Welcome from the Conference Chair

Welcome to the Global Smart Cities Summit cum The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (GSCS & ICUI 2023).

The first and second ICUI has been successfully held in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Following this, GSCS & ICUI 2023 will feature keynote speeches by internationally leading scientists, government forums, and technology innovation exhibitions from smart city practitioners, government officials, and industry-related organizations, providing an excellent platform for exchanging state-of-the-art technologies and innovations in smart cities and urban informatics.

Urban Informatics is an emerging transdiscipline encompassing urban science, urban sensing, urban big data infrastructure, urban computing, and urban system and applications. I hope that by promoting the exchange of people from all walks of life related to smart-city development, this conference will push forward the progress of urban informatics and demonstrate its fundamental role on our way to building smarter cities.

During the conference, we will also announce the winners of our Smart City Technology Innovation Award and Best Student Presentation Award. Full paper submissions are also considered for potential publication in Urban Informatics, the first international journal dedicated to this transdiscipline.

I would like to express our thanks to the exhibitors and many other academic, professional, and industrial bodies who have supported the conference greatly.

I wish the conference a great success and look forward to meeting you this August.

Prof. John, W.Z. SHI
Chairman of Organizing Committee, GSCS & ICUI 2023
Director, Otto Poon C.F. Smart Cities Research Institute, PolyU
President, International Society for Urban Informatics
AIEAS, DNatSc, FAcSS, FHKIS, FRICS