{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-09T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hutchison-management.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:13:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About William G. (Bill) Hutchison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wgh-linkedin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"William G. (Bill) Hutchison\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wgh-linkedin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wgh-linkedin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wgh-linkedin.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bill Hutchison is one of the world&#8217;s leading pioneers and authorities on the digital transformation of cities into Smart\/Intelligent Communities. His background includes more than 40 years of leadership in business transformation, with a focus of more than 20 years on Smart Cities. Smart Toronto \u201994 and Singapore\u2019s Intelligent Island in 1997 were early client pioneers; subsequently both cities and many other global city clients of Bill&#8217;s have won the world\u2019s top prizes for their \u201cSmart\/Intelligent\u201d transformations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill is CEO of Hutchison Management International Inc, a firm that advises business and cities. He is also Chair of i-Canada150, a national consortium of cities interested in pursuing social, technology and economic transformation and opportunities. He is a Partner and Advisor for \u201cCreating Digital Opportunity\u201d and \u201ciCity\u201d, two research projects at the University of Toronto (\u201cU of T\u201d), and he recently completed five years as Board Chair of a ten-university research program into new cloud and IoT (Internet of Things) architectures led by U of T.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill has been the Founding Chair or Founding Director of fourteen not-for-profit industry and social service organizations including CANARIE (Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education), CATA (Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance), i-CANADA150, the National Advisory Board for Science and Technology, chaired by Canada\u2019s Prime Minister, and KINSA, the Kids Internet Safety Alliance. He has also created a number of business start-ups with successful exits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for Service to Canada, and he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science. Other honours include: Private Sector Leadership in Canada\u2019s Advanced Technology Sector, Integrity and Professionalism in Information Technology, and the Intelligent Community Forum&#8217;s first Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill is a professional engineer and a graduate of McGill University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hutchison is one of the world&#8217;s leading pioneers and authorities on the digital transformation of cities into Smart\/Intelligent Communities. His background includes more than 40 years of leadership in business transformation, with a focus of more than 20 years on Smart Cities. Smart Toronto \u201994 and Singapore\u2019s Intelligent Island in 1997 were early client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}