Schedule Archive - Smart Cities Week

Speakers:

Jonathan Adelstein
President & CEO Wireless Infrastructure Association

Adam Beck
Executive Director Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

Speaker:

Jenn Rivers
Intergovernmental and External Affairs Specialist U. S. Department of Energy

Smart Cities and Infrastructure Legislation

Speaker:

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene
Congresswoman House of Representatives

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, state governments have used data to respond to real-time needs for critical information. While state governments must react to immediate, shifting conditions on a daily basis, they’re left with little time to plan for economic recovery from the fallout. Leveraging Data for Economic Recovery: A Roadmap for States is a guide to rebuild the system to be better than it was before. The roadmap is initially focused on four main areas where data can be used in recovery efforts: workforce and education, health and benefits, neighborhood well-being, and budget reallocation. This session will cover specific use cases from the roadmap where more localized data can be leveraged to support an equitable recovery ensuring that resources and policies are directed to support neighborhoods that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

This event is co-hosted with the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University.

Moderator:

Tyler Kleykamp
Director, State Chief Data Officers Network State Chief Data Officers Network, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation

Speakers:

Katya Abazajian
Researcher State Chief Data Officers' Network

Kathryn Darnall Helms
Chief Data Officer State of Oregon

Natalie Ward
Student Analyst, Data + Digital Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation

Learn how a ’smart’ state can develop a replicable plan to scale pilots. Virginia’s Smart Communities State Action Plan is currently deploying pilot projects to begin the process of building capacity and expertise around the Commonwealth. The pilots rely on “community-driven innovation” to identify topics relevant to each community, and include a technology partner and support to initiate “agreed upon priorities.” The overall goal is to learn from these pilots and scale them through the rest of the state.

Topics

VirginiaOpportunityBuilt EnvironmentEconomic Development

Moderator:

David Ihrie
Chief Technology Officer Center for Innovative Technology (VA)

Speakers:

Michael Cannon
Chief Technology Officer Stafford County

Marianne Meins
President Onclave Networks

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This dialogue will focus on the data world we are likely to experience when the power of 5G is fully unlocked.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

5GDataTechnology

Moderator:

Adam Beck
Executive Director Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

Speakers:

Nicole Stephensen
Principal Consultant Ground Up Consulting

Jason Romney
Smart Precincts Lead Telstra

Robert Linsdell
Managing Director ANZ Vertiv

Dr Graeme Woodward
Wireless Research Centre University of Canterbury, NZ

Chris Althaus
Chief Executive Officer Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association

Catherine Hill
Digital Urban Technology Lead City of Melbourne

In 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) initiated the “whole community” approach to disaster preparedness and response as a means for engaging the private sector, local agencies, and civil society in building disaster resilient communities. In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) adopted a similar concept for public health Meanwhile, new data models, body cameras, and citizen bystanders armed with camera phones have all contributed mounting evidence that traditional public safety approaches are in need of reform.

Community leaders are rising to meet these challenges with new and innovative approaches to use technology to keep citizens safe, improve law and order, and build better relationships with the citizens that they serve. We’ll speak with some of the communities leading the way and explore best practices for starting in your own community.

Moderator:

Jason Nelson
Vice President of Partnerships and Development Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Vinnie Cervantes
Organizing Director Denver Alliance for Street Health Response

Michael Dunaway, PhD
Executive Director for Partner Engagement Digital Futures Resilience Program

Smart Regions – Scaling Innovation:
Regional smart city initiatives are springing up all over the world as communities realize that sharing the benefits and expenses of technology initiatives drives innovation forward and reduces risk. Learn from the Global City Teams Challenges Smart Regions Collaborative and leading regional groups and experts as they discuss how they launched their efforts and where they plan to take it in the coming years.

Moderator:

Jean Rice
Senior Program Specialist NTIA

Speakers:

Raimundo Rodulfo
Director of Information Technology / Chief Innovation Officer City of Coral Gables

Aaron Deacon
Managing Director of Business Development & Strategic Relationships KC Digital Drive

Shawn Irvine
Economic Development Director City of Independence, OR

A secure network of connected ‘things’ that yield useful and actionable information for civic leaders is the foundation of the ‘smart city.’ Every city is unique in terms of the services and applications it offers, and the number and types of endpoints and devices connected. In the same way, it is critical that civic leaders understand the alternatives available for an efficient, secure and future-proof network topology. This session examines LoRaWAN – a low power wide area network technology that delivers highly effective sensor connectivity in a secure and management environment, while enabling a wide ecosystem of developers, equipment makers and service providers that support a wide array of services, including smart lighting, access control, emergency management and more – for hundreds of smart city architectures around the world.

Moderator:

Sara Brown
Vice President of Marketing MultiTech

Speakers:

Wael Guibene
Director, Wireless and IoT R&D Charter Communications

Nicolas Jordan
COO Actility

Boris Stöckermann
Director Business Development & Innovation Minol ZENNER Group

Speaker:

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Senator United States Senate

In this engaging, one-hour discussion, the moderator will present key themes related to residential water challenges and improving the customer experience. Featuring insights from global experts in the US, UK, and Australia, this panel will explore how global utilities and city institutions can better listen, understand, and act on customer sentiments to improve their overall customer experience. The panellists will represent diverse views from a consultancy, a startup, and a public water utility and introduce their data-driven solutions to improve the customer journey.

Topics

WaterDataUK

Moderator:

Sapir Yarden
SWAN Project Manager SWAN Forum

Speakers:

Bobbi Harris
Founder & CEO Smart Water Smart City, LLC

Pete Daykin
Founder & CEO Wordnerds (UK)

Dr. Peter Prevos
Data Science Manager Coliban Water (Australia)

Public sector innovation is moving faster than ever before, driven by cloud-connected thinking that is revolutionizing cities across the world. By leveraging the power of cloud computing to bring innovative solutions to constituents, smart city applications, like smart parking, lighting systems, and waste management, can reduce energy usage, generate cost savings, increase revenue, and improve city operations. Hear from Sandy Carter, VP, Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs at Amazon Web Services and our partners Deloitte, Rubicon Global, and Passport, on the benefits of data and information to transform our streets using technology.

Session highlights:

0:00:09 – AWS for Smart Cities: How the Cloud can accelerate and secure your Smart City implementation

0:13:43 – Smart Cities of the Future: Fireside Chat with Deloitte

0:33:45 – Partner Discussion: AWS On The Streets

Sponsor:

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Speakers:

Sandy Carter
VP, Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs Amazon Web Services

Ali Asad Hasan
Partner Development Manager Amazon Web Services

Rahul Gupta
Managing Director Deloitte

Khristian Gutierrez
Chief Revenue Officer Passport

Michael Allegretti
Chief Strategy Officer Rubicon Global

Kim Majerus
Leader, US Education, State, and Local Government Amazon Web Services

The City of Chattanooga, TN, is leading the nation in a digital transformation of the planning and operations of the city. There are several catalysts making this transformation sustained, collaborative, and impactful for its citizens, its businesses, and its governance.

The Electric Power Board (EPB) of Chattanooga made an early investment in fiber optic connectivity and Chattanooga became the first city in the United States to have gigabit internet for the entire city.

A partnership developed with the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University partners, and industry and innovations across multiple sectors in the city started to materialize. World-leading scientists at ORNL were already engaged in developing next-generation solutions with Chattanooga serving as a hotbed of innovation towards a smarter electric grid, buildings, transportation, cyber-security, and all things connected.

There are multiple ongoing collaborations with different parts of the city, with EPB, the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the Chattanooga Department of Transportation, the Computational Urban Science Group (CUSG) from ORNL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga (UTC), Siemens Mobility ITS, Vanderbilt University, and several others.

This session brings together City stakeholders, ORNL scientists, CIUP researchers, and Siemens Mobility, to present four short vignettes of the transformative work done for the electric grid, transportation/mobility, building energy efficiency, and cybersecurity. These will be followed by a moderated panel on how these efforts have come together with engagement from a multitude of city, state, and federal agencies – forming a “coalition of the willing” fueled by a deep desire of excellence for their citizens.

Topics

Chattanooga

Moderator:

Anne Berres
Staff Scientist Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Speakers:

Jibonananda Sanyal
Group Leader and Senior Scientist Computational Urban Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Kevin Comstock
Smart City Director City of Chattanooga

Bill Copeland
Director of Business Intelligence Electric Power Board of Chattanooga

Mina Sartipi
Director of Business Intelligence Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) & Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Marissa Morales Rodriguez
R&D Staff Sensors and Embedded Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Joshua New
Senior R&D Staff Building Technologies Research and Integration Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Michael Gaertner
Vice President ITS Urban Solutions and R&D, Siemens Mobility Inc.

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Led by the City of Nashville, TN, explore how data can help develop policies to mitigate the impact of flooding on vulnerable populations.

You can find more information about our process and goals here.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

NashvilleResiliencyDataEquity

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speakers:

John Cooper, Mayor, City of Nashville, TN

Faye DiMassimo
Senor Advisor to Mayor of City of Nashville City of Nashville

Laura Hardwicke
Research Planner City of Nashville

Lucy Kempf
Executive Director for Partner Engagement Metro Nashville Planning Department

Janey Camp
Research Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University

Roger Lindsey
Floodplain Manager/Stormwater Design Review Metro Nashville Water Services

Digital equity is more critical now than ever before with the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic. As cities and communities across the world continue to grapple with necessary safe distancing mandates, quality and affordable internet connection is criticalto access government services, important public health information, online education, telecommuting for work, and mobile services. The panel will explore how the digital divide is impacting communities across the world and discuss shared best practices for addressing it. The panel of experts and city leaders will discuss the solutions that different cities are taking to ensure that communities have access to critical technology devices, internet connection, and digital literacy skills to fully participate in the local economy, in educational opportunities, and other critical activities.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

EquityCommunications InfrastructureBroadband Access

Moderator:

Dennis Gakunga
Chief Sustainability Officer City of Chula Vista

Speakers:

Andrew Buss
Deputy CIO for Innovation Management Philadelphia

Angela Siefer
Executive Director National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Maria V. Kachadoorian
City Manager Chula Vista City

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Our ‘Digital Twins in Action’ will feature six of the region’s leading Digital Twin projects, presented as case studies for maximum knowledge sharing. Each case study will include: Project overview – key attributes, where in the asset lifecycle, key stakeholders, Why a Digital Twin? – what led to the application of a Digital Twin, Twin functionality – connectivity, data integration, visualisation, data analysis, security, Data sets used – which of the five minimum Digital Twin data sets?, Technical characteristics – platform build, sensors deployed, use of standards, Outcomes – value created, lessons learned and next steps. Following the six (12min) case study presentations a panel discussion will be facilitated to allow audience questions of the projects.

Sponsor:

AVEVA

Topics

DataTechnologyCloud

Moderator:

Adam Beck
Executive Director Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

Civic leaders know that intelligence is derived from the constant connectivity to volumes of data from stationary and moving sensors deployed throughout their municipal infrastructure. The data is transformed into useful information using data analytics to provide better overall business value, effective customer service and better quality of life. How do leading governments determine the ROI of the applications and services that utilize smart city architecture? This session explores exemplary case studies from civic leaders who have solved real-world problems with secure and connected architecture.

Speakers:

Jack Stuart
Director- Marketing TEKTELIC

Jose Fernandez
Cofounder Aonchip

Yannik Kopp
COO & Head of Sales LORIOT

Tony Tilbrook
CTO and COO NNNCo

The recent COVID-19 health crisis has thrust us into a digital transformation state of unprecedented scale. Local government has responded by aligning to new digital service delivery, enabling remote workforces, and engaging city workers and citizens with new communication methods. NIST’s CyberSecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee (CPAC) has developed a resource toolkit to help with these objectives and stay operational, secure, resilient in this new environment.

Attend this session to learn succinct, actionable guidance on operational resilience, security and privacy best practices for the new operating and living environment we are all in that may be more dangerous in our work from home environments.

Moderator:

Pamela Gupta
CEO, President OutSecure Inc

Speaker:

Raimundo Rodulfo
Director of Information Technology / Chief Innovation Officer City of Coral Gables

Speaker:

Linda Mastandrea
Director Office of Disability Integration and Coordination

Governments need to be able to access the full breadth and depth of their data sets. Often that means asking for access to protected or confidential information. Explore with a panel of experts, led by Carlos Rivero, the Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia how Virginia and other cities and states have developed an holistic approach to data sharing. Discover the importance of the legal, government and technology framework and how to navigate the many barriers from technological to legal to cultural that make data sharing so hard. Also discover how government can work with private industry to share data – as Virginia did in creating a COVID 19 dashboard in one week.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

VirginiaDataTechnologyProject Management

Moderator:

Dan Wu
Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer Immuta

Speakers:

Carlos Rivero
Chief Data Officer Commonwealth of Virginia

Natalie Evans Harris
Head of Strategic Initiatives Brighthive

Justine Hastings
Founding Director & Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs RIPL & Brown University

Cities in the US are progressing on implementing climiate solutions regardless as to whether they get support at the federal or state level. Hear from Orlando, San Diego and Nashvillle about the key policy and regulatory drivers of implementing climiate solutions. Can you go alone, who do you collaborate with, which stakeholders are needed? Learn how to make climate solutions real in your community.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speakers:

Chris Castro
Director of Sustainability & Resilience City of Orlando

Jason Anderson
President and CEO Cleantech San Diego

Mary Beth Ikard
Director of Sustainability and Resilience Mayor of Nashville

Frost & Sullivan has identified an exhaustive list of such short- and long-term key opportunities that will emerge from the reshaping of industries caused by COVID-19. This presentation will discuss these opportunities and specifically discuss the implications to cities highlighting case studies, data-driven evidence, and other anecdotal evidence. No economy, industry, or businesses has been spared from the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Some industries have naturally been affected more than others and the impacts have been on a larger scale. Major economies were already experiencing a slowdown due to other factors and this global pandemic has only added to the distress, hastening the decline in the world’s GDP. While this disruption has highlighted several gaps in the existing operating models, it also provides an opportunity to build more resilience in the system, and this is where cities and its enterprise partners should strategize, build, and grow in these times of adversity. In the near term, cities should focus on leveraging new opportunities arising from changing customer demands. Over the long term, it is important to adapt to new technologies that will assure operational continuity and a smoother transformation during the recovery phase of the pandemic.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

DataCrisisEconomic Development

Moderator:

Archana Vidyasekar
Global Research Director Frost & Sullivan

Speaker:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

In an effort to mitigate the challenges posed by small cells, DAS and other wireless technologies,, municipal governments are turning to novel use of alternative assets and infrastructure that are avoiding visual clutter and negative aesthetic impact of typical vertical pole attachments. This Session is a case study of a multi-function platform that enables the efficient and non-intrusive deployment of wireless and cellular communication services by leveraging the critical public right of way real estate in the delivery of core waste management services. Municipalities looking to deploy business solutions, solve operational problems, and deliver meaningful value for citizens, visitors and businesses will see that multi-purpose infrastructure use can meet the needs of connectivity and government.

Topics

DataTechnologyCommunications Infrastructure

Moderator:

Tim Downs
Executive Producer Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Alex Gamota
SVP & GM, Information and Communications Technology Bigbelly

John Caner
CEO Downtown Berkley Association

Mark Hull
General Manager Network Solutions Tech2

The road to a smarter city is likely to be achieved through a smarter transportation strategy. The city of Peachtree Corners, Georgia – which is the United States’ premiere smart city powered by real-world connected infrastructure – serves as the model for how government and private industry can better collaborate to create a better future. The forward-thinking municipality has become a hub for proving out, developing and ultimately deploying novel technologies from some of the world’s most innovative companies. Unique to most other testing facilities, Peachtree Corners offers a real-world environment in an actual city with real residents, not a lab facility, to elicit real-world outcomes. As an example, working with Bosch, the German transportation technology company, Peachtree Corners deployed an intelligent video analytics solution to enable city leaders and traffic experts to make informed decisions on traffic management based on real-time data about events at and around intersections – including the operation of fully autonomous vehicles and the world’s first fleet of teleoperated e-scooters launched for residents. This session is a case study in the planning, execution and collaboration between government and technology leaders to achieve improved situational awareness in traffic management and smarter intersections.

Topics

DataOpportunityTraffic ManagementGeorgia

Moderator:

Tim Downs
Executive Producer Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Brandon Branham
Chief Technology Officer and Assistant City Manager Peachtree Corners (Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners)

Lewis Stallworth
SSD Business Development Southeast US and Caribbean Bosch Security Systems, LLC

The first step in moving forward with a Smart City, IoT, or 5G project is understanding the value inherent in those public assets in the Right-of-Way. Auditing, databasing, Mapping, – and making use of the data for actionable decision-making and insight is a vital step in the process. This session examines a case study of how mapped its entire portfolio of streetlights and vertical real estate to effectively manage, monitor and monetize it in a digital environment.

Topics

5GGovernanceCommunications Infrastructure

Moderator:

Tim Downs
Executive Producer Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Steve Peloso
CEO NxTgen Infrastructure Services

Mythili Arunachalam
Sr. Manager, Network Partnerships, Global Network & Technology Verizon

Cities are made up of smart buildings. Smart building management will be needed to help cities meet 2030 climate goals. Retrofit and integration of technology is just the start. Smart building and campus technology can transform community engagement, improve quality of life, and make residents safer. Hear from experts bringing their communities into the future.

Topics

TechnologyBuildingsEnvironment or Ecosystem

Moderator:

Lisa Brown
Senior Director, Municipal Infrastructure & Smart Communities Johnson Controls, Inc.

Speakers:

Jim Fiorentino
Business Development Manager - Smart City (North America) NMB Technologies Corporation - A MinebeaMitsumi Group Company

Ken DiScipio
Managing Director of Business Development & Strategic Relationships Tavistock Group

‍Join Jamie Cudden from Dublin and David Graham from Carlsbad, California along with the founders of City Innovate, Kamran Saddique in discussing agile procurement. Specially explore this iterative approach to technology acquisition, where the focus is on cutting the time and effort required for innovation and digital transformation. Agile procurement can include – sprints, burn down charts, continuous value delivery, collaborative teams process, (re)engineering – to reduce the complexity of the procurement processes used inside government. Learn how you can accelerate your own city’s procurement from the experts.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

OpportunityEconomic DevelopmentProcurement

Moderator:

David Graham
Chief Innovation Officer Carlsbad, CA

Speakers:

Kamran Saddique
Co Founder City Innovate

Jamie Cudden
Smart City Program Manager Dublin City Council

The COVID-19 crisis has had profound human and economic consequences on cities and particularly tourism, questioning the sector’s resilience and future survival. Far from pushing the smart tourism agenda to the bottom of the list, the current crisis is demanding a “systems reset” that requires a new, safe, resilient, socially inclusive and zero carbon growth model. To enable this new regenerative model will need a paradigm shift in beliefs, values, technological and business models. This regenerative model uses data to drive outcomes. In this inspirational and fun presentation, three sustainable and smart tourism pioneers invite you to rethink the impact of tourism, and explore how tourism can be redesigned and rebooted to become a major driver of city transformation and innovation.

Moderator:

Guy Bigwood
Chief Changemaker & Managing Director Global Destination Sustainability Movement

Speakers:

Katarina Torstensson
Smart Tourism & Sustainability Strategist Göteborg & Co

Pip Harley
Senior Changemaker Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GDS- Movement)

•Discover from the expert what you as a local city leader need to know about the online manipulation of our democratic discourse and your crisis management. Our keynote speaker is Dr. John Kelly, CEO and Founder of Grahpika – the world’s foremost provider of analysis and research on digital disinformation.

•Dr. Kelly will focus on how disinformation changes our political discourse AND your crisis management (Oregon wild-fires and potential for disinformation on upcoming COVID 19 distribution.)

•In this fire-side chat format, Dr. Kelly will review how data is captured and analyzed. He will also provide advice and resources for local leaders to deal with both political and crisis misinformation.

Sponsor:

New College Institute

Moderator:

Karen Jackson
Interim Executive Director New College Institute

Speaker:

John Kelly
CEO and Founder Graphika

Open data is continuing to evolve as an open data ecosystem that is going beyond simply making data available as a catalog of datasets to now become a data resource that is built to be useful. Useful means leading to insight enabling decision making by presenting the data in formats that are designed for human consumption employing video, graphics and maps. We are entering the next epic which will emphasize meaningful data, insight enabling data, data visualization, data contextualization, intuitive data analytics tools, reality technologies, and empowering the citizen as data scientist and lifelong learner. This epic begins to include more kinds of data, data presentation and analysis tools including video, virtual reality and augmented reality. There will be more inclusion of other human centered disciplines into the viewing, interpretation and resulting understanding that open data unlocks. New analytics uses both quantitative and qualitative data analysis such as ethnography from an evolving open data toolbox. Looking ahead we can expect the eventual introduction of reality technology such as augmented reality and virtual reality computing to supplement open data with new presentation of data and information as well as education and training in how to effectively use open data.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

DataTechnologyProject Management

Moderator:

Eric Sweden
Program Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance NASCIO

Speakers:

Carlos Rivero
Chief Data Officer Commonwealth of Virginia

Dr. Peter Pirnejad
Executive Director of Global Public Sector State and Local Government Oracle

Kim Wienzierl
Chief Data Officer State of Tennessee

Speakers:

David Ricketts
Innovation Keynote Speaker Harvard University

David Graham
Chief Innovation Officer Carlsbad, CA

Can we increase the value of our capital projects by making them smarter? A world of opportunity exists to leverage the value inherent in smart city applications, and cities should take a critical look at projects to decide how they are going to make them smarter, more sustainable and more resilient.

Sponsor:

AT&T

Topics

DataOpportunityBuilt Environment

Moderator:

Mark Shaffer
Business Development Manager Tech Data for Smart Cities

Speakers:

Ariel Brassil
Director of Strategy, Smart Cities & Communities AT&T

Jeffrey Purdy
Associate Vice President Pennoni Associates

Michael Pegues
Chief Information Officer City of Aurora, Illinois

National Smart Cities and Infrastructure Legislation – has the time finally come? Can it provide the necessary push to accelerating smart, sustainable and resilient cities and communities? Hear from Congressional sponsors of national Smart Cities legislation on the prospects of passing such legislation, as well as comprehensive infrastructure legislation, next Congress.

Topics

ResiliencyOpportunityEconomic Development

Moderator:

Steve Crout
Director, Policy & Resilience Programs Smart Cities Council

Steve Phillips
Co-Chair of Federal Law & Policy DLA Piper

Speakers:

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Senator United States Senate

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene
Congresswoman House of Representatives

Trevor Dean
Senior Policy Advisor Senator Catherine Cortez Masto

Sasha Bernhard
Senior Policy Advisor Congresswoman Suzan DelBene

Graham Mason
Deputy Chief of Staff House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (NM)

With limited resources for smart city project development, cities are getting creative in financing smart city projects. P3’s, ESCO’s, data monetization, and other non-traditional financing sources are stepping up and creating opportunities for cities embracing the future. Leading financiers will explain how they are developing new opportunities for cities.

Topics

OpportunityEconomic DevelopmentProcurement

Moderator:

Jason Nelson
Vice President of Partnerships and Development Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Kitty Kolding
CEO, President Chrysalis Partners

Michael Pegues
Chief Information Officer City of Aurora, Illinois

Jack Hanley
Chief Operating Officer Connected Cities Integrators

Join Joseph Bradley, Head of Technology & Digital at NEOM, Mansoor Hanif, Executive Director, Technology & Digital Infrastructure and Philip Bane, Managing Director of the Smart Cities Council as they explore the potential of NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s model for a new future. Along with the potential for a living laboratory and hub for innovation, there is a vision for NEOM as an enabler and partner for smart cities everywhere in the world. NEOM’s vision is to develop a sustainable ecosystem for living and working AND to share that vision and the enabling technologies with cities everywhere, so that ‘cities helping cities’ becomes a reality.

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speaker:

Mansoor Hanif
Executive Director, Engineering, Technology & Digital NEOM

Join Belfast, Fingale and Cork along with the All Ireland Smart Cities Forum as they discuss how collaboration is key to smart city implementation. Learning and collaborativing has advanced the Irish smart city agenda and cities globally shoudl consider this approach.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Moderator:

Karen Jackson
Interim Executive Director New College Institute

Speakers:

Claire Davis
Digital Officer Cork City Council

Aishling Hyland
Digital Strategy Manager & Broadband Officer Fingal County Council

Paula Fee
City Innovation Programme Officer Belfast City Council

Effective smart community partnerships are the theme of this discussion as NCTA – The Internet and Television Association, releases a new whitepaper exploring the natural alliance between municipalities and cable companies. Bill Maguire of Connected Communities LLC, and NCTA executives, will discuss five key findings and three key takeaways of the whitepaper, along with several examples of current smart community partnerships. During guest appearances throughout the session, local government leaders from Arlington, VA, College Park, GA and St. Petersburg, FL, and executives from NCTA member companies, will identify and highlight lessons learned drawn from their own experience designing, implementing, and partnering on smart community projects.

Sponsor:

NCTA – The Internet & Television Association

Speakers:

Rick Cimerman
Vice President, External & State Affairs NCTA

Nilda Gumbs
Vice President, External Affairs NCTA

Bill Maguire
Founder & CEO Connected Communities LLC

Alison Barlow
Executive Director St. Petersburg Innovation District

Jack Belcher
CIO City of Arlington, VA

Justin Forde
Senior Director, Government Relations Midco

Doug Guthrie
Senior Vice President Comcast

Michael Hicks
CIO City of College Park, MD

Rick Kriseman
Mayor City of St. Petersburg, FL

William Wallace
Chairman of the Board US Ignite

Patti Zullo
Senior Director, Smart City Solutions Spectrum

Join Moscow and Mexico City, the two biggest cities on their respective continents and explore how they are solving the big problems in citizen engagement.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speakers:

Maxim Aleksashkin
Deputy CIO Moscow

Aleksandr Pishchelko
Head of Institution of the Moscow City "New Management Technologies"

Join Moscow and Mexico City, the two biggest cities on their respective continents and explore how they are solving the big problems in citizen engagement.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speaker:

Ali González
Director of Open Government Mexico City, Mexico

How Cities Can Promote Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems The practice of Economic Development by cities often favors the attraction and retention of large employers. Yet, our small local businesses are the unsung heroes of a healthy, diversified, resilient economy. Spending at locally owned businesses has a much higher multiplier and locally owned businesses tend to give more to civic causes and community charities and care more for the environment. How can cities nurture locally owned businesses and support them to create more jobs and wealth?

This panel will focus on the following tools:

· Democratized financing through investment crowdfunding and local investment networks

· Community-based investment funds

· The role of philanthropy

· Opportunity Zones – how to use them to build local ownership of assets

· How to involve all community stakeholders in supporting local entrepreneurs

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

ResiliencyEquityEconomic DevelopmentFremontCalifornia

Moderator:

Jenny Kassan
Vice Mayor Freemont, CA

Speakers:

Michelle Sandoval
Mayor Port Townsend, WA

Michelle Thimesch
CEO Crowdfund MainStreet

Hassan Bazzi
Director of Community Innovation Forward Cities

An estimated 1.5 million people are migrating into cities every week! As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, the challenges become ever more severe. Transport, energy infrastructure, waste, new construction and existing buildings, all need to take urgent steps to achieve carbon neutrality. Cities, in partnership with the private sector and its communities, must quickly learn how to decouple carbon emissions from continued economic growth & prosperity.

How are cities attacking these challenges? “Copenhagen: Carbon Neutral by 2025”.

Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, the EU committed to carbon-neutrality by 2050. Back in 2009, Copenhagen went further by declaring it will become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital by 2025. Join us to hear about its progress and the road forward. For further information, please visit https://carbonneutralcities.org/cities/

How can cities and real estate developers align interests toward a shared vision?

Lakeview Village in Mississauga, Canada. We will share a private developer’s perspective on its US$6 billion mixed use development goals for carbon neutrality by 2040. The challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in co-creating transformative communities of the future together. Innovation districts and digital twins as enablers of carbon neutral cities.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Topics

ResiliencyClimate changeEnvironment or Ecosystem

Moderator:

Chungha Cha
Co-founder & Chair Reimagining Cities Foundation

Speakers:

Peter Vangsbo
Executive Director Innovation Centre Denmark at Embassy of Denmark in Korea

Wade Reda
Manager - Smart Buildings Siemens

US Cellular is working with some of America’s most innovative communities as they plot their smart cities strategies. Hear from Kim Green-Kerr, SVP Business Sales and Operations, and Lori Dawson, Senior Director of Services Engineering, as they share US Cellular’s philosophy in helping the communities that they serve develop smart city solutions over US Cellular’s 5G network.

Moderator:

Jason Nelson
Vice President of Partnerships and Development Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speakers:

Kim Green-Kerr
SVP Business Sales and Operations U.S. Cellular

Lori Dawson
Senior Director Services Engineering U.S. Cellular

Every 25 seconds, someone dies in a traffic collision; every year, over $31T is spent treating chronic diseases tied to sedentary lifestyles; globally, one in six deaths is tied to air pollution. The costs – tied a poorly designed public realm – are clear, significant, and borne inequitably by people of color, people with disabilities, low-income communities, and other marginalized and disadvantaged populations. If citymakers weren’t already aware of these structural inequities and spatial injustices before 2020, Covid and the global Black Lives Matter protests have made them unavoidable issues that must be confronted and addressed. Continuing to base planning, design, and development on expert-driven, top-down approaches that translate merely into “beautiful plans” is not only ineffective and inefficient, it is an untenable barrier to building the kind of community trust needed to deliver safe, healing, thriving, healthy, and resilient places. Thissession will discuss why data-driven citymaking is needed to create a more transparent and accountable process that leads to more effective, cost-efficient, inclusive, just, equitable, and lovable places and explore this through two city case studies.

Sponsor:

Smart Cities Council

Moderator:

Lucinda Hartley
Chief Growth Officer Neighbourlytics

Speakers:

Emily Yates
Smart City Director City of Philadelphia

Dr. Mariela Alfonzo
Founder & CEO State of Place

Michael Northey
Project Officer Place Services City of Parramatta

Andrea DiGiovanni
Strategic Projects Lead Neighbourlytics

Moderator:

Philip Bane
Managing Director Smart Cities Council

Speaker:

Naser Khraibut
Deputy Director General Planning & Design at Public Authority for Housing Welfare - Kuwait

Moderator:

Jason Nelson
Vice President of Partnerships and Development Wireless Infrastructure Association

Speaker:

Martin O’Malley
Smart Governance Advisor Grant Thornton

NGO’s are Providing High Impact and Cost Effective Resilience Solutions. Whether it be Covid, Wildfires, Hurricanes, Tornados, Flooding the NGO community is on the ground helping citizens. These efforts must be linked with overall community resilience strategies. Hear from community advocates implementing innovative resilience solutions. Hear from community advocates implementing innovative resilience solutions.

Topics

ResiliencyOpportunityProject Management

Moderator:

Steve Crout
Director, Policy & Resilience Programs Smart Cities Council

Speakers:

Jennifer Gray Thompson
Executive Director Rebuild North Bay Foundation

Emily Barany
Owner VISIONALITY

Linda Mastandrea
Director Office of Disability Integration and Coordination

Sponsor:

Priority 5 Holdings, Inc.

Moderator:

Mohamed Abdelhameid
Director of Connected Government Solutions City of Seat Pleasant, MD

Speakers:

Mayor Eugene Grant
Mayor City of Seat Pleasant, MD

Joseph Kammerman
Vice President for Project Implementation and Management Priority 5 Holdings, Inc.

Scott Bynum
Homeland Security Specialist Port Fourchon Harbor Police, Greater Lafourche Port Commission, Lafourche Parish, LA

Available funding for developing smart & resilient cities has historically been a major barrior to progress. Recent events have placed a prority on getting funding out to states and localities to prepare and respond for the safety of their citizens. Hear from federal, state and private sector experts managing new funding opportunities and how you can apply!

Topics

ResiliencyEconomic DevelopmentProject Management

Moderator:

Steve Crout
Director, Policy & Resilience Programs Smart Cities Council

Speakers:

Pamela Williams
Executive Director BuildStrong Coalition

Kayed Lahkia
Deputy Director of Hazard Mitigation FEMA

Brandon Sweezea
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Program Section Chief FEMA

Anna Padlo
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Section Chief FEMA

Camille Crain
BRIC Section Chief FEMA

Marty Chester
Lead Grants Management Specialist, Region VI FEMA

Clay Lloyd
Specialist, Disaster Recovery & Special Issues (DRSI) Division U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)

Ryan Janda
Chief Changemaker & Managing Director Data Officer Non-Disaster Grants Implementation Branch

The smart city concept is not new. We have already incorporated a variety of smart components in our urban development including intelligent transportation systems, smart lighting systems, building automation systems, security and access control systems, smart energy grids, water supply and treatment.

The main difference between the smart city concepts and these smart components is that cities are now attempting to integrate information from these disparate systems into an integrated data platform to gain a holistic view of the overall management functions and services at the city level.

Through the smart city platform, cities can provide centralized operations and collaborative solutions for a more liveable, sustainable, and business friendly environment in this data driven society. This session proposes to discuss business cases and strategies in terms of technology, governance and finance for developing city-wide smart city platforms particularly in the context developing countries.

Moderator:

Adam Beck
Executive Director Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

Speakers:

Zoe Zhang
Regional Business Development Manager Esri

Thomas Abell
Chief of Digital Technology Asian Development Bank

Devisari Tunas
Research Scenario Leader Future Cities Laboratory Singapore ETH Centre