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Lucinda Hartley is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and a leading expert in the social trends shaping the future of work and cities. As an urban futurist, she inspires organisations to think like entrepreneurs and plan for the disruption ahead.
Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, Lucinda has spent the past decade building innovative, future-focused companies whose products are now used worldwide to improve data-driven decision-making.
Lucinda helped create the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Cities, has advised Google on city-shaping projects, and has delivered more than 100 neighbourhood improvement projects across Australia as co-founder of social enterprise CoDesign Studio. She is best known as co-founder of urban analytics company Neighbourlytics, where she pioneered world-leading technology for measuring wellbeing and urban life using big data.
As a keynote speaker, Lucinda draws on her deep experience in entrepreneurship, data, and innovation to inspire audiences to tackle complex problems facing leaders today—from technology disruption to generational shifts to the future of work. Her cut-through insights, data-rich presentations, and entertaining delivery style empower leaders to see around corners and navigate the future with confidence.
Lucinda is a regular media commentator and one of Australia’s sought-after voices on cities and social change. She has been featured regularly in ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Qantas Magazine, Vogue Magazine, and The Age.
As an urban futurist, Lucinda advises government, business, and technology leaders on innovation strategies for smart cities, making her an invaluable resource for organisations looking to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Talking Points
Future Citizen: Social Trends Shaping the Way We Live
Lucinda helps leaders radically rethink their future business and gain comfort in uncertainty. This starts with understanding the future citizen and customer. In this talk, we'll unpack why we're bad at predicting the future and what your organisation needs to understand the next generation of citizens. We'll delve into data about lifestyle shifts, generational trends, and emerging impacts for your organisation, city or community. Future Citizen: Social Trends Shaping the Way We Live
Key takeaways:
● Understand key social trends driving the next generation.
● Explore the impacts of changing lifestyles on consumers and citizens.
● Gain a framework for embracing entrepreneurial thinking and adapting to change.
Future Work and Technology: Building Teams That Thrive on Change
This session offers insights into attracting talent in a competitive environment, creating work cultures that embrace generational change, flexible work modes, and digital disruption. We'll explore transformative trends reshaping the workforce and work nature, diving into data and case studies on how cities attract talent.Future Work and Technology: Building Teams That Thrive on Change
Key takeaways:
● Understand social trends driving talent attraction in a digital-first workforce.
● Learn from successful cities worldwide on talent and investment attraction.
● Gain actionable strategies to sustain thriving workplaces of the future.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Learn how to think like an entrepreneur, regardless of your role or industry. This session dives into the entrepreneurial mindset, offering practical insights and tools to foster creativity, embrace risk, and drive innovation within your organisation. Explore key elements of fostering a culture of innovation. This talk isn’t theoretical, its based on Lucinda’s lived experience building teams, and backed by extensive data. Entrepreneurial Mindset: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Key takeaways:
● Understand core principles of the entrepreneurial mindset.
● Learn from case studies of innovation in various sectors.
● Gain actionable insights and a roadmap to cultivate an innovation culture.
Social Innovation: Using an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Build Community and Create Impact
This talk explores strategies for turning creative ideas into impactful solutions, driving business success and positive social outcomes. Lucinda shares insights from her experience launching and working with social enterprises, and hard-won battles and lessons learned. Learn to leverage the entrepreneurial mindset to embed impact in your company culture, ESG strategy, and community.Social Innovation: Using an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Build Community and Create Impact
Key takeaways:
● Understand how the entrepreneurial mindset drives new social solutions.
● Learn from global case studies in community building and social enterprise.
● Gain frameworks for unlocking social innovation in your organisation.
The Future is Female: Women, Technology, and Social Change
This data-rich talk highlights trends in gender equality in technology and personal stories from Lucinda's experience as a female entrepreneur. It leverages the entrepreneurial mindset to help leaders embrace equitable approaches to sustainable development.The Future is Female: Women, Technology, and Social Change
This talk is ideal for your International Women's Day event and focuses on success stories and inspiration for change.
Key takeaways:
● Hear personal experiences of women in technology.
● Gain data-rich insights highlighting new challenges.
● Learn practical case studies and insights for actionable ideas.
Custom Talks & MC
Lucinda regularly facilitates events as an MC and can prepare custom talks. Get in touch to discuss how Lucinda can collaborate with your organisation on a custom topic or MC.Custom Talks & MC
Topics include:
● City-specific trends and insights
● Industry-specific trends and insights
● Entrepreneurial mindset and team culture
● Topics on cities, technology, and social change
Video
The New Living Sectors | Lucinda Hartley |The Property Congress Gold Coast 2022
Lucinda Hartley, Neighbourlytics Founding Director & Urban Life Expert | Nearmap NAVIG8 2022 Keynote
Analysing geospatial data tells part of the story about any location. But what about the social data: where we spend time, how we work, who we see, and what we value? In this presentation, Lucinda Hartley, founding director of social analytics platform, Neighbourlytics, shares insights about multiple factors that contribute to vibrant, active neighbourhoods, and how social data addresses the seen and unseen needs of societies to create more liveable, sustainable communities.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.Fantastic and engaging session, an interesting exercises in thinking about how we all live into the future. ... keep reading PWC - The Outside
In regard to Lucinda, we absolutely loved having her as our keynote speaker and part of the panel and Q&A discussions. Lucinda really engaged with the topic – Leading Innovation and offered her unique industry perspective during her keynote as well as part of the panel. One of our key objectives of the Women in Tech Alliance, is to provoke people to think, feel and do something differently and Lucinda’s insights, reflections and tips definitely prompted conversation and commitment to action.
Everything went really well and Lucinda was amazing. She is such a great speaker and was so inspirational for our group of teachers. The Geography teachers were buzzing all day. Saxton has also been wonderful to work with.
Lucinda was fantastic, the group responded well to her insights, and she tied it back well to the audience and their business background.
Lucinda is at the forefront of the global urbanism movement, challenging traditional approaches to planning and designing cities.
Lucinda's presentation engaged the audience with honesty, beauty and simplicity. She received one of the longest ovations of all our speakers.
