Seminar Intelligent Cities: Sustainability and Big Data BK City, 9 th of January 2015 1
29/01/2015 Seminar at BK City 2
29/01/2015 Seminar at BK City Andy van den Dobbelsteen Past generations Stone, Bronze, Iron, Fossil Age Abundance Linear systems Climatic stability Sustainable at best Decadence The Solar Age Limit(ation)s Looped systems Climatic uncertainty Beyond sustainability Precision Future generations 3
Andy van den Dobbelsteen Main issues for now Carbon Neutrality Adaptivity Circularity Andy van den Dobbelsteen Energy Master Plan energy potential mapping 0b EU FP7 project City-zen generation elsew here 3b 3a regional generation generation in the city energy savings in the city urban energy system attune exchange cascade store 2a 1 discharge elsew here city region 2b regional reciprocity 0a use pattern analysis Bringing structure and intelligence in a city s energy emergency plan 4
Andy van den Dobbelsteen Creating cities as intelligent organisms [image: Eric Verdult] Energy and water as blood and life fluids, data network as the nerve system Carola Hein Post-Oil: LEED certified gas station, eco-cities, green capitals Helios House BP Green Pump. Bling is King and Eco-Style Everything at BP's New Emissions-Free Gas Station Hamburg, the green capital of Europe, 2011. About 160 cruiseships per year = CO2 emission of 64,000 cars 5
Alexander Wandl Crowd Sensing the Urban Heat Island Hotterdam www.hotterdam.eu Summer 2014 - Rotterdam Twelve students 300 outdoor sensors 800 indoor sensors Measuring temperature every 5 minutes Ca. 20,000,000 data entries And one cat: Laura Kleerekoper Sunscreen, Seville, Spain, 1997 Climate adaptation in Dutch cities demands customisation Sunscreen, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2015? 6
Bob Geldermans Craig Lee Martin 7
Geert-Jan Houben Intelligent Cities Intelligent & IT Web & (Big) Data Data Gap Computational power Data Science Time Elmar Eisemann Rendering and Navigation Techniques for Large-scale Urban Data Adaptive Data Representations Efficient Interaction and Exploration Methods Analysis and Decision-making Solutions 8
Geert-Jan Houben Social Data From the people For the people Science of Social Data Synergy of Technology & Humans Hayley Hung Fine-grained Measurements of Social Phenomena Non-verbal Behaviour Sensor Signals Data-driven statistical models Quantified: - social-emotional meaning - community structure 9
Claudia Hauff Personalised lifelong learning at scale Slide Claudia Analyseren van mens-data is niet simpel Lifelong learning is a necessity in knowledge economies Creating highly adaptive & scalable learning systems is difficult The social Web offers many new opportunities for adaptive learning Birna van Riemsdijk Social sensing on demand d Challenge: how can software decide who to approach when and how?? 10
Alessandro Bozzon Social Data Veracity Lack of Veracity can be an opportunity Reality can be perceived different ways Bias and diversity can be desirable data properties Goal: Harness social data veracity in a scalable and sustainable way Applications: Urban analytics Enterprise Cultural heritage Online Q&A Geert-Jan Houben Data Analytics Machines Data Creation Machines Data Interpretation Machines 11
29/01/2015 Geert-Jan Houben Data Science Semantics Scale, Speed, Sustainable Anthony Townsend s keynote speech 12
29/01/2015 Discussion with the audience Our honorary guest Civil Engineering Physics Master of Urban Planning, NYU PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, MIT Fullbright Exchange Scholar, Seoul, Korea, Research director of the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California Visiting scholar, New York University Senior research scientist, NYU. Fellow, Data & Society Research Institute, New York City, Boards, associations and committees, Scientific and expert publications Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia 13
Our honorary guest Civil Engineering Physics Master of Urban Planning, NYU PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, MIT Fullbright Exchange Scholar, Seoul, Korea, Research director of the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California Visiting scholar, New York University Senior research scientist, NYU. Fellow, Data & Society Research Institute, New York City, Boards, associations and committees, Scientific and expert publications Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia Dr. Anthony M. Townsend! 14