Conference – Smart Cities: Myth or reality?
Next January 14th 2016 the UB Chair in Smart Cities is organizing the conference ‘Smart Cities: Myth or reality?‘at the Aula Magna – Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The main goal of the conference is to bring together experts from the worlds of academia, public administration and business to debate the following questions: 1) What is a smart city exactly? 2) If smart cities are better than other cities, what makes them better? 3) How can the collection of big data help create better cities? 4) What type of policies can be designed to create smarter cities?
Keynotes address: ‘What works for cities: will smart cities help us make better choices?’, Henry Overman (London School of Economics).
Register your free attendance HERE. More information HERE.
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