The Rise and Fall of Smart Cities?

Although smart city research can be traced back to the 1990s, the past decade has witnessed an exponential growth and expansion of its research in multidisciplinary fields. Professor Fang Zhao will give a glimpse of the mainstream research of past 20 years on Smart Cities, share her view on the future of Smart Cities from a strategy and policy perspective, namely, the evolving concept of Smart Cities, challenges, and opportunities in the wake of Covid-19.
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Speaker: Fang Zhao
Fang is a business strategist and advisor mainly in the areas of digital transformation, digital disruption, and environmental sustainability. She has provided consultancy and advisory services to governments, industry, and businesses. She has led and/or undertaken a number of research and industry projects funded by governments, industry/businesses, and universities, including the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant, an Australian Federal Government grant, the British Academy grant, and the UKRI-Global Challenges Research Fund. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed research works internationally, many of them in top-tier leading journals in the study fields