Selena Rippy Rhett Noland

 A combination of a knowledge city, digital/cyber city, and an eco city  Where real and virtual worlds converge  Physical economy meets virtual economy

 Must be economically viable  Achieving world class levels of performance and innovation  Diverse population of knowledge workers

 Lack of finance  Government regulations and incentives  Cyber attacks and security  Proper bandwidth

 Shanghai  Shenzen  Dubai  Organizations  IBM  Siemens  Oracle Corporation  Nucor Steel-Social ecology

 Core economic activity is clustered around a tightly focused domain  Aggregate virtually by connecting with other smart cities  Extend reach from local to regional and from national to global

 Smart cities conference in Brussels  Sustainability  Businesses/Cities attracting innovative thinkers and knowledge workers  Emergence of a more technologically integrated and connected society that is not bound by regional borders  Knowledge richness