Weiming Shen IEEE SMCS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Fellow
National Research Council of Canada
Univ. Western Ontario and McMaster Univ., Canada
Title: IoT and Big Data with Smart Applications
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects as well as their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. It is related to a number of disciplines and technologies that enable the Internet to reach out into the real world of physical objects and their environments. It has been hailed as the most potentially disruptive technological revolution of our lifetime after the Web and mobile accessibility. It becomes even more promising with smart applications like smart cities, smart Grid, smart factories, smart buildings, smart homes, and smart cars. On the other hand, Big Data is a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing technologies are inadequate. It has recently been considered as a technology and become a very active research area primarily involving topics related to machine learning, database, and distributed computing. It has been claimed that “the success or failure of the Internet of Things hinges on Big Data”. Based on many years of first-hand experience, this talk will provide an overview of IoT and Big Data, including stat-of-the-art and future trends, with a focus on how IoT and Big Data are linked with and applied in various industrial domains and societies.
Biography: Dr. Weiming Shen is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada and an Adjunct Professor at University of Western Ontario and McMaster University. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SMC Society. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO). He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, China and his PhD degree from the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. He is an internationally-recognized expert on Agent-Based Collaborative Technologies and Applications. During the past eight years, he has been leading a number of major projects on IoT and Big Data with smart applications (Smart Home, Smart Building, and Smart Factory). He has published several books and over 350 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas. His work has been cited over 8,000 times with an h-index of 43. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of over ten international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; IEEE Transaction on SMC: Systems; IEEE SMC Magazine; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Buildings International; Service Computing and Applications) and served as guest editor for several other international journals.
IEEE CS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE e-Government Chair
Open & Smart Gov Specialist
Barcelona, Spain
Title: The city as Open Innovation Laboratory
Abstract: Governments (and governmental units) are using technologies and networks in order to be more efficient and effective to provide better services to the citizen. The information society is transforming everything, and public administrations, governments and the cities that are being governed too. However, technology is only a tool, and technology management is key. In this context, the urban habitat, characterized by a big number of individuals, it is -at the same time- a big knowledge container. This characteristic and the technological tools that nowadays exist, allow us explore and experiment new services supported by elements as public-private-people-partnership (P4). Apps implementation and open government data use and re-use, are examples of it, and Open & Smart Government are nowadays trends where technology has an important role. This speech explains how Open Innovation is a powerful tool for public organizations in municipalities, in order to be a Smart City oriented municipality. We speak on public services and how Living Labs and Urban Labs are being linked with Smart Cities concept, and how it links the Smart Gov with the Government and Smart Cities view.
Biography: Carlos E. Jiménez (@estratic) is a Computer Engineer with a MSc. On Information and Knowledge Society, and Postgraduate degree on Information Systems Management. His main interests are focused on Open & Smart Gov, e-Justice and Interoperability. Carlos has experience in innovative and strategic projects within the Public Administration –field where he has been working since 1991-, but also as a professional consultant. Latest eight years he has been working on the design and implementation of the e-Justice system of Catalonia, a project that has been prizewinner for several times in Spain. He has participated in strategic projects at national and international level, as the International Collaborative Mechanism on Public Software (IDB, Red GEALC, all Latin-American countries), the e-Government Interoperability Guide (Brazil), or the e-Government Ibero-American Interoperability Framework (CLAD), ratified by 21 countries. He also has participated in researches at national and international level. Appointed by IEEE Smart Cities Committee as speaker for the 2014 ITU/UNESCO Forum on Smart Sustainable Cities, Carlos is founder and chair of the IEEE e-Government initiative.
He was awarded by United Nations in 2005 with the “Online Volunteer of the Year Award” for contributions to the UN Millennium Development Goal #8.
Director of the Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
University of Waterloo
Canada
Title: Smart Mobility: The Essential Ingredient for Building the Smart Cities of the Future
Abstract: Smart city initiatives aim at tackling the ever-increasing problems caused by rapid population growth in urban areas. It is expected that more than 1.5 trillion dollars will be spent in such initiatives within the next decade, and large budgets have already been allocated by countries around the world to study, design and build more sustainable and livable cities, we call them “smart cities”. “Smart mobility” represents a corner stone and an integral component of the smart city concept. It deals with the design of a more efficient, more intelligent, and safer transportation systems that are better suited and more adapted to latest advances in information and communication technologies, including 5G networks and Internet of things. With more than a billion vehicles on the roads today, a number expected to increase by 250% by 2050, the design of highly efficient and safer transportation systems is becoming a necessity. This is a major challenge for car manufacturers, road infrastructure planners, and transportation policy makers. For instance, it is well accepted, that building more roads and related conventional transportation infrastructure will not resolve by itself, the ever increasing traffic congestion problems. The talk highlights newly developed technologies allowing for the design of next generation mobility systems. These enabling technologies represent the core of the smart mobility concept and have become available thanks to spectacular advances made in the fields of machine intelligence, smart devices, sensor networks, big data analytics and Internet of things. They allow for the design of more intelligent vehicles, permit safer travel journeys and smarter transportation networks, while significantly reducing traffic congestion, road fatalities and injuries, fuel consumption and pollution. The talk also outlines recent achievements and promising directions in the field, while highlighting challenges toward achieving short and long-term goals of building more livable and more sustainable cities of the future.
Biography: Fakhreddine Karray holds the University Research Chair Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada and co-Directs the University’s Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He received the Ing. Dip degree (in electrical engineering), from ENIT, Tunisia and the PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA in the area of systems and control. Karray’s current research interests are in the areas of intelligent systems design, big data analytics, soft computing, sensor fusion, and context aware machines with applications to intelligent transportation systems, Internet of things, cognitive robotics and natural manmachine interaction. He has authored over 350 technical articles, a textbook on soft computing and intelligent systems, six edited textbooks and 24 textbook chapters. He holds 15 US patents. He has chaired/co-chaired 14 international conferences in his area of expertise and has served as keynote/plenary speaker on numerous occasions. He has also served as the associate editor/guest editor for more than 14 journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning, the IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. He is the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter in Kitchener- Waterloo, Canada. He received a number of national and international awards, amongst which the Premier Research Excellence Award and several Best Paper Awards. He will be featured in an upcoming issue of MIT’s Technology Review Magazine (Arabic version). Dr. Karray is the co-founder of Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. and Voice Enabling Systems Technology Inc., two spinoff companies of the University of Waterloo, founded to commercialize research ideas developed in his lab. He is also a founding member and past Vice President of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF).