Smart Cities: The Disruptive Context Behind IIOT

Smart cities have emerged as a civic action due to a “perfect storm” of the convergence of market conditions, technology innovation, social wants, and government needs, and the migration to urban environments that has accelerated on a global scale, which dwarfs any previous mass movement of people in history. Cities provide the context that enables IIOT solutions to provide increased security, safety and a measurable quality of life for all people. Join us for an exploration of how new and existing cities can provide the physical framework and foundation for IIOT to implement sustainable, human-centric, efficient and profitable innovations. Paul Doherty is Chairman and CEO of TDG (the digit group www.thedigitgroupinc.com). As seen on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World”, Paul is an award-winning architect and is one of the world’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology and business. Paul is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a Fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). Paul's current work is focused on Smart City real estate developments and projects that include financing, design-build and technology solutions in the USA, Australia, Europe, MENA, India, Southeast Asia and China. Concurrently, Paul is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon (www.aechackathon.com) that launched at Facebook Headquarters in Silicon Valley.