Doctoral Workshop “Engineering Smart Cities”: A Report on a New Conference Element

With the doctoral workshop, a new element will be established at IEEE E-TEMS. It enabled doctoral students to present their research topic to the scientific community at the conference, discuss it, receive feedback, network, and learn from the contributions at the conference. The focus of this year's workshop was “Engineering Smart Cities”. The four submitted contributions show a wide range of topics with different phases of the journey. A bridge could be built with Systems Engineering as the connecting element between systems design and project management. This report presents the workshop concept, summarises the contents, and gives a final reflection. Due to the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference is virtual. We show our way to form an interactive format in a virtual workshop.