Following my last article on the interest of a variety of stakeholders in this new concept of Smart Cities, it seems that this Autumn 2011 comes full of interesting events around the issue for them. As far as I know, there are 5 global conferences approaching, 3 of them in Europe, 1 in America and 1 in Asia:
Intelligent Cities Expo 2011, Hamburg, Nov 8 - 10
The 2011 edition of the Intelligent Cities Expo is taking place in Hamburg. As usual, the event will have a conference and an exposition section where stakeholders will discuss around solutions for sustainable cities.
The chosen topics for the conference include the core elements identified as essential for building smart, sustainable global cities: Smart Energy, Intelligent Water & Waste, Intelligent Mobility, Intelligent Security and Intelligent ICT.
The conference fee for 3 days is $1395.
You can follow the Intelligent Cities Expo 2011 Twitter account.
Changes in the conferences dates!
Smart Cities Global, Washington DC These series of conferences will be happening during the month of November in three separate coins of the world, three areas know to be hot spots for Smart City development: South-east Asia + Australia, Europe and America.
The conference topics include Smart solutions for: Energy, Transportation, ICT, Water and Sustainability. Besides, the main page of Smart Cities Global has an interesting blog around the issues that will be treated during the conferences.
One of the top thinkers in Smart City solutions Carlo Ratti director of SENSEable City Lab will be speaking at the three events.
The conference fees are: Washington DC USD1500, Kuala Lumpur AUD1500 + GST, Amsterdam GBP950 + VAT.
You can follow the Smart Cities Global conferences’ Twitter account.
Smart City Expo, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 29 - Dec 2
This event is going to take place Barcelona and I am so excited about this happening in my city.
It is the first edition of a world event aimed at staying for long in the scene of Smart City conferences. The event will have two sections: the conference itself and an exposition of Smart City solutions. Its main inspiration theme will be “Smart society for innovative and sustainable cities”.
The list of confirmed speakers so far has an outstandingly good level providing an excellent balance of visions ranging from top private companies like IBM, Cisco, Telefonica I+D or Accenture to top research institutions and universities like MIT, IESE or LSE. Maybe what is left from my point of view here is the academic vision of those caring about the social aspects of Smart City solutions in cities and the vision of the Citizeneers as end-users.
What excites me is that it includes various of the thinkers I have been following for long:
- Anthony Townsend from the Institute for the Future.
- Adam Greenfield from Urbanscale.
- Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable City Lab from MIT (who is participating in 3 out of the 5 conferences here. He is not human, he is u-man)
- Carlos Leite, lecturer and expert professor on sustainable cities and architecture.
- John F. Moore from Gov in the Lab.
The conference fee is not published yet.
You can follow the Smart City Expo Twitter account.
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