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Summary Sentence: With a vision of advancing understanding, application, and future development of Smart City Digital Twins, this Smart City Digital Twin Convergence Workshop aims to bring together experts from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations fr
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Smart City Digital Twin WorkshopCities around the world are increasingly integrating socio-technical advancements to transform their urban systems toward smart cities. As the world continues to urbanize, convergent science, engineering and policy for urban systems is needed to ensure such transformative developments are, in fact, creating sustainable urban systems that benefit the citizens and societies at large. This requires both: (1) convergence of a variety of involved academic disciplines and practitioner expertise from city stakeholders; and (2) convergence of cyber-enabled technology systems at the human-infrastructure interface, creating a new system that can be referred to as a Smart City Digital Twin.
A digital twin is defined as a…"pairing of virtual and physical worlds [that] allows analysis of data and monitoring of systems to head off problems before they occur, prevent downtime, and even plan for the future using simulations.” (Forbes, 2017). With a vision of advancing understanding, application, and future development of Smart City Digital Twins, this Smart City Digital Twin Convergence Workshop aims to bring together experts from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations from large metropolitan areas in the United States to conceptualize a convergent socio-technological framework for delivering smarter services through Smart City Digital Twins.
AGENDA
DAY 1 — Monday, September 16 (8:00 am – 5:00 pm)
7:30am Registration, Networking + Breakfast
8:00am Welcome + Opening Remarks
8:30am Introduction to Workshop Purpose and Goals
PART 1: CURRENT SMART CITY DIGITAL TWIN EFFORTS
9:00am First Panel – Energy Infrastructure Systems
10:00am Second Panel – Water Infrastructure Systems
11:00am Networking Break
11:30am Third Panel – Mobility Infrastructure Systems
12:30pm Working Lunch – Smart City Digital Twin Flash Talks/Demos
PART 2: TOWARD A SMART CITY DIGITAL TWIN FRAMEWORK
2:00pm Kick Off Smart City Digital Twin Framework Discussion Breakouts
2:30pm Breakout Groups Discuss Elements of Framework
4:00pm Breakout Groups Report
4:30pm End of Day Summary, Discussion + Next Steps
DAY 2 — Tuesday, September 17 (8:00 am – 12:30 pm)
7:30am Networking + Breakfast
8:00am Discuss Smart City Digital Twin Framework Developed in Day 1 + Plan for Day 2
PART 3: FUTURE OF SMART CITY DIGITAL TWINNING
8:30am Kick Off Smart City Digital Twin Forward Looking Breakout Exercise
9:00am Breakout Groups Use Framework to Envision Future of Smart City Digital Twins
11:00am Breakout Groups Report
11:30am Closing Discussion + Next Steps
12:30pm Adjourn/Lunch
Organizers:
John E. Taylor (PI), Georgia Tech
Patricia Culligan (Co-PI), Columbia University
Sybil Derrible (Co-PI), University of Illinois (Chicago)
Rishee Jain (Co-PI), Stanford University
Debra Lam (Co-PI), Georgia Tech
