Intelligent Cities

TU Delft will be celebrating the university’s 173rd anniversary
with a varied programme on the theme of Intelligent Cities.
Invitation
Our world is urbanising at a tremendous rate. How can we keep our future
megacities safe, sustainable and at the same time fun to live in? By making
them into intelligent cities, where technology is a catalyst for social,
economic and ecological development.
On the occasion of this year’s TU Delft foundation day celebrations, we will
be looking ahead towards such intelligent cities and the way in which our
research can make a contribution to them.
Intelligent
Cities
Moving Forward
173rd Dies Natalis
Friday 9 January 2015
Please register before 2 January 2015 at
www.tudelft.nl/dies
Programme seminar ‘Intelligent Cities: sustainability and big data’
10:00 – 12:30 (Reception at 09:30)
Venue: Oostserre of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment • Julianalaan 134 / Zuidplantsoen 2a (for cars) • 2628 BL Delft
Programme Academic Ceremony
15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Aula Conference Centre • Mekelweg 5 • 2628 CC Delft
Opening ‘A smart university’
by professor Karel Luyben, Rector Magnificus
Welcome by Dean Hans Wamelink
‘Carbon neutrality, adaptivity & circularity’
by professor Andy van den Dobbelsteen, Climate Design & Sustainability at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Five pitches by TU Delft researchers
‘The science of social data’
by professor Geert-Jan Houben, Web Information Systems at the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer
Science
Five pitches by TU Delft researchers
Coffee break
Exhibition of TU Delft Spin offs and student projects
Megacities looming ahead
Challenging our perceptions
Of what a town looks like
Science fiction gone real
Or dreams in the making?
All interconnected and fully networked
They become intelligent cities
Creating new wealth and new havens
Where millions can live
Happily ever after
Q&A and discussion
with the keynote speaker
Network Lunch
12:30 – 13:30 uur
1. Sustainable house / DreamTeam Prêt-à-Loger
2. D:DREAM Hall with solar car, solarboat, electric racecar,
world record-speedbike
Musical Interlude
Reflection on the seminar
by the honorary promotors
and a short introduction of the honorary doctor
Lecture
by Anthony Townsend, visiting professor at NYU Rudin Centre for Transportation Policy & Management
Honorary doctorate for Anthony Townsend
Honorary promotors:
Professor Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Climate Design & Sustainability at the Faculty of Architecture and
the Built Environment
Professor Geert-Jan Houben
Web Information Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Mathematics and Computer Science
Keynote address: Smart Cities
by Anthony Townsend
Demonstrations on the TU Delft campus
13:30 – 14:30
Transport by buses
Foundation Day Lecture ‘From Smart Cities to Intelligent Cities.
Moving forward’
by professor Arjan van Timmeren, Environmental Technology
& Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
The celebration of the 173rd Dies Natalis takes place
at the TU Delft Aula Conference Centre and starts
at 15:00. You are kindly requested to take your seat in the
auditorium by 14:45. The event will be held in English.
More information on the programme and registration:
www.tudelft.nl/dies. Please register before 2 January 2015.
‘Intelligent Urbanism and the Institute for Advanced Metropolitan
Solutions’
Dirk Jan van den Berg, President of the Executive Board
Closing by Rector Magnificus
Reception