Online Workshop: Smart Cities digital transformation & digital competences for smart cities' personnel
Wednesday 3rd of June 2020, 10:30 -14:30 More…
“DEVOPS COMPETENCES FOR SMART CITIES” Project Short Description
- Project “DevOps Competences for SmartCities” (project number 601015-EPP-
1-2018-1-EL-EPPKA2-SSA) is an Erasmus+ KA2/ Sector Skills Alliance project. The
aim of the project is the professional development through appropriate training of
the personnel who work or will work in Municipalities, which are gradually
transformed into Smart Cities. This will be achieved with upskilling them with new
IT skills and knowledge that is required for smart city management; such as the
DevOps methodology.
The project has 13 partners (4 in Greece, 3 in Germany, 3 in Italy, 2 in Cyprus και
1 in Belgium). Project coordinator is University of Thessaly (UTH) while the other 3
partners in Greece are the Hellenic Open University (HOU), the Hellenic
Organization for Standardization (ELOT)and Digital Cities of Central Greece
(CITIESNET SA).
One of the main project’s objectives is to define new job profiles, for those who
plan to work as smart city professional. These new job profiles are:
A. Smart City Planner,
B. Smart City ΙΤ Manager and
C. Smart City IT Officer.
A Smart City (SC) Planner can be a high-level official that is able to bridge the
needs that arise from cities traditional development and operational needs, smart
and sustainable cities frameworks, best practices, standards and technologies and
strategic priorities of the city’s political leadership.
A SC IT Manager can be defined as an ICT Consultant with responsibilities that
include setting objectives and strategies for the IT department, through the
implementation of suitable technological solutions, in order to support all internal
operations while being responsible of designing and customizing new smart city’s
systems.
A SC IT officer is an IT technical expert that should be able to analyze smart city’s
organizational data, determine information system requirements and define project
objectives, apply software development process, with appropriate tools and
techniques, make recommendations for necessary IT systems, design, implement,
deploy and operate new IT services and provide support and training to various
types of users.
In order to create smart cities professionals a number of competences and skills
need to be developed, which can be divided in 4 different groups: - Transversal Skills. Includes the development of abilities such as creativity,
entrepreneurial thinking, ability to work in a team, social skills, ambiguity
tolerance, motivation to learn, emotional intelligence, strategic vision,
intercultural skills, project and process management, design thinking, decision making and problem solving, leadership and management skills, stakeholder
management, knowledge management and advanced presentation skills. - General IT management knowledge. Includes the development of abilities in a
variety of topics such as software development life cycles and agile methods,
IT quality assurance, IT security, system and software architecture, basic
concepts of Cloud computing, basic concepts of Internet Of Things, basic
concepts of Data Analytics, introduction to Artificial Intelligence and introduction
to ITIL. - DevOps skills. DevOps basic concepts (culture and practices), repository
management, continuous integration, configuration management, use of
building, deployment and monitoring tools and code analysis and continuous
testing tools. - Smart cities related. Includes knowledge and abilities about smart cities
platforms, smart cities business models, smart services and operating
procedures, smart cities standards and legal issues, smart city sustainability,
smart city resilience, urban management, citizen driven/citizen orientation/user
experience design and smart city financial management and procurement.
A certificate of attendance will be issued.
Part 1 : The needs for digital transformation of cities – The Greek perspective
10:30-12:30
| Welcome Speech |
| Zissis MAMOURIS, Professor, University of Thessaly Rector |
| 1. Greek digital cities |
| Speaker: Dimitrios PAPASTERGIOU, Trikala Mayor, President of Association of Greek Cities |
| 2. Digital Innovation |
| Speaker: Konstantinos CHAMBIDIS, Minister’s Office Director, Digital Governance Ministry. |
| 3. Greek digital cities |
| Speaker: Georgios SOULTIS, Deputy Mayor of Larissa. |
| 4. Greek digital cities |
| Speaker: Chrisostomos KALOGIROU, Managing Director, Major Development Agency Thessaloniki SA |
| 5. Cities’ development and transformation |
| Speaker: George PETRAKOS, Professor, University of Thessaly |
| 6.The requirements of the digital transformation |
| Speaker: Nikolaos KOMNINOS, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 7. Drivers of digital transformation for Greek cities |
| Speaker: Yota PAPARIDOU,, President of the Board of Directors, SEPE (Federation of Hellenic ICT Enterprises) |
| 8. Commercial platforms and solutions for smart cities |
| Speaker: Nikolaos LAMBROGEORGOS, Senior Account Manager, Public Sector, CISCO Hellas |
Part 2 : The European perspective
12:45 – 14:30
| 9. Smart cities networks |
| Speaker: Mr. Davor MEERSMAN, CEO Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC). Η ομιλία είναι στα Αγγλικά |
| 10. Intelligent Cities Challenge: shaping a smart, green and climate neutral future |
| Speaker: Dana ELEFTHERIADOU, Head of Advanced Technologies Team, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission |
| 11. Water management for smart cities, collaborative open source development |
| Speaker: Mr. Alexandre BOSSHARD, City of Pully, Switzerland. The speech is in English. |
| 12. International practices for transforming cities |
| Speaker: Fulvio ANANASSO, Stati Generali dell'Innovazione, Italy The speech is in English |
| 13. Smart Cities Standards |
| Speaker: 13. Smart Cities Standards Ioannis SARIDAKIS,, ELOT |
| 14. Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities for all: Towards an integrated system of indicators for assessing of cities’ performance |
| Speaker: Anastasia STRATIGEA, Professor, National Technical University of Athens |
| 15. Digital skills for smart cities - DEVOPS project |
| Speaker: Panos FITSILIS, Professor, University of Thessaly |
The trainings in the new professional profiles start from September 2020.