International Conference on Infrastructure Systems and Services 2010

Next Generation Infrastructure Systems for Eco-cities

The third annual conference on Next Generation Infrastructures will deal with infrastructures for eco cities and be held in Shenzhen, China, 11-13 November 2010. Shenzhen is a city well-poised and with the ambition to become a global eco city and is open to a wide range of ideas to develop the appropriate infrastructures to evolve into one. NGI’s conference on infrastructures for eco cities is sponsored by Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China) and the Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation (Delft, Netherlands). Co-sponsors are HIT Shenzhen Graduate School, Delft University of Technology, the City of Shenzhen and IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society.

According to Wikipedia, ‘a sustainable city, or eco-city is a city designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimisation of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution – CO2, methane and water pollution. (…) A sustainable city can feed itself with minimal reliance on the surrounding countryside, and power itself with renewable sources of energy. The crux of this is to create the smallest possible ecological footprint, and to produce the lowest quantity of pollution possible, to efficiently use land; compost used materials, recycle it or convert waste-to-energy, and thus the city’s overall contribution to climate change will be minimal, if such practices are adhered to.’

Developing a new generation of energy, transport, ICT, water and waste disposal infrastructures is a complex and challenging task that requires creativity, perseverance, audacity and dedication. This is even more true when we consider the trend for different types of infrastructures to converge in terms of practical applications, such as with mobile smart grids where energy, IT and transport networks are connected and offer countless new opportunities to improve the performance of each of them. Generating these new opportunities requires important conceptual and organisational efforts, since these will not come about automatically.

This conference aims to bring those academics and professionals together who feel they have the ability and desire to contribute to this promising development. Under the sections scope and topics of this website, more can be found on the subject of this conference and the panels it will be hosting.

Important dates:

April 1, 2010 Proposals for Special Sessions, Roundtables and Workshops.
August 15, 2010 Submission of Full Papers

More information can be found on the conference website >>>
And if you still have questions you can also contact Martin de Jong.