9th IET Smart Cities Symposium
An annually run IET symposium related to development of smart innovations for smart cities.
About
The symposium's objectives are to create awareness through research and publications about the future prospects of smart cities. The symposium also serves as a platform to exchange ideas and thoughts in international prospect and stand.
In addition, the symposium emphasises the role of academia, universities, industries, experts, and innovations for promoting smart cities solutions, projects, smarter ideas, consultancies and continuity in the form of indexed publications.
The 9th IET International Smart Cities Symposium (9- IET scs-2025) will be held at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, from 1 to 3 December 2025.
The symposium will feature world-class plenary speakers, major technical symposiums, industry and academic panels, and invited tracks.
For more information, please visit the symposium website.
You are cordially invited to submit your latest research work to the symposium. Best paper awards will be selected from accepted papers. The symposium and track papers will be published and indexed in IET Inspec - IEEE Xplore and will appear in other indexing databases.
Symposium Committee
The symposium technical committee would need to take ownership of reviewing the abstracts/papers, ensuring the quality and relevance to the event before accepting them onto the program. The paper is not published if the speaker doesn’t attend the event and present the paper. Paper submission is reviewed by the Symposium International Technical Committee, which serves to review the submitted papers and contents. Notifications of review will be sent to authors within ten days after the shown deadline.
Important dates
| Start call for papers and technical sessions | 20 February 2025 |
| Delegate registration opens | 28 February 2025 |
| Full paper submission deadline | 30 June 2025 |
| Review decision notifications | 30 August 2025 |
| Final paper submission (after review) | 30 September 2025 |
| Camera-ready papers | 15 October 2025 |
| IET copyright form uploading | 30 October 2025 |
| Symposium dates | 1 to 3 December 2025 |
Author's instructions, Camera-ready paper and submission instructions
For more information on how to submit your paper, visit the symposium website.
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
01 Dec 2025 - 03 Dec 2025
9:00am - 6:37pm
Who should attend?
- Government policy makers and managers
- Mayors and municipal leaders
- Urban planning professionals
- Telecommunication companies
- Electric, water and gas utilities
- Entrepreneurship
- Artificial Intelligence Applications and Developers
- Developers and construction companies
- Electric vehicle and transportation organizations
- Financial and investment professionals
- Smart grid and communication technology providers
- IT and Big Data analytics companies
- Standards and regulatory organizations
- Industry associations
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