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Events : Webinar: “A Smart City Pilot in Boston: Collecting Human-Centric Urban Data”

MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series

Nissia Sabri, CEO and Cofounder, Bitsence; MIT SDM Alumna

Date: Monday, February 27, 2017

Time: Noon –1 p.m. ET

Free and open to all

Register (Preregistration is required.)

About the Presentation

In this webinar, SDM alumna Nissia Sabri, CEO and cofounder ofBitsence, will provide an overview of the unique potential of agile sensor technologies for city planning. She will also show how they can be connected and correlated to produce novel and rich new insights about the constellation of city spaces and stakeholders.

Sabri will begin by discussing specific roadblocks that have emerged to date in this arena, such as:

  • increased fragmentation of sensor technologies in the field;
  • technological tunnel vision and lack of system integration by end users; and
  • challenges in educating the wide range of stakeholders, such as city planning offices, community advocacy groups, and individual citizens about the multifaceted need for sensors, as well as their value.

Sabri will also describe why a systems-based approach should be employed. She will illustrate with examples from several entities, including Chicago’s Array of Things and Boston's Local Sense Lab, a public/private entities coalition chartered to guide city officials in evaluating, deploying, and analyzing data from networked sensors in order to design better urban infrastructure and improve community engagement.

A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us!

Register (Preregistration is required.)

About the Series

Sponsored by the System Design & Management (SDM) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Recordings and slides from prior SDM webinar can be accessed here.

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