Topics of Interest (but not limited to):

• ICT Technologies, Architecture, and Platforms in Smart Cities;
• Data Management Technologies, Architecture, and Platforms in Smart Cities;
• Big Data Driven Technologies, Architecture, and Platforms in Smart Cities;
• Privacy-Preserving ICT Architecture in Smart Cities: Ecosystem, Life Cycle, Layered Architecture and Future Roadmap
• Innovative services in Edge-to-Cloud computing networks in smart cities, particularly IoT, smart sensing, and Artificial Intelligence technology;
• Serverless Architecture for large-scale IoT networks of smart cities;
• Microservice Architecture for large-scale IoT networks of smart cities;
• Edge-based or Edge-to-Cloud based real-time applications in smart cities;
• Federated and distributed learning for enhancing Privacy-Preserving ICT Architecture;
• ICT solutions within and across the city based on Edge-to-Cloud orchestration for building/developing software services in Smart Cities focusing on privacy-preserving and modern ICT technologies.