How Will Big Data Enable the Future of Smart Cities? Green Drinks September Forum

24 Sep

How Will Big Data Enable the Future of Smart Cities? Green Drinks September Forum

24-09-2015 18:30 - 21:00
Arup Associates, Shanghai

Join Green Initiatives for our first event of the brand new event series, 'Building for the Future', to be held at Arup Shanghai from September to December 2015.

As the world begins to look beyond the now almost-obsolete ‘Eco’ Cities concept towards ‘Smart' Cities as the model for our sustainable urban future, more advanced information management tools and data are needed to provide for such cities' public amenities, infrastructure and all kinds of services. This is where big data comes in. By implementing monitoring and security systems to generate, process, and utilize data on cities' water, electricity, transportation, and other necessities we could perhaps lay the foundation towards more energy-efficient, climate-resilient and healthier cities.

Some questions we would be looking to answer through this forum are: What types of information or data management tools and technologies are out there? What are types of information are gleaned from these technologies? How does this relate to big data and how is this data being used to improve cities? What are the challenges to realise these technologies in our cities? Who are the key stakeholders?

Join us at Arup Shanghai, to learn about how big data is the next step for building and achieving the Smart City dream.

Note: An entrance fee of ¥30 will be collected from all registered guests, while non-registered guests or those who show up at the door directly would be required to pay ¥50.

Event Itinerary:

18.00 – 19.00: Registration and networking
19.00 – 20.00: Speaker Presentations
(2-3 speakers for a max. of 15-20min each, incl. a 5-minute Q&A slot between each presentation - asked by the moderator or other speakers)
20.00 – 20.30: Q&A session open to the audience
20.30 – 20.45: Break into small networking groups with the speakers
20:45 – 21:15: Drinks and networking

Speakers:

Kin Puan Wong
Subject: Kin Puan would present the opportunities for cities to become ‘smarter’ through emerging trends and technologies such as Big Data and Internet of Things.
Background: Kin Puan Wong is a Senior Consultant at Arup Shanghai, responsible for developing Arup’s Smart Cities and Big Data businesses in China. He received his MSc in Operational Research from London School of Economics and a BSc in Computer Science from Warwick University. Kin Puan has a unique combination of project management, business analysis and enterprise architecture expertise to deliver complex projects integrating people, processes and technologies. He is also capable of working across the project lifecycle covering requirement analysis, solution design, technical architecture, package selection, quality assurance, testing and client training.

Fabien Pfaender
Subject: Massive crowed sourced data, new tools and open innovation spaces made by and for citizens are slowly changing the face of the cities themselves. Through various real life use case, Fabien will demonstrate how citizens generate data, how we can capture them and use it to create new smart services for health, mobility and culture energy or governance.
Background: Fabien is data scientist and associate Professor at ComplexCity Lab, a sino-french collaboration to study cities by merging engineering and humanities sciences. He has expertise in gathering data from web related services (social network, websites scraping), data exploration with data science techniques, and design of meaningful interactive visualizations on various platforms with various languages. Since 2011 he has been working for UTS Group in Shanghai where he is coordinating and developing ComplexCity Lab in China. He is leading an international workgroup to develop a High Performance Storage Infrastructure to provide urban datasets to all ComplexCity lab affiliate researchers. He is also the principal investigator and leader of the Dynamic City project of french investment for the future "digital city" (2012-2015).

Kalo Wang
Subject: The new era of using ‘Big Data’ to empower customers with better user experience in modern industries.
Background: Kalo Wang is an applied big data specialist. He is the CEO of Dynamic Data and executive director of Loop Advertising Group. In 2009, he founded a big data monitorinng insitute called BuzzReader and then BuzzReader was merged by Publicis Groupe which is the 3rd biggest marketing group in the world. In 2013, he founded the Big Data Solution company - Dynamic Data, focusing on data management and serving over 30 of the world's top 500 enterprises.

Note:
Arup Shanghai is a partner in Green Initiatives' Fiber Project. In case any of our attendees have clothing that they would like to discard/recycle, they are free to bring them to Arup and deposit it in the bin at the venue.