Plenary Talks
| Plenary Talk II | Could the Smart City Improve the Resilience and Sustainability of Urban Systems? |
| Date / Time | 1 June 2018, Friday / 13:30 - 15:00 hrs |
| Speaker | Dr. Isam Shahrour, Tongji University (China) and Lille University (France) |
| Chairs | Hongwei Huang, Limin Zhang |
The Smart City concept is based on the use of the digital technology and social innovation to improve the efficiency and safety of urban systems. Through large-scale monitoring of built environment, unbuilt environment as well as urban services and practices, it provides large data about urban systems. Analysis of these data using advanced tools such as Big-Data and Artificial intelligence enhances our understanding of the real behavior of urban systems as well as users and their interaction during “normal” events and urban disasters. It helps also to develop forecasting model for urban systems and to use these models to improve the efficiency and safety of urban systems, which constitute the basis for the development of sustainable and resilient cities. The conference includes three parts. The first part proposes to revisit urban challenges with particular focus on sustainability and resiliency and then to figure out research and developments needs to meets these challenges. The second part presents the Smart City concept and lessons learned from some projects, with focus on successes and failures in smart city implementation. The final part discusses how the Smart City concept could help to improve the resilience and sustainability of urban systems and discusses some issues to guarantee its successful implementation.
| Biography |
Graduated from the National School of Bridges and Roads (Ponts et Chaussées - Paris), Isam Shahrour is strongly involved in the research, higher education and partnership with the socio-economic sector. He was Vice President "Research and doctoral program" at the University Lille1 (2007 - 2012) and president of the Innovation Agency "Lille Metropole Technopole" for regional economic development via innovation. Currently, he is director of the Regional Research Laboratory "Civil and Geo-Environment Engineering - LGCgE" and head of the international master "Urban Engineering and Habitat."He coordinates a large-scale Smart City demonstrator "SunRise). His research activity concerns Smart and sustainable Cities as well as Geotechnical and geo-environmental Engineering. He conducted an intensive research activity with industrial partnership. His activity resulted in about 100 refereed journal papers and supervised 60 PhD dissertations. He gave about 15 lectures on the smart city concept and implementation, including a TEDx talk.
