The smart city initiative is largely ICT driven, with arguments that it will help with disaster recovery and energy optimization or better resource management in cities. With major industry players such as IBM, Google and even Governments continuously investing in a ‘smart city’ motto, we are merging software and hardware to come up with new innovations for Smart Cities. With political visions for urban areas being transformed into technology-oriented cities, it raises various concerns from all levels of risk, security, infrastructures and economy in order to provide all service issues in small and large scale cities. Most of these issues need a multi-disciplinary approach for policy makers, technologists, software developers, researchers and academics to work together to find optimum solutions for current resource management problems and how technologies can be used for bettering the society. Various examples of Smart cities include Kyoto, Amsterdam, Hull and Copenhagen. These projects use huge amounts of Big Data; created and managed, but at the moment have little transparency on the kind of laws being programmed into the software used. Security laws, governance laws and monitoring of citizens using sensors with M2M connectivity have repercussions on the needs of what software and hardware can provide. Various technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), to enable various infrastructures to be interfaced with each other for communication through mobile connectivity, web services and sensors, Cloud computing, also a key ingredient and medium to enable smart city ICT and 4G or 5G can play huge role in making smart cities possible in the future. This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary papers discussing how software, hardware, Cloud and IoT, and their current research needs that need to be addressed for transforming current cities into technology led smart cities.