Multi‐Society Meeting
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Please join the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia and our co-sponsoring partner societies for our annual
Multi‐Society Meeting. This is always a good opportunity to kick off the holiday season and network with
engineers and other professionals that you might not normally see at your society meetings.
Topic
“TomorrowLand” Is Here Today –
Smart Cities, Big Data and Decision Science
Panelists
Drury B. Crawley, PhD, Bentley Fellow/Director, Building Performance/Bentley Institute, Bentley Systems, Inc.
Ellen Hwang, Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives, Office of Innovation & Technology, City of Philadelphia
William T. Thomsen, PE, Senior Vice President/COO, National Services, Urban Engineers, Inc.
Steven Weber, PhD, Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Isaac L. Auerbach Cybersecurity Institute, Drexel University
In today’s world, managing a large enterprise has become much more difficult due to the flood of new information and data and rapidly-changing needs and circumstances. This is true for business enterprises, institutions and especially cities. The explosion of information and communication technologies (ICT), coupled with the increasing economic and environmental demands such as climate change, economic restructuring, the digital marketplace, urban population growth and pressures on public finances have generated interest in “smart cities” designed to use technology to try to get a better handle on the information driving the issues of the day.
The smart city concept integrates ICT tools and systems along with the “Internet of Things” (IOT) to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and connect to citizens. Smart city technology allows city officials to interact directly with both community and city infrastructure and to monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving. This panel will bring together a view of smart cities from the technology, application and “big user” perspectives, along with data security and privacy considerations.
LOCATION
DoubleTree Philadelphia Hotel
237 South Broad Street (at Locust Street)
Center City Philadelphia
SCHEDULE
11:30 AM Networking
12:00 Noon Lunch
Program following
COST
$65/$75/$25 (ECP member/non-member/government & student) on or before November 27
$80/$45 (members & non-members/government & student) November 28 and after
$100 Affiliate Sponsor (see below)
Register Here: www.engrclub.org Payment will be expected for all reservations regardless of attendance
Toys will be collected for the Toys for Tots Foundation.
Please consider bringing an UNWRAPPED toy to brighten a child’s holiday.
Attention all Affiliate Societies of the Engineers’ Club – for $100 your organization will be recognized as an event co-sponsor. This rate will include the attendance of a representative of your organization at the event and recognition of your organization as a
co-sponsor during the event. This rate is available to all affiliate technical societies and groups of the Engineers’ Club.