1. Selena Rippy Rhett Noland

2.  A combination of a knowledge city, digital/cyber city, and an eco city  Where real and virtual worlds converge  Physical economy meets virtual economy

3.  Must be economically viable  Achieving world class levels of performance and innovation  Diverse population of knowledge workers

4.  Lack of finance  Government regulations and incentives  Cyber attacks and security  Proper bandwidth

5.  Shanghai  Shenzen  Dubai  Organizations  IBM  Siemens  Oracle Corporation  Nucor Steel-Social ecology

6.  Core economic activity is clustered around a tightly focused domain  Aggregate virtually by connecting with other smart cities  Extend reach from local to regional and from national to global

7.  Smart cities conference in Brussels  Sustainability  Businesses/Cities attracting innovative thinkers and knowledge workers  Emergence of a more technologically integrated and connected society that is not bound by regional borders  Knowledge richness