SSCt is a symposium that brings together numerous researchers, developers and companies in the technology sector for discussions on scientific and technical advances in the field of smart cities and territories. After the first congress in Doha, the 2023 edition, organized by the BISITE Research Group, AIR Institute, the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and the University of Caldas, will be held from June 21 to 23 in Manizales, Colombia, and can also be followed online.

Some of the topics of interest that will be discussed at the event are:

  • Success stories and the challenges of smart cities and territories.
  • Smart homes and smart buildings.
  • Smart infrastructures (networks, 5G, water and waste…).
  • Urban mobility and intelligent transport systems.
  • Smart travel and tourism.
  • Smart health and emergency management (epidemic control).
  • Human-machine interactions.
  • Data security and blockchain.
  • Energy and climate policy.

With the success and the experience gained in the first edition, on this occasion highly knowledgeable, renowned speakers have joined the program, and they will give talks, workshops and free-access lectures. Among them are Dr. Yves Demazeau, Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence; Dr. Carlos Fernando da Silva Ramos, Coordinating Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Porto, and Dr. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, a leading researcher from the Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes de Portugal.

During the three-day conference there will also be time for academic contributions in the form of call for papers, call for workshops and doctoral consortium. The call is free and anyone who meets the requirements (which can be viewed here) can participate. In addition, the call for papers, workshop and the doctoral consortium for predoctoral researchers proposals has been extended until Friday, March 24.

Several papers will be selected, so that the selected authors will have the opportunity to present an extended version in a special issue of different scientific journals such as MDPI Electronics, MDPI Sensors or ADCAIJ: Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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