Prof. Christopher Pettit

Prof Pettit established the City Analytics Lab (CAL) in 2018, a dedicated space designed to support collaborative city planning and user-centred design which has hosted over 350 workshops, tours, and classes with more than 4,000 participants. He has led a number of high impact projects including Value Australia- Sharpening our land and property decisions with Artificial Intelligence and the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit. Value Australia has won 6 awards for innovation and impact and in 2021 was established as a joint venture company with PEXA, FrontierSi and UNSW. Prof Pettit has lead the Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform which has launched the National Housing Data Exchange portal, Colouring Cities interactive city mapping platform, and several digital workbench tools including: What if?, Envision, the Australian Housing Market Explorer, and the Australian Housing Affordability Tool. Prof Pettit is also founder of MapAI, a recent startup which aims to democratise geospatial analysis via a simple mapping and chat interface. MapAI was the recipient of 2 awards at the NSW Geospatial Excellence Awards 2024.