Hosted by the Urban Modeling Group’s Prof. Debra Laefer, and the Director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, Prof. Steven Koonin, this week’s Kavli Futures Symposium: Sensing the City saw academia, industry, and community stakeholders come together to explore the multidisciplinary topic of sensing in cities. Speakers from across the US and beyond came together for a closed workshop to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging urban sensing innovations, before sharing their insights with the wider public through an open symposium on the second day of the event. Key questions emerged around privacy, sustainability, and the ways that researchers determine what data to collect and how to collect it.
The Urban Modeling Group looks forward to sharing video of some of the day’s events as it becomes available.