Freight data standardisation and maintenance has been an obstacle to realising the benefits of digitisation in Australia. The National Freight Data Hub, in cooperation with industry, is building a harmonised and secure source of freight data. Learn how key knowledge gaps are being addressed with projects underway at the Hub; building a knowledge bank of open data and insights to help industry as well as governments plan and invest. Learn how you can contribute to developing data standards and processes and contribute data while maintaining commercial in confidence and privacy guidelines.

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SPEAKERS:

Georgia O’Cianain
Georgia is an experienced strategic urban policy professional with a career spanning 20+ years of planning & transport policy and reform across all three levels of government in Australia. She is now applying her passion for strategic thinking and innovation to working across governments, industry, and research communities as Director of the National Freight Data Hub.

David Mitchell
David is Director, Transport Research and Modelling, at the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), which provides data and analysis within the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. In that role he has responsibility for modelling and forecasting domestic passenger and freight movements in Australia, benchmarking infrastructure project procurement and leads BITRE efforts to investigate new sources and methods for measuring transport activity.  David has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree from the ANU.