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[edit] What does Future Internet mean for Smart Cities?
Caretakers: Nick Wainwright (HP Labs), Alex Gluhak (University of Surrey), Mirko Presser (Alexandra Institute)
[edit] 2nd Session on SmartCities, Valencia, 15. April 2009
[edit] Session Description
Future Internet offers solutions to many challenges that cities face; community building, mobility, efficient service provisioning, new applications and services, rethinking utilities, culture and the built environment. Cities provide a unique opportunity to the Future Internet; they offer real challenges, real users at a high density, realistic societal, organisational and operational structures, self sufficient governance and decision making.
There is however a gap between researchers dealing with cities and researchers dealing with the Future Internet: smart city research explores the problem space through application pilots and experimental research; Future Internet research explores open, internet scale infrastructure and platforms. The session “What does Future Internet Bring to Smart Cities?” locks these two groups into one place to foster an understanding and provide a launch for collaboration.
The agenda follows and interactive approach. A presentation is followed by a panel session, discussing the topics of the presentation and elaborating on the deficits and challenges with respect to the currently available internet technology and future internet research.
Workshop Report will follow soon...
[edit] Session Agenda
09.00 Introduction – FIA Caretakers
09.05 “Living in Smart Cities – Challenges for Future Internet” Martin Brynskov, Center for Digital Urban Living, Aarhus University
09.20 Smart Cities Panel Session #1 – Martin Brynskov (DUL), Malte Behrmann (EGDF), Peter Ljundstrand (Interactive Institute), Moderated by Mirko Presser (Alexandra Institute)
09.40 “Running Smart Cities – Challenges for Future Internet” Cedric Ulmer, SAP Research
09.55 Smart Cities Panel Session #2, Cedric Ulmer, Barbara Daskala (ENISA), Nigel Baker (UWE), Moderated by Nick Wainwright (HP Labs)
10.15 “Smart Urban Transport – Challenges for Future Internet” Antonio Marques, Director of New Technologies, ETRA
10.30 Smart Cities Panel Session #3, Antonio Marques, Fiona Williams (Ericsson Research), Jonathan Cave (Warwick University), Moderated by Alexander Gluhak (University of Surrey)
[edit] Speakers
Martin Brynskov, Center for Digital Urban Living, Aarhus University
Bio: Martin Brynskov, PhD, is the director of the Civic Communication group at the national research center Digital Urban Living at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also assistant professor in interaction technologies at the Department of Information and Media Studies at AU. Working closely together with industrial partners, journalists, media organizations, muncipalities, and artists, he investigates the consequences of digitization and explores new forms of mediation within a variety of domains with special focus on the role of social interaction and interfaces. The research is mostly carried out as interventions and experiments in the wild, deploying prototypes and semi-permanent interactive systems. He was the project lead of Aarhus by Light and has been involved in the development of numerous projects and products based on social interaction mediated by technology, working together with public institutions and industrial partners, including LEGO Company and Bang & Olufsen.
Abstract: Cities are complex organisms, but lived life is much more than coordination and safety. How should the Future Internet support "the other half", which is hardly less complex? Building on research within the Center for Digital Urban Living (www.digitalurbanliving.dk), from journalism and civic communication to media architecture and cultural experiences, Martin Brynskov will outline some core opportunities and challenges we face as city planning becomes increasingly digitised and dynamic.
Cedric Ulmer, SAP Research
Bio: Cedric Ulmer is an SAP senior researcher working on the public services research field. He’s responsible for the Public Security and the Sustainable City topics. He sets up and works on collaborative projects, both at a French and at an EU level. Together with the SAP Business Units, he works on projects with one thing in mind: look at any new technology that can help public services customers. He holds the Telecom SudParis "Grande école" diploma, specialized in Corporate Communications at the Eurecom institute.
Abstract: Smart Cities require smartness from different actors: citizens, associations, companies, public organizations, and city organizations. In this talk, we investigate the latter, especially the role of city managers. They have needs in terms of tools and technologies, in order to cope with modern cities. In a global level, 180000 people come every day in big cities. Managing such entities is challenging. But it’s even more challenging when managers are asked to report on sustainability, economics, satisfaction. Solving such challenges requires an end-to-end view of the city. This is why this talk investigates the city managers needs, and what the Future Internet may provide in order to satisfy them.
Antonio Marques, Director of New Technologies, ETRA
[edit] 1st Session on SmartCities, Stockholm, 23. November 2009
Introduction to the Session by Alex Gluhak - Download ppt
Key note presentations
- Soft infrastructure, Duncan Wilson, ARUP Foresight Innovation + Incubation, http://www.slideshare.net/djdunc/2009-11-fia-soft-infrastructure
- Smart City Technologies, Williams, Ericsson Research - Download ppt
- Smart Cities - Urban Living Labs Supporting Regeneration through Creativity and Innovation, Dave Carter, Manchester Digital Development Agency - Download ppt
Panel discussion
- Chair Nick Wainwright
- Panellist: Duncan Wilson, Fiona William, Dave Carter, Timo Ojala
Relevant links:
- SmartCities workshop organised by EUROCITIES and EC, http://ec.europa.eu/livinglabs
- EUROCITIES 2009 conference, http://www.eurocities2009.eu/
