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Open University of the Netherlands and BISS Institute present:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

‘Making the smart city safe for citizens: The case of smart energy and mobility’

Interdisciplinary perspectives on data ownership, data security and liability

28^th & 29^th November, 2018.

Forum of Brightlands Smart Services, Smedestraat 2, 6411 CR Heerlen, Netherlands

(near Maastricht)

Programme: www.ou.nl/smartcitysafe

Register to attend the conference here (for free)

https://www.ou.nl/web/international-conference-making-the-smart-city-safe/registration-form

The smart city has become the leitmotiv of urban development in the sustainability transition. It promises to reorganize the flows of resources, goods, services and people much more efficiently. However, there is a clear risk that smart cities end up selling their citizens’ data to private investors for private profit, and instead of serving sustainability and enhancing quality of life, many smart city innovations could be used for the surveillance and manipulation of citizens. Therefore, this international conference asks: What needs to be done to make the smart city safe for its citizens?

Featuring guest speakers:

DR. EVGENY MOROZOV, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR

‘A critique of digital capitalism: The smart city in the trap of data extractivism’

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything (2013). Morozov’s monthly column

on technology and politics appears in The Observer (UK) and is syndicated in various newspapers across Europe.

His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and

other publications. Previously a senior editor at The New Republic, he has been a fellow at Georgetown University,

Stanford University, New America Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has a PhD in history of

science from Harvard University. His next book, Freedom As a Service, will come out in 2019.

DR. FRANCESCA BRIA, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL INNOVATION OFFICER, BARCELONA

‘Reclaiming the smart city for the citizens: Data sovereignty and encryption as human right’

Francesca Bria is currently the Commissioner of Digital Technology and Innovation for the city of Barcelona in

Spain and she is leading the DECODE project (www.decodeproject.eu) on data sovereignty in Europe. As Senior

Programme Lead at Nesta, the UK Innovation Agency, she has led the EU D-CENT project, the biggest European

Project on digital democracy and digital money. She also led the DSI project, advising the EU on digital social

innovation policies. She holds a PhD in Innovation Economics from Imperial College, London and a MSc on Digital

Economy from the University of London, Birkbeck.

DR. MARTIN DODGE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

‘The (In)Security of Smart Cities: Vulnerabilities, Risks, Mitigation, and Prevention’

Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. He has coauthored

three books analyzing the spatiality of computer technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas of

Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). He has completed his PhD at University

College London and has previously worked at Cardiff University and the University of Nottingham.

PROF. DR. DR. ERIC HILGENDORF, UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG

‘Do we need ethical and legal boundaries for the development of automated cars?’

Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf is head of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory,

Information and Computer Science Law, University of Würzburg, Germany. His main areas of interest

and research are legal challenges of new technologies with respect to media, internet and computers,

AI, medicine and biotechnology. Prof Hilgendorf is a member of the German Ethics Committee on

Automated Driving and of the EU´s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.

PROF. RALF MARTIN, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

‘How to make smart meters smart’

Ralf Martin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School and the

programme director of the Growth Programme at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance. In ongoing

research, he is looking at how new IoT technologies improved customer feedback and how customer

incentives can change energy customer behaviour to both reduce consumption and improve energy

system efficiency. Ralf is often advising government bodies such as the UK Department for Business

Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) or the OECD on issues

related to his research. He holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.

PROF. MARTHA ROGGENKAMP, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN

‘Energy networks, smart cities and the law’

Martha Roggenkamp is professor of Energy Law (the first one in The Netherlands) and director of

the Groningen Centre of Energy Law at the Faculty of Law. She is an expert in the field of Dutch,

European and international energy law. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Energy and

Natural Resources Law, International Energy law and Taxation Review and Renewable Energy Law and

Policy Review. Prof. Roggenkamp studied

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I hope to see many of you at our conference!

For the organising team,

Angela