Latest Past Events

Dr. Alberto Leon-Garcia presents “Experience Building Smart Application Platform”

Online Event

In this talk we will present our experience building the SAVI (Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure) multitier cloud testbed to provide an application platform for smart city experiments. We will describe the CVST (Connected Vehicles for Smart Transportation) application platform which was built on top of SAVI and will then discuss challenges we are currently […]

Professor Sheng Liu presents “Data-Driven Approaches in Smart City Operations”

Online Event

This talk presents two projects that build data-driven solutions for city operations planning and management. The first part is devoted to the emerging food delivery operations. Working with a major food delivery service provider in China, we develop a data-driven optimization framework to minimize customers' expected delivery delay. To capture the driver's routing behaviors, we […]

Sidewalk Labs and the Public: Toronto’s Tech Utopia?

Innis Town Hall Theatre 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto

A moderated panel discussion presenting multiple perspectives on how we think of the ‘public’ in the Sidewalk Labs proposal. Presenting: Zhixi C. Zhuang, Associate Professor, Ryerson School of Urban & Regional Planning Shoshanna Saxe, Assistant Professor, UofT Dept. of Civil & Mineral Engineering Alex Mather, Vice President, The Keesmaat Group Matti Siemiatycki, Associate Professor, UofT Dept. […]