Public private partnerships

Listen as we speak with Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli, founder and director of the ICS 5G Innovation Centre, as well as the new 6G Innovation Centre, about the power of private networks and the exciting future of 5G.

In this episode we speak with Khalid Aziz, Head of Global Ventures and Smart City Connectivity Solutions at Signify, about how connected lighting and partnerships between ecosystem players are illuminating the future of smart communities.

Join Stephen Farrugia, Chief Technology Officer of BAI Communications, and Dan Winson, the founder & CEO of Zetifi, as they discuss solving connectivity problems for people and business in regional areas and the exciting technologies for smarter farming that coverage will enable.

In the first part of this special two-part episode, we speak with Susan Shaheen, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley & Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. In part one we examine what it will take for transport authorities to recover their ridership and what technologies we need to ensure people can return to travel.

In part two of this special two-part episode, we continue the conversation with Susan Shaheen, for a deeper look at the key takeaways from the connectivity outlook report. Including how connected technology can help to improve transport equity, how public transport creates a backbone for smart cities and what exciting innovations the future holds.

In the first part of this special two-part episode, we speak with Dr Amy Hochadel, Director for Global Business Growth, Connected Places Catapult. We examine the underlying drivers for connectivity in the development of smart cities and discuss what needs to be done to ensure we move towards a more connected future.

In the second part of this special two-part episode, we rejoin the conversation with Dr Amy Hochadel, Director for Global Business Growth at Connected Places Catapult. Listen in as Amy dives deeper into the relationship between connectivity and smart cities. Including how innovation planning impacts digitalisation of cities, which cities around the world are examples to follow and the importance of collaboration in achieving a connected vision of the future.

Welcome to the seventh episode of BAI Communications’ smart communities podcast, where we speak with business leaders and industry experts to ask them what the future holds for connectivity. In the first part of this two-part episode, we are excited to be joined by Liz St Louis, Assistant Director of Smart Cities, Sunderland City Council. In part one, Liz discusses the 20-year strategic partnership between BAI and Sunderland City Council, and how together they are building the UK’s most advanced smart city.

In the second part of this two-part episode, we re-join the conversation with Liz St Louis, Assistant Director of Smart Cities, Sunderland City Council. Liz delves further into the critical success factors, including the benefits being a smart city will provide that form the basis of their 20-year partnership that will deliver the UK’s most advanced smart city.

In this episode we speak with Dr. Stuart Smith, Research and Engagement Manager at Bondi Labs. Stuart shares how BAI and Bondi Labs work collaboratively in an innovative 5G trial for the Australian meat processing industry and discuss how the trial is an opportunity to showcase and develop new Industry 4.0 digital technologies, through advanced connectivity, automation and machine learning.

In this episode, Martha DeGrasse, a renowned US journalist and content producer discusses the findings of BAI’s 2022 Smart Communities Report through a fireside chat with Brendan O’Reilly, then Group Chief Technology Officer at BAI. Martha DeGrasse is well known for her contributions to several telecommunications specialized publications and for her previous work as an editor and associated producer for US national and financial news broadcast programs. Martha is based in Austin, Texas.

In this episode, Nick Gurney, Director of Telecommunications at BAI Communications, sits down with Brendan O’Reilly, (then BAI’s Group Chief Technology Officer), during his visit to Sydney. On a visit to Sydney from the UK, Brendan shares more about BAI’s recent acquisitions, the opportunities for shared communications infrastructure in Australia and how locally we can benefit from a neutral host model.

In this episode, Nick Gurney, Director of Telecommunications at BAI Communications, sits down with Brendan O’Reilly, (then BAI’s Group Chief Technology Officer), during his visit to Sydney. Here, Nick and Brendan discuss the increased demand (and expectation) for ubiquitous connectivity, the technology trends seen globally, and the importance for ‘building with the future in mind.’

Communications Day founder Grahame Lynch keeps telco executives in ANZ up to date with essential business intelligence, featuring interviews with C-level executives and government ministers in his weekly podcast – Comms Day Live. In this episode he speaks with BAI Communications CEO Peter Lambourne about our ambition to advance connectivity across Australia as a key player in wireless telecoms for enterprise – public and private and how the neutral host model will play a key role in helping businesses achieve their connectivity goals.