The increasing interest in Smart Cities world-wide, along with a growing understanding of the importance of integrating “Smart” data with other data and wider applications for the benefit of citizens, made the choice of hosting the third Smart Data, Smart Cities conference

It has been 36 years since my first UDMS, which was also the founding and first Symposium of UDMS. Since then I have attended almost all of the symposia and have observed many changes over that time in technologies, their uses, the