What lessons can we learn from real-world implementations that successfully navigate the interesting tension between top down versus bottom up design of urban technology?

On October 22-23rd, Intel  will explore this and other questions pertaining to the challenges facing future cities as paty of its 2013  European Research and Innovation Conference (ERIC), which will hosted together with the annual Research at Intel Europe (R@IE) showcase in Nice, France, close to the home to Intel’s High Performance Computing and Wireless Labs.

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The theme of this year’s conference is “Building a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive society through Research and Innovation partnership” and there will be a number of distinct focus areas included within the event: Networking, Mobility, HPC Exascale, Connected Cities and System on Chip (SoC) Architecture.

For the third year running, David Prendergast, an ICRI Cities Principal Investigator is responsible for organising the Connected Cities and Communities track in the conference. The theme for 2013 is “City Life” and speakers have been asked to provide insights around how we synthesise scalable city platforms with local community needs, practices and aspirations.  What lessons can we learn from the recipes that have worked over time?

Selected partners from the Intel research ecosystem, including Academic and Intel Researchers as well as leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of future cities are invited to speak in order to bring together a potent mixture of perspectives, approaches and challenging discussions. Speakers and delegates have ample opportunities to network with experts across academia, industry & government organizations as well as press and analysts from around the world.

Attendance is by invitation only and whilst places are very limited, ICRI Cities has access to a small number of spaces that it can make available to potential delegates. Readers are welcome to register their interest by contacting david.k.prendergast@intel.com.

Vaiva Kalnikaite and Sarah Gallacher, both from ICRI-Cities at UCL in London will jointly present their work on gathering and representing community data using novel input and visualisation mediums.  The presentation will include details of two in the wild studies that were conducted at two scales within a city environment – 1) in a “dead” workplace building and 2) in a “divided” community.  The first study looks at how lightweight and playful technology interventions can encourage greater levels of social connectedness within a “dead” workplace environment where physical interactions and a sense of community are typically low.  The second study looks at how a technology intervention has been used to challenge the strongly held belief of a social divide in an urban community.

Conference Schedule

Day 1 – Tuesday 22 October

Start Time

Activity

Presenter

8:30

Arrival & Registration

9:30

Conference Opening Martin Curley (Intel), Gabriel Crean (CEA), Christian Estrosi (MP & Mayor of Nice)

10:00

Research@Intel Europe Technology Showcase

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Welcome to the Connected Cities Track Martin Curley & David Prendergast

13:15

Sustainable Intelligent Systems Charles Sheridan, Intel Labs Europe

13:45

Hyperlocal technology and social sustainability: how to empower local communities Mandeep Hothi, Young Foundation

14:15

City Intelligence as an enabler for Sustainable Cities Bernd Wachmann & Christian Schwingenschlögl, Siemens

14:45

Coffee Break

15:15

Welcome back to the track David Prendergast / Keith Ellis

15:20

SmartSantander Uncut – From City to Citizen provided Infrastructures Alex Gluhak, Surrey University

15:50

Community data gathering & visualisation Sarah Gallacher & Vaiva Kalnikaite, ICRI Cities

16:20

ICT for Urban Water Management Philippe Gourbesville, University of Nice

16:50

Closing comments David Prendergast / Keith Ellis

17:00

Free Time

17:30

Drinks Reception

19:00

Awards Ceremony Intel University Program Office

19:15

Bus Transfers to Nice City Centre and Harbour

 

Day 2 – Wednesday 23rd October

Start Time

Activity

Presenter

8:30

Intel ERIC 2013 Opening & Welcome Martin Curley

8:55

Keynote Speaker Steve Pawlowski – Snr Intel Fellow

9:20

Plenary introduction Martin Curley

9:30

Innovation as a Growth Engine for Europe Peter Droell – Head of Policy Development for Industrial Innovation, EC

9:45

Smart Grid – Smart Europe Laurent Schmitt – VP Alstom Grid

10:00

Integrated Computing – the Next Wave Philip Moynagh – Intel Director, Low Power Embedded Processors

10:15

Speaker 4  TBC TBC

10:30

Closing Comments Martin Curley

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Welcome back to the track David Prendergast / Keith Ellis

11:05

Intelligent Cities – Hype or the Shape of Things to Come? Jen Hawes-Hewitt, Accenture

11:35

Walking the Talk: Sensors & the City Katz Kiely, Loop Labs

12:05

Stories from the Grid Laurent Schmitt, Alstom Grid

12:35

Lunch

13:30

Welcome back to the track David Prendergast / Keith Ellis

13:35

CityWatch: Participatory Sensing for Smart and Sustainable Cities Melanie Bouroche, Trinity College Dublin

14:05

Energy awareness solutions – empowering citizens Regis Decorme, CSTB

14:35

Prototyping the (Smart) City Henrik Korsgaard, CAVI, Aarhus University

15:05

Towards a Capability Maturity Framework for Digital Cities Giovanni Maccanni, Innovation Value Institute

15:35

Closing comments David Prendergast / Keith Ellis

15:45

Coffee, Networking, ERIC Close