SHAPE THE FUTURE OF NEXT GENERATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Well-planned infrastructure strengthens the resiliency, sustainability, and the economic viability and livability of communities. Offered by the University of Washington Department of Urban Design and Planning, the Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management online degree prepares you to lead the development of the next generation of critical infrastructure systems — improving security, and accessibility. Gain a broad understanding of the complexity and the interdependencies between infrastructure systems — communications, public health, water, energy, food and transportation — with a final project that allows you to showcase your acquired knowledge about an infrastructure issue of your choice.
PROGRAM FEATURES
- In-depth courses covering key topics such as infrastructure finance, emergency management, green infrastructure practices, urban mobility, climate change, urban informatics, geographic information systems, social equity and inclusion, and community resilience
- Examination of key infrastructure sectors and their essential components through the lens of systems thinking
- All-hazards risk management approach, shaped by faculty and industry experts, that complements a traditional emergency management focus, encompassing threats from natural hazards, deterioration, cyber penetrations, and climate change
- Instruction based on case studies and problem solving to strengthen critical thinking and leadership skills
- Increased focus on use of data analysis tools and systems to improve decision making and strategic planning
CONVENIENT ONLINE FORMAT
Take advantage of our robust online learning platform to complete your degree no matter where you live or work. This 100% online program is specifically designed with working professionals in mind, allowing those in a global mobile workforce to earn their graduate degree. Study with UW faculty and industry practitioners who offer diverse expertise in their respective fields.
DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development
A flexible, part-time doctoral programme over four to eight years.
Starting October 2021.
The Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) provides outstanding graduates with an opportunity to pursue in-depth and rigorous research into the pressing challenges of urban sustainability.
You will receive guidance from your University supervisor, be encouraged to develop your independent research skills through our doctoral training initiatives and have full access to Oxford’s research facilities and online resources.
Potential supervisors are available from a range of specialists across the University of Oxford.
Find out more about the doctoral programme.
MSc in Sustainable Urban Development
A flexible, two-year part-time master’s degree for professionals
Starting October 2021
The MSc is a multi-disciplinary and globally-focused course for high-achieving professionals who will provide vision and leadership for sustainable urban futures.
This course is specially designed to fit studying around work commitments. You will attend eight intensive teaching weeks in Oxford and London, before completing your dissertation project, and throughout the course you will have the support of our web-based learning environment.
The MSc is delivered in partnership with The Prince’s Foundation and is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Scholarships available – apply by 22 January 2021 to be automatically considered.
Find out more about the master’s programme.
While the coronavirus pandemic is still taking an increasing toll all over the world, Smart City Summit and Expo (SCSE) will take place as a hybrid event, physically in Taipei from March 23rd to 26th, 2021 and virtually on its online platform, the Smart City Online. The event is expected to collect over 1,000 solutions from 450 companies from around the world. There will be over 60 sessions of professional forums and over 800 business matchmaking sessions. The number of visitors is expected to hit a record high.
Smart City Online creates connections for businesses around the world. For example, Smart City Online Portal Entry (S.C.O.P.E.) is the most comprehensive online database of global smart city & IoT solutions. Online forums have been held on SMART LIVE since June with different themes each month. For businesses seeking networking, TCA opens online business meeting system for global participants to book meetings every Wednesday. Hundreds of online sessions have been conducted in 2020.
2020 Mayors’ Summit (online) engaged mayors, deputy mayors and city representatives
The 2021 highlights you cannot miss out:
Mayors’ Summit & CTalk－ Organized with Taipei City Government, the 2020 sessions involved 54 city leaders. The annual gathering of decision makers from local governments will feature up-to-date insights about recovering cities in post-pandemic era next year.
AI 50 Campaign－ By selecting the best practices and cases from startups using AI technologies, it will showcase the future beyond your imagination. The call is open now until the end of January 2021, with special rewards for innovators.
It is time for telecom operators, system integrators, key professionals, and smart city solutions providers to take part now.
See more information: https://en.smartcity.org.tw/
Contact: Ms. Shaph Su at shaph@mail.tca.org.tw
Digital Transformation in a New Age is a future-focused webinar series for Public Sector brought to you by Verizon. Join us for the third installment in the series: “Enabling Vaccine Deployment.” COVID-19 vaccinations continue, representing the most urgent mass immunization campaign since polio shots were rolled out in the 1950s.
Where do things stand as the vaccine continues to make its way to the initial round of eligible recipients? How are state and local governments, as well as public health leaders, managing the onslaught of calls and questions from constituents, employees and healthcare organizations? Beyond that, how are governments and agencies helping communicate, ease anxiety, ensure security protocols are met and provide timely updates to citizens as the vaccine rollout continues?
Replay earlier editions of Digital Transformation in a New Age
24 March: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Communities, Campuses and Venues of the Future
14 April: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Caring for the Whole Student
Upcoming editions
26 May: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Network Modernization (invite coming soon)
23 June: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Interoperability (invite coming soon)
The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative responds to the growing need to boost resilience at the local level. Crises such as COVID-19 and climate change remind us that managing disaster risk is everyone’s business, in which local governments play an instrumental role. Building resilience of local governments through robust risk governance structures and processes is a critical step to ensure that impacts are mitigated and measures are taken at the most localised and disaggregated level.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Europe, in partnership with ICLEI Europe – Local Governments for Sustainability, invite you to this regional webinar, which sets in motion a decade for city resilience through the implementation of the MCR2030 initiative across the Europe and Central Asia region.
This event brings to light cities at various stages of their resilience journey. The city experiences aim to showcase how, through robust risk knowledge, planning and implementation, city resilience can be strengthened in a spirit of peer learning and partnership central to the MCR2030 initiative.
Digital Transformation in a New Age is a future-focused webinar series for Public Sector brought to you by Verizon. Join us for the fourth installment in the series: “The Need for Network Modernization.”
There’s been a veritable evolution in how agencies and organizations look at their networks since last March, with remote work serving as the catalyst. During that early period, where time was of the essence when it came to meeting sudden new demands and keeping workflow, operations and dollars turned on, agencies had to rapidly expand their network capabilities, capacity and design without much time to consider long-term implications.
With that warp-speed evolution came risk and a good amount of uncertainty. Some agencies were able to expand and modernize their networks to adequately accommodate new demands. Some still struggle with filling in technology gaps. And some are at a point where they’re stepping back and re-assessing whether their quickly adopted strategy is headed in the right direction, rather than toward a costly dead end. All the while they continue to address heightened security, deployment, capacity and architectural challenges.
Now that we’ve reached a point where we can catch our breath, agencies and organizations are beginning to take a measured look at their network capabilities and structure, and to fully embrace network modernization. Today we’ll explore what that means.
Replay earlier editions of Digital Transformation in a New Age
24 March: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Communities, Campuses and Venues of the Future
14 April: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Caring for the Whole Student
5 May: Digital Transformation: Enabling Vaccine Deployment
Upcoming editions
23 June: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Interoperability (invite coming soon)
Changing emission standards, environmental and public concerns, increased road accidents and new technology are driving the biggest change automotive has ever seen. Delivering the sustainable, consumer loved, and actively safe vehicle takes time and money, but you only have so long before another competitor wins market share.
OEMs must make technological leaps in both electric vehicles and more-efficient internal combustion engines, whilst advancing autonomous tech to achieve zero road fatalities.
As this year’s Reuters Events Car of the Future 2021 we will showcase how OEMs are building the vehicle of the future to create a safer and sustainable world. This meeting is the one place for all your automotive tech news, updates and benchmarks, featuring the most impressive line-up in history!
Find out more here: https://reutersevents.com/events/automotivefuturecar/
As a new era in bulk goods dawns, find inspiration at trade shows Solids & Recycling-Technik
Leading-edge technology for bulk solids
The demands placed on technologies for processing modern bulk solids are constantly rising. Today’s strategies no longer focus strictly on increases in efficiency and the careful consumption of energy and resources: Given the ubiquitous shortage of skilled workers, it has become critical to fortify processes in order to protect people, the environment and production plants. On 16 and 17 June 2021, the trade show Solids & Recycling-Technik Dortmund will address these and other challenges faced by industry – both today and tomorrow. Throughout the exhibition and in technical lectures, numerous experts will engage the visitors to encourage the exchange of knowledge and spark ideas for tackling a demanding future.
The primary issues facing decision-makers in the bulk materials industry are: how to position oneself efficiently and sustainably on the market, and how to defend and maintain that position in future. Against a background of growing shortages in skilled workers and stricter legal requirements in Germany, it has also become more difficult to ensure safety and prevent errors in demanding processes.
On 17-18 March 2021 in Dortmund, solutions for these and other issues of concern to industrial sectors will be presented at the two trade shows Solids & Recycling-Technik. “It’s of great importance to us that both the exhibition and our lecture programme cover the latest core themes affecting industry, and that they inspire ideas in the visitor for how to address those challenges concretely,” says Sandrina Schempp, Event Director, Solids & Recycling Technology at trade show organiser Easyfairs. This was also underscored by Arend Klöver, Disposal Representative at Beiersdorf AG, in his review of the shows two years ago: “Top experts highlighted the newest trends and illustrated innovative approaches to the industry’s hot topics.”
One of the best-known industry meeting places for experts from the powders, granules and bulk solids sector, the show always focuses on the latest issues. Whether that be safe storage, dosing, mixing or separating: At the show, visitors can discuss their technical challenges and the opportunities afforded by automation and digitalization, as well as forge new – or deepen existing – business relationships.
Workshops, lectures and live explosion demonstrations
For people who need to get a firm grip on current and future tasks, the lectures and workshops on the stages of the Innovation and Solution Centers will provide numerous opportunities to exchange ideas with experts. On the first day of the show, the audience can look forward to contributions from the Institute for Applied Building Research (IAB) Weimar on the subject of practice-oriented bulk solids simulation using the ‘discrete element’ method. Experts from the IAB will present their novel method for mapping the behavior of bulk solids and reveal the potential of simulation.
Another topic to be elaborated is how companies can protect themselves against explosion. Alongside lectures on the legal requirements for e.g. safe plant operation or the safety parameters of dusts, Prof. Dr. Ing. Uli Barth of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Integrative Safety in Wuppertal will also give a presentation on assessing explosion and fire hazards. Furthermore, visitors can once again look forward to the live explosion demonstrations in the open-air demo area of the fairgrounds.
Outfitted for the future
On the second day of the show, in a special sub-theme called “From law to practice”, experts will demonstrate how to smoothly implement occupational safety and health regulations in real life. The subject of safety also figures prominently in other presentations, for example in lectures on the safe handling of hazardous bulk materials. Besides the essential aspects of solids technology, topics from the recycling industry will also be illuminated on the lecture stages. The focus will be on implementing the Commercial Waste Ordinance, as well as on the recycling of packaging.
With these and the many other in-depth activities taking place on both days of Solids & Recycling-Technik in Dortmund, trade visitors can prepare themselves to meet the increasing expectations on their industries.
How would we structure emergency coordination, situational awareness and public announcements if we could work across networks and devices? Interoperability is more than just hooking up network infrastructure. It’s about enabling people across agencies and organizations to reach the right person and communicate when they need to, how they need to.
But effective interoperability won’t be possible until all carriers, device manufacturers, platforms and solution providers commit to enabling it. In this webinar, our experts discuss where we are in that decades-long quest. Join us to learn what it will take to get there.
We’ll talk about:
- Barriers to interoperability
- Data-sharing solutions in the post-pandemic world
- Verizon Interoperability Coalition: Uniform standards
- Advanced device-to-device technologies that can help enable interoperability across all networks
Replay earlier editions of Digital Transformation in a New Age
24 March: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Communities, Campuses and Venues of the Future
14 April: Digital Transformation in a New Age: Caring for the Whole Student
5 May: Digital Transformation: Enabling Vaccine Deployment
26 May: Digital Transformation in a New Age: The Need for Network Modernization