Webinar 134: EU-Japan collaboration for breakthrough innovations in Smart Cities

Urban Technology Alliance offering European and Japanese Smart City Testbeds

The first objective of this webinar is to present the Urban Technology Alliance (UTA), a global alliance of smart city testbeds involving European and Japanaese cities and technological stakeholders. In addition, this webinar will be an opportunity to give a presentation of some of the ongoing smart city experiments within the UTA city testbeds. 

The webinar is targeted to EU companies and organisations seeking a testing environment for their IoT and smart city related solutions. 

Registration deadline: 25/02/2019

In 40 minutes from your desk, discover:

• What the Urban Technology is about and how to be part of it
• What are the smart city deployment project examples in Europe and in Japan 
• What are the reusable assets from those projects

Programme:

• Introduction
• Expert’s presentation
• Q&A Session
• Conclusion

Speakers: 

Dr Levent Gurgen, R&D Project Manager at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA): Dr. Levent GURGEN is R&D project manager in CEA-LETI. He has been involved in several EU-Japan collaborative projects on IoT and smart cities such as ClouT (http://clout-project.eu/), FESTIVAL (http://www.festival-project.eu/) and M-SEC (https://www.msecproject.eu/) projects. He is currently coordinating the EU-Japan BigClouT project (http://bigclout.eu/) on smart cities. He is also coordinating the building phase of the Urban Technology Alliance, an international association aiming at building a global network of city scale testbeds for validating smart city solutions.
Dr. Jin Nakazawa, associate professor in Keio University: Dr Nakazawa is currently working on 2 European-Japanese collaborative projects on Internet of Things. He leads a broad range of research aiming at making cities smarter with the power of information. His lab in Keio aims at building a large-scale sensing system, a data dissemination platform, intelligent data analysis techniques, and a number of applied system including health, environment, traffic, and wellbeing.

Moderator: Gwenael Beauvais - Business Support Coordinator, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
Organiser: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation - Brussels Office

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