NIST and DHS S&T to host Kickoff conference on Feb 6-7, 2018 in Washington DC, followed by IES-City Workshop on Feb 8

Dear Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) community,

NIST and DHS S&T will co-host the 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC - Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3).

• When: Feb 6-7, 2018
• Where: FHI 360 Conference Center in Washington DC. (1825 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA)

The GCTC-SC3 conference will be immediately followed by IES-City Framework Release Workshop on Feb 8. GCTC community members may choose to stay one more day and join the IES-City Workshop as well. The agenda of GCTC-SC3 kickoff conference will be made available in a few weeks.

Free registration for GCTC-SC3 kickoff and IES-City Workshop is open at https://appam.certain.com/profile/39236

The goal of kickoff conference is to encourage smart community/city and Internet of Things (IoT) stakeholders to build teams to address shared issues in various sectors such as transportation, public safety, utility, wireless, city data, agriculture & rural, and data governance/exchange. 2018 round will encourage participating teams to have additional focus on cybersecurity and privacy as the first order concern, as well as all existing GCTC goals such as replicability, scalability and sustainability.

• If you don't have an action cluster yet, but already working on smart solutions that can be replicated and scaled in cities and communities, please visit GCTC-SC3 Participation Guide to submit a worksheet and create a new action cluster.
• If you are an existing action cluster, you don't need to submit a full worksheet, but still need to submit the answers to the new question on cybersecurity and privacy in the worksheet.
• If you want to explore the possibilities to join, we will provide a partnership building opportunity led by professional facilitators. Feel free to attend.
• Anyone interested in IoT and smart cities/communities can attend.

SuperClusters Updates

Agriculture & Rural SuperCluster hosted a webinar on October 26, 2017.

• The Agriculture and Rural SuperCluster, being facilitated by GCTC and NTIA's Broadband USA, had a very exciting webinar.
• The webinar slide deck can be downloaded here.
• The webinar recording can be downloaded here.

Data Governance & Exchange SuperCluster and Wireless SuperCluster are planning webinars in December/January. Stay tuned.

Additional notes that may be of interest to the GCTC community:

GCTC members to participate in the Smart City event in Barcelona.

• If you are planning to attend the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona next week, US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration welcomes you to the USA Pavilion. Please stop by the USA Pavilion (Booth # E555). Several GCTC member cities including Schenectady, NY, Washington DC, Atlanta, GA, and San Diego, CA are participating in the Pavilion.
• GCTC will be speaking at the event. Join the session "Common Standards Boosting the Digital Transformation of Cities" at 11:30am on Nov 14th in Room 1, Hall 2.
• GCTC will also participate in a joint workshop hosted by Netherlands delegates at 12:30pm on Nov 15th in the Pitch Space at the Netherlands booth. Please come and see the discussion about data governance and exchange between the US and NL cities and stakeholders. Portland (Oregon), Amsterdam, and Eindhoven will give presentations.

Feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested in learning more about 2018 GCTC-SC3. Thank you all.

Sokwoo Rhee, Ph.D.
Associate Director | Cyber-Physical Systems Innovation
National Institute of Standards and Technology