July 28, 2020 -
July 30, 2020
Urban Futures – Summer Workshop
9:00 AM–2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)
Location: Virtual/Online
Day 1 | July 28, 2020
Theme: Data Driven Urban Transformation
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 9:00 AM–9:10 AM | Welcome: Introduction to the workshop | Video | Kristin Lauter & Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft |
| 9:10 AM–9:30 AM | City Futures – Urban innovation at Microsoft | Video | Scott Counts, Microsoft |
| 9:30 AM–10:00 AM | London’s digital twin for air quality and COVID-19 response | Video | Paul Hodgson, City Data at Greater London Authority |
| 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | Transformative uses of data in cities | Video | Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago |
| 10:30 AM–11:00 AM | Urban transformation and COVID-19 | Video | Bill Fulton, Rice University |
| 11:00 AM–11:30 AM | Creating a global network of smart cities: The global measurement and monitoring initiative | Video | Tom Baer, Stanford University |
| 11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Lunch break | |
| 12:00 PM–1:30 PM | Facilitated break out groups: Research plan development | |
| 1:30 PM–2:00 PM | Group report back and intern posters | Kristin Lauter, Alaysia Brown, & Adam Stewart, Microsoft |
| 2:00 PM | End of day 1 |
Day 2 | July 29, 2020
Theme: Sensors and Data
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 9:00 AM–9:30 AM | Welcome: Urban Innovation at Microsoft and Project Eclipse | Video | Slides | Scott Counts, Gavin Jancke, & Miriam Berhane Russom, Microsoft |
| 9:30 AM–10:00 AM | Quantifying urban scale CO2 reductions and related emissions changes during the COVID-19 Shelter in place | Video | Slides | Ron Cohen, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | How cities can become smarter: Sensors, edge computing, and the array of things | Video | Slides | Charlie Catlett, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratory |
| 10:30 AM–11:00 AM | Community air quality sensing: What we’ve learned from calibration and crowdsourcing studies | Video | Slides | Edmund Seto, University of Washington |
| 11:00 AM–11:30 AM | Using campuses in the Cascadia Corridor to advance smart city innovation | Video | Slides | Jon Fink, Portland State University |
| 11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Lunch break | |
| 12:00 PM–1:30 PM | Facilitated break out groups: Research plan development | |
| 1:30 PM–2:00 PM | Group report back and intern posters | Scott Counts, Helen Fitzmaurice, & Pietro Vannucci, Microsoft |
| 2:00 PM | End of day 2 |
Day 3 | July 30, 2020
Theme: Policy and Social Impact
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 9:00 AM–9:30 AM | Welcome: Future scenarios & AI for Earth – shaping urban development toward a sustainable future | Video | Slides | Asta Roseway & Lucas Joppa, Microsoft |
| 9:30 AM–10:00 AM | Granular CO2 emissions for every U.S. city from the Vulcan and Hestia Projects | Kevin Gurney, Northern Arizona University |
| 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | The role of collaboration in city innovation | Video | Slides | Brenna Berman, CEO, City Tech Collaborative |
| 10:30 AM–11:00 AM | Towards an Integrated System for Urban Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Assessment | Video | Slides | Jocelyn Turnbull, University of Colorado |
| 11:00 AM–11:30 AM | Lunch break | |
| 11:30 AM–1:00 PM | Facilitated break out groups: research plan development | |
| 1:00 PM–2:00 PM | Group report back and intern posters | Asta Roseway, Mikayla Buford, & Alex Cabral, Microsoft |
| 2:00 PM | End of workshop |