Designing Immersive Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Facilities

A working programme in immersive digital twins for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.

📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Vendors sell immersive digital twins as a product; it behaves in practice as a change programme. The constraint on the digital and data-driven work capability is rarely the model or the platform — it is the data and the operating discipline behind it. Participants finish able to explain the practice within digital and data-driven work to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Buying a tool rarely fixes immersive digital twins; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. It is designed for mixed groups, so that this aspect of digital and data-driven work is examined from more than one functional angle. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this area of digital and data-driven work and the judgement to adapt it. Comparative studies of immersive digital twins across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Every module pairs a short input on this part of digital and data-driven work with structured practice on the participant's own material. The final session converts the week's work on this aspect of digital and data-driven work into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Compare the organisation's handling of immersive digital twins with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.

02

Design the pilot for immersive digital twins so its result is decisive rather than merely encouraging.

03

Assess whether immersive digital twins should be built in-house, bought, or delivered through a partner.

04

Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around immersive digital twins.

05

Map the regulatory obligations that apply to immersive digital twins in each market of operation.

06

Prepare the human side of immersive digital twins: who is retrained, who is redeployed, and when they are told.

07

Diagnose whether a problem in immersive digital twins is one of design, resourcing or discipline.

Who Should Attend

01

Business analysts translating requirements for immersive digital twins.

02

Quality staff verifying that immersive digital twins performs as designed.

03

Internal auditors reviewing how immersive digital twins is designed and operated.

04

Solution architects designing how immersive digital twins fits the existing estate.

05

Chief information officers accountable for the investment in immersive digital twins.

06

Data and analytics leads responsible for the pipelines behind immersive digital twins.

Course Modules

01

Immersive digital twins: measuring benefit and retiring what it replaces

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Escalation and decision rights in immersive digital twins

  • Measure the current quality of the data feeding immersive digital twins before assuming it is usable.
  • Set the metrics that will show whether immersive digital twins is drifting from its intended behaviour.
  • List the data sources immersive digital twins consumes and confirm each has a named owner.
  • Verify that immersive digital twins still performs when input volume doubles unexpectedly.

Session 2Who answers for immersive digital twins, and to whom

  • Set the review interval for immersive digital twins and who attends.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in immersive digital twins.
  • Anticipate the objections immersive digital twins will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Classify the data in immersive digital twins and apply access controls that match the classification.
02

Immersive digital twins: security, privacy and regulatory obligation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for immersive digital twins that is actually needed

  • Define the exit route from the supplier supporting immersive digital twins.
  • Build the user briefing that explains what immersive digital twins does and does not decide.
  • Review whether immersive digital twins is aligned with the objectives of the transformation programme.
  • Confirm that reporting on immersive digital twins reaches the people who can act.

Session 2The pilot that actually settles the argument about immersive digital twins

  • Agree the indicators that will show whether immersive digital twins is improving.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around immersive digital twins are understood.
  • Test immersive digital twins against edge cases drawn from real historical records.
  • Identify the skills the team lacks to operate immersive digital twins independently.
03

Immersive digital twins: vendor selection and avoiding lock-in

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where immersive digital twins touches systems nobody wants to change

  • Decide which legacy process immersive digital twins retires, and set the date.
  • Agree the smallest change to immersive digital twins that would be visibly useful.
  • Build the competence framework that supports immersive digital twins.
  • Define the trigger that would require immersive digital twins to be redesigned.

Session 2Reading the true cost of running immersive digital twins

  • Name a single owner for each element of immersive digital twins.
  • Confirm that those complying with immersive digital twins understand why it exists.
  • Confirm the retention and deletion rules applied to data inside immersive digital twins.
  • Record the reasoning behind each architectural choice in immersive digital twins.
04

Immersive digital twins: governance, ethics and explainability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who owns immersive digital twins once the project team disbands

  • Identify every system immersive digital twins must read from or write to.
  • Define the service level immersive digital twins must meet and what happens when it is missed.
  • Assess the regulatory obligations immersive digital twins triggers in each jurisdiction.
  • Agree what will be standardised in immersive digital twins and what will not.

Session 2Making immersive digital twins secure without making it unusable

  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when immersive digital twins underperforms.
  • Plan how immersive digital twins is versioned and how a bad release is rolled back.
  • Set out how exceptions to immersive digital twins are requested and approved.
  • Set out the decisions in immersive digital twins that require sign-off and by whom.

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Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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