Dr. Manas Pradhan is a scientist and technology expert in the domain of urbanisation and digital transformation. He currently leads the technology division of DKSR GmbH which is involved in Smart City projects in Europe and the USA. He earlier represented Germany in the NATO for civil-military cooperation for security and resilience for future urbanisation initiatives involving 30 nations. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from ITER Bhubaneswar, India and master’s degree in informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His Doctoral degree concluded from Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Norway. He has been the author of many papers and book chapters for international publications in the direction of federation, interoperability, IoT, integration of legacy and innovative hardware, data and its use, Smart Cities and system architectures. As a standardisation expert, he also is involved in IEEE and German National Standardisation activities.

• 1. Governance and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for smart cities2. What does federation, interoperability, and discoverability mean for digitization of urban centers3. Architectural Frameworks for Smart Cities4. Data strategies in smart cities5. Internet and digitalization for all6. Smart cities: the future with Artificial Intelligence