| Sumario: | Welcome to the 2nd International Workshop on Smart Cities - People, Technology and Data held on December 12th, 2016 in conjunction with 2016 ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference held in Trento, Italy. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industry with the goal to discuss, identify and share experiences related to the construction of smart city systems, applications that exploit such systems and deployment experiences. Cities are experiencing significant challenges such as efficient energy management, economic growth and development, security and quality of life of their citizens. The workshop follows on from the successful inaugural workshop in Japan in 2015 which highlighted some of the complex areas that need to be addressed if researchers wish to develop and deploy smart city systems and in particular the interplay between technologies, data and citizens. Some of the 2015 themes such as exploring how citizens can be engaged to co-design Smart City services and how technology can be harnessed to meet their needs appear again in this year workshop highlighting their continued importance to research in the smart city area. By soliciting experiences papers from leading Smart City testbeds, and then encouraging detailed discussion by practitioners, we aim to develop guidelines and lessons that will grow the Smart City Community.
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