Plenary lecture

Title: (R)evolutions in Mobility: A CASE for Using AI and Smart Markets to Create Sustainable Cities

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketter, University of Cologne, Germany

Abstract

Urban populations lead the way in adopting smart tech. Urban areas can also facilitate positive change with municipal policy. The transition to sustainable energy and smart cities is wickedly complex, tempting business and policymakers with growth, but offering a minefield of unintended consequences. As artificial intelligence and machine learning enable Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric (CASE) mobility, how can we use the power of smart markets to create sustainable, fair and liveable cities?

Short biography

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketter is Chaired Professor of Information Systems at the University of Cologne, where he is Director of the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI). He is also Professor of Next Generation Information Systems at the Rotterdam School of Management and Academic Director of Smart Cities and Energy at the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics. For more than a decade, his main research focuses on the exploitation of rapidly advancing computing power to create a faster, more sustainable transition to clean energy and mobility. He is an Energy Policy Adviser to the German government and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Mobility as a fellow and leader on autonomous systems, energy and mobility. In 2017, he delivered a TedX talk ‘’Sustainable Energy – without fear’’. Professor Ketter holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.