This online executive program is proposed to discuss in detail how cities, urban departments, and businesses, can create value from the digital transformation in the urban environment, and how to develop smart and sustainable urban projects and cities.
The program is delivered in synchronous mode with a University Professor.
This program is reserved for professionals who want to get expertise in urban digital transformation and the development of future cities. The program starts by reviewing urban trends, the challenges of urban management, the concept of the smart and sustainable city, and how cities adapt to the digital revolution in the urban environment. The program is based on examples of urban projects taken from cities located on all continents.
Targeted audience
- Professionals working in an urban department (police, energy, transportation, water, etc.), urban designers, planners, or engineers creating future urban solutions.
- Directors in public entities looking to create economic, social, and environmental values in cities.
Duration
- This program includes 10 sessions.
- Each session will take approximately 3 hours when it is presented by a Professor.
Registration Process
- Complete the registration form online.
- Based on the demand, a cohort will be created and the date of the first session will be communicated.
- INREGU will check each profile and will send a confirmation email.
- Only when the confirmation email is received, applicants can proceed to the payment.
Price
- The price per participant is given for online delivery only.
- It is also possible to deliver this program in person with a Professor: please contact INREGU for a group quotation.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand cities and “smart cities”:
- Analyze the definitions and concepts of the “smart and sustainable city”.
- List the trends which are shaping the cities of the future.
- Review the different types of cities like ecologic, ubiquitous, economic, sustainable, intelligent, smart, virtual, commercial, etc.
- Discuss how to create social balance, economic prosperity, and a healthy environment in cities.
- Understand urban management:
- Examine all aspects of the key departments managing a city (missions, operations, organization, budget).
- Explain how urban operations are managed in the different departments of the city like public security, water management, energy management, water and waste management, telecommunications, transportations.
- Discuss what each urban department needs to do to improve the efficiency of its operations.
- Understand urban digital transformation:
- Examine the technologies used in smart cities.
- Review the impacts of the digital revolution in urban projects.
- Review why the use of technology creates innovative value in cities.
- Understand urban value creation:
- Explain how each urban department could innovate to create new value-added services and generate new financial incomes.
- Review how smart cities create an eco-system to inspire and sustain human-centered innovations.
- Examine how to create disruptive innovations in value chains, business models, services, and products.
- Get introduced to the city of the future.
Career Prospectives
- This online program will enhance the employability of participants in diverse sectors like real estate development, urban management, urban digital transformation, greenfield and brownfield developments, etc.
- The participants will get in-depth knowledge of the concept of a smart and sustainable city and which are the trends in future city developments. They will be recognized as experts in their team. They will be able to constructively challenge urban projects and provide innovative “smart” solutions.
- The participants will feel confident to design a smart city strategy and launch informed initiatives to create value in their countries or cities.
About the instructor
- This training is designed and delivered by an experienced and practitioner University Professor.
Scope of this online executive program
- Cities: Review why cities are what they are today.
- Session 1 : Urban trends and challenges in complex cities such as pandemics, urbanization, economic development, climate change and environment.
- Session 2 : The different types of cities like Digital cities, Ecologic cities, Intelligent cities, Sustainable cities, Smart cities, etc.
- Smart cities: Understand the concept of the “Smart and Sustainable City”.
- Session 3 : Definitions and concepts.
- Session 4 : Examples of smart cities in the world.
- Smart Urban Departments: Discuss how departments become smart through digital transformation.
- Session 5 : Review the organization of departments like security, transportations, energy, water, waste.
- Session 6 : Discuss operations in a city management center.
- Urban finance: Review sources of finance and investment optimization in urban projects.
- Session 7 : The sources of finance in cities and investments.
- Session 8 : Optimization of OPEX and CAPEX.
- Urban innovations: Inspire human-centered innovations in the urban environment.
- Session 9 : The sources of innovations in sectors like buildings agriculture, healthcare, mobility, environment, food, tourism, villages, etc.
- Session 10 : Technologies driving urban transformation to create future cities.
Organization
- The program is delivered online in synchronous mode with a Professor.
- Please contact INREGU to organize a group session from your company.
- This 10-session program can be planned from 3 days to 5 weeks.
- Study material is shared online through the Learning Management System of INREGU.
- Participants will be granted a certificate of completion from INREGU.
Materials or Software required
- No specific software or material are required to follow this program.
Administrative Support
- This program is organized in collaboration with our strategic partner.
Information
- Feel free to request information by sending an email to information@inregu.fr.
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