Smart Cities Using Big Data

The use of big data is a lynch pin in the deployment of smart cities of the future. The potential of big data for smart cities goes far beyond the efficiencies that can be created in areas such as energy consumption, health care, education, and law enforcement. The true potential of big data is directly engaging society in governance through increased transparency and delivery of services using access to data as a foundation. This workshop will provide mini-case studies in a range of settings from developed countries such as the USA and developing countries such as Pakistan. An emphasis of the discussion will be on how city governments can use data to improve quality of life for their citizens.

Participants will learn to:

• create breakthrough efficiencies in running a city through use of big data technologies
• engage citizens into government through use of open data initiatives
• the steps for transforming from traditional city management to smart city management.

Audience: Business

We offer time-poor executives and managers short seminars of 1-2 hours on current, topical and visionary subjects in the domain of data analytics. Stephen Brobst, CTO Teradata, has produced a diverse range of seminars that he can present to your staff at your premises. We may also occasionally run these as public seminars.
Stephen frequently delivers keynotes at large conferences and is equally comfortable with business and/or technical audiences in smaller industry, organisational or user group meetings. Multiple seminars can be scheduled for one day. Stephen is experienced in both computer science via his MIT PhD work, and is also well versed in business management through his MBA work in a joint program between the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Download Stephen’s full profile [PDF, 212kb] for further details.