Urban Digital Twins for a Sustainable Transformation of Cities

Conference

April 02 & 03 2025

Call for Speakers is Now Open

Location

HafenCity Universität

City Science Lab

Hongkongstraße 8

20457 Hamburg, Germany

Online: Zoom

About the Conference

The “Urban Digital Twins for a Sustainable Transformation of Cities” conference aims to bring together leading scientists, researchers and practitioners to critically discuss on the question of how urban digital twins can foster a transformation of cities towards sustainability and resilience.

For further details, please refer to the conference concept note.

The conference takes place within the framework of the Connected Urban Twins (CUT) project, which is funded by the German Federal Government as a Model Project Smart City. In order to present solutions and approaches of the CUT project, the scientific conference (02 to 03 April 2025) will be complemented by a practice-oriented event on 01 April 2025: CUT Innovations – Solutions and Approaches from the Connected Urban Twins Project will take place at the Authority for Urban Development and Housing and will be organized by the project partners in Hamburg.

Key Questions

We are looking for contributions that address and discuss the below key questions from a scientific perspective and welcome critical approaches.

  • How can urban digital twins initiate and accelerate processes of urban transformation?

  • How can the technical, institutional and political challenges of implementation be managed?

  • How can urban digital twins help to build transformative capacity among actors of sustainability?

  • How can effective technologies and governance settings be transferred to other cities?

Proposal Submission

Are you interested in sharing your knowledge and presenting your research at this conference?

Please submit an extended abstract (between 1,000 and 2,000 words) in English by November 17, 2024.

Please send your submissions to eva.stowasser@hcu-hamburg.de

We also highly value the insights and perspectives of practitioners. If you have developed a digital twin artifact, we encourage you to submit a brief description of the artifact and its application in your extended abstract. At the conference you can demonstrate it alongside a presentation that explores its transformative impact or potential.

The conference contributions should reflect on the aspect of urban transformation on a social, technical or ecological dimension. Submissions should align with one or more of the following conference tracks:

  • Smart City Governance

  • Modeling, Simulation, and AI

  • Citizen Engagement

  • Transformative Research Methods for Actionable Knowledge

Call for Speakers Timeline

  • September 5 2024: Call for speaker proposal opens

  • November 17 2024: Deadline for proposal submission

  • December 20 2024: Submission notification

Financials

Travel expenses must generally be covered by the speakers or their organizations. A conference fee will not be charged.

If you are planning to visit in person after the acceptance of your extended abstract and if you find yourself unable to travel without financial support due to special circumstances, please feel free to reach out.

Special Issue Publication

We are planning a special issue on this conference, scheduled for publication at the end of 2025. We would like to invite speakers to publish their conference contributions as double blind peer-reviewed full text. Submission, review and acceptance of full papers will take place in a separate process after the conference.

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