The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate are co-hosting the 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC – Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) on February 6-7, 2018 in Washington, DC. The GCTC-SC3 conference will be immediately followed by IES-City Framework Release Workshop on Feb 8. GCTC community members may choose to stay one more day and join the IES-City Workshop as well. The agenda of GCTC-SC3 kickoff conference will be made available in a few weeks. The goal of kickoff conference is to encourage smart community/city and Internet of Things (IoT) stakeholders to build teams to address shared issues in various sectors […]

The 2017 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo on August 28-29 in Washington, DC will bring together over 100 cities and communities around the world in partnership with more than 300 companies, universities, non-profits, and federal government agencies to share and exhibit their smart city projects and the impacts to their communities. See the agenda here. There will be over 200 speakers at the Expo, including the industry speakers below: Wilfred Pinfold, CEO, Urban Systems Ken Thompson, Deputy Director, Intelligent Water Solutions, CH2M Steve Wimsatt, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Ruckus Wireless Jennifer Robinson, Director of Local Government Solutions, SAS Derick Lee, Founder and Chief Architect, PilotCity Scott Pomeroy, President, Scalable Strategies […]

The registration of 2017 Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) is now open. The Expo will take place at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 28-29, 2017 in Washington, DC. It will bring together over 100 cities and communities around the world in partnership with more than 300 companies, universities, non-profits, and federal government agencies to share and exhibit their smart city projects and the impacts to their communities. The Expo will include: Keynotes from senior federal and local government leaders and industry stakeholders. Announcements of SuperClusters blueprints and playbooks to help cities and communities to jumpstart planning and deployment of best practices. Registered action clusters will be offered […]

There are a number of Global Cities Teams Challenge (GCTC) SuperCluster activities coming up: City Platform SuperCluster Workshop: Kansas City is hosting the GCTC City Platform SuperCluster Workshop on February 7-8, 2017, at the Think Big Partners. During the two-day workshop, the participants will come in with a list of problems and questions on City Platform and cross-cutting data management issues, and leave with a concept of how to solve that list while building a smart city. Registration is open at this website. Public Safety/Emergency/Disaster/Resilience SuperCluster (PSSC): PSSC is tentatively planning a SuperCluster workshop in the last week of February, 2017, in Washington DC. You can receive updates by participating in the […]

The Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) will hold their first group conference call for the Public WiFi SuperCluster. Anyone who is interested in the Public WiFi SuperCluster is welcome to join. When: 2pm US Eastern Time, Thursday, December 1, 2016 Call Number: +1-877-928-0863, Code:1736096 Also, the Transportation SuperCluster is planning a GCTC Transportation SuperCluster Summit on Feb 1-2 in Portland, Oregon. The preliminary agenda and the registration link can be found here. The summary of the SuperCluster sessions at the Kickoff event in Washington DC on October 25-26 can be found here. The entities and solutions listed in these preliminary data sets will serve as the initial building blocks in constructing the […]

The 2016 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo will take place in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center June 13-14, 2016. The Expo will showcase GCTC Action Clusters and will feature speakers and panelists on a wide range of smart city topics. The two-day event will include an exhibition space in which trade-show style booths will be made available to 2016 GCTC Action Clusters. If you would like to propose a new 2016 GCTC Action Cluster and would like to have the opportunity to present and exhibit at the 2016 GCTC Expo, please submit the following information by April 29, 2016: Project worksheet for the proposed Action Cluster A list […]