New Brunswick CEO Named to Smart Cities Challenge Jury
SAINT JOHN– The CEO of a New Brunswick asset management software company will be one of the people who will decide which cities will win the Smart Cities Challenge.
Andrea Feunekes, CEO of Remsoft, is one of 12 jurors selected to choose finalists and winners of the Smart Cities Challenge.
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Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge is a national competition open to municipalities, regional governments and Indigenous communities. The Challenge encourages communities to adopt a smart cities approach to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology.
Communities had to submit a proposal that was due earlier this week. The winners will receive a cash prize to implement their proposal. There are several tiers of financial prizes based on population. Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton all qualify for the $10 million prize tier, and all of them submitted bids.
The jurors were selected through a transparent and merit-based process and are diverse professionals who are accomplished and publically recognized in fields related to smart cities, including urban planning, architecture, and policy innovation.
The jury will be led by Chairperson Mark Romoff from Toronto. The other jurors are:
- Brent Bellamy: Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Leanne Bellegarde: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- Matthew Claudel: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Carol Anne Hilton: Victoria, British Columbia.
- Lisa Holmes: Morinville, Alberta.
- Maxime Johnson: Montreal, Quebec.
- Kaviq Kaluraq: Iqaluit, Nunavut.
- Kourosh Rad: Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Stéphane Roche: Quebec City, Quebec.
- Gabe Sawhney: Toronto, Ontario.
- Maayan Ziv: Toronto, Ontario
Over the next few weeks, the Smart Cities Challenge jury will review applications that have been submitted to the competition from communities across Canada. They will assess the applications and recommend 20 finalists to the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.
These finalists will be announced in the coming weeks. The jury will also help choose the winners of the competition, who will be announced in spring 2019.