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Global City Teams Challenge Kick-off Workshop Webcast

November 11th, 2015 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen Wright

The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Kick-off Workshop is this week, November 12-13th, 2015, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The Global City Teams Challenge, planned by NIST and US Ignite, is an initiative designed to advance the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies within a smart city/smart community environment. More than 40 project teams or “action clusters” are currently participating in the GCTC.

Please check out the agenda for the event, which includes the following speakers:

Nigeria: Bernard Ewah, Head of e-Government from National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
Intel: Trina Ward, Senior Director, IoT Strategy & Technology Office
AT&T: Ed Davalos, Director – Industrial IoT / Smart Cities/Grid
Envision America: Darcy Everett, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Charlotte
NIST Community Resilience Program: Steve Cauffman, Manager
US Green Building Council: Scot Horst, Chief Product Officer

The event will be webcast live here. Please note that the webcast will include the morning portions of both Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13.

Also, IBM is hosting GCTC kick-off events in cities across the globe. Please visit their website for more information and to register for an event in your city.

For more information, please see the workshop website.