147I_Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group

Are you interested in how focusing on disability needs in technology can enhance the whole user experience? What do you think about smartness meaning simplification? How can we use AI for the better? Interview Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, cities as lifestyle centres, agility for technology, collaboration, urban mobility, and many more. Damian Hewitt is the Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group. He is responsible for developing and executing the strategic plan for delivering innovative technology to digitally connect communities as an important next piece of future mobility, people, and place. SAGE’s Smart Cities delivery model is supporting a whole of network approach by providing benefits like connected Public Transport, MaaS, Tourism, Emergency Services, Councils and Community, and the opportunity to focus on key initiatives, such as equitable transport supporting disability and age care needs, safer communities and other exciting initiatives that really make a difference in people’s lives. You can find out more about Damian through these links: Damian Hewitt on LinkedIn; Damian Hewitt at SAGE Group; Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group; Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.048 - Interview with Professor Hussein Dia about urban mobility; No.138 - Interview with Luis Natera about electrification of urban mobility; What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay