Presentation Videos from Global Tech Jam on Smart Cities

We are pleased to bring you 38 presentation videos from the 2018 Global Tech Jam on Smart Cities. Welcome to the Video Gallery of presentations from the 2018 Global Tech Jam in Portland. Bringing together forward-looking research institutions, federal agencies, leading private sector companies, and municipalities interested in preparing their … [Read more...]

Global Tech Jam: Smart Buildings Action Cluster

 In this video from the Global Tech Jam 2018, Jean Rice from NTIA and Limor Schafman from the Telecommunications Industry Association presents: Smart Buildings Action Cluster. The Smart Buildings Action Cluster (SBAC) will focus on smart buildings within the environment of communities on a local and regional level. There are a number of issues … [Read more...]

Global Tech Jam: Public Safety Supercluster

 In this video from the Global Tech Jam 2018, Michael Dunaway from the NIMSAT Informatics Research Institute University of Louisiana at Lafayette presents: Public Safety Supercluster. The Public Safety SuperCluster (PSSC) of the Global City Teams Challenge is a public-private partnership dedicated to identifying technologies, processes and … [Read more...]

Global Tech Jam: Smart City Community Services in Saitama City

In this video from the Global Tech Jam 2018, Hiroaki Nishi presents: Smart City Community Services in Saitama City. Smart communities, smart cities, smart towns, and similar smart terminologies are trending recently, along with the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Cloud, as popular new information and communication technologies (ICTs). This paper … [Read more...]

Global Tech Jam: Fiware Action Cluster

In this video from the Global Tech Jam 2018, Jose Gonzalez presents: Fiware Action Cluster. The Fiware mission is to develop an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards that will ease the creation of Smart Applications in multiple sectors. Sign up for our insideBIGDATA … [Read more...]

Global Tech Jam Event for Smart Cities returns to Portland in June

The Global Tech Jam conference is coming up June 20-22 in Portland, Oregon. This symposium will provide a leading venue for the presentation of the highest-quality original research, groundbreaking ideas, and compelling insights on future trends in Smart City Technology and Deployment. The Second Annual Global Tech Jam returns to Portland to … [Read more...]

Call for Papers: Global Tech Jam on Smart Cities in Portland

The Global Tech Jam conference on Smart Cities has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 20-22 in Portland, Oregon. In collaboration with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Emerging Interest Group (EIG) on Smart Cities and Communities (SCC), we will be hosting a Technical Papers Symposium as part of Tech Jam. This … [Read more...]

Video: Why Build a Smart City?

In this video, city planners describe the challenges facing ever-growing urban centers and how the Smart Cities approach will benefit everyone. What if a street light was capable of more than simply illuminating the street? Imagine a lamp post that could help lower civic costs, increase efficiencies, drive economic growth, engage citizens, and … [Read more...]