Panel 2: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the brain behind Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), or Industry 4.0, represents a new stage in the organization and control of the industrial value chain, fueled by real-time data and machine learning. The new capabilities of 4IR lead to ‘Smart Anything’ phenomena, from smart grid, smart energy to smart facilities (covering buildings, factories and plants), smart services, and of course smart cities (covering smart mobility, smart health, smart policing, smart government and citizen).

In this era of rapid cyber-physical systems technological advancement leading to abrupt changes in society and re-imagining of production through digitisation. 4IR aims to bridge between digital and physical environments and that need automation and robotics to provide muscle; cameras and sensors to provide senses; real-time data and ubiquitous wireless communications to provide nerves. But the real brain behind the 4IR is Artificial Intelligence (AI).

4IR will not merely affect almost every industry, but also raise our standard of living quality. And AI is going to transform the big data collected through the internet of things (IoT) into new wisdom. When smart cities and 4IR meet at a real point of intersection, it’s a true convergence of ideas, needs, concepts, innovations and technologies that combine to change the way we work, study and socialize in Society 5.0 which is backed by the power of science, technology and innovation (STI).

This expert panel session aims to bring together notable leaders from industry and government to dive deep into the intersection of 4IR and smart cities, discuss and debate what impacts AI will bring to smartify cities? And what ramifications AI will bring to enhance human abilities, to expand business possibilities, and to help energize life in the various processes in smartifying cities?