Conferences co organized by SinfraS
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.’
8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control will be held in Delft, the Netherlands. The main theme of the conference is “Next Generation Infrastructures”. Infrastructures are the backbone of the economy and society. Especially the network bound infrastructures operated by public utilities and network industries provide essential services that are enabling for almost every economic and social activity. The crucial role of the infrastructure networks for energy and water supply, transportation of people and goods, and provision of telecommunication and information services, culminating into a myriad of value added services, makes them increasingly specialized and difficult to design, operate and manage. This conference will provide a remarkable opportunity for the academic and industrial community to address new challenges and share solutions, and discuss future research directions in the area of next generation infrastructures. It will feature plenary speeches, industrial panel sessions, funding agency panel sessions, interactive sessions, and invited/special sessions. Contributions are expected from academia, industry, and government agencies.
4th International Conference on Infrastructure Systems and Services 2011; Next Generation Infrastructure Systems (in development)