elements, including data protection and network/service resiliency.

Chair: Murray Hurps - Fishburners

Develop policy and IoT eco-system frameworks in support of a national IoT program, which is linked to Industry Growth Centres.

• Communications Alliance• Creator Tech• Ericsson• Hewlett-Packard• Huawei• IBM• Intel• KPMG• Nokia• Internet Australia• nbn

Executive Council Members

• KEi• Telstra• ACCC• ACMA• AIIA• PMC• AI Group• CSIRO• AMTA• ACCANN

Executive Council Members

Government

IoT AllianceExec Council

Executive Managment

Work stream 1Collaboration

Work stream 2Sector Engagement

Work stream 3Open Data

Work stream 4Spectrum

Work stream 5Security

Work stream 6Start-up community

IoT AA Collaboration

ImplementationIoT Hubs

IoT Alliance

PolicyRegulations

Industry Sectors

Smart CitiesAgricultureTransportResources Management

“Learning by Doing”Use case proofsUniversity studies - work stream specificStart-up involvementSupport Eco-systems

International Bodies

A national collaboration hub dedicated to harness the transformative power of IoT to solve the biggest challenges facing Australia and the world today.

Established by Sirca to promote collaboration across business, research and government to address national innovation priorities.

Its national centre is hosted by the University of Technology Sydney.

Plans to establish hubs in other cities around Australia.

Knowledge Economy Institute (KEi) An IoT Collaboration Hub

KEi IoT Collaboration:

Innovation-as-a-ServiceAgile Data ScienceLight House POCs

KEi Focus

Applications

Data Services

Infrastructure

Innovation

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Knowledge Economy Institute

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Supply Chain

Smart Cities

Food & Agribusiness Transport

Smart Campu

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To build Australia’s Knowledge Economy in our key sectors

Enabling IoT

Capabilities

KEi Proposition

For Business Access to curated Research

Access to problems and problem sponsors

A place to prove IoT concepts and technology

A place to showcase IoT capability Access to curated StartupsAccess to valuable data for

development

For ResearchOpportunity to work on pressing world

problemsAccess to commercial systems and

partnersLeverage of KEi IoT tools and platform

A place to test and demonstrate directed research capability within a managed IoT

environmentAccess to valuable data for research

For Citizens and GovernmentA trusted source of IoT thinking and concept proving

A place to seek answers to problems for Smart Cities and AgriBusiness

Leverage of KEi IoT tools and platformA place to test and demonstrate IoT solutions

A place to develop the startup community

Two Current Major Initiatives

• To empower Australia’s food industry to grow its comparative advantage through digital technologies and IoT

• Focus is on the food value chain for domestic and export markets

• $100m over 10 years

FoodAgility

• To share insights, knowledge, technology and partners across partner universities in every state

• UTS on Broadway is the catalyst – demonstrate small (a building) and move out (the precinct)

• An opportunity for commercial partners to test and showcase new and existing products and services

ConnectedCampus

Vision

Vision