Sponsored by Robotics Australia Group for the Asia-Pacific region. Are you looking at how new technologies like robots might be used in your facility/ies or in public spaces to improve operations, address labour shortages and enhance employee or customer satisfaction? Have you been asked to report back to your executive leaders on how to prepare for deploying mobility innovations for autonomously transporting people or goods? Or how you might integrate robotics and AI in your maintenance or security operations?

Speakers:

Led by URF's Executive Director, Bern Grush, guest panelists include:

Michael Whereat, Smart Cities Lead, Sunshine Coast Council

Prof. Seng Loke, Director of the Centre for Software, Systems & Society (CS3) at Deakin University, School of Information Technology

Nicci Rossouw, CEO, Robotics Australia Group

Learning Objectives:

- Examine the wide variety of Use Cases for public-area mobile robots (PMRs)

- Review the Opportunities and Challenges, Barriers and Risks associated with deployment

- Understand the 6 Governance Deployment Pillars and 5 Maturity Stages for adopting this new technology

- Get prepared to generate value while addressing the key challenges - ranging from licensing and insurance to public acceptance and certification.

Who should attend: municipal/government leaders, city council members, facility operations executives (facilities serving the public, such as airports, hospitals, parks, shopping malls, universities), urban planners, traffic planners, logistics operators providing last-mile services, maintenance operators contracted to facilities, security operators intending to add security robots to their operations, airport or hospitals adding robots to move goods or passengers, mobility researchers.

RAG members will receive a discounted promo code to use when registering. This is a 90 minute workshop with optional Q&A at the end.