Smart University Towns (SUNTOWNS) Workshop
April 12, 2017, Gainesville, Florida
Venue: Hilton University of Florida Conference Center.
7:30 AM: Registration and Breakfast
8:15 AM: Group Photo
8:30 AM: Opening Session
Welcome by José Fortes and UF President W. K. Fuchs.
On Demand Video (Jose Fortes) starts at 0:00:00
On Demand Video (President Kent Fuchs) starts at 0:00:50
8:45 AM:
Invited Talk: NSF Initiatives in Smart and Connected Communities
Speaker: Meghan Houghton, Staff Associate in the CISE Office of the Assistant Director, National Science Foundation, and co-chair of the Network and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Smart Cities and Communities Task Group, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 7:18
9:30 AM:
Invited Talk: Top 10 Signs of a Smart Community
Speaker: Glenn Ricart, Founder and CTO of US Ignite, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 0:54:16
10:00 AM: Break
10:30 AM:
Invited Talk: Data Analytics and Embedded Systems for Understanding Cities
Speaker: Charlie Catlett, Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 1:28:39
11:00 AM:
Invited Talk: Smart University Initiative in Osaka University
Speaker: Shinji Shimojo, Professor and Director of Cybermedia Center, Osaka University and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
On Demand Video starts at 2:07:01
11:30 AM:
Invited Talk: The Messiness of Innovation: How emerging technology infrastructure demands new types of civic order.
Speaker: Aaron Deacon, Founder and Managing Director of Kansas City Digital Drive, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 2:32:32
12:00 PM - Lunch and presentation on UF-Gainesville joint development plan
Speakers: Anthony Lyons, Manager of City of Gainesville and Charlie Lane, Senior Vice President and COO of the University of Florida
On Demand Video (Charlie Lane) starts at 0:01:49
On Demand Video (Anthony Lyons) starts at 0:17:18
1:30 PM:
Invited Talk: A Resiliency Based Approach to Architecting a Smart Community
Speaker: Matthew E. Delcambre, Director, Center for Business and Information Technology (CBIT), Informatics Research Institute, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 0:01:36
2:00 PM:
Invited Talk: Porto: A Living Lab for Future Smarter Cities
Speaker: Rui Oliveira, Associate Professor at the Informatics Department of University of Minho and Member of the Administration Board of INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal.
On Demand Video starts at 0:31:26
2:30 PM:
Invited Talk: Experiences and Opportunities of Smart and Connected Communities in Taiwan
Speaker: Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan.
On Demand Video starts at 0:50:39
3:00 PM - Break
3:30 PM:
Invited Talk: Developing a transportation testbed in Gainesville, Florida: From concept to implementation
Speaker: Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., Director of the UF Transportation Institute, and Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Florida, USA.
On Demand Video starts at 1:22:53
4:00 PM:
Panel Presentations and Discussion: Smart University Towns: Challenges and Opportunities
On Demand Video starts at 1:47:00
5:00 PM: CENTRA Smart Cities Hackathon Winners Presentations
On Demand Video starts at 2:56:53