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Are you interested in the difference between prediction and forecasting? What tools do you think can improve urbanisation? How can we use digital twins better for improvements?

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Interview with Soheil Sabri, Digital Delivery Lead for Urban Digital Twin at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the University of Melbourne. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cities as interconnected systems, migration, data types, prediction and forecasting, and many more.

Dr. Soheil Sabri is an Urban Planner and a Senior Research Fellow in Urban Analytics at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at The University of Melbourne. He leads research and development in Planning Support Systems and Urban Analytics. His research, practice, and teaching interests are about developing Urban Digital Twins, Multi-dimensional (3D/4D) Planning Support Systems, and analytical tools enabling planners and decision makers for evidence-based and data-driven future smart cities’ developments. He is co-chair of the Academic and Research Working Group in the Digital Twin Consortium, a member of PlanTech National Advisory Committee in the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), and a member of the Spatial Digital Twin working group in Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) Australia.

You can find out more about Soheil through these links:

• ⁠Soheil Sabri⁠ on LinkedIn;
• ⁠@soheilsabri⁠ as Soheil Sabri on Twitter;
• ⁠Soheil Sabri⁠ at The University of Melbourne;
• Soheil Sabri on Facebook;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• ⁠No015 – Interview with Luke Housego⁠ about data and knowledge;
• ⁠No.075 – Interview with Gavin Cotterill⁠ about digital twins;
• No.139R – The landscape and evolution of urban planning science;
• No.140R – Creating digital twins to save our cities;

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