An annually run IET symposium related to development of smart innovations for smart cities. The symposium objectives are; to create awareness through research and publications about the future prospects of smart cities. The symposium also serves as a platform to exchange ideas and thoughts in international prospect and stand. In addition, the symposium is emphasizing the role of academia, universities, industries, experts, and innovations for promoting smart cities solutions, projects, smarter ideas, consultancies and continuity in the form of indexed publications. The 9th IET International Smart Cities Symposium  (9-scs-2025) will be held at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, on December  1-3, 2025. The symposium will feature world-class plenary speakers, major technical symposiums, industry and academic panels,  and invited tracks.  For more information, please visit symposium website: https://www.iet-smartcities-symposium.com/. You are cordially invited to submit your latest research work to the symposium. Best paper awards will be selected from accepted papers. The symposium and tracks papers will be published and indexed  in IET Inspec - IEEE Xplore, and will appear on other indexing databases.