SUSTAINABLE
CITIES EXPERIENCES DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
FINAL REPORT
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Welcome, Hello! I’m Bernardo Scheinkman, CEO of Smart Cities Americas. I would like to thank each and every one of you for having joined this event. I am pleased to say the second annual edition of Smart City Expo Miami was a complete success. With climate change demanding attention, the Mayor of Miami had called for awareness, asking smart disruptors to help — this event spearheaded that change. So, we produced Smart City Expo Miami 2021 Sustainable Cities Experiences, the first ever and the largest event bringing to Miami new ideas about Sustainability and Climate Action. The event brought Miami to the forefront of innovation in urban solutions with sustainability, and the world virtually connected. We had a roster of award-winning and globally-recognized speakers, the best thinkers in urbanism and technology, to raise the awareness of the importance of Urban Planning, Climate Action and Green Economy. Among participants, there were representatives from cities, countries, local, national and international technical bodies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, startups and entrepreneurs. At the event, I announced that Smart Cities Americas is building South Florida’s smart city ecosystem attracting leading smart cities companies to Miami that will generate $40 billion revenue for South Florida businesses, while creating more than 20,000 new jobs in our region in the next 5 years. Thank you all again. Hope you enjoyed and benefitted from all the presentations and discussions during the three-day event.
Bernardo Scheinkman
Architect & Urban Planner Founder & CEO, Smart Cities Americas LLC Founder, CEO & Curator, Smart City Expo Miami
Welcome…………………………………...3 About……………………………………….8 Global Reach…………………………….12 Smart Disruptors…………………………16 The C-Movement………………………...18 Cities Experiences Insights Stage……..20 CIO Music Hall…………………………...40 Startup Hub………………………………42 Innovation Hub Showcase……………...44 Testimonials………………………………46 Participants……………………………….48 Bookstore…………………………………56
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Smart City Expo Miami is an international conference produced by Smart Cities Americas LLC, a Florida Corporation. It is the largest global event of the year hosted from Miami second year in a row, featuring award-winning and globally-recognized experts. The event brought Miami to the forefront of innovation in sustainable urban solutions with representatives from cities; countries; local; national and international technical bodies; nongovernmental organizations; corporations; startups; and entrepreneurs. The second Smart City Expo Miami, international conference+exhibition opened for discussion on business, innovation, and entrepreneurship December 8-10, 2021, in anda 3D Live Experience: Disruptive, Diversified and Dynamic. Guests and participants were encouraged to partake in keynote lectures, panels, and rooms to engage and empower citizens, communities, and cities around the world. In the sessions, we learned from the best practices implemented in other cities and industries, as foundational building blocks to apply in our own backyard in order to prolong positive and profitable development for as long as possible. It all started with the meeting of the minds at Smart City Expo Miami. The event covered innovation areas
specifically Sustainable Growth, Climate Action, Resilient Infrastructure, Smart Destinations, Inclusive & Sharing Cities and Quality of Life. Along with insight on smart cities that comprise of cities experiences, hubs such as Innovation, Startups, and a CIO Music Hall. By interacting with local community and raising awareness of the importance of urban planning, this event stimulated business trade and international missions, encouraged the use of circular economy and marketed Miami as an innovation platform. All participants joined the C-Movement — citizen, community, city — aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability, and sustainability. The event provided a powerful opportunity to ignite essential conversations and inspire life-changing ideas that can have a lasting effect in our communities and beyond for generations. It is a time to come together and 2021 collaborate on building stronger, more conscious developmental practices making the transition to green economy, and there is no greater place to begin than in the international metropolis that is the Magic City.
UPCOMING EVENT:
SUSTAINABLE IS THE NEW SMART December 12-14, 2022 JAMES L. KNIGHT CENTER, MIAMI, FL
Largest Miami marketing in digital advertising, display marketing and social platforms.
The meeting for the best minds of urbanism and technology.
Interaction with the local community, raising awareness of the importance of urban planning.
Empower people: citizens and communities.
Stimulate business trade and international missions.
Encourage the use of the circular economy.
Stimulate publicprivate partnerships in infrastructure with the adoption of stateof-the-art technology: 5G and IoT.
Market Miami as an innovation platform.
Direct effect: Generate business tourism, stimulate the arrival of new companies to Miami with incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, creating new jobs.
Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
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Sustainable Cities Experience Smart City Expo Miami 2021 was held virtually December 8-10, 2021, and brought together participants from all over the world to discuss topics related to sustainability, resilience and circular economy. THE C-MOVEMENT
SCEM2021 2021 continued the C-Movement and invited Citizens, SCEM Communities and Circular Cities to join. The C-Movement aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability, and sustainability.
CITIES EXPERIENCES INSIGHTS STAGE
The Cities Experiences Stages featured TED Talks-style presentations, moderated dialogues, group discussions and other interactions around communities’ and cities’ experiences and how we can engage and empower citizens, communities and cities to implement these experiences in practical and effective ways.
INNOVATION HUB
The Innovation Hub Showcase presented the forefront of innovation in urban solutions with sustainability, resilience, technology, citizens, and happiness. Participants were able to virtually visit and contact 40 exhibitors, get to know more about products, services, disruptive innovation and take part in synchronized online experience during the event, which provided a network of 200+ startups.
INNOVATION HUB CIO MUSIC HALL
Exclusive room where CIOs presented and discussed experiences linked to smart cities and the C-Movement.
STARTUP HUB
Exclusive room that connected startups who have been spotlighted in the smart cities environment.
BOOKSTORE
Participants received the best book recommendations related to smart cities experiences.
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Curitiba / São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro / Florianópolis 2
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Top 10 Participating Countries
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2. Brazil
3. Spain
4. Israel
5. Canada
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Helsinki
msterdam / Rotterdam / Utrecht 8
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Paris
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Brussels
Kyiv
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Beijing
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Tel Aviv / Jerusalem / Petah Tikisa / Hod Hasharon
Seoul Tehran
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Dubai
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Singapore
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Brisbane
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7. France
8. Netherlands
9. Germany
10. India
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Participants Organization A KEY MEETING POINT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
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Business Services Technician & Specialist High Level Management Education Non-Profit Professional Top Public Representative
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SMART DISRUPTORS
FRANCIS SUAREZ
BAS BOORSMA
ILANA PREUSS
DANIELLA LEVINE CAVA
LUIS GUILLOT
EREZ ELLA
JONATHAN REICHENTAL
PAUL DOHERTY
JOSÉ ANTONIO ONDIVIELA
AMY HOCHADEL
JAN KAMENSKY
GUY ELAD
HENK OVINK
TIM GILL
BERNARDO SCHEINKMAN
JASON KING
EDWARD MAZRIA
SUZANNE JEWELL
ROBERT BREARS
LETICIA LATINO
GEORGE LIU
ANNE THERESE GENNARI
DAVID GRAHAM
JEREMY GOLDBERG
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ANGELA MAZZI
Smart City Expo Miami welcomed 50 award-winning, globally-recognized smart disruptors from around the world who presented talks related to smart cities, sustainability, resilience, circular economy, and more.
MEGAN MAZZOCCO
ANNEKATRIEN VERDICKT
JOHN RENNE
RAIMUNDO RODULFO
BENJAMIN BARBER
KRIS LIBUNAO
MARIANA MAYER-PINTO
ALOISIO P. DA SILVA
EDNA PASHER
MARTIN MORZYNSKI
RAFI RICH
CRISS ALESSI
ALISSA FARINA
JORDI PASCUAL
YURIY NAZAROV
ALFRED POOR
ALBERT SLAP
RICHARD EZIKE
ANJA WYDEN GUELPA
RAY WALSHE
JULIA AMBROSANO
ALEX SHALASH
DANIEL BUMANN
LEXIE ASSUNTO
EYAL SANTO
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Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
2021 continued SCEM 2021 continued the C-Movement, inviting Citizens , Community, and Circular Cities to join it. The C-Movement aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability, and sustainability.
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The C-Movement has the goal of engaging and empowering citizens, communities and cities. The new future envisioned is more about people connected to technology that responds to their needs and wishes than just smart technology itself. Quality of life, health, well-being, happiness, safety and privacy are the new indicators that we will have to take into account in the coming years. How can citizens be more active in their communities? How can they speak about their needs and express their ideas? How can they be engaged to contribute to the planning process and create a unified effort? How can they be educated about creating a more sustainable world and a circular economy model? How can we understand their technological needs and worries? How can communities connect with their citizens and empower them? How can communities be empowered to take a more decisive position in their cities? How can technology be developed to respond to citizens’ and communities’ endeavors? Citizens and communities are the leaders and drivers of change. Communities should
be interconnected to learn from and teach one another. Cities are the foundation of culture and people’s identities. Do we have a plan for the city with people, productivity and happiness in mind? Do we offer a real environment, using appropriate technology, that allows a comprehensive part of the population to speak up and participate in the city’s life? Is there new technology (right now) that is affordable and enables unprecedented participation while ushering in a new era of public support for a revitalized city? Do we have a controlled process that produces successful projects that fit into our plan without wasted time or money while eliminating corruption? Do we have a plan for maintaining the completed assets that is locally resourced and sustainable? Do we grant participation for citizens and communities to improve legislative and regulatory framework? There is urgency on the governance model’s transformation. The C-Movement is not a destination; it is a journey.
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Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
Through the Cities Experiences Insights Stage, participants had the opportunity to watch inspiring award-winning and globally-recognized experts, learn more about disruptive innovation and gain access to the forefront of cutting-edge urban solutions.
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Sustainable & Resilient Miami
A commitment to developing a longterm climate strategy for the City of Miami.
Francis Suarez
Mayor, City of Miami Miami, Florida
Mayor Francis Suarez is the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In this capacity, he takes a leading role in collaborating with fellow mayors from around the country to preserve the environment and develop programs and policies that directly benefit the City of Miami. He also served at the MiamiDade Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) and is the former President of the MiamiDade County League of Cities. In his role at TPO, Mayor Suarez championed the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan, which was unanimously approved. The SMART Plan expands mass transit options in MiamiDade County through six main corridors and new bus routes to ease traffic congestion and support future population growth.
As the mayor of Miami, I have experienced the devastation of climate change firsthand. But I’ve also seen the ways climate action and clean energy can provide a more sustainable and successful future for my city. Just as we made Miami the most wind-resilient city in the world, I want to make Miami the most flood-resistant city in the world. My administration has been aggressively committed to developing a longterm climate strategy that aims to support Miami’s businesses through policies and programs that will advance our transitions to a clean energy economy. Part of the commitment will be making Miami a carbon-neutral city by 2050. The clean energy industry currently employs over 60,000 people in Miami, making us eighth in the nation in green jobs. And as we continue to break through as a national leader in solar and electric vehicle infrastructure, we will have the opportunity to expand employment opportunities even further. None of this is possible overnight. It requires a meticulously coordinated effort across all of our departments. And, more importantly, it requires our residents to be fully invested in our vision. This issue impacts all of us, and it will take all of us to fix it. The time has passed to simply be reactive to climate change. We must be proactive and pave the way for other cities in the U.S. and around the world to achieve lower carbon emissions while ensuring our communities remain safe and prosperous. Addressing climate change is a moral imperative. And, if managed properly, it will also be the right move for the health of our residents and the health of our economy.
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We must be proactive…ensuring our communities remain safe and prosperous… through policies and programs that will advance our transition to a clean energy economy.
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Jason King
Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners Coral Gables, Florida
Jason King, AICP, is a city planner based in Miami who has directed multidisciplinary teams around the world. He has served as the project director and prime author on over 200 plans for cities, towns, neighborhoods, and corridors. Jason’s work has focused on social, economic, and climate change resilience. He is a Principal at Dover, Kohl & Partners and author of The Climate Planner.
Miami and Southeast Florida Florida in 2050: A Dispatch from the Future
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Miami is on the frontline of climate change – but innovations and solutions are born on the frontline. This presentation discussed the lessons the city has learned that will change the way the world adapts. We need to look ahead the same way a person with life-threatening issue might: with information, self-respect, a resolve to improve, and hope.
José Antonio Ondiviela
Industry Advisor Smart Cities, Microsoft Western Europe Madrid, Spain
José Antonio Ondiviela is the SmartCities Solutions Director Western Europe at Microsoft. He joined Microsoft in 1995 and holds Microsoft experience in field sales, sales strategy, operations, and marketing. José is very active in the Academic area, with a Ph.D. Thesis titled “Beyond SmartCities: Creating the most attractive city for talented citizens”.
Why It Is Time to Reevaluate the Function of a City We can consider our cities in a “Reboot”: rethinking processes, operations, citizen engagement and spaces. It’s a unique opportunity to re-evaluate the way they function and the services they provide, and also the spaces dedication. This talk imagined the future of our cities with technology as loyal ally, over the shoulders of intelligent urbanism and social citizens engagement.
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Amy Hochadel
Director, Connect Places Catapult London, England
Author of Local Leadership in a Global Era: Policy and Behaviour Change in Cities, Dr. Hochadel works with local leaders, entrepreneurs, city and national governments around the world, including the Gulf states, India, Malaysia, Africa, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the Unites States.
Smart AND Resilient Cities – Tools for City Leadership
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The intersection between ‘Smart’ and ‘Resilient’ cities came into sharp focus. Right now, city managers have to use resources more intelligently demonstrating that worst case scenarios can in fact happen. This presentation looked at “smart resilience”: the premise of a data driven response, at a systemic city-level, to guide and maintain city readiness and capacity during times of shock.
Smart Cities are Resilient Cities This is the century of cities.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jonathan Reichental CEO, Human Future
San Francisco, California Dr. Jonathan Reichental is a multiple awardwinning technology and business leader whose career has spanned both the private and public sector. He has been a Senior Software Engineering Manager and a Director of Technology Innovation and has served as Chief Information Officer at both O’Reilley Media and the City of Palo Alto. He also creates online education for LinkedIn Learning and has published the book Smart Cities for Dummies and Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids.
It's a period of great uncertainty and risk. Changes, for example, in how we work, live, and play, coupled with an unpredictable climate, which means that cities must evolve quickly and be able to respond to shocks. On top of that, urbanization is occurring all around the world so cities are growing rapidly. Cities are incredible places and they are our future. It’s pragmatic for city leaders and a wide range of stakeholders to plan and build for a wide variety of future possibilities. We have abundance today in many parts of the world and in our urban areas, but it comes at the price of our air quality and our water quality, becoming an immediate challenge for us. Between cars producing a lot of carbon emission and city infrastructure being stretched to the limit, our climate crisis needs attention. Being smart about resiliency is a core requirement of smarter and more sustainable communities. We need to explore this topic and suggest steps that leaders can take now. We have the opportunity to create value and improve our communities. Climate, economy, environment, society - these areas need to be baked into how we build our future cities. They can’t be an afterthought, especially with many communities already experiencing climate crisis. We have to build from the ground up with resiliency in mind. We see some great new ideas around building sustainability into every part of a city, from the materials used to transportation systems, energy, and green spaces, and the use of urban forests for better and cleaner air. But the real question then becomes: are cities ready? Are they ready for change and for the challenge that are ahead of us? I encourage us to think about these dimensions of resiliency as we think about the future of our cities… because the opportunity to innovate and deliver new products services to our cities can make them smarter and resilient.
By having clean air, water, parks, and other basic needs, we’re building healthier communities. We need to ensure that all these things are part of the DNA of our urban systems. 23
Ilana Preuss
CEO, Recast City Washigton, D.C.
Ilana Preuss is the Founder of Recast City LLC, and author of Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing. Her consulting firm works with local leaders, real estate developers, city and other civic leaders to integrate space for small-scale producers into redevelopment projects and place-based economic development.
Investing in Racial Equity in Downtown Through SmallScale Manufacturing
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Most local economic development strategies do not specifically focus on how to build a more racially inclusive community of business owners. Working with small-scale manufacturing businesses is one concrete way to take action and start making changes immediately to build a more inclusive local economy centered on racial equity without needing to wait for some big, long-term strategy.
Erez Ella
Founder, HQArchitects Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Erez founded HQ architects in Tel Aviv in 2008 leading design work of more than 20 different projects worldwide, various in scale and program. HQ Architects exhibit an expanding portfolio of work among various sectors. In 2011 Erez established and currently leads the ‘Mechanism of Design and Urbanism’ research unit at the Bezalel School of Architecture. Erez lectures extensively in Israel and abroad.
Future City: Resilient by Data, Adoptive by Design
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Cities of today face issues of migration, integration, rapid urbanization, climate change, capitalism and pandemics. In response to this, as architects in the era of information, we utilize technology to manage urban risk and design resilient cities. Our methodology, building from ‘the bottom-up’ with data, investigates how to design places promoting well-being, economic diversity and sustainable growth.
Henk Ovink
Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, The Netherlands Doetinchem, the Netherlands
Henk Ovink was appointed by the Cabinet of the Netherlands as the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs in 2015. He is responsible for advocating water awareness around the world, focusing on building institutional capacity and coalitions among governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and NGOs to address the world’s pressing water needs and help initiate transformative interventions.
Water as Leverage for Sustainable Growth
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Water represents man’s most challenging and complex risk. Yet water’s connecting and interdependent strength also provides us with a not-to-beignored opportunity: use water as leverage for impactful and catalytic change – to help build sustainability, development and resiliency – bridging the gaps between communities, experts, policymakers and financiers in developing a sustainable future for all.
Smart Cities Miami: The Emergence of a Human-Centric, DataDriven Community Looking at smart cities as a system of systems. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Paul Doherty
CEO, The Digit Group Memphis, Tennessee
Paul Doherty, AIA, is an Award-winning architect and Chairman and CEO of the Digit Group (TDG) Global Ventures, a Singapore-registered smart city real estate development company. He’s been feature on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America’s Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World.” He is senior fellow of the Design Futures Council (DFC) and a fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). Concurrently, Doherty is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon.
Smart cities ecosystems are leveraging how the built environment is meeting the demands of human-centric design through data-driven processes. Urban innovations, technologies, techniques, and workflows are challenging conventions, shifting values, and developing new ways of providing services. The Digit Group looks at smart cities as a system of systems, where it’s really about discovering innovations, especially urban innovations, that help with the development and the delivery of housing, transportation, technology, energy, media, and health care. So when looking at the human-centric approach to a smart city, we found we were looking at happy people being healthy people. By using the digital twin of the individual, there’s a lot of information out there that moves beyond the built environment and actually then hits and inspires, and can help with behaviors within an environment in a digital twin. If we focus on ensuring that we hold people who are responsible for design, master planning, and construction accountable, we will create a much more inclusive, diverse, and equitable future for our urban environments. So we like to start with resiliency that leads into smart, creating a sustainable world that then is able to be flexible, scalable and adaptable. Here we looked at Miami, a unique city with its amazing neighborhoods and mix of community needs. The growth of Miami is a great benchmark for others around the world to see how, when putting together the proper types of governance and policies, along with the incentives for innovation and technology to work together, it creates a human-centric, data-driven community. This is the future. Being able to have the general public understand the transparency of the built environment, how we're contributing to the carbon footprint of the planet earth and why we are now putting systems into place to help.
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Edward Mazria
Founder & CEO, Architecture 2030 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Edward Mazria is the founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, a think tank developing real-world solutions for 21st century problems. He is an internationally renowned architect, author, researcher, and educator and his innovative architecture, planning projects, and research, programs, and advocacy with Architecture 2030, has garnered him numerous awards.
If We Act Together: Keeping 1.5º Alive
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We are at the crossroads of the most significant crisis and the greatest opportunity in modern times. This eye-opening presentation provided attendees with a deep understanding of the challenges we face, the historic transformation of the urban built environment currently underway, the magnitude of the opportunities before us and the significant actions we must take to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5ºC carbon budget.
Suzanne Jewell
CEO, The Mindful Entrepreneur Miami, Florida
Suzanne Jewell is a thought leader in modern day mindfulness spaces, offering resilient leadership training for Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) lab, The Idea Center at Miami-Dade College, Philanthropy Miami as well as corporate clients. Kayaking at sunrise alongside manatees became key practice, which led to her concept of “park with a purpose”, a.k.a. The Mindful Pocket Park Project.
How Humans + Nature + Mindfulness = Resilient Sustainability
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The Mindful Entrepreneur presented how humans benefit from Nature, especially in urban settings. When combined with mindfulness practices, mindful resilience is a key, learnable skill set that humans can use to wisely navigate the storms, both internal and external, that are the only constant of our times.
Robert Brears
Founder, Our Future Water Christchurch, New Zealand
Robert is an International Sectoral Expert (Water) Consultant with the Green Climate Fund, established within the framework of the UNFCCC. He is the founder of Our Future Water, which has knowledge partnerships with the World Bank's Connect4Climate initiative and the OECD/World Bank/ UNEP Green Growth Knowledge Platform.
Greening Our Grey Cities with Nature-Based Solutions
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Many cities around the world are turning to nature-based solutions to enhance resilience to climate change while creating livable spaces for their residents. This presentation provided mini-cases of leading cities, such as Copenhagen, New York City, San Francisco, Berlin and Melbourne, implementing various nature-based solutions to enhance resilience while generating multiple co-benefits.
Leticia Latino
CEO, Neptuno USA Hollywood, Florida
Neptuno USA was incorporated in 2002 and since then, Leticia has worked tirelessly in helping forge the same strong positive reputation that the company enjoyed internationally and also focused in making its brand recognized as one of the leading Telecommunications infrastructure companies in South Florida.
Creating Child-Friendly Smart Cities As cities embark on their own “Becoming a smart city master plan”, they can’t afford to disregard an often-overlooked segment of our societies, our kids. This session addressed how a child-friendly approach to becoming a smart city can be the thread that unites diverging agendas from all stakeholders prompting collaboration in the challenging task of becoming a resilient, sustainable, inclusive and conscious Smart City.
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Tim Gill
Global Advocate, Rethinking Childhood London, England
Tim Gill is a global advocate for children’s outdoor play and mobility, and an independent scholar, writer and consultant based in London. He is the author of Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities and No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society.
Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities This talk fleshed out the concept of child-friendly planning and design, boosting the case for healthy, sustainable, joyful public spaces and neighborhoods that work well for everyone. This presentation shared insights from cities around the world, setting out the basic idea, principles and building blocks of the design approach.
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George Liu
Online Education Strategist, Cycling Research Review Amsterdam, The Netherlands
George Liu is an educator, YouTuber, and PhD researcher studying how ideas from urban design can guide the creation of attractive environments that encourages cycling as a practical and desirable mode of daily transport. George lectures at the University of Amsterdam on Coursera and is a creator of Urban Mobility Courses.
Smart Design in Dutch Cities One of the key paths to sustainable and happy cities is a human scaled design of the street and a city's architecture. In this talk, urbanist George Liu took us on a tour of Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands to show how smart cities are not just about dazzling people with technology, but about good design that makes human interaction easy and intuitive.
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Anne Therese Gennari
Educator & Speaker, The Climate Optimist New York, New York
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Anne Therese is an entrepreneur, speaker, and environmental activist. She’s the founder of The Climate Optimist, Role Models Agency, online community The Collective, and Hey Change Podcast, a show where she interviews activists and thought leaders to inspire positive change. As an educator and consultant, she helps shift the narrative around climate change so that we can act from courage and excitement, not fear.
We will forever be grateful for those who had the courage to
Choosing Change - How Bold Mindsets Will Save the World What future could we find ourselves in if we kept some room in our hearts for the unimaginable? What life could we live if we allowed ourselves to dream and believe? This presentation recognized living in a chaotic world, and taught that there is not a shortage of information – the information is, more than anything else, a reflection of one’s current reality so we have to come together and collaborate across borders in order to have the opportunity to do something about climate change.
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Change is feared because we don’t know what that change will bring; however, we have all the thoughts, ideas and creativity in the world to rethink society as we know it. All we have to do now is tap into those resources and choose change.
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Jeremy Goldberg
World Wide Public Sector Director of Critical Infrastructure, Microsoft New York, New York
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Jeremy M. Goldberg is the Worldwide Public Sector Director of Critical Infrastructure at Microsoft. Also served as the Interim-CIO at the State of New York and the Deputy Secretary for Technology and Innovation. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO journal, published columns on topics of Digital Transformation, Strategic Investments in Technology in NextGov, Government Technology and State Scoop.
Building the Future of Sustainable Government This presentation discussed a strategic approach to mobility providing a blueprint for effective public sector digital transformation. Mobility is a daily challenge in cities and all urban environment. It has a high impact for nearly everyone, especially to those that rely on public transit. Data collected from the transit system can help leaders understand the needs of the population. Alongside that, mobility provides a model for thinking about sustainability that can extend to all operations, also helping leaders connect people with the services they want. If cities are planned, managed and governed well, then mobility can address many problems. The key areas to mobility are critical to success - they are the central to the broader digital transformation efforts in governments and cities, resident impact, sustainability, digital infrastructure, data and partnerships.
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Accessibility isn't something extra. It needs to be – and it should be – a baseline.
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Climate Action The importance of welcoming locallevel public places for the overall development of Miami-Dade County, creating them in a smart way. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Daniella Levine Cava
Mayor, Miami-Dade County Miami, Florida
Daniella Levine Cava was elected Miami-Dade County's first-ever woman Mayor in November 2020. She enters the Mayor's office following a 40-year career as a relentless advocate for South Florida families in public service and elected leadership. As Miami-Dade County's Mayor, she oversees a metropolitan government with more than 28,000 employees serving nearly 3 million residents, managing an annual budget of approximately $9 billion. Mayor Levine Cava's administration is focused on building a stronger, more inclusive, more resilient Miami-Dade: prioritizing reforms to make our county safer and prevent gun violence through the Peace and Prosperity Plan; restoring and reinvigorating a thriving economy that delivers economic security for Miami-Dade businesses and families and attracts new industries; saving Biscayne Bay and building and protecting our environment; and directly engaging with residents to make local government more responsive, transparent, and accountable.
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The best place to take immediate action for change is through local government, community partners, smart entrepreneurs, and tech innovators. Miami has taken many steps forward to make the community more sustainable. With the number of challenges we are facing, Miami-Dade is working to partner with the federal government to invest funds into shovel-ready resilience projects that will create local jobs as well. Since Miami is uniquely vulnerable we are committed to fast-tracking these projects. One project, for example, includes two new pump stations. The environmental impact will be monumental what with the stations collecting more than 500,000 gallons of wastewater from septic systems that are failing. This will be creating approximately 4,000 new green jobs in small local businesses. The environment and economy will be thriving. We have a plan to finance the green industry in order to accelerate public and private investment, increasing the supply of businesses and skilled labor, harnessing transformational opportunity and economic benefits for historically-disadvantaged communities, and growing South Florida's expertise as a global leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Since Miami-Dade County is the gateway to the world, thanks to our outstanding global logistics and financial connections, along with the expansive national and global reach made possible by our thriving Port Miami and Miami International Airport, we realized that urban areas have a growing voice in the development of national and international goal setting. More often than not, action at the local level is where big ideas and well-intentioned promises are actually converted into boots-on-the-ground transformations, and all these positive changes improve the health, stability, and equitable transition to a prosperous economy.
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Architects as Healers: Buildingsas asMedicine Machine Buildings “An awful lot of urban planning, particularly in poor areas, has doubly impoverished the poor by the ugliness which surrounds them; and it’s understandable that it’s so difficult to reach and sustain gentleness there.” This provocative statement from late Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue relates shortcomings of urban landscapes to social agitation, and it rings true for many cities across the globe. As future-proofing cities becomes critical to securing quality-of-life amid density, grassroots groups and policy makers have the potential to bring vitality, health and resilience to communities in urban areas.
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Angela Mazzi
We asked the question: what if architects were healers? And buildings are the medicine? We discussed approaching all problems in the world as a design problem, as well as collective health outcomes from this view. The top health problems in the world right now are: air pollution, noise pollution, water pollution—in the industrialized world, add obesity and sleep deprivation. The design of the built environment can exacerbate or resolve public health epidemics. We also looked at the hidden costs associated with not addressing these issues in the built environment as urbanization is on the rise. If cities are killing us, then there is poor quality of life.
Principal, GBBN Architect Cincinnati, Ohio
Angela Mazzi is Founder of Architecting, where she provides career and lifestyle coaching. She is also the Principal and Senior Medical Planner at GBBN. She's dedicated to enhancing quality of life through the built environment with emphasis on socio-cultural impacts.
Examples were provided on how architects, designers and planners have contributed to inclusive cities and built environments with equitably distributed resources and amenities that enhance quality of life and longevity for city dwellers, which equals a health span. “Resourcing citizens” is what we call this concept of one person being a lot more resilient than another in the same situation. Depending on the number of resources one has when encountering a threat, the person can either successfully handle it or it won’t impact them at all. We showed how to leverage the built environment to actually embed those resources; to cope within it so that resiliency is being built for the people that live in the cities.
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Megan Mazzocco
Sustainability Director, Spring Architecture + Design Chicago, Illinois
Megan Mazzocco is an architecture, design journalist, and CEO at AD Inexplorata, providing thought leadership services to the design industry. Over the the years, she has become fascinated with the power of the built environment as a conduit to positive health outcomes.
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City of Rotterdam: The Case for an Innovation Agenda that is Social In Nature Teaching digital skills in today’s digital world is a goal for the city. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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CDO, City of Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands Bas is a leading urban innovation and digitalization specialist & executive with 20 years of experience in the 'smart city' space. As per August 1, 2021, Bas serves as the (external) CDO to the City of Rotterdam. In this capacity Bas is lead orchestrator, facilitator and ambassador to the city and its innovation ecosystem. Bas also serves as Professor of Practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. Bas is also Vice President EMEA of the Cities Today Institute, and also serves as Chief Innovation Officer at Change, a fast-growing Living as a Service company. He also serves as Member of the Board, at the Smart City Association Italy (TSCAI). Bas is the author of the wellacclaimed book “A New Digital Deal”.
Future forward is happening right now and it’s moving fast. We have become serious about time and place independent working and it’s no longer a centralized affair - an incredible development that will not go away. It’s going to evolve further and we have got to come prepared. We have to expand our agenda to ensure that our innovations are scalable and that our innovations are inclusive as well. One of the single largest challenges that we have as a city is helping mitigate digital divides. Yes, that's plural because it's no longer just the digital divide that we used to have in the 1990s, when it was just about the people that were online and the people that were offline. Today, we have multiple digital divides and that means so many things we have learned may not provide all the tools we need in order to prepare for the future. There needs to be a conversation about being digitally skilled which means understanding how to build your business on a digital fundament. If you start a pizzeria restaurant today and you don't know how to sell your product online, then what are your chances on surviving and turning your business into something great? Not very high. This progress requires support, however, and the City of Rotterdam focuses on that – teaching digital skills. City of Rotterdam goes where people are trying to understand and provide them with the skills they’re looking for in order to build their future. It is about inclusion. So in order to ensure people are being provided the opportunity to learn, we drive our social digital agenda forward by having that digital become a tool for citizen participation, while also making sure it helps drive social cohesion. We need to rethink our roles; we need to understand what we want out of the next several decades of technological change. With a plan, we can engage in the right way with our citizens for a new digital deal. And those that joined the movement can help build that new digital deal for our communities.
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Annekatrien Verdickt
Principal, Architectuurplatform Terwecoren Verdickt Brussels, Belgium
Annekatrien Verdickt is the principal of Architectuurplatform Terwecoren Verdict. She is also co-founder, initiator and spokesperson of the citizen movement Filter Café Fitré that campaigned for clean air and safer school environments. This non-profit organization works as a studio for sustainable, healthy and livable cities using the power of imagination and tactical urbanism.
Claiming Safe Streets for Livable Cities
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We started as a citizen movement of parents of school-kids claiming clean air, safe streets and more livable cities. Today our non profit organization focuses more on a constructive plea using our architects' and urbanists skills to show how the city could evolve. Together with creating future images, we are organizing actions in public space in which people can experience a more livable city.
John Renne
Professor, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida
John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of over 125 publications, including several books. Professor Renne is a leading expert in transitoriented development, sustainable and resilient land use and transportation planning.
Transforming Streets to Adapt to Climate Change
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In the 21st century, urban areas will need to adapt to a changing climate and simultaneously act to significantly decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Planners, designers and engineers need to better manage water through urban design and landscape features that can accommodate tropical rains and create safer streets for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users to encourage sustainable travel and carbon reduction.
Benjamin Barber
Political Activist & Speaker New York, New York
(1939-2017) Benjamin Barber was an internationally renowned political theorist. Dr. Barber brought an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad. He combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts that has given him widespread experience.
Why Mayors Should Rule the World
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We need to transition away from nation states and, instead, talk about a system of cities. When we talk about cities, we are talking about the political institutions in which civilization and culture were born – the cradle of democracy. It’s time for mayors to globalize the world since they’re the ones that are from and part of the neighborhood.
Better Governance, Better Livelihood, & Better Industry Creating a smart city ecosystem.
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Luis Guillot
CTO of Government Solutions, Huawei Technologies - Latin America & Caribbean Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Guillot is the CTO Government Solutions Huawei LATAM and former General Director of ICT Governance Mexico City, as well as former Deputy Director of Technological Development INFOTEC. He studied Administrative and Computer Systems ITESM, Strategic Management of Information Technology and Strategic Business Management at UC Berkeley.
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We see our Smart City as a human brain that has a nervous system – a network that extends throughout the city and connects all points that a city requires to improve everyday operations. Tangible information can be obtained but how can it be used to benefit society? Sensors were being used in big Latin American cities to be able to count the number of people on bicycles. Studies found areas where usage of bicycles was extremely popular. With this data, roadways were prepared and more effective streets were created. Bettering transportation and creating more green trends are on the rise and through the new ICT technologies, it really is possible to improve everyday activities. By providing better services to citizens, advances in cities are boundless. Smart streetlight not only lights up dark areas, but can also be seen as a computer. With technology, the smart streetlight holds both weather and air quality sensors allowing citizens to check on the number of contaminants in the air and quality of the oxygen they are breathing in. Along with these sensors, Wi-Fi access is granted; basic services that so many need are placed all around the city at crucial points. For all these processes, connectivity is key and with so much going, it’s important to stay aware of government services so the citizens can have a better livelihood; so there can be a better industry and commerce; so that the city can grow and improve and, in turn, create better government services that work for the citizens. Governance efficiency has been impeded dramatically. How can we help the public with better governance service is a global question. With technology, especially Smart City, we can help not only provide high-quality public service to the communities, but also enhance governance efficiency. In this session, we discussed several cases on Smart Education, Smart Medical, Smart Port and other technologies and what we can do now.
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Kris Libunao
Director, SmartCT
Quezon City, The Philippines A pioneer in the smart city space in the Philippines, Kris R. VillanuevaLibunao, an Internationally Certified Sustainability Practitioner, is the Executive Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at SmartCT and currently training under the ASEAN Smart Cities Leaders Programme. She is also a Smart Sustainable Cities Instructor with IoT Academy and International Telecommunication Union Academy (ITU-Academy).
The Need for Developing Nations’ Model of Smart Cities
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This presentation explored the current cases of smart city practices in the Philippines and other developing countries. It also underlined promoting and adopting a sustainable digital transformation approach as the main actions for companies, donors, and governments.
Mariana Mayer-Pinto
Scientia Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia Mariana Mayer Pinto is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science at UNSW and one of the coleaders of the Living Seawalls, a flagship project from the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences. She obtained her PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Sydney, 2009 and holds a MSc in Zoology from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Living Seawalls: Bringing Marine Life Back to Concrete Coastlines
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The growing human population along the coastlines is rapidly increasing its environmental footprint in the oceans and so the Living Seawalls has developed an innovative approach to bringing marine life back to the thousands of kilometers of concrete coastlines around the world. This presentation introduced the program and presented some of the initial results from it.
Aloisio Pereira da Silva
Founder & CEO, INFRACITIES Florianópolis, Brazil
Dr. Aloisio Pereira da Silva is Founder and CEO at INFRACITIES - Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility and creator of the INFRACITIES® System. Dr. Aloisio is a speaker, presenting in the area of Infrastructure, Mobility, Transportation and Smart Cities in Latin America, USA, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Next-Generation Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility for Smart Cities - INFRACITIES System: A Case Study
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INFRACITIES system is a New Generation of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility for Smart Cities, focused on innovation, efficiency, resilience, and sustainability, that organizes and shares among concessionaires the underground space for the implementation of Natural Gas, Power, Water, and Telecom networks inside a standardized structure, built with recycled plastic made from urban waste, increasing their safety and performance, in addition to reducing their costs.
Edna Pasher
Founder, Israel Smart Cities Institute Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
In 1978, Edna Pasher founded EPA as an international strategic management consulting firm providing customized consulting services to organizations both in the private and the public sectors. Edna Pasher has been a pioneer and leader of the innovation and knowledge management movement in Israel and has over 30 years of experience in regional and international projects.
Entrepreneurship for Sustainability The "Our World Our Class" initiative was developed in order to meet the needs of younger generations campaigning for environmental awareness. It enables participants to initiate new projects for good in a global mixed group where they can develop entrepreneurial skills. This lecture shared stories, experiences, and some tips for creating such an environment for promoting entrepreneurship for sustainability.
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Martin Morzynski
Senior Vice President of Marketing, StreetLight Data San Francisco, California
Martin Morzynski is the SVP of Marketing at StreetLight Data, the pioneer of Big Data analytics for transportation. Morzynski is a frequent guest on public radio, news programs and podcasts and regular contributor to analyses conducted by the New York Times, Bloomberg and other media organizations seeking to measure and understand the changing world of transportation.
America’s Top 100 Bicycling Cities: New Data Points the Way on Growing Active Transportation The transportation community rejoiced about gains in bike ridership in 2020, and we crossed our collective fingers that a new bicycling habit was forming. We looked at ridership across America’s top 100 cities 20+ months since 2020-- and what the winners are doing to succeed in 2021 and beyond.
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Rafi Rich
CEO, Smart Urban iT & Strategies (SUiTS) Petach Tika, Israel
Rafi Rich is an architect and urban planner, the CEO and Co-founder of the Israeli based SUiTS, Smarter Urban IT & Strategies. Rich is a Senior lecturer for urban strategies & smart cities at the Technion Institute of Technology Currently he is also engaged in creating the MidCityLabs- a new Think-Tank & applied research initiative focused on secondary cities and the built environment of the developing world.
Smart & Sustainable Urbanism Through Smart Design, Localized Infrastructure and Community-Based Data The presentation was about three cities designed in Israel. These sustainable projects were about inclusive long-term growth through novel smart city policy-based approaches designed for people & resilience, using dynamic and data-based regulations, flexible and medium-scale infrastructure, and cultural-based processes.
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Cris Alessi
CEO, Curitiba Agency for Development & Innovation Curitiba, Brazil
Advertising professional specialized in Digital Marketing and Digital Communication for the public administration. CEO at Curitiba Agency for Development and Innovation, in charge of Curitiba’s innovation projects with the Pinhão Valley Program. President of the City Council for Innovation and of the InovaCidades National Forum.
Curitiba Smart City - Vale do Pinhão
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Innovation is supposed to be shared. This talk presented on Curitiba having gather its innovation ecosystem around the Pinhão Valley, a movement launched in 2017 to bring together startups, tech companies, universities and public sector to work closely. Since then, Curitiba has become the smartest city in Latin America and appointed as one of the most intelligent in the world.
Alissa Farina
Resilience Program Manager, City of Miami Miami, Florida
Alissa Farina is a Resilience Programs Manager for City of Miami’s Division of Resilience and Sustainability in the Department of Resilience and Public Works. She focuses on carbon mitigation, communications, community engagement, and is the project manager for City of Miami’s climate action plan, Miami Forever Carbon Neutral, which outlines the City’s pathway to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
Integrating Equity into Climate Planning
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When discussing climate change and the climate crisis in Miami, we are typically talking about three main climate impacts; extreme heat, floods caused by sea-level rise and storms, and intensifying storms. We saw that Miami is considered socially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate is a threat multiplier so a climate resilience plan, an adaptation plan, a carbon mitigation and stormwater master plan was discussed along with equity via engagement.
Jordi Pascual
City Strategist, Circle Economy Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jordi Pascual is driven by systemic transformation and create a new economic model that delivers prosperity within the boundaries of our planet. In his role as Strategist in Circle Economy's cities team, he works together with cities to analyze their socio-economic system, scope their opportunities, and realize innovative, practical, and impactful circular economy strategies.
Circle Scan
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We’ve worked with over 20 cities around the world in identifying, designing and developing cutting edge circular economy innovations. We’ve done so through our Circle Scan, a multi-stakeholder innovation process that aims to develop a clear vision and bring an action for a circular economy in a city. We showed how to use data evidence to inform the process and use our international expertise to identify the best innovations. The presentation helped understand how circular economy interventions could lower GHG emissions.
Yuriy Nazarov
Chairman, SmartCity.UA Kyiv, Ukraine
Yuriy Nazarov, Chairman of the Smart City Committee of the Public Council at the Ministry of Digital Transformation Innovations. Former head of ICT of Kyiv City Council. In January 2015, he co-founded the Kyiv Smart City project and in 2017, Yuriy became the Head of Information and Communication Technologies Department of Kyiv City State Administration.
Kyiv Smart City: Digital Infrastructure For emerging markets, Smart City technologies have been a priority in urban development over the past few years. Examining the economies of Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, we have identified several main problems that hinder their development: corruption, old infrastructure, lack of dialogue between the government and the population. Example of the KyivSmartCity project shows how it’s possible to solve these problems in the new reality.
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Alfred Poor
Editor, Health Tech Insider Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alfred Poor, PhD, is the founding Editor of Health Tech Insider, and is a technology speaker, writer, and analyst with an international reputation. Author and co-author of more than a dozen books, he continues to be fascinated by shiny, sparkly things that can make a difference for the better in people’s lives.
Health Tech Will Make Cities Smarter “Smart cities” are about information. Connected technology are the key to making lives easier and more efficient for residents, like those with various types of impairments. Adaptive technology in the form of wearable and mobile devices can compensate for impairments, giving people independent and easy access to all the resources that a city can offer. This engaging presentation informed and inspired with an overview of what’s possible today, and what’s just over the horizon in adaptive health technology.
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Albert Slap
President, Coastal Risk Consulting Boca Raton, Florida
Albert J. Slap is President and Co-Founder of Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC, a geospatial technology, modeling and analytics company. He was a nationally-recognized environmental attorney and law professor, using America’s laws to protect public health and the environment.
What is the Role of the Human Element in the Lack of Progress in City Sustainability and Resilience? This talk discussed the race to resilience within existing commercial, multifamily, and industrial buildings. There is a lack of risk education communication – the human element – so the ability to prepare, adapt, and thrive in a disruptive and changing world is needed. Building owners, operators, investors, and lenders should utilize new environmental risk assessment tools to better understand all climate risks, making resilienceenhancing investments.
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Richard Ezike
Director, CHPlanning Washington, D.C.
Dr. Richard Ezike is an expert on transportation equity, environmental sustainability, and STEM education outreach. He currently works as the Director of Infrastructure and Engagement at CHPlanning Ltd., where he leads the firm’s projects around infrastructure and community engagement.
Where are Self-Driving Cars Taking Us? Equity Impacts in the DC Metropolitan Area
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform transportation today; however, if vehicle development is left unchecked, then driving, congestion, and urban sprawl could occur. The key for policymakers and regulators is to design frameworks that allow for the safe, efficient operation of AVs while helping those in needs. This presentation referred to the impacts on job access and congestion in the Washington, DC metropolitan area with a transportation network that is fully autonomous.
Anja Wyden Guelpa CEO, CivicLab
Geneva, Switzerland Anja Wyden Guelpa founder and CEO of civicLab, helping CEOs and companies thrive and become more competitive and attractive through their corporate culture. Anja teaches innovation and design thinking in two universities, is chairwoman or member of different boards of corporate companies and foundations, and is an international public speaker.
Innovation Guerilla Against Bureaucracy
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Why is innovation so difficult in the public sector and what can we do to make it happen? In this complex world, it is difficult to implement strategies. That is why it is very important to establish a purpose to then share it and motivate others. Autonomy and recognition also applies where people collaborate and cooperate, building on the strengths of each other to their innovation. This presentation discussed experimenting with new methods that invest in human strategy.
Ray Walshe
Assistant Professor, Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland
Ray is Senior Researcher in the ADAPT Research Centre in Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He began his career in industry as a software engineer, software consultant and project manager with LM Ericsson, Software and Systems Engineering Limited and Siemens.
Digital Transformation with Sustainable Standards
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This presentation explored the current trends in Global Standardization for ICT Technologies. Also discussed the recently published standards for AI and Data from ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 Artificial Intelligence and looked at the current work program of that sub-committee (SC42) and describe how ICT Standards can contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and achieve Digital Transformation in parallel with Sustainability.
Julia Ambrosano
Senior Infrastructure Program Analyst, Climate Bonds Initiative São Paulo, Brazil
Julia is the Infrastructure Manager for CBI in Brazil responsible for leading CBI's infrastructure agenda in Brazil and supporting the efforts to drive the development of a Brazilian Green Finance market. She is currently managing a number of programs for leveraging financial instruments for climate risk mitigation through technical assistance, public policy and capacity programs.
Financing Green Resilient Urban Infrastructure Failure to incorporate climate change impacts into infrastructure planning presents serious economic risk. There are, however, financing and projects risk reduction opportunities in integrating climate mitigation and adaptation & resilience criteria into mainstream infrastructure planning. This presentation provided examples of green municipal bond deals from the United States show stakeholders how successful structuring green deals can be for financing green, climate resilient urban infrastructure.
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Lexie Assunto
Vice President of Business Development, ClearWorld New Orleans, Louisiana
Lexie Assunto joined ClearWorld in 2020 with over 15 years of experience in construction and sales with a background in disaster response. She manages agencies and relationships bringing green tech solutions to cities pursuing their smart city and sustainable initiatives, as well as utilities and cities turn-key microgrid solutions.
Investing in the Future – Smart and Sustainable Tourism Dove into what actually makes a smart city and how those principles apply to tourism. As much as a smart city is IoT and machine learning, it’s quality of life; the citizen and tourist experience. This presentation cited the smart city efforts that are working and how the digital transformation and sustainable infrastructure are transforming how we decide where we want to live and where we want to travel.
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Eyal Santo
Founder & CEO, UMO- Urban Mobility Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
A physicist by education, an urbanist, entrepreneur and an avid cyclist, Eyal Santo traveled on all of the world's leading bicycle cities, and became an urban consultant, advising cities in Israel on cycling infrastructure, cycling culture and bikenomics – cycling economics. He established Umo – Urban Mobility.
Urban Mobility: Bicycles, E-Cargo Bikes, & The City Pedestrians should always come first. The city should be a city for people, not a city for cars. In each and every city where car lanes were removed for bike lanes, giving people access to safe streets, showed bicycles and ecargo bikes impact our cities in a positive manner where our urban life quality improves. This presentation gave a better view on how urban society will be healthier and happier through this urban mobility.
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Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
The CIO Music Hall brought together like-minded CIOs to present and discuss experiences linked to smart cities and the C-Movement. The presentations brought new visions for creating exceptional living quality for all and ways to contribute to rethinking the approach to designing, building and maintaining living spaces to create smart communities, smart cities and happy citizens.
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Guy Elad
Deputy CIO, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Guy Elad is Deputy CIO and Director of Operations & IT Services in the Division of ICT and IT in the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. Before his current position, he was Lieutenant colonel at the C4I branch in the IDF.
Transforming the City This talk gave a review on the digital services and the trend towards a tailor-made service for the resident. It also introduced the real-time management system of the city, the new trends and the cooperation with the startups in order to accelerate the innovation in the city. We develop applications for residents, as well as expand services because we want to engage the residents on the events of the city, essentially making them our partners. Since we live in a time where everything is shared, we cannot run projects without involving the residents. Creating a smart city is a marathon and when you engage and encourage the citizens, one will find a strong partner. Tel Aviv-Yafo is a model city today for developing smart cities, citizen engagement, and startups.
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Raimundo Rodulfo
CIO, City of Coral Gables
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CIO, City of Carlsbad
Coral Gables, Florida
Carlsbad, California
Director of Information Technology of City of Coral Gables, Florida, Raimundo Rodulfo is responsible for strategic planning, management and continuous improvement of city-wide IT operations, infrastructure and smart city initiatives.
David Graham is CIO of the City of Carlsbad, and serves as a national leader in smart and sustainable communities. His passion for land use, civic innovation and intelligent infrastructure has led him to be a recognized innovator and international conference speaker.
Coral Gables Resilient Smart Districts – Quality of Life, Innovation, & Economic Growth The City of Coral Gables smart districts pivot on a robust and resilient cyber-infrastructure to continually improve quality of life and foster innovation and economic growth in our region. As Coral Gables’ smart districts continue evolving, the City is able to augment its business capabilities, delivering resilient citizen services, connectivity, and real-time actionable insight for a community of excellence, and an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem that creates jobs and opportunities. This presentation showed a brief history of the City and how it became a smart city with technology, infrastructure and innovation that builds to the future while respecting the history.
The Future of Work: Civic Innovation in the New Economy The nature of work has changed in both the public and private sector. This presentation explained how disruption can cause chaos or be used to accelerate change and discussed how civic innovation and technology are being applied to talent attraction, culture change, and supporting a resilient economy. The challenges seen for many years are agile management and performance metrics. Key performance indicators and technology tools to measure performance have not been universally adopted in our civic institutions and organizations. We need people who can help foster and accelerate the ever-changing nature of work, make more datadriven decisions, and create new technologies.
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Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
The Startup Hub presented three startups’ experiences that established a niche in irruptive innovation for smart communities and cities.
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Alex Shalash
Co-Founder, UEVO Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Shalash is a Co-Founder of UEVO - Subsurface infrastructure digital twin platform, sitting at the intersection of 3D visualization, mapping and simulations to answer the call for a unifying platform to actuate data-driven actionable intelligence. Alex is an international tech entrepreneur with more than 25 years of broad experience in Software development, IT Consulting, Investment banking and Investment management.
Collaborative Subsurface Infrastructure Digital Twin
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Uevo is a Digital Twin of city subsurface infrastructure, which helps solve the problem of managing aging, complex infrastructure under increasingly strained budgets. This presentation showed how UEVO unifies fragmented data to enable multiple stakeholders to visualize, manipulate and create subsurface elements quickly and easily while collaborating in a real-time cloud-based 3D interactive environment.
Daniel Bumann
Co-Founder, Parkly Helsinki, Finland
Daniel Bumann is co-founder of RaivioBumann – public art, placemaking and urban design studio. There, he co-founded Parkly to fast-track the transformation of public places and accelerate sustainable urban change. He believes that happy places and happy people go hand in hand.
Pocket Parks
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This presentation discussed the importance of welcoming public places for the overall development of cities and how these cases can be created in a smart way. In all case-projects the results have been shared with the city planners to highlight the place-specific findings to be integrated into the planning procedures. The cases include Kalasatama pocket park - a brand new district in Helsinki, Vuosaari from grey square to a green hangout, and Kauppatori popup-park.
Jan Kamensky
Artist, Visual Utopias Hamburg, Germany
Jan Kamensky lives and works in Hamburg. In 2020, the communication designer and artist started the project of his utopian animations. The deserted streets of Hamburg that year inspired him to playfully transform car-dominated streets into people-friendly places that hold a mirror up to society.
Visual Utopias
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It's important to see what happens if we transform car-dominated streets into human-friendly places, and in doing so, act in harmony with our environment. This presentation showed utopian animations and presented visual arguments for this change, opening a window onto opportunities and making possibilities visible. The playful visualizations was an awakening to joy and confidence in our common future.
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Sustainable Cities Experience DECEMBER 8-10, 2021
INNOVATION HUB SHOWCASE The Innovation Hub Showcase presented the forefront of innovation in urban solutions with sustainability, resilience, technology, citizens, and happiness. Participants were able to virtually visit and contact 40 exhibitors, get to know more about products, services, disruptive innovation and take part in synchronized online experience during the event, which provided a network of 200+ startups.
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– Erez Ella, Founding Partner, HQ Architects
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– Stephane Gervais, Vice President of Strategic Innovation & Smart Data, LACROIX Group
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– Jason Miller, Arizona State University
So glad to get healthcare into this conference and conversation, thank you.
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– Alex Shalash, Co-Founder, UEVO
– Gwen Macchione, Founder, Macchione & Associates
Fantastic and thought-provoking event! – Riley Kaminer, Tech Writer
This conference was amazing and very
insightful! I want to thank everyone who participated and got to present.
– Lindsey Gelman, SCORP Coordinator, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
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meaning of sustainability, urban technology, and live and work in a smart city.
I was happy with what I saw and
– Tim Gill, Global Advocate, Rethinking Childhood
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– Laurie Harari, Florida Atlantic University
A great experience! I loved the platform.
Super interesting!
– Eyal Santo, Owner, UMo: Urban Mobility
– Rodrigo Pedroso, CEO, PROfighter App
Good platform making it easy to interact with
It was great to see examples of
very eye opening to opportunities… made me
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progress and not just
feel not alone in a developing innovative world!
ideas. Can’t wait to expand to in-
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– Marcos Peña, Admin, Finca Doña Mercedes
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It was a big honor to be a speaker at the event. Thank you!
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– Yuriy Nazarov, Smart City Committee Chairman, Ministry of Digital Transformation
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Great conference! I really liked the online platform used.
– Richard Ezike, Director of Infrastructure, CHPlanning
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developers and participants.
– Patrick Sharpe, Vice President, the digit group
It was good to interact with others. Having a leaderboard, contribute to competition… I enjoyed the conference and can’t wait to go
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Thank you for creating this important gathering for making our cities more sustainable and livable.
person to inspire future
– Tobias Mendelovici, Israel Americas Senior Business Development, Ocean Business
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in-person for the upcoming editions.
– Judith Bayes, CEO, Trait Smart App
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Local Leadership in a Global Era Amy Hochadel
Smart Cities for Dummies Jonathan Reichental
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The Climate Planner Jason King
Exploring Smart Cities Jonathan Reichental
Recast Your City Ilana Preuss
Beyond Smart Cities Jose Antonio Ondiviela
Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities: Transforming Streets to Address Climate Change John L Renne
Regional Water Security Robert Brears
Urban Playground Tim Gill
Too Big Henk Ovink
A New Digital Age Bas Boorsma
Knowledge Cities Edna Pasher
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