The Jason de Sousa Show

Sarah Kay , Global Client lead at architecture firm  Woods Bagot , joins Smarter Cities to talk about the business of architecture in changing cities and what is like to run an architecture practice with a global reach. Catch the Smarter Cities Podcast at: Listen and subscribe at Spotify here:  https://lnkd.in/fJq96sk Listen and subscribe at Apple Podcasts here:  https://lnkd.in/fRBYnZf You Tube: ...

How do you transform a company into a digital leader? This is something Lendlease's Chief Digital Officer, William Ruh, has done multiple times. Bill joined the Podcast to discuss the opportunities and challenges of creating new things in a corporate environment and why the future will be captured by firms that innovate and change.

Can we do cities better? Researcher Heba Elhanafy, and the American headquartered think tank the Charter Cities Institute, think so. Heba joined Jason and the Smarter Cities Podcast from her office in Zambia, where she is working with African governments on creating new and better cities that work for people as well as deliver economic development. Learn more about Heba and the Charter Cities Inst...

Environmental Social Governance (ESG) has become paramount in corporate and investment decision making and in the national discourse. The hope is that intense ESG focus across the global economy will lead to solutions for entrenched environmental, economic and social problems. But is this really happening? Impact investment firm CEO, Anne-Marie Elias joins the podcast to delve into this question....

How do you brand a country?  Why does a country need a brand?  Fiona de Jong -  Austrade's Acting Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Australia's Nation Brand - explains why in this episode of Smarter Cities.    This episode of Smarter Cities is presented with thanks to Podium - the end to end digital platform for the property and construction industry.  www.lendleasepodium.com

Can the recent focus on private space travel lead to better outcomes on Earth?  Recorded as part of the Autonomous21 Conference.

Cop-26 illuminated the focus of governments, institutions and investors in transitioning to a zero carbon world.  At the heart of the world's plan is a belief that green hydrogen production and fuel can displace a global reliance on emissions intensive fossil fuels.  Australia, with its gift of plentiful sun, land and sea— combined with its economic capacity and trade connectivity—sees a chance to...

As Australia moves towards the opening of international borders, our thoughts are turning to what international travel will look like and how it will take place. Facing a world at different vaccination levels, differences in vaccine recognition, a myriad of rules on quarantine and the ever-present question of travel security, what does the future of travel look like in a post Covid environment?  H...

Live entertainment and the arts; things the pandemic took away from us that are now coming back in force.  Michael Cassel is a leading international producer, bringing to our stages some of the world's greatest theatrical productions and live entertainment. Along the way he has grown some of Australia's best talent.  I asked Michael how living without live arts and entertainment has hurt our natio...

Smart Cities. Everyone is obsessed with them - from visions of autonomous cars and flying service drones to everything being connected through billions of IOT devices constantly reporting activity. This has long being the mantra of what smart cities are supposed to be. But being honest this concept is something I have somewhat struggled with. The best cities are those that are people centric - foc...

The first 'fan free' Olympic and Paralympic Games - Tokyo2020 - was a success under challenging pandemic circumstances. The fan experience was driven by digital TV connectivity, on-demand viewing and IOT capability more than at any time in the Games' history. Tokyo2020 has changed our future expectations of how the Olympic Games are to be delivered and experienced by fans, and in how cities safely...

Wellness. What is it and why should it matter to corporates? These are rather pertinent questions. As the world continues to battle Covid-19, the lines between work and home have blurred, perhaps permanently, and 'zoom calls' have become the norm. According to a recent study in the Harvard Business Review*, 85 per cent of workers surveyed said they were working longer hours but being less producti...

Sometimes you meet truly remarkable people who are making a tremendous difference in their communities and countries. This is the case with  Jean Nepo Sibomana  and his Australian born wife Sabrina, who founded the Mustard Seed Institute – an organisation driving employment, training and human development in rural Rwanda. Nepo is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide  - which shocked the world i...

Selina Short is Managing Partner for Oceania at EY, specialising in the real estate, construction and hospitality sectors. She is a leading voice on cities and urbanisation. Selina argues that a city's future success will be driven by experience and human interaction and that Australian cities have the chance to set the mark for a new way of working and a new style of global workforce in a post Co...

Richard Kuppusamy has spent a lifetime thinking about what makes a city accessible. He is an architect and disability rights campaigner. In his job, as Head of Digital Engineering - Asia at Lendlease Group, he is pushing boundaries by driving the development and adoption of digital engineering in the development and construction industry. He also has spina bifida, a congenital spinal condition, wh...

Rishi Suri, editor of India's largest Urdu newspaper, the Daily Milap, joins Smarter Cities in a fascinating discussion on India and its place in the world. India is a rising power. A country of deep history, beloved in Australia for its culture, cuisine and cricket obsession. It is also the country of my parent's birth, one I have visited since childhood and one which has always captured my love...

Rob Stokes is one of Australia's most thoughtful and prescient politicians - with a passion for public policy and public service that has led him to one of the toughest portfolios around - as Minister for Planning and Public Spaces in Australia's largest state, NSW. Rob argues that Covid 19 is the greatest disruption to how cities and countries will function since the Spanish flu and the introduct...

Futurist and thought leader on the real estate sector, Nikki Greenberg, joins Smarter Cities in this first episode for 2021.  The world is emerging from Covid-19 with the release of new vaccines and a global roll out gathering apace. As we take stock of 2020, and the impact of the virus on our lives, what does the future look like for real estate and the way we live work and interact with one anot...

As Australia's second largest state, Victoria, emerges from a five day lock down, following lock downs in Perth, Brisbane and Sydney's northern beaches, it seems apparent that snap lock downs have become part and parcel of virus management and that they are here to stay.  In this clip, Kristy McSweeney discusses the balancing act for families that has come with prolonged home working caused be slo...

Gary Horwitz, founder of the pioneering Australian food and homewares chain BaySwiss and creator of retail precinct experiences in many global cities, talks in this clip about online disruption to the retail sector and how the sector can successfully respond. 

Mukund Narayana-Murty, CEO of AsiaLink Business, and I reflect on how proud we are to be Australian, how we respect both our Country and also the cultural heritage of our families, and the importance of values in the ever - and always continuing - improvement of our Australian Nation.

There is increasing interest in Australia in building closer government to government and economic relations with India, particularly in the wake of increasing trade tensions between the major powers. In this clip, Julian Leeser MP, Member of the Australian Parliament, discusses his love of India and what is ahead in building closer relations between our countries.

Over the last 20 years there has been accelerated growth in house prices across the World's major cities, with Australian cities running towards the top of the pack. Average house prices in Sydney and Melbourne have increased between five to six times in the last two decades. At the same time real wages have run stagnant, leading to growing affordability pressures and making the "great Australian...

The work from home "revolution" enforced by Covid-19 has put telecommunications and effective networks at the forefront of keeping people working and economies functioning - hastening technology evolution and adoption.   Telecommunications networks have transformed how we live, work, and play in our cities, with each technology generation leading to new ways of doing things. The next great technol...

The Hon Warwick L Smith AO is one of Australia's most recognised and respected voices on trade and international business. He boasts a stellar career spanning politics, business and international relations -  building closer business and government to government relations between Australia and Asia. He has in recent years focused on building closer economic relations with China - an effort that ha...