The Smart Cities: Building Sustainable and Innovative Cities in the Digital Age course addresses the fundamental building blocks of smart cities and the potential for technology solutions to solve challenges within urban areas, such as social exclusion and environmental degradation. 

There are no formal entry requirements for this course but it is recommended that those who apply have qualifications within urban, town or environmental planning, sustainable technologies, data science, building engineering, the built environment or similar fields.

The course is also suitable for those with a professional, or general interest in sustainable development and technology.

This course is suitable for people working at mid to senior management level in any organisation where innovation using digital technologies is being facilitated.  

It is also suitable for MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) students.

Smart Cities: Building Sustainable and Innovative Cities in the Digital Age is structured into several key themes. 

Participants will be introduced to the concepts of sustainable smart cities, and review the latest business and social technology innovations, strategies, and policies developed by industry and academia that deployed within cities and also looks at cost-effective alternatives to these solutions.

The course will also consider the role of the stakeholder, addressing the frameworks, regulations and decision-making processes that shape the built environment.
 
Participants will gain an understanding of opportunities for smart city projects as well as barriers to delivering these. 

They will learn about IT and connectivity requirements, data sources and integration, as well as supporting technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI).
 
Participants will also analyse smart cities case studies as part of their learning.

By the end of the course participants will be equipped to take an integrative approach to complex issues by using big data analytics and planning, zoning and public policy strategies in order to develop a smart city project. Those in academia should able to set up their own smart cities centre of excellence within their organisation. 

This course is taught by leading IT and digital technology experts.

• Dr Zulfikar Adamu is an Associate Professor of Strategic IT in Construction at LSBU, with expertise in several areas, including BIM, construction data analytics, blockchain development, smart buildings and computational modelling and simulation of buildings. He is also a Chartered Building Engineer and a fellow of Chartered Association of Building Engineers (FCABE).
• Dr Vijak Haddadi previously worked in Digital Innovation at LSBU and is now Co-Founder and CEO of Syndikat, a digital transformation agency. He has worked with +500 start-ups and has designed and led digital innovation campaigns for several governmental institutions and large organisations.
• Jennifer Werthwein is a partner at Kanarit, an LSBU-based start-up that implements smart city concepts, and holds an Enterprise Business Development Manager position at Google. Jennifer is also co-founder of ATID and Future City Platform.

The course will be taught online via LSBU’s learning platform. 

The course will total approximately 35 hours teaching time, running a 3.5-hour teaching sessions per week, for the duration of 10 weeks. 

There is no formal assessment for this course. 

There is no formal accreditation for this course. By the end participants will have an understanding of smart city concepts and how to deploy big data analytics and planning, zoning and public policy strategies in order to develop a smart city project. 

For information on our policies (payment, cancellation, terms and conditions, etc.) visit our general information page.

If you have a question that we haven’t answered here, please contact lsbushortcourses@lsbu.ac.uk and we will respond to your query within 24 hours.