Inaugural Symposium of GREAT Smart Cities Center

Time	Event
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome Address Professor Wei Shyy Acting President/Executive Vice President and Provost Professor Tim Cheng Dean of Engineering Dr. Christine Loh, SBS, OBE, JP
09:15 – 09:45	GREAT Smart Cities Professor Hong K. Lo Director of GREAT Smart Cities Center
09:45 – 10:00	Group Photo Taking
10:00 – 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:45	VGE-enabled Big Data Platform for Smart City Professor Renzhong Guo Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor of GIS, Research Institute for Smart Cities, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 郭仁忠教授中国工程院院士，欧亚科学院院士，深圳市智慧城市研究会荣誉主席，市规划与国土资源局副局长
10:45 – 11:15	How to Pay For It: The Cyber-Physical-Financial Nexus of Sustainable Smart Cities Professor Michael Lepech Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
11:15 – 11:45	A Research Framewrok towards Urban Resilience Professor Dongping Fang Chair, School of Civil Engineering; Executive Director, Institute for Future Cities and Infrastructures, Tsinghua University
11:45 – 13:00	Panel discussion: Smart city initiatives in Hong Kong [Moderated by Dr Winnie Tang, JP, Founder and Honorary President, Smart City Consortium] Mr. Silas K. M. Liu, Chief Town Planner, Information Systems and Land Supply, Planning Department Ir. Dr. Julian Kwan, Chief Geotechnical Engineer, Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering and Development Department Ir. Allen Yeung, Government Chief Information Officer
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:00	Smart Cities: Crowdsourcing Infrastructure Asset Health and Safety Condition Assessment and Management Using Mobile Devices and AI Professor Yi-Chang James Tsai Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
15:00 – 15:30	Smarter City, Better Living: Driving Innovation & Community Impacts by Connecting People, Business, Technology Ms. Emily Kong Managing Director of Cisco Systems
15:30 – 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15	Panel discussion: Regional Smart City initiatives [Moderated by Ir Wilfred Lau, Arup Fellow \| Director of Arup] Korea experience: Professor Keechoo Choi: President of Korean Society of Transportation, Ajou University Japan experience: Dr. Masaru Yarime, City University of Hong Kong Singapore experience: Dr. Charles Phua, Deputy Director, Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore
17:15 – 17:45	Closing Remarks