We aim to improve strategic planning and policy making around the world.
Our Planticipate app predicts, according to different categories of people, how popular or otherwise alternative plans will be.
We have workshop facilitators available at various locations around the globe. Some have extensive experience across all sorts of forward planning, whereas others are at the beginning of their career.
Dr Ray Wyatt
Ray was a strategic planner in local and regional government, consulting, commerce, industry and market research before becoming an academic at the University of Melbourne, where he researched and taught analytical planning and GIS science.
He has taught university courses in Australia, England, Wales, USA, Italy and Brazil; written 151 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and essays (74 refereed); produced about 10 major consultant reports; built 4 serious software packages; conducted 17 community workshops and given 55 other orations around the world.
He jointly founded and edited two (2) refereed journals - Urban Policy & Research and Applied GIS; he served on the editorial boards of several others and he has reviewed submissions for many other publishers.
Ray is a past President of the International Board of Directors for the Computation in Urban Planning & Urban Management (CUPUM) series of conferences
He has published three (3) single-author textbooks:
1. Intelligent Planning (1989, London, Unwin Hyman)
2. Computer-aided Policy Making (1999, London, Routledge)
3. Plan Prediction (2017, Cham, Switzerland, Springer)
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Dr Hemayet Hossain
Hemayet is an expert in decision-support systems for planning and for better managment of the natural and human-built environments.
He has considerable international experience as a consultant to agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, and he has convened and taught many short courses for mid-career, professional information specialists within various agencies across southeast Asia.
Hemayet has taught at universities in USA, Australia, Bangladesh, and Thailand, and has published within the areas of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and rural-urban modeling.
For many years Hemayet worked as a university academic and IT specialist before he was recruited by the Victorian State Government, Australia, as an analyst and IT expert.
After that he was a land specialist working at the UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Dr Patrizia Russo
Patrizia is an applied scientist who is currently working as a data analyst for a laser scanning company in Zurich, Switzerland.
Her Masters degree was from the University of Zurich, where she studied Geography with a specialization in Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis.
Her PhD was completed within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and it analysed the usability of planning software.
Patrizia is interested in life.
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Dr Ana Spataru
Ana Spataru completed her PhD at Deakin University, Melbourne, in the field of sustainable regional development.
Her research generated guidelines for decision makers who are formulating policies to preserve and enhance agricultural activity within metropolitan fringe areas.
Ana has studied Environmental Engineering as well as Environmental Science and Technology, specialising in wastewater treatment, and she currently works for the Australian Energy Foundation in Melbourne.
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What now?
Access a free, online short course on how to properly use the Planticipate app.
and/or run Planticipate .
If you are keen to further explore how we can help make your forward planning more empathetic, you should contact us by e-mail - admin@planprediction.org.