M N Rao
Executive Director, APTS

With more and more job opportunities getting concentrated in big cities across the world and a continuous inflow of masses from the rural areas into urban areas in search of better lifestyle, It is expected that 80 per cent of the world’s population will be residing in cities by the year 2050. This will cause huge strain on the available urban resources, including housing, power, water, etc. So, there is an urgent need for having smart technologies to increase the efficiency of city systems and reduce the resource consumption. Thus, the proceeding in this session will go with two major themes, i.e. digital interruption and digital intervention, in the context of smart cities and also as a solution for smart cities, which lie ahead in time.