The U.S. Department of Commerce‘s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the next round of the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) at a White House Smart City Forum hosted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
See the White House Fact Sheet to read all the announcements made at the Forum.
NIST announced that the kick-off conference for the next round of the Global City Teams Challenge will take place November 12-13, 2015 at NIST’s Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Registration for the conference is now open. Please use this link to register. There is no registration fee. Pre-registration is required and closes November 5, 2015. The draft agenda can be found here.
For the next round of GCTC, NIST will again team with US Ignite, a nonprofit focused on the creation of next-generation Internet applications that provide transformative public benefit, and a series of government, private sector and non-profit partner organizations.
See the NIST website for more information about the GCTC 2016 Kick-Off Conference.