If you wish to participate, leave a comment here or apply here (in Dutch): http://www.greenspread.nl/nieuws/deelnemerscityzen/
'Nordic Edge –Smarter Cities, Smarter Homes' is a smart cities conference and expo taking place in Stavanger, Norway on 6-7 October
Nordic Edge is an essential arena for anyone interested in making cities, communities, companies and homes smarter.
When the UK leaves the EU, Europe loses a very important country with regards to science and research. And the Netherlands loses an important ally in e.g. negotiations for the Digital Single Market.
However, chances are the UK will stay an Associated Country for subsidy programmes as Horizon 2020. The Brexit referendum outcome does affect the ICT sector directly: investors are reluctant to invest in British companies. Read more about Brexit and urban challenges in Dutch in my blog on the website of the Amsterdam Economic Board.
Following the successful OPTICITIES study visits and tutorial sessions in Bordeaux, Lyon, Madrid and Glasgow, registration for the study visit of 8 July in Birmingham is now open via http://bit.ly/1UARS21
The event is organised at the Innovation Birmingham Campus and will combine expert presentations and live demonstrations focusing on innovative urban ITS services:
* Introduction to OPTICITIES project
* Transport policy: Birmingham Connected / WMCA
* Data management / open data platform / Multimodal datasets / Potential for C-ITS
* Use of traffic prediction in OCR
* Freight journey time reliability and driver assist services
The study visit is limited to 35 persons. Registration is mandatory and participation is free of charge. City delegates could get EUROCITIES support for their travel costs, please contact the Eurocities contact person in your municipality for that. Please register as soon as possible and before 1st July 2016.
Cities that are interested in applying for financial support through the Connecting Europe Facility in order to introduce the OPTICITIES multimodal dataset and open ITS architecture are invited to sign the New Mobility Services Memorandum http://bit.ly/1MiTJuy published by the Smart Cities Action Cluster on Urban Mobility.
By signing up for the OPTICITIES Stakeholder Platform - http://www.opticities.com/stakeholder-forum/online-forum - you can download our latest technical reports and deployment guidelines on multimodal data integration in large cities, road works data collection, contractual arrangements between public and private stakeholders, Multimodal Urban Mobility Database model and architecture, assessment methodology for Transport policies in urban areas and more.
You are still in time to showcase your groundbreaking research in ICT at the WCN and Cloudscape Brazil 2016 workshops.
Deadline extended until 30 June!
EUBrasilCloudFORUM is collecting position papers from all stakeholders interested in the Workshop on Cloud Networks and Cloudscape Brazil 2016 (6-7 July, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil), the forum for EU-BR Co-operation on ICT: http://eubrasilcloudforum.eu/wcn-cloudscape-brazil-2016-csbc-2016-porto-alegre-rs-brasil
Position papers will be used to draft a research Roadmap on cloud computing, identifying collaboration needs and opportunities between Europe and Brazil for the European Commission and to the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTI), contributing to the definition of future cooperation priorities between the two regions. Position Papers will be the basis of a White Paper to be submitted to the EC and MCTI before the EU-Brazil Policy Dialogues in ICT in November 2016.
The new deadline for submission is Thursday 30 June 2016WCN & Cloudscape Brazil 2016 Focus themes:
•Legal framework for data protection in the cloud: experiences and lessons learnt from Europe and Brazil
•Security trade-off vs. performance
•Cloud & IoT - Challenges of integrating big data and IoT using cloud as an enabler
•Data streaming and big data analytic services - processing massive data in real-time
•Trustworthy cloud platforms and services
•Cross-domain orchestration and programmable networks in clouds
•Data flow and portability of data: remedies to vendor lock-in
•Building a culture of transparency for customer-friendly SLAs.
Submit your Position Paper online here________________________________________
*About* The EU-Brazil Dialogue in the Information Society [<http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?pg=brazi>l\] field between the European Commission and Brazilian authorities - covering aspects of policy, regulation and research & development cooperation in the ICT sector - has been strengthened over the last years and has been made annual since 2008. By involving high-level EU and Brazilian opinion leaders, EUBrasilCloudFORUM will map the current regulatory frameworks in Europe and Brazil to support EU and Brazilian governments and funding agencies in the development of a joint ICT market for the benefit of IT providers, IT companies, research institutes as well as citizens. The EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap will contribute to review new methods and processes, and to map which new technologies can ensure not only security but also interoperability between different private and public clouds, which will provide the future IT infrastructure and applications.Cloudscape Brazil 2016 is organized by EUBrasilCloudFORUM together with the Workshop on Cloud Networks (WCN) in the frame of the annual Conference of the Brazilian Computing Society (CSBC), 4-7 July 2016.
Technological developments are changing the labor market rapidly. The Amsterdam Economic Board has the ambition for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to have the most adaptive and appealing labor market of Europe in 2025. Mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, amongst others, will tell you more about the challenge 'Jobs of the Future' at the event.
