26-02-19 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM CET

Urban Technology Alliance offering European and Japanese Smart City Testbeds

The first objective of this webinar is to present the Urban Technology Alliance (UTA), a global alliance of smart city testbeds involving European and Japanaese cities and technological stakeholders. In addition, this webinar will be an opportunity to give a presentation of some of the ongoing smart city experiments within the UTA city testbeds. 

The webinar is targeted to EU companies and organisations seeking a testing environment for their IoT and smart city related solutions.

Registration deadline: 25/02/2019

In 40 minutes from your desk, discover:

• What the Urban Technology is about and how to be part of it
• What are the smart city deployment project examples in Europe and in Japan
• What are the reusable assets from those projects 

Programme:

• Introduction
• Expert’s presentation
• Q&A Session
• Conclusion

Speakers: 

Dr Levent Gurgen, R&D Project Manager at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA): Dr. Levent GURGEN is R&D project manager in CEA-LETI. He has been involved in several EU-Japan collaborative projects on IoT and smart cities such as ClouT (http://clout-project.eu/), FESTIVAL (http://www.festival-project.eu/) and M-SEC (https://www.msecproject.eu/) projects. He is currently coordinating the EU-Japan BigClouT project (http://bigclout.eu/) on smart cities. He is also coordinating the building phase of the Urban Technology Alliance, an international association aiming at building a global network of city scale testbeds for validating smart city solutions.
Dr. Jin Nakazawa, associate professor in Keio University: Dr Nakazawa is currently working on 2 European-Japanese collaborative projects on Internet of Things. He leads a broad range of research aiming at making cities smarter with the power of information. His lab in Keio aims at building a large-scale sensing system, a data dissemination platform, intelligent data analysis techniques, and a number of applied system including health, environment, traffic, and wellbeing.

Organiser: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation - Brussels Office 

Please go to the EU Business in Japan website, to register for this webinar.

If you are already a member of the EU Business in Japan website, please log in and then go to the webinar link - If you are not yet a member, you will first have to register as a member via:http://www.eubusinessinjapan.eu/user/register and then when your registration request is confirmed, please log in and go to the 'Events' section of the website and register to the webinar.