Doug Shuler of Public Sphere Project

Find out why Singapore is the #1 Smart City in the world. Truly Smart Cities Promote Truly Smart Citizenry ~~~~ And Vice Versa

The world is facing a number of daunting challenges that won't go away on their own. We've passed the time when it made sense to only tend our own garden. Now each person, each group, each organization, and each organ of government needs to think about how their actions, actual and potential, could encourage or deter a better future. But some, like people and the organizations focused on Smart Cities, are better positioned than others. But what does that mean? It might mean having different conversations, working with different partners, or thinking about it with new perspectives. It also means transcending techno-centric visions. Getting there includes reflection as well as practical steps.

Biography:

Doug has been involved with civic tech for over 30 years. He organized a series of conferences for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), co-founded the Seattle Community Network which provided free access to internet technology years before Gmail and the others, and served two terms with the City of Seattle technology advisory board. Doug has an MS in Computer Science from University of Washington and Masters in Software Engineering from Seattle University. He spent 15 years at Boeing in various capacities, most recently in their Advanced Technology Center as an AI Specialist. He then taught at The Evergreen State College for 20 years before retiring and moving on to volunteer work. Doug wrote two books, New Community Networks (Addison-Wesley, 1996) and Liberating Voices (MIT Press, 2008), co-edited several others, wrote dozens of papers, and presented around the world—including Singapore. Doug is currently Chair of SIGCAS, the special interest group on Computers and Society within ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. 

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Address:Washington, United States

Jaewon Peter Chun of World Smart Cities Forum

Jaewon will discuss post pandemic Smart Cities. The drawing the Post Pandemic Smart Cities - World Smart Cities Forum (WSCF) shares smart city projects currently in progress by country and considers the direction and strategy of smart cities after the pandemic.

Biography:

Mr. Jaewon Peter Chun is President of World Smart Cities Forum (WSCF - https://worldsmartcities.org/), a British non-profit organization and CEO of XnTREE, a tech accelerator based in New York and London. Mr. Chun has accumulated expertise in designing smart city and fostering the global tech startups. He participated in ‘Cognicity’ Smart City Challenge programme in Canary Wharf, London in 2014-2016, and designed a $4 billion South Korean Smart City national pilot project in 2018 as a Master Planner. In 2020, Mr. Chun signed a Mandate Agreement with the Vietnamese and Ukrainian governments and is working on master plans for the Hanoi and Lviv Smart City Projects, each worth 2 billion dollars. In addition, he has been advising on smart city initiatives in several cities in Europe and North America.

Address:New York, New York, United States