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Smart Building Summit 2025 with SCC participation
The Smart Building Summit 2025 is the premier event for exploring cutting-edge intelligent building innovations. Bringing together top technology firms, government leaders, and industry professionals, the summit highlights transformative solutions shaping the future of smart buildings. In its third edition, it showcases groundbreaking technologies that enhance energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and sustainability while redefining modern architecture and design. Attendees can engage in interactive sessions, collaborate with industry leaders, and drive advancements in sustainable built environments.
SCC is there to share information and widen our message. Corey Gray, SCC President is participating in a number of panel discussions while Mark Verheyen, Global Thought Leader for Smart Lighting and Smart City Technologies will talk on the 16th of January about Driving the Evolution of Intelligent Buildings. Nathan Brown, Global Thought Leader for Fire Safety, is exhibiting the latest fire safety technology with his BCA Technology team. Our IFZA parners, Jessica Caruso, Holger Schlechter and Diego Michel with Brad Seaman, SCC Global Vice President and Education & Training Lead, are enhancing SCC partnership with Light + Intelligent Building Middle East!
?? Check out the Smart Building Summit 2025 website or social media for more information!
SCC 2025 Tech report webinar
Join us for the Smart Cities Council's "2025 Tech Report" webinar, where leading experts will provide quick snapshots of game-changing technologies set to transform our urban landscapes. Discover cutting-edge innovations in AI, IoT, sustainable energy, and more that will define smart cities in 2025. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of urban technology.?
Speakers include Nicole Stephensen, Sameer Bhandari, Rignesh Soni, Cathrine Caruana-McManus, Darren Murphy, Karandeep Chadha, Tim Young, Nathan, Quadros, and Matthias Gerber!
Date: 31st of January, 2025, 12pm AEDT
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Education news across SCC
Our partners at?Zigurat Institute of Technology?are?inviting you to leverage a variety of opportunities to increase your knowledge and skills:
MASTERCLASS Smart Cities and Climate Change – Enhancing Liveability in the Age of Urban Intelligence:
?????21st January | ? 17h GMT+1 | ?? ONLINE ? ???Subscribe now: https://bit.ly/4j3lU25
Join Guillermo Coral, Architect and Urbanist, for a session on how cross-disciplinary collaboration drives intelligent infrastructure, adaptive design, and citizen-centric solutions. Learn how the Smart City model addresses sustainability, inclusivity, and urban resilience. Explore how these principles shape the ZIGURAT Master's in Smart City Management, preparing leaders for climate change challenges.
MASTERCLASS Open source Generative AI tools: Tips & Tricks
?????23rd January | ? 17h GMT+1 | ?? ONLINE? ???Subscribe now:?https://bit.ly/4h5rak8
Join Pablo Aumente Gallego, Architect and Founder of Brave Studio GmbH, for a dynamic, hands-on session where you'll uncover practical tips and tools to transform your projects with Generative AI. Open to creators, innovators, and tech enthusiasts, this highly visual and expert-led masterclass delivers actionable insights to harness the power of AI—no prior experience needed!
MASTERCLASS?From Data to Equitable Workplaces: The VDC Revolution
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In this masterclass,?Clare Taylor, a specialist in 4D, Visualization, and Virtual Design and Construction, explored technologies that support VDC environments and demonstrated how digitalization can foster inclusive, equitable workplaces. She highlighted the power of data in delivering project insights, enhancing control over time, cost, and quality, and promoting safer working environments.
Latest Global Thought Leader News
Our Global Thought Leaders bring you the most prevalent and important information of their domains from across the globe.
Symposium on Sustainable Cities Development with Mark Verheyen
The APEC Symposium on Sustainable Cities Development highlighted innovation and collaboration in advancing sustainable urban growth in the Asia-Pacific. Mark Verheyen, the Smart Cities Council's Global Thought Leader for Smart Lighting and Technology, showcased how interoperability in smart lighting can enhance energy efficiency, urban safety, and municipal collaboration. Key discussions included green infrastructure, low-carbon cities, and inclusive development strategies. Verheyen’s contributions reflect his commitment to practical, innovative solutions for smarter, sustainable cities.
The Drivers for Connectivity Make Room for Access?
John Brooks, Smart Cities Council’s Global Thought Leader for Regional Communities, highlights the vital role of technology access in transforming lives. He emphasises how connectivity enables real-time access to services like healthcare and education. Achieving universal access, especially in rural areas, requires strong government leadership and integrated systems. Brooks envisions global access within a decade, with governments key to this goal.?
News from across the Smart Cities space
These success stories are what create the better, more beautiful and resilient future for everyone.?
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NXP Collaborates with Shenzhen Tong to Enable the Industry’s First UWB-Based Mass Transit Solution?
NXP Semiconductors and Shenzhen Tong have introduced the industry's first ultra-wideband (UWB)-based mass transit ticketing system in Shenzhen, China. Utilizing NXP's Trimension UWB technology, this system allows commuters to pass through transit gates without the need to tap a card or phone, enhancing convenience and efficiency. The solution has been implemented at Pingshan High-Speed Railway Station and SMIC Station, with plans to expand to all 11 stations of the Yunba Line by the end of October 2024.
Improving Response Through Smart Technology?
Hillsborough County, Florida, has improved fire and medical emergency response times using advanced technologies. Covering over 900 square miles, the County implemented a GIS-based dispatch system and cellular vehicle tracking to send the nearest unit to emergencies. Traffic preemption and priority flow enhancements further boost efficiency. While some upgrades are ongoing, these efforts have already reduced response times, enhancing safety and quality of life for residents.?
Single use election sign waste diversion creates a sustainable energy alternative?
During the 2024 primary and general elections, Orange County, Florida, government resumed planning with municipal partners from the City of Orlando, City of Winter Park and the League of Women Voters of Orange County for an innovative waste diversion and recycling program. During the 2020 election cycle, 5,380 pounds of campaign signs were diverted from the landfill followed by the 2022 election season when 11,140 pounds were diverted from the landfill. Planning for the 2024 election cycle began in June, election sign drop off locations were finalized, collection dates were established and social media messaging was developed to share the information with residents and political campaigns. In August 2024, 14,000 signs weighing 1,800 pounds were diverted from the landfill and in December 2024, 35,000 signs weighing 3,800 pounds were sent to NuCycle Energy in Plant City, Florida. NuCycle shreds election signs and compresses the material with wood and other fibers to manufacture Enviro-Fuelcubes (EFC's). These EFC's are used by cement and electrical power industries to replace coal as a cleaner energy source. The metal frames were removed from each sign and recycled locally in Central Florida.?
Germany’s International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) with a new season of its “Global Mixer” format?
The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) is a project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building to foster knowledge exchange between Smart Cities in Germany and the international environment. One of its formats, the "ISCN Global Mixer", brings you fresh inputs for Smart City Development from around the world, each in less than 30 minutes. Join us in Q1 with weekly exciting inputs and potential onramps for collaboration! Topics will range from Smart City Peer-Exchange among 12 European cities through the programme #connectedinEurope, to Open Data Provision with a Sample Data Catalogue, a Green Wave Assistant for Cycle Traffic, a Digital Twin for Urban Planning from a medium-sized German city and more.
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# Latest Podcast episodes and Webinars
What happened in 2024 and what is in for 2025?
SCC members gathered from all around the world in December and shared their experiences throughout the year, from the States, to Europe, Australia and the Middle East, organised by Junaid Islam and Robyn Francis. They also discussed what is in for 2025 with many aspirations and positive messages. We thank for all the participants who took the time to share because through our members comes clear that SCC is indeed a world leading advocacy group to ensure that we create a more beautiful and resilient future for everyone, and that technology is serving people (and not the other way around).
Why do we need to ask the hard questions?
"The future of cities is really something that is in our power to shape it if we are really getting involved."?
Junaid Islam, SCC Global Thought Leader for Cyber Security, talked about?his vision for the future of cities, greenery as a crucial element, getting involved, hard and soft infrastructure, and many more on the What is The Future for Cities? Podcast' 286th episode.
Junaid Islam has 35 years of experience developing network protocols from MPLS routing for global Internet communications in the 90s to interference aware routing for NASA’s upcoming Artemis Moon mission. Over the past few years Junaid has focused on ensuring data is secure as it moves from sensors and imaging systems to AI based resource management programs in Smart Cities.?
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We would like to showcase our members' awesome achievements to the world so let us know if you have great news to share in an audio and video format!
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