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The Power of Digital Twins: Revolutionizing Land-Use Planning

Join us for a captivating presentation by Jake Arsenault, a serial high-tech entrepreneur and co-founder of The Black Arcs. Jake will delve into the world of digital twins and their transformative potential in land-use planning.

Discover how interactive digital twins can provide valuable insights into the benefits and drawbacks of different land-use decisions. By modeling the relationships between housing, amenities, transportation, and other factors, these digital tools empower communities to make informed choices about their future.

This talk will showcase a made in NB civic innovation - advanced and on-the-spot analysis using interactive digital twins of specific communities. Interactive digital twins can help most people better understand the benefits and potential blow-back of land-use decisions. For example, once can easily model the relationship between new housing, amenity placement, vehicle emissions and changes to transit.

The initial concept was to make data more meaningful through interactive predictive data analytics presented much like a video game. This idea is now a reality. The talk will demonstrate the interactive digital twin of the City of Peachtree Corners currently on display in the Smart City facility Curiosity Labs in Georgia USA.

Learn about:

  • The power of digital twins in land-use planning

  • The benefits of interactive data visualization

  • Real-world applications of digital twins

  • The future of civic innovation

Speaker Bio:

Jake Arsenault is a serial high-tech entrepreneur with a PhD in engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He co-founded The Black Arcs in 2014 to address unmet needs in land-use planning. Jake has a proven track record of bringing together people, ideas, and technology to create innovative solutions.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the future of urban planning and the transformative power of digital tools.

Register here.

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