Announcement
Announcement of
Global Smart Cities Summit
cum
The 4rd International Conference on Urban Informatics
(GSCS & ICUI 2025)
05 - 08 August 2025, Hong Kong
Website: https://isocui.org/icui2025 Contact Us: icui@isocui.org
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are glad to announce that the Global Smart Cities SummitcumGlobal Smart Cities Summit cum The 4th International Conference on Urban Informatics (GSCS & ICUI 2025) will be held in Hong Kong on 5 - 8 August 2025. We cordially invite you to submit abstracts or full papers to this conference. We look forward to meeting you in Hong Kong to discuss the future development of smart cities, as well as scientific advances, new technologies, and applicational innovations in urban informatics.
Event Format: Offline
Keynote Speakers:
- Michael Batty, University College London, UK
- Peng CUI, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Renzhong Guo, Shenzhen University, China
- Christian S. JENSEN, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Qingquan LI, Shenzhen University, China
- Liqiu MENG, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Wenzhong SHI, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Zhiqiang WU, Tongji University, China
- Anthony YEH, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
- Chenghu ZHOU, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Registration:
Please register via this link: https://www.isocui.org/icui2025/register. Please note that each registration is only valid for one person.
Registration Fees (in HKD):
| Early Registration Before 1 July 2025 (included) (GMT+8) | Regular Registration | |
| Non-ISUI Member | HK$3600 | HK$4000 |
| ISUI Member | HK$3200 | HK$3600 |
| Non-ISUI Student Member | HK$2700 | HK$3000 |
| ISUI Student Member | HK$1800 | HK$2000 |
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Registration Refund Policy:
- If participants cannot attend the conference due to a rejected visa application or other uncontrollable causes, the registration fee is partially refundable, excluding the credit card processing fee.
- If you are not able to attend due to personal reasons, the registration fee is not refundable.
Visa to Enter Hong Kong:
- Please check if you need a Hong Kong visa for attending this conference: https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/services/index.html
Call for Submissions:
- Abstract (200 - 300 words): submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gscsicui2025
- Full paper:submitted to https://www.springer.com/journal/44212 Please select the special issue "Theoretical Development and Technology Innovation Towards Future Smart Cities (ICUI 2025)" for paper submission. If you want to compete for the Best Conference Paper Award, please make sure to submit your full paper through this channel for the opportunity to be published in the Urban Informatics journal.
Call for Sessions:
We invite proposals for sessions on any topics related to Urban Informatics and Smart Cities, examples can be found in the Conference Topics below.
Each session proposal should include:
- A title and a brief description of the session topic and scope (up to 300 words)
- A list of potential speakers and their affiliations (up to 10 speakers)
- A short biography of the session organizer(s) (up to 100 words)
The session proposals should be submitted via email to icui@isocui.org by July 25, 2025. The session proposals will be reviewed by the conference program committee and the accepted sessions will be notified by July 25, 2025.
Call for Awards:
We are pleased to announce the call for awards. The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of researchers, governments, and practitioners in the field of Urban Informatics and Smart Cities. The awards categories are:
- Outstanding Achievement in Urban Informatics Award
- Smart Cities Development Contribution Award (Government)
- Urban Informatics Journal Paper of the Year Award
- Smart City Technology Innovation Award (application submission is required)
- Best Conference Paper Award (application submission is required)
To be eligible for the Smart City Technology Innovation Award, you need to register for the conference, and submit a) filled application form and b) demo video (or by shared link) via email to icui@isocui.org by July 25, 2025. The award winners will be selected by a committee of experts and announced at the conference on August 5, 2025. The winners of each award will receive a certificate. For details, please refer to https://www.isocui.org/icui2025/awards.
To be eligible for the Best Conference Paper Award, you need to register for the conference and submit your full paper via https://www.springer.com/journal/44212/submission-guidelines (please select the special issue "GSCS & ICUI 2025" for paper submission when select article type) by July 25, 2025. The winners will be selected by a committee of experts and announced at the conference on August 5, 2025. The winners of each award will receive a certificate.
Call for Technology Innovation Exhibition:
We have five levels of packages available with different benefits (see the table below for details). The deadline for confirming participation for the exhibition is July 25, 2025. Please contact us for details via email icui@isocui.org.
Important dates:
Call for Submissions:
- Abstract Submission deadline: 25 July 2025
- Submission of full paper (for the Best Conference Paper Award): 25 July 2025
Call for Awards:
- Smart City Technology Innovation Award submission deadline: 25 July 2025
Call for Exhibitors:
- Technology Innovation Exhibition registration deadline: 25 July 2025
Registration:
- Early bird registration closes: 1 July 2025
Conference Topics:
We welcome topics in all aspects of Urban Informatics and Smart Cities. Themes include but are not limited to:
- Urban Science and Systems
- Urban Informatics
- Complexity Science for Urban System
- Spatial Cognition for Urban Environment
- Urban Spatial Structure
- Energy Networks
- Smart Mobility
- Transport Systems
- Urban Metabolism
- Urban Climate
- Urban Sustainability
- Future Topics for Urban Science and Systems
- Urban Sensing for Smart City
- Urban Navigation and Positioning
- Urban Remote Sensing
- Ambient Sensing
- User Generated Content (UGC)
- Mobile Mapping
- AIoT
- Urban Hazard Monitoring
- Underground Utility Survey and Monitoring
- Urban Big Data Infrastructure for Smart City
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
- Spatial Search
- Urban Cyberinfrastructure
- Digital Twins and 3D Real Scene
- Metaverse
- Uncertainties and Data Governance
- Data Fusion and Interoperability
- Urban Computing and Data Analytics for Smart City
- AI & Data Science for Urban Studies
- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
- Spatial Data Mining
- Urban Models
- High-Performance Computing
- Edge Computing
- Privacy-Preserving Computing
- Classification of Urban Land Use and Land Cover
- Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth
- Urban Geological Environment Monitoring
- Urban Ecological Environment Monitoring
- Urban Human Settlement Monitoring
- FinTech and Blockchain
- Social Concerns of Big Data and AI
- Smart Cities Solutions
- Urban Transport
- Urban Freight and Logistics
- Urban Housing
- Urban Ecology
- Urban Economy
- Urban Environment and Pollution
- Human Health and Well-Being
- Urban Ageing
- Urban Governance
- Urban Risks and Resilience
- Emerging Topics in Smart City Development
- Autonomous Driving, High Definition (HD) Map
- Quantum Computing
- Post-Pandemic Urban Design
- Urban Carbon Neutrality
- Low Altitude Economy
- Foundation Models
- Spatial Intelligence
- Urban Informatics, Surveying, and GIScience Education: Challenges and Future
- Urban Informatics Education
- Surveying Education
- GIScience Education
- Other Trends in Education for Smart Cities
Main Activities:
- Keynote speeches
- Government forum on smart city development
- Smart city technology innovation exhibition
- Networking session with editors-in-chief of international journals
- Oral and poster presentations
- Laboratory visit
Organizers:
- International Society for Urban Informatics (ISUI)
- Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Local Organization Committee Chair:
- Prof Wen-zhong Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
International Advisory Committee:
- BATTY Michael, University College London, UK
- BLUMENFELD-LIEBERTHAL Efrat, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- CAO Jiannong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- CROOKS Andrew, University at Buffalo, USA
- GOODCHILD Michael, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- JIANG Bin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
- KWAN Mei-Po, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- LAURINI Robert, University of Lyon, France
- LIU Yu, Peking University, China
- LONG Ying, Tsinghua University, China
- LONGLEY Paul, University College London, UK
- MENG Liqiu, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- MILLER Eric, University of Toronto, Canada
- MILLER Harvey, The Ohio State University, USA
- MURRAY Alan, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- PUMAIN Denise , Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France
- RATTI Carlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- RAUBAL Martin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- SHAW Shih-Lung, University of Tennessee, USA
- TORRENS Paul, New York University, USA
- WANG Shaowen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
- YE Xinyue, Texas A&M University, USA
Updated on 19 February 2025