CIO Music Hall

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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. SPEAKER

Raimundo Rodulfo

CIO, City of Coral Gables Coral Gables, Florida

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.

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. SPEAKER

David Graham

CIO, City of Carlsbad Carlsbad, California

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.

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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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

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

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

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.