BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Muscat BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T071407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0400 TZOFFSETTO:+0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+04 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19200101T001848 TZOFFSETFROM:+0341 TZOFFSETTO:+0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1TH;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+04 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T100432Z UID:16F2A896-7FB1-42A1-A86A-0D8BB3F7A9FC DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Muscat:20260916T121500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Muscat:20260916T143000 DESCRIPTION:When Your City Can Think: Building Agentic Digital Twins for Sm art City Emergency Response is a keynote lecture hosted at the University of Dubai in collaboration with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Managem ent Society (TEMS)\, the IEEE Systems\, Man\, and Cybernetics Society (SMC )\, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The session takes place on 16 September 2026\, from 12:15 PM to 2:00 PM\, in Room 102A\, CEI T.\n\nThe keynote is delivered by Dr. Ahcene Bounceur and addresses a pres sing question for modern urban management: what happens when a fire\, a ga s leak\, and a flood strike a city at the same time? Despite significant i nvestment in sensing and monitoring infrastructure\, today's smart cities continue to rely on rigid\, rule-based programs that were never designed t o reason through compound\, simultaneous crises. This session examines how agentic artificial intelligence can close that gap.\n\nAt the centre of t he talk is CupCarbon-Klaines\, an Agentic AI framework that embeds autonom ous\, LLM-powered agents directly into smart city Digital Twins. Rather th an executing static emergency scripts\, these agents are capable of reason ing\, coordinating\, and adapting in real time\, replacing predefined proc edures with intelligent orchestration across the urban environment.\n\nThe keynote walks through three key innovations of the framework:\n\n- A visu al\, drag-and-drop Agentic Builder that allows planners and engineers to d esign AI-driven emergency workflows without low-level coding.\n- An open i nteroperability layer that connects the Digital Twin to external AI platfo rms\, avoiding vendor lock-in and enabling the integration of diverse mode ls and services.\n- A three-paradigm programming model that lets cities ad opt agentic intelligence incrementally\, aligning the pace of adoption wit h institutional readiness and existing infrastructure.\n\nTogether\, these components enable a layered architecture in which building-level micro-ag ents handle localized response while a city-level orchestration agent mana ges macro-logistics\, ensuring that local actions remain coherent with the broader emergency picture.\n\nThe session will be of particular value to researchers and students in artificial intelligence\, digital twins\, smar t cities\, robotics and automation\, systems engineering\, and technology management\, as well as to practitioners involved in urban resilience\, em ergency planning\, and public safety. Attendees will gain insight into how autonomous agents can be practically embedded within city-scale simulatio n and control environments\, the architectural choices that make such syst ems open and extensible\, and the pathway by which municipalities can move from rule-based automation toward genuinely adaptive emergency response.\ n\nSpeaker(s): Ahcene Bounceur\n\nAgenda: \nEvent: When Your City Can Thin k: Building Agentic Digital Twins for Smart City Emergency Response\nDate: Tuesday\, 16 September 2026\nTime: 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nVenue: Room 102A \, CEIT\, University of Dubai\nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Ahcene Bounceur\nOrgan izers: University of Dubai\, IEEE TEMS\, IEEE SMC\, IEEE RAS\n\n12:15 PM – Welcome and Opening Remarks\nOpening of the session and introduction o f the keynote speaker.\n\nKeynote Address – Dr. Ahcene Bounceur\n"When Y our City Can Think: Building Agentic Digital Twins for Smart City Emergenc y Response"\n\nKeynote content :\n\n- The challenge of compound crises: wh y rule-based smart city programs fail when a fire\, a gas leak\, and a flo od occur simultaneously\n- Introduction to CupCarbon-Klaines: embedding au tonomous\, LLM-powered agents directly into smart city Digital Twins\n- In novation 1: A visual drag-and-drop Agentic Builder for designing AI-driven workflows\n- Innovation 2: An open interoperability layer for connecting to external AI platforms\n- Innovation 3: A three-paradigm programming mod el enabling incremental adoption of agentic intelligence\n- Architecture i n practice: building-level micro-agents for localized response and a city- level orchestration agent for macro-logistics\n- From static emergency scr ipts to intelligent orchestration\n\nQuestions and Discussion\nOpen discus sion with the speaker on agentic AI\, Digital Twins\, and smart city emerg ency response.\n\nClosing Remarks – 2:00 PM\nConclusion of the session.\ n\nRoom: 102A\, Bldg: CEIT\, Academic City Emirates Road - Exit 49 - Dubai \, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates\, United Arab Emirates\, 000000 LOCATION:Room: 102A\, Bldg: CEIT\, Academic City Emirates Road - Exit 49 - Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates\, United Arab Emirates\, 000000 ORGANIZER:aoulefki@ud.ac.ae SEQUENCE:32 SUMMARY:When Your City Can Think: Building Agentic Digital Twins for Smart City Emergency Response URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/577616 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p dir="ltr">When Your City Can Think: Buildi ng Agentic Digital Twins for Smart City Emergency Response is a keynote le cture hosted at the University of Dubai in collaboration with the IEEE Tec hnology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS)\, the IEEE Systems\, Man \, and Cybernetics Society (SMC)\, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation So ciety (RAS). The session takes place on 16 September 2026\, from 12:15 PM to 2:00 PM\, in Room 102A\, CEIT.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">The keynote is deliver ed by Dr. Ahcene Bounceur and addresses a pressing question for modern urb an management: what happens when a fire\, a gas leak\, and a flood strike a city at the same time? Despite significant investment in sensing and mon itoring infrastructure\, today's smart cities continue to rely on rigid\, rule-based programs that were never designed to reason through compound\, simultaneous crises. This session examines how agentic artificial intellig ence can close that gap.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">At the centre of the talk is <s trong>CupCarbon-Klaines\,</strong> an <strong>Agentic AI</strong> framewor k that embeds autonomous\, LLM-powered agents directly into smart city Dig ital Twins. Rather than executing static emergency scripts\, these agents are capable of reasoning\, coordinating\, and adapting in real time\, repl acing predefined procedures with intelligent orchestration across the urba n environment.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">The keynote walks through three key innov ations of the framework:</p>\n<ol dir="ltr">\n<li>A visual\, drag-and-drop Agentic Builder that allows planners and engineers to design AI-driven em ergency workflows without low-level coding.</li>\n<li>An open interoperabi lity layer that connects the Digital Twin to external AI platforms\, avoid ing vendor lock-in and enabling the integration of diverse models and serv ices.</li>\n<li>A three-paradigm programming model that lets cities adopt agentic intelligence incrementally\, aligning the pace of adoption with in stitutional readiness and existing infrastructure.</li>\n</ol>\n<p dir="lt r">Together\, these components enable a layered architecture in which buil ding-level micro-agents handle localized response while a city-level orche stration agent manages macro-logistics\, ensuring that local actions remai n coherent with the broader emergency picture.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">The sessi on will be of particular value to researchers and students in artificial i ntelligence\, digital twins\, smart cities\, robotics and automation\, sys tems engineering\, and technology management\, as well as to practitioners involved in urban resilience\, emergency planning\, and public safety. At tendees will gain insight into how autonomous agents can be practically em bedded within city-scale simulation and control environments\, the archite ctural choices that make such systems open and extensible\, and the pathwa y by which municipalities can move from rule-based automation toward genui nely adaptive emergency response.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p dir="ltr "><strong>Event</strong>: When Your City Can Think: Building Agentic Digit al Twins for Smart City Emergency Response<br><strong>Date</strong>: Tuesd ay\, 16 September 2026<br><strong>Time</strong>: 12:15 PM &ndash\; 2:00 PM <br><strong>Venue</strong>: Room 102A\, CEIT\, University of Dubai<br><str ong>Keynote Speake</strong>r: Dr. Ahcene Bounceur<br><strong>Organizers</s trong>: University of Dubai\, IEEE TEMS\, IEEE SMC\, IEEE RAS</p>\n<p dir= "ltr">12:15 PM &ndash\; Welcome and Opening Remarks&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br>Openi ng of the session and introduction of the keynote speaker.</p>\n<p dir="lt r">Keynote Address &ndash\; Dr. Ahcene Bounceur&nbsp\;<br>"<em><strong>Whe n Your City Can Think: Building Agentic Digital Twins for Smart City Emerg ency Response</strong></em>"</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Keynote content :</p>\n<ul dir="ltr">\n<li>The challenge of compound crises: why rule-based smart cit y programs fail when a fire\, a gas leak\, and a flood occur simultaneousl y</li>\n<li>Introduction to <em><strong>CupCarbon-Klaines</strong></em>: e mbedding autonomous\, LLM-powered agents directly into smart city Digital Twins</li>\n<li>Innovation 1: A visual drag-and-drop Agentic Builder for d esigning AI-driven workflows</li>\n<li>Innovation 2: An open interoperabil ity layer for connecting to external AI platforms</li>\n<li>Innovation 3: A three-paradigm programming model enabling incremental adoption of agenti c intelligence</li>\n<li>Architecture in practice: building-level micro-ag ents for localized response and a city-level orchestration agent for macro -logistics</li>\n<li>From static emergency scripts to intelligent orchestr ation</li>\n</ul>\n<p dir="ltr">Questions and Discussion&nbsp\;<br>Open di scussion with the speaker on agentic AI\, Digital Twins\, and smart city e mergency response.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Closing Remarks &ndash\; 2:00 PM&nbsp \;<br>Conclusion of the session.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR