Toronto's Digital Future

IBM’s Chief Technology Officer was in Toronto recently to discuss how digital technologies can create a new future for cities like Toronto. While acknowledging that cities are not run like private enterprises, he stressed that Toronto can manage congestion by using predictive modeling techniques. “Real time is too late. You want to see what’s likely to be happening in the future and plan for that.”

When asked about the impact of competitive technologies, he said that major technologies are quite complementary. “If you look at the players, there’s the physical infrastructure piece of it and then there’s companies that can put in the sensors and the networks, and then IBM that can use the data to create these models.”



Reference: Agrell, Siri, The digital city: IBM’s Guru Banavar on traffic, politics and Toronto, The Globe and Mail, July 18, 2012
 

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