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2015 International Smart Cities Initiative Workshop
(SCI’15)
18 May 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Technically supported by:
Theme:
Towards a Smarter City
In the Local Context
SCI’15 Workshop
Organizing Committee
EBTIC steering board
Mohammed Al-Mualla
Khalifa University, UAE
Nasser Salim
Etisalat, UAE
Tim Whitley
BT, UK
General chairs
Nader Azarmi, EBTIC, UAE
Samer Al-Samahi, EBTIC, UAE
Organizing chair
Jason Ng, EBTIC, UAE
Program chairs
Ernesto Damiani, EBTIC, UAE
Dymitr Ruta, EBTIC, UAE
Industry/Exhibition chairs
Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, UAE
Ahmad Al-Rubaie, EBTIC, UAE
Local arrangement chairs
Anis Ouali, EBTIC, UAE
Mohammad Matar, EBTIC, UAE
Publicity chair
Rom Lee, EBTIC, UAE
Web & design chair
Leigh Powell, EBTIC, UAE
Secretariat chair
David Liu, EBTIC, UAE
Smart cities have gained widespread interests in the recent years. This has
since brought about the launch of several Smart Cities Initiatives and many
other similar programs across the various continents. However, the
understanding of the subject can differ among different smart cities'
communities, particularly across the academia, industry, and government
sectors. Likewise, the approach towards the realization of smart cities can vary
from one city to the other, depending on their standpoints and perspectives.
These are largely due to the subject matter at hand which can be rather broad
and all-encompassing in nature, hence resulting in the wide heterogeneity in
the treatment of the subject.
To meet the prevailing needs towards the “smartization” movement across the
various sectors in the UAE, the central theme of this 2015 International Smart
Cities Initiative Workshop (SCI’15) is thus set to address “Towards a Smarter
City in the Local Context”. The purpose of this workshop is aimed to distil a
smarter approach towards smart city, for the local UAE region, taking into
account the academia, industry, and government considerations in order to
attain overall win-win benefits of all the stakeholders involved. It is meant to
provide a forum to complement the ICTRF event, by gathering like-minded
communities together (for both practitioners and researchers) to network,
share and discuss the practicalities and approaches in the step towards smart
city that is not only customized but also relevant to the UAE context. This
would also aid to encourage new ideas and foster cross-collaborations among
the various communities, in a single coherent drive towards smarter city for
the overall good of the region locally.
For more information, please see the international SCI’15 workshop at
http://events.kustar.ac.ae/ictrc2015/sci2015.
organized by:
Centre of Excellence for Research and Innovation