The Future of Living is not about the latest technology, it’s about people and connection.
Lucinda Hartley is an award-winning urban designer, a cofounder of world-leading social analytics company Neighbourlytics, and a globally recognised expert in smart cities and social change.
Named as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, Lucinda is a technology leader who offers inspiration and practical advice on the future of living, the future of work and how technology can be a force for good in turbulent times.
Lucinda is an ‘urban futurist’ who has spent the past decade pioneering innovative solutions for improving cities and neighbourhoods, now adopted globally. She helped create the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities (Goal 11), has delivered more than 100 neighbourhood improvement projects across Australia through her social enterprise CoDesign Studio and is now spearheading world leading technology for measuring neighbourhood lifestyle and wellbeing using digital data, as Founding Director of Neighbourlytics.
Lucinda’s passion for cities and neighbourhoods began in childhood, growing up in Kenya, Zimbabwe and a host of other countries where she saw first-hand how your postcode is as likely to affect your life expectancy as your genetic code. From this point she built a career seeking new ways to live.
As a keynote speaker, Lucinda draws on her experience across emerging technology and design to inspiration to some of the most important questions of our time: how we live, work, connect and build community.
Current Work:
As an urban futurist Lucinda advises government, business, and technology leaders on innovation strategies for smart cities. She has worked with Google, UN-Habitat, Planning Ministers, MPs and major Property Developers to shape some of the world’s most significant urban renewal projects.
Lucinda is a Founding Director of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods. Neighbourlytics’ proprietary technology taps into the digital footprint of a neighbourhood to understand it’s lifestyle and wellbeing. Neighbourlytics has scaled rapidly across 2000 neighbourhoods in 12 countries. Neighbourlytics was named as one of 20 Start-ups to Watch by Smart Company, and listed in the Deloitte Fast 50.
Lucinda is one of Australia’s sought after voices on cities and social change, and a regular media commentator on the future of cities. She has been featured regularly in the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Qantas Magazine, Vogue Magazine and The Age where she was named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most influential people.
A designer turned technology founder, Lucinda is alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Singularity University. She does not separate work and personal life: first we shape our cities, then they shape us.
Previous Work
Prior to cofounding Neighbourlytics, Lucinda founded placemaking social enterprise CoDesign Studio. Between 2014-2017 CoDesign a was Australia’s largest placemaking consultancy, delivering over 100 neighbourhood improvement projects from community gardens to pop up parks.
She served as an elected youth advisor for UN-Habitat for 5 years, advocating for the inclusion of young people in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals. The direct references to women and youth in SDG 11: Cities are directly attributable to her work.
Awards and Recognition:
Telstra Best of Business Awards State Finalist (2022)
Veuve Clicquot Bold Women Award Finalist (2021)
Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence (2019)
Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star (2019)
Myer Innovation Fellow (2018)
Westpac Social Change Fellow (2018)
iAwards Startup of the Year, Australian Information Industry Association (2018)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence (VIC Winner (2017)
Westpac Business of Tomorrow (2017)
Place Leaders Award, Place Leaders Asia Pacific (2015)
Social Enterprise of the Year, Social Traders (2015)
Melbourne Design Awards, Winner, Community Category (2014, 2015)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence VIC Winner (2014)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence WA Winner (2014)
Talking Points
Rethinking how we live: Top trends for the future of living that will affect your industry.
What does fully remote work look like? Have we abandoned shopping malls? Where will we live? There is a lot of speculation about what the future of living looks like, but how we build connection and community in a post-covid world are still emerging. Covid-19 lockdowns have accelerated our digital transformation, but they’ve also left us hungry for human connection, with loneliness is now as likely to kill you as smoking or heart disease.Rethinking how we live: Top trends for the future of living that will affect your industry.
While we’re flocking towards the latest emerging technology to tackle connectivity, the research suggests that there might be simpler solutions: walking, sunlight, cups of tea with a neighbour.
In this talk we’ll explore the latest emerging technologies that are transforming the way we live for the better, and how to create happier, healthier lives in a post-covid world.
Key takeaways:
- Digital transformation is the biggest disruptor to how we live since the invention of the automobile
- Explore the latest global technology helping us connect (hint: some of it is low tech)
Smart Cities 2.0: can technology make us happier and more connected?
By 2050, 80% of the world will live in a city. This requires every industry, every government, every citizen to think smarter and more efficiently about how we live, work and connect, Big Data, AI, robotics, AR/VR, quantum computing are disrupting every industry in the world. In fact, more data was generated in the last two years than there was in the history of mankind (IBM). Smart Cities 2.0: can technology make us happier and more connected?
In our pursuit of creating cities that are more efficiently house more people and transport the masses, how can we make sure that we also create places where people are healthy, happy and socially connected?
This talk will explore how technology can be leveraged as a force for social good - or evil. It will help leaders across all industries navigate the principles for creating human-centred technology, and human-centred places, principles to embrace and pitfalls to avoid. We have a once in a generation chance to get this right.
Key takeaways
- Principles for human-centred places that drive health and happiness
- Risks to look out for with emerging technologies
- Inspiration for an urbanized world
Video
How Big Data Can Be Used to Measure the Performance of Communities | Lucinda Hartley
In this presentation, Neighbourlytics co-founder and chief impact officer Lucinda Hartley reveals how her urban tech start-up is harnessing big data to help property developers and governments measure and map how cities work.Social Data for Smarter Cities with Lucinda Hartley | Curious Thinkers
Lucinda is an urban designer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods. Lucinda invites the audience to look at human centred data, outside of payments, and how understanding neighbourhoods can help us understand people.Communities in Control 2020 | Lucinda Hartley
Lucinda Hartley is an urban designer and serial entrepreneur behind Neighbourlytics, one of Australia’s fastest growing urban-tech companies, pulling together urban planning data analytics. She reveals what the data showed about our connections in 2020 in a presentation titled: This is Where We Live: Using people-centred data to remake cities & towns. Ms Hartley argues that cities and towns should be built for the communities that will inhabit them. There is a trove of data on the demographics of any given town, but do we spend enough time consulting this data, and the people the data represents, to give us a better understanding of what the community needs? It’s time to put people back at the centre of our urban environments.Women in Tech Finalist - Lucinda Hartley Neighbourlytics
Neighbourlytics is a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods that measures the quality of life and wellbeing in neighbourhoods, based on their digital footprint. In this 3 minute pitch Lucinda outlines Neighbourlytics success to date, and plans to scale.Lucinda Hartley - Redesigning Design
Redesigning design for positive social impact - Trained as a landscape architect, Lucinda Hartley, spent two years working in slum communities in Vietnam and Cambodia before launching Community Oriented Design -- [co]design studio. Selected as a 2010 Youth Action Net Global Fellow, Lucinda has been focusing on how young people can be engaged and mobilized to improve cities and space through community oriented design. Lucinda's commitment to sustainable design has been recognised by awards from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), Asialink Dunlop Fellowship and the internationally competitive Endeavour Executive Award. Moreover in 2009 she was profiled in FuturARC Magazine as one of the top 30 design sustainability pioneers in Asia-Pacific.KPMG The Next 5 Years: Season 3 - Episode 4: Digital transformation
Host Bernard Salt joins Guy Holland, National Lead Partner, Digital Consulting, KPMG, Jamie Twiss, Westpac and Lucinda Hartley, Neighbourlytics to explore the increasing role technology is playing in business and community transformation.Lucinda’s presentation engaged the audience with honesty, beauty and simplicity. She received one of the longest ovations of all our speakers. ... keep reading TEDx Melbourne
Lucinda is at the forefront of the global urbanism movement, challenging traditional approaches to planning and designing cities.
