Crafting collisions.
On November 21st 2015, PM John Key launched the three year Wellington City Council funded Collider activation programme, which focusses on transforming the city into an internationally recognised smart city.
This is what I’ve been spending the last nine months managing.
The programme website was launched mid January so the whole initiative has had about a six month stint and as the council funding year runs from July to June, we celebrated the first year this week.
In that time the initiative has:
- hosted 124 events
- had 3,209 curious attendees
- averaged 21 events per month (our KPI is 15)
The rest of stats can be found in this handy to read and downloadable infographic:
The true excitement which is brewing is building on the momentum into year two with a mandate to explore more smart city focussed options. The programme will continue to support existing meetup groups and activities plus run masterclasses, workshops, roundtables etc, although know we have the encouragement to explore new ideas.
All this and more we announced and featured the other night in this Collider blog post.
As we launch into year two, the video above repositions our efforts firmly in the wider city context and highlights the aim to connect, collaborate and converge (our three strategic pillars).
This is just a beginning.
It feels like I’m just starting to get warmed up…