Keynote speaker V: 50 Years of evolution smart cities and empowerment of intelligent logistics ecosystems on social, economic and environmental development

This keynote will give an overview of the evolution of Smart Cities and 50 years of worldwide effort in the development of underlying technologies and empowerment of people, environment, culture and economics. Professor Chang´s will talk about where we are at and where we are going. This is followed by the focus on the intelligent logistics ecosystems, its impact on smart cities, 100 years of technology development in transport logistics, its world-wide economic impact, top 5 research issues and challenges in the world, and state-of-art research work to date. In addition, Prof Chang will give a clarification of the concept of transport, transportation, logistics, supply chain and other logistics concepts such as commercial logistics, defence logistics, humanitarian logistics etc. and future intelligent logistics ecosystems powered by data and information. Finally, Prof Chang´s keynote will include recent work at UNSW at Australian Defence Force Academy on intelligent transportation, smart logistics sustainment, industry intelligence, co- innovation and co-development, and the resulting potential of changing our world for better.