Kunming Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management titled „Cities of the Future: Smart, Resilient and Sustainable”. Kunming, Yunnan province, China. May 10-12 2017.

Kunming Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management titled „Cities of the Future: Smart, Resilient and Sustainable” was held on May 10-12 2017 in Kunming, Yunnan province, China. Comission chairman and first deputy chairman prof. Liu Jipping delivered speeches titled Selected Smart Cities Geospatial Challenges in the Big Data Era (Konecny) and Technologies and Application in China s National Geographic Conditions Monitoring for Urban Development. In conference was clerify emergency management as an very important part of the Smart City concept, mainly in combination with urban planning and sustainable development. Big data are giving new analyses, interpretation and visualization potentials for finding smart solutions. In the event also important persons realizing GGIM participated, like Mr. Tao CheeHai from U.N. Statistics Division, Mr. Gregg Scott,Inter-Regional Advisor, GGIM and Timothy Trainor, Chief Geospatial Scientist from US Census Bureau. On Chinese side were many important representatives, like Dr. Li Pengde, Deputy Director General, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping, and Geoinformation of China (NASG), Prof. Chen Jun, first vice-presiddent of ISPRS and others.

from left to right: Wang Yong, Liu Jiping, Milan Konecny, Li Pengde, Gregg Scott and Timothy Trainor.