Lucy Casacia, B.Sc., has established herself as a recognized leader in the application of technology for Smart Cities and Connected Infrastructure area for the past 20 years. Ms. Casacia works to acts as a catalyst and driver for enhancing people’s lives using innovative technology to create solutions for city and industrial zones, real-estate campuses, transportation, and energy systems through Human-centred design. As an invited speaker to various conferences, she shares insights into how to create better outcomes for people, the planet, and our next generation.
As an Owner’s advocate and experienced Vice President, Lucy has worked at the C-Level in cities, mining, industrial plants, utilities, provincial governments in small scale through multi-billion-dollar projects creating trusted relationships along the way. Lucy actively advocates a balanced perspective, works across business lines and departments in complex matrix organizations to create collaborative solutions, engage wide stakeholder input to incorporate the needs of infrastructure owners, users, advocacy groups and regulatory bodies to ensure risks are mitigated, sustainability and safety are seen as the highest priorities.
Through her experience gained working at Fortune 500 companies (WSP, Siemens, Dofasco Steel, BHP Billiton) and entrepreneurial companies, Lucy has held C-Level roles, manages P/L’s and applies human centred design skills to deliver technology solutions that benefits a wide stakeholder matrix such as owners, users, employees, stakeholders and shareholders. By combining data and evidence-based design principles, favourable decisions for complex projects have been achieved. Tools such as data analytics, 3D digital twin modeling, virtual reality and future forward scenario planning have been applied by Lucy to create transparency, leadership, program management, business case development and engineering solutions. Areas of specialization include mapping sustainability targets to technology levers, intelligent infrastructure, digitization (Industry 4.0), CO2 mitigation strategies, resiliency, future ready systems for buildings, energy grids, transportation and building infrastructure. She has developed and managed the engineering feasibility, and sustainability work which was instrumental in obtaining approvals for the first arctic wind farm for a remote diamond mine, managed the Pan Am Games 2015 program for Siemens Canada to create smart sports venues in the cities of Hamilton, Milton and Toronto, and has created strategies for cities, industry and developers in the areas of smart grid, building automation, CO2 mitigation for the City of Mississauga and the Toronto GTAA airport. She works nationally and partners with global teams based in London, UK, Germany, USA and Australia. Lucy is a mentor and coach active with IEEE, Women in Leadership and is a graduate of McMaster University (B.Sc. Metallurgy and Materials Science) and the Schulich School of Business (York University) earning a Master’s Certificate in Strategic Leadership.
Lucy was elected to the Board for Oakville Hydro to serve from 2015 to mid-2016. She was elected as a Board Member for Oakville Enterprises Corporation (OEC) since June 2016 and is proud to be a member delivering strategic input and high dividends to the shareholder. In 2021, Lucy was elected to serve as a member of the Smart Cities Task Force for the City of Vaughan, Ontario.