Call for Abstracts

We invite you to submit an abstract of 200 words by 9 July 2015. Your abstract will be assessed by the content selection committee to present at the Smart future Cities 2015 (SFC2015) Conference, details for the abstract described below.

We expect delegates to be from:

• Industrial, scientific, commercial, community and government groups involved in clean energy projects and their associated influences
• Government agencies and authorities dealing with sustainability and a sustainable future
• Researchers and research institutes
• Community groups and individuals with an interest in the subject

The overarching motives for the subject matters of this conference include understanding and promoting:

• Technical, political, economic, regulatory and social responses to the challenge posed by Global Warming
• Desire to improve energy security
• Desire to build a more delightful, attractive, equitable and sustainable living environment
• The need to build smart economies, businesses and employment opportunities

Presentations of broad importance and interest will be held during plenary sessions. Presentations with a focused interest will be held in one of the three strands described below:

• Future Transport focusing on the next wave of transportation innovations: incorporating electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, connected cars and cities; smart energy solutions
• Clean Energy Solutions for individual households, cities and regions: renewable energy technologies and applications in all their guises
• Innovation and Emerging Technologies in the Built Environment will take a broad perspective on the trajectories of change enabled by diverse innovations in the built environment and what this means for communities, businesses and all levels of government
  

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Future Transport Strand

Australia will import a trillion dollars’ worth of oil and cars over the next decade. A shared driverless transport system is a rapidly emerging solution to private car dependency.  This solution could reduce this import stress by 90% (*Dr Gary Ellem)
We wish to bring together the brightest minds to tackle the challenge of building the social, technical, business, regulatory, legal, and design pathways to a vibrant shared autonomous vehicle transport sector. If you have been thinking and working in any of the above areas we would like to hear from you. 
Some suggestions on topic areas:

• electric vehicles
  
• smart transport
  
• public transport
  
• regulatory and legal changes and challenges
  
• autonomous vehicles
  
• test bed sites
  
• road and infrastructure changes needed
  
• social response
  
• internet of things and transport
  
• effect of EV charging on grids
  
• effects on the urban layouts
  
• batteries
  

Clean energy solutions for individual households strand

Energy drives economies, supports lifestyles and empowers production, distribution and utilisation of goods and services.  Energy is essential for a modern and efficient nation.  This conference stream will explore a wide range of energy issues from policy, through technology to ownership, storage and distribution.
This conference stream will enhance the renewable energy sector and wider community’s awareness of current and future energy challenges and opportunities.
We will reflect on solutions for renewable energy in all its forms including:

• biofuels
  
• wind
  
• water, and
  
• solar
  

We will also look into energy storage, new technologies and community-owned and managed energy developments.

Innovation and Emerging Technologies in the Built Environment

As the urbanisation of the world’s population increases, cities everywhere are being forced to
face up to the challenges posed by increasing demand for resources and services, while managing economic and environmental sustainability. Smart cities are grappling with the integration of these transformative opportunities within their built environments and economies. 

This stream will explore the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, and the
emerging materials and technologies that are enabling rapid innovation in the built environment.
We invite papers that engage with these many social-technological transitions and their social and urbanliveability impacts, which together are defining the context of the future smart city. Papers on the following topics are encouraged:

• IoT Platforms and Innovations
• M2M Technologies Shaping Urban Infrastructures

• Smart City Applications (case studies of success & failure)
• Big Data Analytics
• Funding and Financing a Smart City
• Privacy and Security in a Smart World
• Digital Economy Policy and Strategy
• Sharing Economy Transformations
• Open Data Models, Process and Platforms
• Smart Services Integration
• Real-time Data: Intelligence for Urban Planning and Design
• Stakeholder Collaborations and Consortium Models
• IoT/Smart City Ecologies and Economic Development
• Consuming the Smart City: Personal IoT Wearables and Mobile
• Smart and Innovative Design and Building Products.

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