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Data and Smart Cities

  If you had to pick a buzzword for 2019 in clean technology and data science, it would be “Smart Cities”!     This year, we’ve heard about Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs and their efforts to design one in Toronto; India and China have announced plans to redesign over 100 cities into “Smart Cities”; European countries like Norway and Finland highlight the fact that much of what is touted as a “Smart City” already exists in their systems; and plenty of people in Silicon Valley have their own ideas of what Smart Cities should be like and what they should do.     A couple of features do stand out in many of the conferences and presentations about Smart Cities - 1) Opportunities abound with an estimated market size of   $237 billion by 2025 according to one study   and 2) There’s a wide range of interpretations about what exactly makes a city “Smart”.   The most conservative definition and the one that governments and city organizations highlight is “ where traditional networks and services are

Upcoming conference on Smart Cities in Silicon Valley

  There's an interesting conference coming up in Sunnyvale, California on October 8th. The topic is "Smart Cities Innovation Day: A future outlook on urban life". The location is at one of the Valley's incubators - Plug and Play and the agenda promises to be quite interesting! Several startups are presenting, there's a panel discussion with officials from regional and city governments, and a keynote from the head of IoT at the World Economic Forum.    If you're curious, the link to register is   here.