SC3 update, New SuperCluster groups, and Smart City Works
2018 GCTC-Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) update
We are actively initiating discussions with cybersecurity and privacy experts interested in joining 2018 GCTC-SC3. A kickoff conference is being planned for end of Nov/early Dec 2017 in Washington DC area. The goal of the kickoff conference is to create partnerships between cities, companies, universities, and to reinforce existing teams/build new teams to address shared issues such as transportation, public safety, utility, data, public WiFi/broadband, with participation from cybersecurity and privacy experts. There are a large number of great teams in GCTC already and more teams will be created at the kickoff, and we will help make them more secure and privacy-aware.
If you are a cybersecurity and privacy professional, this is a rare opportunity to explore direct partnerships with numerous cities, communities, and stakeholder deploying smart solutions worldwide. You don't want to miss it.
If you are already a member of a GCTC team, this is a great opportunity to add serious measures of cybersecurity and privacy to your project. If you already have put in a lot of efforts to address cybersecurity and privacy issues, this is where you can show off and replicate your success in other cities.
If you are a new city, community, company, university, looking to get started with deploying smart city/IoT solutions, we will show you and walk you through how to do it.
We will send out more details as soon as the venue is confirmed. Buckle up and stay tuned!
SuperClusters updates
After initial release of blueprints, all five existing SuperClusters are actively discussing the next steps. In parallel, two more SuperClusters just opened up their google groups.
Data Governance and Exchange SuperCluster - join
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gctc-data-governance-and-exchange-supercluster/join
Agriculture and Rural SuperCluster - join
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gctc-agriculture-and-rural-area-supercluster/join
New SuperCluster webinars are being planning in October. We will keep growing existing and new SuperClusters in 2018, with the additional measures of cybersecurity and privacy.
Smart City Works accepting applications for business acceleration from GCTC member startups
Smart City Works, a business accelerator and GCTC partner, is seeking applications from startup companies in GCTC community to join their Fall 2017 cohort. In the Spring 2017 cohort, one of the GCTC members (PlanIT Impact) has successfully graduated the program. Final date for applications for Fall 2017 cohort was September 13th, 2017, but they have generously opened up a couple of more slots. Qualified Smart City Works companies may receive initial funding of up to $25,000 and be eligible for follow investment.
According to their Call for Innovation (CFI), Smart City Works is looking for entrepreneurs, startups, and companies with emerging products to apply for the Fall 2017 Washington DC metro cohort, to be held at the Center for Innovative Technology, Herndon, VA. The program is open to startups globally whose visionary founders are willing to bring their ideas and passions to participate in person in a unique and impactful acceleration process. In particular, they seek innovative commercial solutions that address significant social and civic challenges--safety, security, livability, and resilience--in urban environments across the United States and the world. These solutions may have any impact of the infrastructure lifecycle from planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance, and final disposition. For the Fall 2017 cohort, the solution will focus on one of the following key areas of the infrastructure challenge: Transport, Resilience and Public Safety, Construction Techniques, Use of Urban Data and IoT Technologies, Energy, Caring Cities. For more information, please visit http://www.smartcityworks.io/ (Note that the requirement of 3 months for co-location is waved for Fall 2017 cohort.)
Feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested in learning more about 2018 GCTC-SC3. Thank you all.
Sokwoo
Sokwoo Rhee, Ph.D.
Associate Director | Cyber-Physical Systems Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology