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The third annual conference on Next Generation Infrastructures will deal with infrastructures for eco cities and be held in Shenzhen, China, 11-13 November 2010. Shenzhen is a city well-poised and with the ambition to become a global eco city and is open to a wide range of ideas to develop the appropriate infrastructures to evolve into one. The Next Generation Infrastrucutres conference on infrastructures for eco cities is sponsored by Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China) and the Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation (Delft, Netherlands). Co-sponsors are HIT Shenzhen Graduate School, Delft University of Technology, the City of Shenzhen and IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society. New this year: The professional track where professionals exchange knowledge and experiences about infrastructures for eco cities and eco citiy development. The professional track will interact with several academic panels. Academic panels: - Global cities and global city regions - Eco city concepts and approaches - Good and bad practices in developing eco-cities - Sustainable urban energy systems: concepts and policy approaches - Sustainable urban energy systems: modelling approaches - Sustainable transport infrastructures - Sustainable water infrastructure and management - Life cycle asset management - Modeling the complexity of the evolving eco city - Infrastructure governance and regulation around the world - Shenzhen and Hong Kong: a new global city region? - Special session on the Guangming district: Infrastructures for a new eco district - Special session on the Nanshan district: Requirement for the heart of a new global eco city - Megaprojects - Eco-innovation and regional development - Gaming-simulation for infrastructure development - Other topics (public values, Enhancing resilience through infrastructural integration: from software to hardware, to be announced)