9th IET SMART CITIES SYMPOSIUM
1-3 December 2025
UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN


IN COLLABORATION WITH
IET, THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, UK
UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN
IS ORGANIZING
9- IET SCS-2025 - Hybrid
9th IET SMART CITIES SYMPOSIUM
Date: 1-3 December 2025
Venue: e-Learning Center - University of Bahrain - Kingdom of Bahrain
Symposium Proceeding Volume will be submitted to the
IET Inspec, IEEE Xplore, Elsevier's Scopus for indexing
An annually run IET symposium related to development of smart innovations for smart cities. The symposium 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 is emphasizing 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-scs-2025) will be held at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, on December 1-3, 2025. The symposium will feature world-class plenary speakers, major technical symposiums, industry and academic panels, and invited tracks. For more information, please visit symposium website: https://www.iet-smartcities-symposium.com/. 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 tracks papers will be published and indexed in IET Inspec - IEEE Xplore, and will appear on other indexing databases.

Previous Years Symposium
Keynote
Speakers
previous years
Keynote Talks and Speakers









Professor Dr. Frede Blaabjerg
Professor of Electric Power Systems and Microgrids, Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor Prakash Persad,
Professor of Mechatronics
President of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT)
Fellow of the Association of Professional Engineers of Trinidad and Tobago (APETT)
and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Professor Sukumar Mishra
FNAE, FNASc, FIET, FIETE, FIE, SMIEEE, INAE Chair Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
India
Dr Michael Kio,
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
James Clarke School of Engineering
University of Maryland College Park
USA
Professor Josep M. Guerrero
Professor, Villum Investigator | AAU Energy
The Villum Center for Research on Microgrids (AAU CROM)
Aalborg University | Pontoppidanstraede, Aalborg Ø
Denmark

Dr. Vincenzo Pecunia, Ph.D. Cantab., FIMMM, FIET, FInstP, SMIEEE, P.Eng.
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Simon Fraser University
10285 University Drive, Surrey
British Columbia V3T 0N1
Canada



Professor El-Sayed El-Alfy, Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM,
KSA



Dr. Mohamed Bouri (co-PI)
Adjoint scientifique
Group Leader, Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics
Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques (LSRO), Switzerland

Hakem Isa (Associate Partner at IBM Austin, Texas Part of the IBM Security Services with FOCUS on Security Strategy, Risk and
Compliance Texas),
UAS

Dr. Nesrine Miro Padovani
UpGradelle Cs Training and Consulting WLL
co-founder & CEO of UpGradelle Training & Consulting,
France