Build your knowledge about smart cities for the future, and gain insight on the European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities and how it relates to activities across Australia and QUT at our upcoming Distinguished Visitor Lecture.
OVERVIEW
Towards Open Urban Platforms: How Smart City Services Benefit from Urban Data
The European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities has brought together more than 4,000 stakeholders in Europe and abroad to work on transforming cities and communities towards sustainable and more liveable cities. Several lead initiatives have been initiated and the EU Commission has provided more than € 250 million in funding to support innovation actions in cities across Europe. The lead initiative on Open Urban Platforms has become a key driver. Under the leadership of Greater London Authority, more than eighty cities have defined their requirements on how to use urban data for new smart city services. Based on this, the German standards organisation DIN has launched a standard on Open Urban Platform, which has recently been adopted.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Lutz Heuser, CEO [ui!] Group
Lutz Heiser is a highly experienced technology leader and strategist with over 25 years experience in the ICT industry, who shaped one of Europe’s most significant Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities. As CEO of the [ui!] Group, he manages one of the most successful group of start-up companies on smart city solutions with operations in Germany, USA, Hungary, and Australia. In 2016, [ui!] was among the winners of the German Digital Leader Award for its innovative platform for urban traffic infrastructure.
Formerly, as Global Head of SAP Research, Lutz led some of the European Union’s most significant strategic ICT programs, which directly led to the germination of the Internet of Things concept and its application in the domain of Smart Cities. Lutz’s deep technical knowledge in advanced ICT systems and significant track record working with leading industry partners and governments at all levels have allowed him to take on a leading role in the development of the Smart Cities concept across Europe. Currently, he chairs the two leading standard groups of Smart City technology in Germany. He also is Chairman and Founder of the Smart City Forum, the largest network for digital transformation in cities in Germany, and is the Chairman of the Action Cluster ‘Sustainable Urban Mobility’ of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities. Lutz is a Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt and an adjunct professor at QUT. He holds an honorary doctoral degree from the Technical University of Dresden.
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