The First Macao Conference on Smart City Technologies was recently held at the University of Macau (UM) and Zhuhai UM Science & Technology Research Institute. Combining both in-person and virtual elements, the event attracted over 150 experts and scholars from China and abroad, who during the event explored cutting-edge theories, as well as key technologies and their practical applications, to help create breakthroughs in smart city technology and urban development. The event was organised by UM’s State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC) and hosted by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Smart Cities.
The conference was chaired by Yonghua Song, rector of UM and director of the SKL-IOTSC, and Guo Renzhong, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Shenzhen University. The event included keynote presentations and talks in five technical panels, namely sensing and communications, artificial intelligence and big data, smart energy, intelligent transport, as well as urban public safety and disaster prevention.
Keynote speakers at the event included Luo Zhiquan, vice president and presidential chair professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Guo Renzhong; Guan Zhichao, chief engineering of Shenzhen Transportation Operation Command Center; and Zhu Jizhong, professor of the South China University of Technology. In addition, over 40 renowned researchers from the academia and industry shared their latest research findings in this conference.
| Source: State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City | |
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