Emma is driven by breaking new ground. Her goal is to create safer and more sustainable communities. Emma is passionate about promoting diversity, with an emphasis on women in leadership. As a female CEO in the male-dominated property industry, she compelled to use her platform to promote this cause. Emma looks forward to inspiring more women to pursue leadership positions into the future.

Common Purpose and RMIT University: Developing the next generation of global leaders

We live in unprecedented times where the world is becoming more complex, fragmented, ambiguous and volatile. This poses huge questions and challenges to us all. Cities, universities and employers need to develop the next generation to be ready to lead in this world. This event will convene students and leaders of universities, employers and the city to discuss how best to develop the next generation and empower them to make a difference to their cities, universities and
future.

You will hear from:

• Melissa Sweetland, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Engagement and Vice-President, RMIT University
• Emma Hendry, CEO, Hendry Group
• Andy Coxall, Chief Executive, Common Purpose Student Experiences

And most importantly you will hear from the next generation of global leaders themselves, students at RMIT University stepping up and driving impact in Melbourne and beyond.

Emma Hendry to provide expert insights on leadership, diversity & inclusion to professional Womens Network at Moray & Agnew law firm. As a female CEOP in a male dominated industry, Emma is passionate about promoting leadership roles for women and discussing the unique challenges and opportunities women face in the workplace.

Managing building compliance to maximise user safety

As buildings evolve in our ‘smart’ age, this increases the overall range of legislation and compliance standards required. This session explores how an FM can mitigate building constructors and operators, the role of legislators and whether Australian and International Standards are the solution.

The session will be lead by David Baggs, CEO Global GreenTag again, plus have Brad Collins, Managing Director – AESC ; Dan Caldwell, Director – APTUS Building Consultants and a representative from BGIS.

Building Disruption— Advancing Green and Net Positive Energy Buildings in your Community. Emma Hendry will be taking part in panel session and will focus on the advance of disruption in the real estate sector, particularly around net zero and green buildings.

Why Smart Cities Week San Diego?

The West Coast’s premier gathering of smart cities changemakers moves to sunny San Diego in 2019, with innovative programming created for city leaders who want to create more livable, workable and sustainable communities. If you prefer people talking with you – not just at you – make plans for Smart Cities Week San Diego. You’ll network with peers and smart cities experts, uncover solutions to common challenges, be among the first to see new technologies and approaches from solution providers, and tour some of San Diego’s smart infrastructure projects that are delivering meaningful results. Don’t miss Smart Cities Week San Diego.

Why Should You Attend?

Smart Cities Week is a global platform for cities to collaborate and discover. We facilitate direct connections and meaningful, long-term relationships via our data-driven Readiness Approach.
At Smart Cities Week you will experience:

• World-class programming that collects and shares best practices

• Intimate formats that allow for meaningful dialogue

• City-to-city sharing of lessons learned

• Travel scholarships that help deserving cities attend and share

• Forum for city officials to preview the new technologies that will soon be impacting their city and their citizens.

Who Will You Meet at Smart Cities Week?

We call it Smart Cities Week, but innovative technologies are in demand today at all levels of government — from innovation districts and port authorities to states, provinces and federal agencies. The smart cities ecosystem is extensive, involving numerous external stakeholders and collaborators – nonprofits, academics, financiers and private sector smart city specialists among them. Expect to see people from a wide range of sectors and disciplines, including elected officials and department leaders from cities, counties and towns at Smart Cities Week San Diego.

A New Era of Disruptive Change

Nearly 10 years ago today, we were months away from the worst recession in decades. Here we are at the end of 2018, and change is — once again — upon us. But this time, not in the form of financial crisis, but in technological revolution and strategic globalization.

So the question begs: How will your company thrive in the face of disruptive change? At the BuiltWorlds Summit 2019 this May, we’re hosting 300 of the most respected CEOs, executives, and strategists from across the built industries to help answer that question.

FMA Ideaction 2019 – FM Forecast – Blue Skies, Clouds or Storms

All eyes will be on Sydney in June 2019, when facilities management professionals representing every aspect of the FM industry come together to share information and build knowledge at Ideaction.2019, the Facilities Management National Conference & Exhibition.

Hendry Presentation titled “FM and Artificial Intelligence – Emergency Preparedness/Resilience Creating greater preparedness through Immersion: Virtual Reality and Online Training”, will be on display during the conference.

FMA Ideaction 2019 – FM Forecast – Blue Skies, Clouds or Storms

All eyes will be on Sydney in June 2019, when facilities management professionals representing every aspect of the FM industry come together to share information and build knowledge at Ideaction.2019, the Facilities Management National Conference & Exhibition.

Emma Hendry’s abstract “How to effectively create value from Big Data and maximise Facility Management operations”, had been accepted by the Ideaction.2019 Conference Organising Committee and she will be giving a 40 minute presentation.

Connecting & Enabling: Examining the impact of 5G on business

Background of the event

The 5G Business Summit was launch in 2018 with the purpose of providing an annual forum to understand the opportunities 5G will bring, the progress that has been made to date and the challenges ahead for policy-makers and stakeholders.

Event size and attendee profile

The 2018 event featured an unrivalled program of 25+ speakers including C-level executives from telcos, government, associations and a broad range of industries exploring the potential and challenges 5G represents. Our audience was constituted of 120 senior decision makers: CIO, CTO, COO, Chief Digital Officer, Heads of Innovation, Strategy, telecommunications, were just some of the titles that were in attendance
The 5G Business Summit 2019 will bring together senior executives across a range of industries and functions to explore how 5G will:

• Accelerate innovation and growth by enabling new products and services
• Transform the economy through the creation of new industries
• Impact areas such as customer experience, service/ product quality and worker productivity