02 May Keynote Speaker at REAL CORP 2016 Conference Smart Me Up! Hamburg (Germany) 21-24th June 2016

Dr Calzada will be the academic keynote speaker in the 21st International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society in Hamburg (Germany) on 22nd June 2016. The title of the keynote will be ‘(Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations’. Here is the full paper published in the proceedings followed by the abstract of the keynote presentation that he will delivered:

Use full reference and cite as follows:

Calzada, I. (2016), Keynote Speaker. (Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations. In: Schrenk, M.; Popovich, V. V.; Zeile, P.; Elisei, P., Beyer, C. (Eds.): Smart me up! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life? Proceedings of REAL CORP 2016, 21^st International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society GeoMultimedia. Vienna, 2016. ISBN 978-3-9504173-0-2 (CD), 978-3-9504173-1-9 (print) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4723.8003

REAL CORP conferences are held annually since 1996. About 400-500 experts from around the world from the fields of urban planning, transport planning, information and communication technologies, architecture, social and environmental sciences, real estate, GIS, surveying and remote sensing and more meet to discuss the latest tasks and topics on urban planning, regional development and information society in an international and extremely interdisciplinary conference.

Here is the whole programme of the 21st International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society GeoMultimedia 2016:

In addition to the keynote presentation, in the afternoon, he will take part in the panel discussion entitled ‘Smart Me Up! How to Become and How to Stay a Smart City, And Does This Improve Quality of Life?’ with another three speakers.