Sean Audain

Sean is the Strategic Planning Manager at the Wellington City Council and responsible for leading the Urban Planning, City Insights, Cultural Heritage, Iwi/RMA interface and Infrastructure Strategy for Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Sean has been a leader in Urban Planning, particularly in city innovation and digital cities for the past ten years, exploring how Open Data, AI, Reality Technologies, Geospatial and other Digital Capabilities can make for more adaptive, engaging and resilient cities. Sean has served on national and international bodies including the Open Government Partnership Expert Advisory Panel, the ANZ Future of Place initiative, The World Economic Forums G20 cities Privacy Impact taskforce and Digital Twins Advisory Panel. Sean’s work has been recognised through a number of international awards including Harvard TECH City Innovator of the year 2020 and Wellington being selected for the Bloomberg Global Mayors Challenge.