Discussion slides from the recent joint meeting of North Texas municipal, academic, and industry leaders discussing the potential formation of smart region collaborative.

1. Building a North Texas Smart Region
Scott Turnbull, Lee Davenport
Smart Gigabit Communities
@streamweaver, @davenportlee, @us_ignite, https://us-ignite.org

2. 501c(3) Based on Washington DC & Working Nationally
Founded in 2012 with inspiration from National Science
Foundation and Whitehouse OSTP
Accelerate The Smart City Movement
Creating scalable P3 partnerships
Addressing the complexities of modern deployments through
common practices
Create pipelines for local innovators
Raise visibility of funding opportunities, regional partnerships

3. US Ignite Diverse Initiatives
PAWR & Data Exchange
US Ignite Forum
Smart Gigabit Communities
“Fight every battle, every where, always …” - Littlefinger, Game of Thrones

4. Adelaide
Salt Lake City
Richardson
Austin
Lafayette
NC Ignite
Kansas City
Flint
Madison
Urbana-Champaign
Cleveland
Burlington
Washington
Albuquerque
Jackson
ChattanoogaPhoenixSan Diego
Colorado
Springs
Eugene-
Springfield
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Lincoln
Lexington
Red Wing Vaughan, CA

5. Local Acceleration
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Broadband access, Gigabit access,
Edge Computing, Mount Points, etc.
Infrastructure
Start-up accelerators, researchers,
Developers, hackathon, Reverse
Pitches, etc.
Innovation Ecosystem
Data policy advocates, community
connectors, operational visionaries, etc.
Champions
Services that don’t stop at municipal lines,
increase impact, increase skill base, etc.
Regional Partnerships

6. Regional Acceleration
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Purchase Consortiums,
sharing local resources,
P3 negotiations, etc.
Partnerships
Data sharing,
interoperability, privacy,
P3 agreements, etc.
Policies
Expand reach of
services, streamlined
pathways, aggregate
market, etc.
Access
Crime reduction,
transportation efficiency,
educational access, etc.
Goals
Attract businesses,
access to markets,
shape national policy,
etc.
National Partners

7. Shape national policy, inform
or adapt to standards, bring
regional needs to national
dialog.
Influence
Implement what works and
focus on your unique needs,
shared expertise, etc.
Practices
Attract businesses &
investors, connections with
grants and foundations,
Reach
Interoperability on a
national level
Ecosystem
National/Global
Acceleration

8. Smart Regions
Scale through shared infrastructure, standards, goals
Create efficiencies through sharing practices, policies,
creating purchasing consortiums
Critical mass of common practices to attract industry
partnerships
Regional quality of life improvements attract residents &
businesses

9. Multiple
Innovation
Vectors
Complexity of concurrent disruptive
initiatives have makes it unlikely
solutions will intersect by chance.

10. IoT
Public Safety
Energy/Power
Regional
Cooperatives
Area wide cooperatives create
intentional direction, wide service
areas for engagement, scale impact,
by creating convergence

11. Innovation as a Service
Institute for Digital Progress
Innovative
Technology
Pilot
Urban Issue
Multi-Party Innovation
Customized
Example: Phoenix Smart Region
From AZ IDP Regional Plan Presentation

12. From AZ IDP Regional Plan Presentation

13. Example: NC Triangle Smart Region
Regional Cooperative
Goals
Regional
Impact
* Example only. Region
still forming.

14. Example: North Texas Smart Region
Regional Cooperative
Goals
Regional
Impact?

15. Thank You
Scott.turnbull@us-ignite.org
Lee.Davenport@us-ignite.org
https://www.us-ignite.org/
@us_ignite