Gemma Baxter

City of Melbourne Pilot and Trial Lead, Gemma Baxter seeks projects that impact people. With a career spanning architecture, fashion design, branding and marketing, service design and smart cities, Gemma contributes rigourous trialling processes, an appetite for solving complex problems, the ability to bring together diverse teams to collaborate meaningfully and a community-centric mindset to the multi-disciplinary Smart City Incubator team. 

While at City of Melbourne she’s helped develop key communication tools to drive meaningful community engagement in smart city conversations and been an active contributor to the local smart cities ecosystem. The Smart City Incubator at City of Melbourne has been acknowledged with three awards in the past 12 months from their leading work across open space sensing, community engagement tools and a digitally-enabled community space pilot – Micro-Labs.