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: 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: 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...]

Ranking the TOP100 Smart Cities

While numerous projects on Smart Cities dot the globe, which community is in the lead? According to a study published by the good folks at EasyPark, the city of Copenhagen has the highest ranking of all the Smart Cities. Singapore and Stockholm come in at number 2 and 3 respectively. At EasyPark, our ambition is to build more livable cities for … [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...]

A Rolling Development Platform for Autonomous Cars

In this video from SC17 in Denver, Bobby Hambrick from AutonomouStuff describes the company's rolling development platform for self-driving cars. AutonomouStuff is the world’s leader in supplying components used within autonomy systems. The company got its start when CEO Bobby Hambrick noticed a large gap in the industry's supply chain. He … [Read more...]

Interview: ACM Forms Special Interest Group on Smart Cities

In this video, Wilf Pinfold from Urban.Systems describes the Smart Cities Emerging Interest Group, a new addition to ACM. What is a Smart City? The way we like to think about it is that bringing technology to make a city more livable, more workable, more enjoyable to live in, it starts to qualify as smart city. Now there are a lot of ways in which … [Read more...]