Cities, as the nodes and centers of human society’s economic, cultural, and political systems, should pay attention not only to the coordination of their system structure and function but also to their leading role in sustainable development and the impact on the overall system, especially in the era of economic globalization. Routine statistics and census data have poor spatial completeness, are not real time, and vary in data quality, resulting in relatively low spatial and temporal resolution of urban sustainability assessment results, questioned reliability and timeliness. Big data is critical for overcoming the deficiencies of traditional statistical data in the assessment of urban sustainable development. It can provide a new impetus for urban sustainable development assessment with its macro, dynamic, and diverse advantages, which can provide support for sustainable urban development in terms of data products, technical methods, case analysis, and decision support.
Co-Chairs: Prof. Huang Chunlin, Mr. Aromar Revi
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Speaker: Robert Ndugwa
Title/Affiliation: Chief, Data and Analytics Section at UN-Habitat, United Nations
Short Bio: Robert Ndugwa is the Chief of Data and Analytics Section at UN-Habitat where he oversees the urban statistical methodology development in areas such as housing, transport, public spaces, etc.
Topic：Urban Monitoring and the Big Data Analytics Applications
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Speaker: Laurent Durieux
Title/Affiliation: Coordinator, Sustainable Development Goals Engagement at GEO Secretariat
Short Bio: Laurent Durieux coordinates the engagements of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to support the sustainable development goals (SDG) at the GEO Secretariat.
Topic：Big Earth Data for the Sustainable Development of Cities and Human Settlements: Bringing Data and Tools to Urban Analyst and Decision Makers
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Speaker: Zhang Xiaoling
Title/Affiliation: Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China
Short Bio: Zhang Xiaoling is a Professor and the Director of the Smart and Sustainable City at Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
Topic：Remaking Sustainability Science: an Inclusive and Dynamic Framework
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Speaker: Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Title/Affiliation: Professor, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Short Bio: Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro engages in geographic databases and computer systems engineering. He is Head of the image processing division at INPE (1999-2006).
Topic：Big EO Data Analytics and Bioeconomy in the Brazilian Amazon: The Dynamics of the Agrarian Economy in the Context of an Urbanised Forest
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Speaker: Ivan Kuryachiy
Title/Affiliation: Professor, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Short Bio: Ivan Kuryachiy’s research interests include the development of adaptive technological tools for the interdisciplinary development of territories that combine functional and economic models, architectural and planning solutions, as well as socio-cultural characteristics, user scenarios and service models.
Topic：Infrastructure Accessibility Tool – Transparent Data-Driven Urban Development
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Speaker: Aromar Revi
Title/Affiliation: Founding Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
Short Bio: Aromar Revi is the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS).
Topic：Big Data in Service of Climate Resilient Urban Development
