Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) has partnered with the Smart Cities Council (Council) to assist DTC’s work with cities globally. DTC drives the awareness, adoption, interoperability, and development of digital twin technology The Council will continue its work educating cities about sustainability and resiliency. The parties plan to engage in joint efforts to educate local governments and cities about digital twin capabilities.
Globally, the plan is to leverage the Council’s presence in Australia, New Zealand and India to further educate cities.
In North America, the partnership highlights include:
- A guest appearance by DTC’s CTO Dan Isaacs at Smart Cities Week Denver speaking at the Smart Cities Academy and a session on Digital Twins for Cities.
- Council’s Managing Director, Philip Bane will speak at DTC’s member meeting in late June in Orlando.
- The Council will host and DTC will provide expert speakers at a Digital Twin Workshop co-sponsored by the City of Orlando in September, 2022.
Across Australia and New Zealand the Smart Cities Council hosts the region’s Digital Twin Hub providing an opportunity for the recently announced DTC Regional Branch Organizer (‘RBO’) XMPro to collaborate on continuing to build an engaged local community and catalyzing a marketplace for digital twins across the region. The Hub, led by a Task Force and governance team, develops knowledge resources, including releasing the Australia New Zealand Digital Twin Strategy Blueprint in 2021, hosts premier annual events including the Aotearoa New Zealand Digital Twin Summit and Digital Twin Week, being held in Melbourne, Australia in October, 2022, and facilitates the biennial Digital Twin Challenge.
