Microsoft Urban Futures Summer Workshop | Data Driven Urban Transformation [Day 1]

The Microsoft Urban Futures Summer Workshop was three intensive days of talks, discussion, and planning for data-driven urban transformation. At this event, we built a research-driven coalition of civic, academic, and research leaders to envision what services could be built on top of data sets for improving the future of cities. Together we developed research and action plans for cities, academia, and industry, to conduct real-world research and deployments. We considered which data sets are needed to drive urban transformation based on real-world scenarios.

Day 1 | July 28, 2020

Welcome: Introduction to the workshop | Video (opens in new tab)
Kristin Lauter & Roy Zimmermann, Microsoft

City Futures – Urban innovation at Microsoft | Video (opens in new tab)
Scott Counts, Microsoft

London’s digital twin for air quality and COVID-19 response | Video (opens in new tab)
Paul Hodgson, City Data at Greater London Authority

Transformative uses of data in cities | Video (opens in new tab)
Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago

Urban transformation and COVID-19 | Video (opens in new tab)
Bill Fulton, Rice University

Creating a global network of smart cities: The global measurement and monitoring initiative | Video (opens in new tab)
Tom Baer, Stanford University