MARVEL partners FORTH, UNS, and AU organized a full-day Workshop on “Multimodal and AI-Responsible data processing and delivery in Smart Cities (MARV)” at the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) 2022, which took place on September 26-29, 2022 at Paphos, Cyprus. The organizers of the Workshop were Prof. Sotiris Ioannidis, Prof. Dragana Bajovic, Prof. Alexandros Iosifidis, and Mrs. Despina Kopanaki. The organization committee also included Dr. Claudio Cicconetti (CNR) who acted as Roundtable Chair and Mrs. Dora Kallipolitou (ZELUS) who acted as Publicity and Web Chair.

MARV Workshop aspired to the convergence of a set of technologies in the areas of AI, analytics, multimodal perception, software engineering, HPC as part of an Edge-Cloud Computing Continuum paradigm that goes beyond traditional Big Data, conventional architectures heavily capitalizing on distributed resources and heterogeneous data sources in smart city environments, while implementing privacy preservation techniques at all data modalities and at all levels of its architecture. The ultimate aim was to highlight data-driven real-time application workflows to enable fast and accurate insights and optimised decision-making in modern cities, showcasing the potential to address societal challenges very effectively, from increasing public safety and security, optimising energy consumption from a multimodal/multidomain perspective to analyzing traffic flows and urban mobility for effective city planning.