Asia GIS Conference 2017: Future Smart Cities

Organised by the Asia GIS Association, the Hong Kong GIS Association, the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, HKUrbanLab and the GIS Research Centre of the University of Hong Kong with SCC as the conference co-organizer. 
 
The theme this year was "Future Smart Cities" which apply the GIS technology extensively and there are plenty of success stories and precious experiences. The 3-day Conference was a forum for brainstorming the way forward into the future on how to build a sustainable smart city and to reap the full benefits of GIS in order to improve the livelihood of people in future cities. 
 
The Asia GIS Conference, a biannual conference, was first held in Hong Kong in 1994. Since then, it has been held in Bangkok, Taipei, Tokyo, Wuhan, Johor Bahru, Busan, Kaohsiung, and Chiang Mai. This year, it returned to Hong Kong after 22 years.