Announcement

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Batty, University College London, UK
• Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China
• Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Renzhong Guo, Shenzhen University, China
• Ying Jin, University of Cambridge, UK
• Anthony Yeh, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Registration:

• If participants cannot attend the conference due to a rejected visa application or other uncontrollable causes, the registration fee is partially refundable, excluding the credit card processing fee.
• If you are not able to attend due to personal reasons, the registration fee is not refundable.

• Please check if you need a Hong Kong visa for attending this conference:
  https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/services/index.html
• If you need invitation letter, use our formal acceptance letter, or please e-mail info@icui2023.com the following information: 1) your Date of Birth, 2) your Passport Number, 3) your detailed workplace address, and 4) the digital receipt showing that you have successfully paid for the registration fee.

Call for Submissions:

• Abstract (200 - 300 words): submitted to https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icui2023
• Full paper: submitted to https://www.springer.com/journal/44212/submission-guidelines. Please select the special issue "Theoretical Development and Technology Innovation Towards Future Smart Cities (ICUI 2023)" for paper submission. If you want to compete for the Best Conference Paper Award, please make sure to submit your full paper through this channel for the opportunity to be published in the Urban Informatics journal.

Call for Sessions:

We invite proposals for sessions on any topics related to Urban Informatics and Smart Cities, examples can be found in the Conference Topics below.

Each session proposal should include:

• A title and a brief description of the session topic and scope (up to 300 words)
• A list of potential speakers and their affiliations (up to 10 speakers)
• A short biography of the session organizer(s) (up to 100 words)

The session proposals should be submitted via email to info@icui2023.com by June 5, 2023. The session proposals will be reviewed by the conference program committee and the accepted sessions will be notified by June 15, 2023.

Call for Awards:

We are pleased to announce the call for awards. The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of researchers, governments, and practitioners in the field of Urban Informatics and Smart Cities. The awards categories are:

• Outstanding Achievement in Urban Informatics Award
• Smart Cities Development Contribution Award (Government)
• Urban Informatics Journal Paper of the Year Award
• Smart City Technology Innovation Award (application submission is required)
• Best Conference Paper Award (application submission is required)

To be eligible for the Smart City Technology Innovation Award, you need to register for the conference, and submit a) filled application form and b) demo video (or by shared link) via email to info@icui2023.com by August 5, 2023. The award winners will be selected by a committee of experts and announced at the conference on August 23, 2023. The winners of each award will receive a certificate. For details, please refer to https://www.isocui.org/icui2023/about/call-for-awards.

To be eligible for the Best Conference Paper Award, you need to register for the conference and submit your full paper via https://www.springer.com/journal/44212/submission-guidelines (please select the special issue "GSCS & ICUI 2023" for paper submission when select article type) by August 5, 2023. The winners will be selected by a committee of experts and announced at the conference on August 23, 2023. The winners of each award will receive a certificate.

Call for Technology Innovation Exhibition:

We have four levels of packages available with different benefits (see the table below for details). The deadline for confirming participation for the exhibition is August 5, 2023. Please contact us for details via email info@icui2023.com.

Important dates:

Call for Sessions:

Call for Submissions:

Call for Awards:

Registration & Program:

Conference Topics:

1. Urban Science and Systems

• Smart Cities and Urban Science
• Energy Networks
• Smart Mobility
• Transport Systems
• Urban Metabolism
• Urban Spatial Structure
• Digital Twins
• Metaverse

2. Urban Sensing for Smart City

• Ambient Sensing
• Urban Navigation and Positioning
• Urban Remote Sensing
• User Generated Content (UGC) 
• AIoT

3. Urban Big Data Infrastructure for Smart City

• Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
• Spatial Search
• Urban Cyberinfrastructure
• Urban Big Data Characteristics

4. Urban Computing for Smart City

• Technologies and Principles
• AI & Data Science
• FinTech and Blockchain
• Uncertainties and Data Governance
• Urban Models
• Edge Computing
• Privacy Preserving Computing

5. Urban Spatial Data Analytics

• Classification of Urban Land Use and Land Cover
• Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth
• Urban Geological Environment Monitoring
• Urban Ecological Environment Monitoring
• Urban Human Settlement Monitoring

6. Smart Cities Solutions

• Human Health and Well-Being
• Urban Environment and Pollution
• Housing
• Transport
• Urban Ecology
• Urban Economy
• Urban Freight and Logistics
• Urban Governance
• Urban Risks and Resilience

7. Emerging Topics in Smart City Development

• Autonomous Driving, High Definition (HD) Map
• Quantum Computing
• Post-pandemic Urban Design
• Urban Ageing

Main Activities:

• Keynote speeches
• Government forum on smart city development
• Smart city technology innovation exhibition
• Networking session with editors-in-chief of international journals
• Oral and poster presentations
• Laboratory visit

Organizers:

• International Society for Urban Informatics (ISUI)
• Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Local Organization Committee Chair:

• Prof Wen-zhong Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

International Advisory Committee:

• Kay Axhausen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Michael Batty, University College London, UK
• Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Mark Birkin, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Jun Chen, National Geomatics Center of China, China
• Tao Cheng, University College London, UK
• Kai-Wei Chiang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Helen Couclelis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Manfred Ehlers, Osnabrück University, Germany
• Jarmo Eskelinen, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China
• Peng Gong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Renzhong Guo, Shenzhen University, China
• Christian Heipke, University of Hanover, Germany
• Andrew Hudson-Smith, University College London, UK
• Bin Jiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
• Ying Jin, University of Cambridge, UK
• Mei-Po Kwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Nina Lam, Louisiana State University, USA
• David Levinson, University of Sydney, Australia
• Qingquan Li, Shenzhen University, China
• Yu Liu, Peking University, China
• Ying Long, Tsinghua University, China
• Paul Longley, University College London, UK
• Liqiu Meng, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Eric Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
• Alan Murray, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
• Janet Nichol, University of Sussex, UK
• Denise Pumain, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Shih-Lung Shaw, University of Tennessee, USA
• Alex Singleton, The University of Liverpool, UK
• Rudi Stouffs, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Paul Torrens, New York University, USA
• Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Chaowei Yang, George Mason University, USA
• Yuanxi Yang, Xi'an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping, China
• Xinyue Ye, Texas A&M University, USA
• Anthony Yeh, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Chenghu Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China