BEIJING DESIGN WEEK 2014 / SMART CITY INNOVATION CENTER LAUNCH

The Launch of Smart City Innovation Centre will be held in China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts (CMoDA) on Sept. 26th. As the first Smart City Innovation Centre in Beijing, it bears the responsibility of “Innovation drives the industry and service creates the ecology” and creates the resource platform facing projects and products in the smart industry. The Launch of Smart City Innovation Centre will showcase projects of Joint Lab and pilot cities, and enterprises of innovation strategic alliance. The Smart City Innovation Centre Preview presents the mission of the innovation center as a hub oriented with design driven innovation across industries to cope with the complexity of smart city pilot projects to achieve breakthrough in solutions.

The Launch of Smart City Innovation Centre closely focusing on the participating enterprises and R&D institutes， adopts interactive media to showcase the latest research and applications by industry leaders such as ZTE Corporation, Microsoft China, Hitachi, Ltd.， as well as international organizations like Barcelona Smart City and AE Solutions. The products and system solutions cover various industries from ICT, network, information security, to urban planning and green building. It demonstrates the platform role of Innovation Center as connector of city and enterprises through programs of exhibition, education, exchange and transaction. The Smart City Innovation Centre is located at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing. The centre is an international think tank and an open exchange platform for enterprises and government on smart city development. The centre provides design and management consulting service for smart city pilots in planning, development, operation and maintenance.

Based on the strategy of Design-Driven-Innovation， by applying design thinking and approach the centre connects industries and sectors in smart city fields and aims for collaborative innovation across disciplines and industries to cope with complex urban issues for the sustainable development of smart city. The centre forms a talent network of cities, specialists and enterprises by ongoingly presenting the latest solutions from leading enterprises, organizing forums， training and the annual Smart City EXPO and Summit Forum during Beijing Design Week. Through exchange, learning and collaboration the centre provides professional advisory and roadmap for smart city pilot programs.
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