The Global Smart Cities Summit (GSCS 2023) cum The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (ICUI 2023)

Prof. Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005) and The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013). Both books won the Alonso Prize of the North American Regional Science Association. His most recent book Inventing Future Cities was published by MIT Press in late 2018. His blogs www.complexcity.info cover the science underpinning the technology of cities and his posts and lectures on big data and smart cities are at www.spatialcomplexity.info. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of City Planning and Dean of the School of Environmental Design at the University of Wales at Cardiff from 1979 to 1990 and then Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1990 to 1995. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS), was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2004 and the 2013 recipient of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud. In 2015 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his work on the science of cities. In 2016, he received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society and the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute. In 2018, he was awarded the Waldo Tobler prize for GI Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the Regional Science Association.

Professor Gong Jianya was born in Zhangshu, Jiangxi Province in April, 1957. He graduated from the Department of Surveying of East China Geosciences Institute in 1982 and received his doctor degree from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 1992. He was selected as the member of CAS in 2011. He was awarded China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists, 973 project chief scientist, academic leader of Innovative Research Groups of China's National Natural Science Foundation, etc. Professor Gong Jianya has made a number of original innovations in geoinformation theory and geometric remote sensing studies. For example, he invented object-oriented data model and interoperability model and geometric imaging model and precise processing method. Based on his own theory and models, he developed independently GIS basic software and network service platform and remote sensing ground processing system. He has undertaken over 30 national and provincial scientific projects. He has published 12 works and textbooks, over 430 theses. He won 3 National Science and Technology second prizes, 5 first prizes at provincial and ministerial prizes, 1 ISPRSDolezal Achievement Award.

Prof. Goodchild is awarded University Consortium of Geographical Information Science (UCGIS) Fellow status in recognition of his leadership, contributions to UCGIS, and his remarkable impact on the field of GIScience. Goodchild is the Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in physics (1965) and earned a Ph. D. in geography at McMaster University in 1969. He is recognized as the leading academic GIS practitioner in the world. He was elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of the British Academy. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates and France's Prix Vautrin Lud. He serves on the editorial boards of ten journals and has had published 15 books and 400 articles. He was editor of the journal Geographical Analysis and of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. He was Chair of the National Research Council's Mapping Science Committee. Currently he is Director of UCSB's Center for Spatial Studies which he helped establish.

Prof. Renzhong GUO was born in Jiangsu, China. He is member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Geography from University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 1990. He is currently a professor and the dean of the Research Institute for Smart Cities, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He has been engaged in research and development of Cartography, GIS, and Construction Strategy of Digital City for a long time. Great achievements are also be made in theories and methods of Geographical Information System, Information Engineering of Land Resource Management.

Prof. Ying Jin is a University Reader in Architecture and Urbanism at Cambridge. He first developed a practitioner career as a specialist consultant on land use planning, transport modelling and collaborative urban design in the UK, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the World Bank. He returned to teaching in 2009 at Cambridge, and since 2012 leads the research there on predictive models for planning and design in cities. Ying is currently working on model-based radical development scenarios for the UK2070 Commission, an inquiry into regional inequalities and a new framework for action across the countries in the UK. He is the Director of the Martin Centre, a leading academic institution on land use, built form and integrative design for more than 50 years. He is also an active member of several interdisciplinary Cambridge initiatives, including his appointment as an inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Prof. Yeh joined the Centre in 1981 after working as a Research Officer of the Strategic Planning Unit of the Hong Kong Government. He is now the Chair Professor of Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Centre and the Deputy Convenor of Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area of the University. He has been the Dean of the Graduate School, Director of Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, Director of Institute of Transport Studies and Head of Department of Urban Planning and Design, My main areas of specialization are urban planning and development in Hong Kong, China, and SE Asia, and the applications of geographic information systems in urban and regional planning. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, Fellow of TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) in 2010, and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK in 2013. He was the recipient of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award in recognition of outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in human settlements development and planning and 2012 Dr. Gill-Chin Lim Global Award presented in the 53rd Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) held in Cincinnati, USA, in November 2012, in recognition of global commitment and leadership as a scholar and an educator in the field of humanistic globalization. He is at present President of Asia Geographic Information System Association. He was Secretary-General of the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) and Asia Geographic Information System Association.He has been Chairman of the Hong Kong Geographical Association, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP), Vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Programme Director of the Geographic/Land Information Technology Programme of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Founding President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (HKGISA), and Chairman of the Geographic Information Science Commission of the International Geographic Union (IGU). He is also honorary professor at various major universities and research institutes in China, including Institute of Geography, Beijing; Tongji University, Shanghai; Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, and Wuhan University, Wuhan. Apart from working in Hong Kong and China, He has done fieldwork in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. He has been invited to attend many expert group meetings of the United Nations Centre of Regional Development (UNCRD) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He has conducted many CPD training courses on urban planning and management and geographic information systems in Hong Kong and China. He has served on various planning related bodies of the Hong Kong Government. At present He is a member of the editorial board of Computers, Environment and Urban System, Transactions in GIS, Progress in Planning, International Planning Studies and other international journals. He has been a member of the Planners Registration Board, Transport Advisory Committee, Town Planning Appeal Board, Member of the Pan-PRD Panel of the Central Policy Unit and Chairman of the Transport Complaint Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. At present, He is a member of the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance). He has been invited to participate in many expert group meetings on master plans of Chinese cities, such as Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.