Carnegie Mellon University's Applications of Smart Cities and Energy Innovations

Carnegie Mellon University's Emil Bolongaita, Ragunathan Rajkumar, and Jay Whitacre will share insights on the university's work in high technology, connected and automated vehicles, energy innovations, among others. They will also discuss practical applications of these ideas in ADB projects.

This event is part of ADB’s in-house Innovation Speakers' series.

Special Olympics Overview

More than 200 million people with intellectual disability face ongoing discrimination in healthcare, education, and employment. Special Olympics uses sports as a vehicle for change to achieve its vision of creating smart cities wherein all communities and cities are active and inclusive of individuals with intellectual disabilities.

ADB Perspectives on Smart City

Project officers of ADB who are supporting the development of various smart cities projects share their experiences and updates in this presentation. As no universal definition exists for smart city, the commonalities identified from ADB’s smart cities projects were used as a starting point for creating one.

Modernizing Land Administration to Enhance Development

Land administration underpins the very functioning of states and societies. Effective systems for recording land ownership, land values, and land use are the foundation on which the efficient operation of a market economy depends. This event highlighted the intricacies of building modern land administration systems from conceptualization as a "smart" initiative in Suva, Fiji to project implementation and systems deployment in select Philippine cities.