Smart City Training and workshops

Developing Smart cities is a stated objective of many governments and corporations worldwide.  Smart cities meet the dual objectives of sustainability and improvement in the quality of life and integrate policymaking, city planning, all the areas of engineering including IoT, program governance, and funding.

The structure

Unlike the experience of civil projects or Information management projects, Smart City projects bring together all the areas of engineering into one integrated project.  This requires the entire team, including the Strategy, governance and execution team to develop an understanding of integrating the related areas, and manage dependencies and timelines.

Even the vision and strategy setting leadership must be sensitized to such integration.  Earlier, these different areas of engineering were managed by different teams, often without a deep knowledge of the adjoining areas.  Within the framework of Smart City, there is no separation of visioning, planning or execution based on areas of engineering.

The workshop plans

1-day, 2-day and 3-day workshops are designed as interactive sessions with groups of 20-30.  The areas broadly cover

  • The needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches, and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city.
  • The specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city. Introduction to the concepts of Smart Map and Smart Index.
  • A structured approach to a transformation: setting priorities, execution, financing and governance.
  • Economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework.
  • Technologies that are powering the Smart movement
  • The new structure of the Smart industry and the new market dynamics.
  • Covers the broad perspective of the new industry as well as use cases and

The three programs are designed to address the three categories of roles in businesses: decision-makers, managers and the execution teams.

The development phase of smart cities – a one-time exercise

The operations phase – items of work that are designed to continue forever

Module 1: 1-day workshop on Smart city transformations

Who should attend

  1. Business professionals with top management responsibilities, such as CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, President, Vice President, Department Head, Practice Head.
  2. Most suitable from the following industries
    1. Electronics, devices, sensors, telecom
    2. Information technology and management
    3. Consulting firms
    4. Civil infrastructure
    5. Project management, governance support
    6. Construction
  3. Government top-level officials, involved in
    1. Vision, Strategy, conceptualization, prioritization
    2. Finance control, governance
    3. Responsible a Smart city initiative of the government
    4. City planning, architecture,
    5. Contractor management and governance
  4. Consultants who advise on
    1. Smart city visioning, strategy, planning
    2. Governance, leadership level stakeholder engagement

 

Benefits to the participants

The participants after completion will have a great understanding of

  • The business opportunities in the Smart City space for the business they are in.
  • An approach to addressing the opportunity and its fitment with the larger Smart concept
  • The new structure of the Smart industry and the new market dynamics.
  • The needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches, and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city.
  • Economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework.
  • Technologies that are powering the Smart movement.
  • The specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city: Smart Map and Smart Index.
  • A structured approach to a transformation: setting priorities, execution, financing and governance.

 

Methodology

This workshop is a combination of 40% lecture, 50% discussions and 10% case studies.

Module 2: 2-day workshop on Smart city transformations

 

Who should attend

  1. Mid-level to senior business professionals such as general manager, vice president, department head, division head, project leader, program leader.
  2. Most suitable from the following industries
    1. Electronics, devices, sensors, telecom
    2. Consulting firms
    3. Information technology and management
    4. Civil infrastructure
    5. Project management, governance support
    6. Construction
  3. Government senior-level officials
    1. Involved in strategy, conceptualization, prioritization
    2. Governing, managing projects
    3. A part of the leadership team of a Smart city initiative of the government
    4. City planning, architecture
    5. Contractor management and governance
  4. Consultants who advise on
    1. Smart city planning, execution
    2. Governance, stakeholder engagement

 

Benefits to the participants

The participants after completion will have a great understanding of

  • The business opportunities in the Smart City space for the business they are in.
  • The needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches, and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city.
  • An approach to addressing the opportunity and its fitment with the larger Smart concept
  • The new structure of the Smart industry and the new market dynamics.
  • The specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city: Smart Map and Smart Index.
  • A structured approach to a transformation: setting priorities, execution, financing and governance.
  • Economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework.
  • Key technologies that are powering the Smart movement.

 

Methodology

This workshop is a combination of 40% lecture, 40% discussions and 20% case studies.

Module 3: 3-day workshop on Smart city transformations

 

Who should attend

  1. Young to mid-level business professionals.
  2. Most suitable from the following industries
    1. Consulting firms
    2. Electronics, devices, sensors, telecom
    3. Information technology and management
    4. Civil infrastructure
    5. Project management, governance support
    6. Construction
  3. Government mid-level officials.
    1. Involved in developing, governing, managing projects
    2. A part of the Smart city initiative of the government
    3. City planning, architecture
    4. Contractor management
  4. Consultants who advise on
    1. Smart city planning, execution
    2. Governance, stakeholder engagement

 

Benefits to the participants

The participants after completion will have a great understanding of

  • The needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches, and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city.
  • The specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city. Introduction to the concepts of Smart Map and Smart Index.
  • Hands-on training in developing transformation plans.
  • A structured approach to a transformation: setting priorities, execution, financing and governance.
  • Integrate economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework.
  • Key technologies that are powering the Smart movement.
  • The new structure of the Smart industry and the new market dynamics.

 

Methodology

This workshop is a combination of 40% lecture, 30% discussions and 30% case studies.