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IEEE Smart Cities Committees

The Operational Committees have the following primary responsibilities
  1. Identify & create Smart City related content
  2. Promote existing Smart City related content
  3. Encourage multi-OU participation
  4. Make contact with lead person in each IEEE OU, establish communications with them

  5. Connect expertise back to the IEEE Smart Cities community to facilitate advancements in Smart City transformation

Committee
Chair
Vice Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
Smart Cities Committee
Georges Zissis
 
Lingxi Li
Leonardo Nahle
Talent, Culture, and Engagement Committee
 
 
 
 
Nominations Standing Committee
Chiara Boccaletti
 
 
 
Governance Committee
Lingxi Li
 
 
 
Technical Activities Committee/R&D
Harivardhagini Subhadra
Pradyumn Chaturvedi
 
 
  ↳ Standards Committee
Kishor Narnix
 
 
 
  ↳ Technical Roadmaps Committee
Bevely Pasian
 
 
 
Communication and Outreach Strategy Committee
Gaurav Pathak
 
 
 
  ↳ Partnerships Committee
Laden Husamaldin
 
 
 
  ↳ Awards and Recognition Committee
Moustafa Nasralla
 
 
 
  ↳ Ambassadors Program Committee
Prerna Gaur
Neelu Nagpal
 
 
Products & Services Committee
 
 
 
 
  ↳ SC Contests Committee
Gustavo Giannattasio
 
 
 
  ↳ Education Committee
Wei-Jen Lee
 
 
 
  ↳ Publications Committee
Loi Lei Lai
 
 
 
  ↳ Meetings & Events Committee
Yacine Ghamri
 
 
 

The Steering Committee decides on the priorities and manages the general course of its operations.

The Steering Committee’s responsibilities include:

  • Work with the Project Manager to provide leadership to the Initiative and keep the effort moving forward on schedule
  • Provide strategic directions and development of goals and guidance for product development
  • Participation at quarterly meetings via conference call with one being an annual face-to-face meeting. The Annual Meeting location is proposed by the Project Manager and Chair, and voted upon by the Committee
  • Recruitment of new volunteers to participate in various committees

The IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee is comprised of a Chair and at least one (1) member from each partner organizational unit.

A partner organizational unit is any IEEE society or organizational unit that agrees to encourage the exchange and dissemination of technical information and promote understanding and cooperation among the individual participants in the IEEE Smart Cities with IEEE Smart Cities organizational unit members.

The Steering Committee nominates a Chair for approval by the IEEE PES President for a one (1) year term which can be renewed up to three (3) years.

Currently, there are 5 IEEE Partner Organizational Units with representation on the IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee:

  1. IEEE Industry Applications Society
  2. IEEE Power & Energy Society
  3. IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)
  4. IEEE Wireless Power Technologies (WPT) Initiative
  5. Council on Electronic Automation Design

Here are the non-IEEE partnerships that IEEE Smart Cities has:

  1. Instituto de Competittividad e Innovacion para el Desarrollo y Transferencia de Tecnologia (Mexico)
  2. Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (Beligium)
  3. International Project Management Association (Switzerland)
  4. Prince Sultan University (Saudi Arabia)

The cross-discipline coordination across IEEE uniquely positions IEEE Smart Cities to accelerate successful implementation of Smart Cities throughout the world.  Each partner organizational unit member will represent their respective organizational unit and attract as many interested members as possible to help achieve the goals of the Initiative.

The IEEE Smart Cities Education Committee is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Coordinate the generation and presentation of new Smart City educational content including webinars, Q&As, interviews, etc.
  • Find and create content, generate content to promote – Understand where the gaps are in education and help generate that content
  • Be at the forefront of Smart City educational offerings  and special sessions at IEEE Smart Cities related conferences

The IEEE Smart Cities Education Committee is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Coordinate the generation and presentation of new Smart City educational content including webinars, Q&As, interviews, etc.
  • Find and create content, generate content to promote – Understand where the gaps are in education and help generate that content
  • Be at the forefront of Smart City educational offerings  and special sessions at IEEE Smart Cities related conferences

Scope

  • Promote and support IEEE Smart Cities newsletter by providing article, special issues and content
  • Bring discipline to the understanding of smart city domains and areas
  • Support Smart City articles in existing publications and explore special issues in for example, IEEE Spectrum, OU publications

Goals

  • Socialize and promote smart city domains and areas
  • Support all OUs are participating in special issues
  • Review and identify related Smart City publications being produced by existing IEEE OUs and give them visibility by selective publication in Smart City Newsletter
  • Portal interface to Xplore – find abstracts of smart city related articles
  • Support other Committees for development of new products, for example: support exploring potential new collaborative products such as an annual “Best of Compendium”
  • Make contact with Publications lead in each IEEE OU, establish communications with them

Scope

  • Engage in identifying emerging pivotal R&D areas in the Smart City related domain and engage the broader IEEE societies in all pertinent areas for collaboration
  • Support and collaborate with public/private enterprises to assess priority areas and disseminate Smart City and sustainable energy research and implementation strategies

Goals

  • Evaluate Smart City and related technology road maps to relate technology developments in the IEEE OUs
  • Look at technology roadmaps, identify needs and directions going on, and present a view of the technical landscape and direction
  • Survey the R&D activities of all IEEE OUs involved in and collaborate – Technical Activities/Emerging Technologies/Standards contact – liaise and be active with those people from each OU. Find out what everyone is doing and promote it – challenge them to represent what is going on in the R&D portions of all IEEE Smart Cities participating OUs – survey and promote
  • Initiate collaborations where there are gaps – identify a research direction/need – identify opportunities to collaborate and fill gaps
  • Make contact with R&D leads in each IEEE OU and establish communications with them

Scope

  • Focus on new technologies that are close to adoption and deployment
  • Interact with Smart City stakeholders (IEEE and non-IEEE) on inter-disciplinary technical topics
  • Closely collaborate with the IEEE Smart Cities R&D Committee on tracking technologies that are becoming mature from a research perspective
  • Closely collaborate with IEEE Standards Association (SA), absorbing the scope of the existing IEEE Smart Cities Standards Committee
  • Closely collaborate with the IEEE Future Directions Committee on selecting and partnering with closely related initiatives as related to the Smart City

Goals

Technical Area
  1. Track technical development of new technologies that are close to adoption and deployment
  2. Interact with IEEE and non-IEEE stakeholders on inter-disciplinary technical topics
  3. Coordinate with the IEEE Future Directions Committee on Smart City and inter-disciplinary initiatives, e.g. Internet of Things, Big Data, Cyber Security, etc.
  4. Work with IEEE Smart Cities R&D Committee to track the evolutionary changes in the Smart City as R&D approaches the implementation and deployment stage
Standards Area
  1. Track the present standards to make sure they are current and up-to-date as far as the existing technologies are concerned
  2. Look ahead in the short term to prepare for the incremental evolution of the standards to keep track with the evolving Smart City reality
  3. Make contact with lead Standards person in each IEEE Organizational Unit
  4. Promote Smart City related standards
  5. Facilitate transition from R&D to standardization and commercialization
  6. Provide early guidelines for standard development as the R&D work is becoming mature
  7. Coordinate with the IEEE SA on necessary changes in existing standards, as well as, forecast future standard developments that may be necessary

The TCE committee has the following primary responsibilities:

  • Advance diversity in technical professions within IEEE and aligned organisations. This includes, but is not limited to, fostering an inclusive and equitable culture that warmly welcomes, actively engages, and generously rewards anyone contributing to the increase of quality of life within urban and rural environments.
  • Engage with researchers to deepen and extend knowledge into TCE priorities within the urban and rural environments.
  • Partner with individuals and/or organisations to develop tools, resources, and methods to maximise the practical implementation of new ideas supporting TCE interests.
  • Support the broader TCE mission, activities, and people within the IEEE.

Beverly Pasian, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Chair)
Peter Braster, City of Plano
Surekha Deshmukh
Alexia Nalewaik, American University
Charith Perera, Cardiff University, UK
Tikajit Rai, International Project Management Association
Nigel Williams, University of Portsmouth