2019 CGTC/SC3, July 10-12, 2019, Washington DC, USA.
The GCTC/SC3 Expo is the prominent smart city event for technology innovators, municipal officials, and federal government officials to discuss possible areas of collaboration. We are thrilled to confirm the following mayors will join us on July 11.
- Mayor Lily Mei, City of Fremont, California, USA
- Mayor Wen-Tsan Cheng, City of Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Mayor Bernard Dy, City of Cauayan, Philippines
- Mayor Pauline Cutter, City of San Leandro, California, USA
- Mayor Gary McCarthy, City of Schenectady, New York, USA
- Mayor Eugene Grant, City of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, USA
US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) will work with GCTC/SC3 Expo in July as a major opportunity to invite ASEAN city officials and introduce them to smart city technologies and approaches. In collaboration with the Department of State and International Trade Administration, we are inviting representatives from 10 countries and 26 cities from ASEAN to come and attend the Expo to search for solutions and opportunities for partnership. This will be a great opportunity for corporations, academic institutions, and non-profits to demonstrate what is possible to the ASEAN city officials and discuss about partnership opportunities. We expect the ASEAN city officials to heavily interact with the exhibitors.
Additional updates:
- An updated preliminary agenda can be found at the 2019 Expo Agenda.
- A growing list of speakers can be found at the Speakers List.
- If you want to speak or exhibit, check out the Participation Guide.
- Over 80 Exhibitors and 1500 attendees are expected. Sessions will include Smart Regions, Smart States, planning, design, and deployment of interoperable solutions, cybersecurity and privacy, inclusiveness and education, and more.
To register to attend, please RSVP.
Public Safety SuperCluster Adds a New Co-chair
We are excited to announce that Brenda Bannon, Associate Professor at George Mason University, is joining the excellent leadership team of the Public Safety SuperCluster. We appreciate the dedicated service Ed Davalos from Motorola has provided for the last two years as a previous co-chair.
For more information on SuperCluster leadership teams, visit SuperCluster page.
New NIST Publication: Clarifying CPS and IoT
In March 2019, NIST released its Special Publication 1900-202, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, providing a unified perspective that helps to clarify their relationship and identifies a common emphasis on hybrid systems of interacting digital, analog, physical and human components, in systems engineered for function through integrated physics and logic. The document describes the origins of the terms CPS and IoT, and analyzes the range of definitions over time.
The publication explains that effectively designing, building, and assuring CPS/IoT systems requires consideration of the system’s functional context, including how the system is used and for what purpose or outcome. CPS and IOT commonality is illustrated with the graphic to the right, with logical realms (top half of circle), including information processes enabled by computer and information sciences and engineering, and physical realms (lower half of circle), with engineered systems and energy processes. Transducers – sensors and actuators – tightly integrate both realms. Additionally, humans interact with CPS and IoT both as physical and logical entities, while providing transduction through thought and action.
The benefits of a common perspective on CPS and IoT include:
- Developing common classifications, illuminating a path for open composability and reliable compositionality;
- Bringing together isolated fields and sectors for shared research, application, and innovation goals;
- Helping prioritize research, development, and deployment goals; and
- Enabling new methods for conceptualizing, realizing and assuring CPS/IoT.
Download the publication here.
