IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2018)
The Fourth IEEE Annual International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2018) will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, USA during September 16 – 19, 2018. As the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community that is a coalition of six IEEE technical societies and organizations, ISC2-2018 will bring together researchers and practitioners in a collaborative smart cities discussion, including scholars, citizens, policymakers, administrators, infrastructure operators, industry representatives, economists, sociologists, and academicians. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass panels, plenary talks, technical sessions, tutorials, workshops and exhibitions.
Conference Theme: A Systems Approach for Smarter Communities
As we continue to layer new technology on top of and within our cities and infrastructure, we are forced to confront the complex interplay between our technology systems and our service delivery systems that make our communities attractive and welcoming to the people who live there. We talk broadly about the health care system or the education system, and we acknowledge the regional nature of transportation systems, energy and water systems, and even food systems. As sensors, data, connectivity, networks, and analytics offer opportunities to improve each of these systems independently, the common elements of the technology infrastructure offer more opportunities for interoperability across systems and to reframe how we optimize and make decisions about these systems. Better transportation can help provide access to food and healthcare, for example, or smart lighting can address energy consumption and public safety. Yet the more we focus on the system, how do we maintain an appreciation of the people within the system as complex, unique individuals with disparate values rather than simply as nodes in a network? How do we balance the opportunity for shared efficiency with the heightened risks of linking things together? The technical and social challenges we encounter in this work are the foundation for the 4th International IEEE Smart Cities Conference.
Co-Located Workshops
- Smart Cities Architecture Viewpoints Workshop by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) Aspiring PI Workshop
- International Workshop on BLockchain Enabled Sustainable Smart Cities (BLESS)
- International Workshop on 5G Communication, Security and Privacy in Smart Cities
Conference Site
Venue:
The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
Address: 1 E Pershing Rd, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Conference Dates:
September 16 – 19, 2018
Important Dates:
- Conference: September 16 – 19, 2018 (Sunday – Wednesday)
Workshop paper camera-ready submission: August 15, 2018 (Wednesday)Conference paper camera-ready submission: August 5, 2018 (Sunday)Poster/Demo submission deadline: July 20, 2018 (Friday)Workshop Papers submission deadline: July 15, 2018 (Sunday)Main technical paper notification: July 13, 2018 (Friday)Paper submission firm deadline: June 1, 2018 (Friday)
Kansas City
Kansas City is one of the five IEEE Core Smart Cities in the world.
IEEE Core Smart Cities and Affiliated Smart Cities.
IEEE Smart Cities
The IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community brings together IEEE’s broad array of technical societies and organizations to advance the state of the art for smart city technologies for the benefit of society and to set the global standard in this regard by serving as a neutral broker of information amongst industry, academic, and government stakeholders.
Partner Organizational Units of IEEE Smart Cities include:
- IEEE Communications Society
- IEEE Control Systems Society
- IEEE Industry Applications Society
- IEEE Power & Energy Society
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
- Council on Electronic Automation Design
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