Smart Cities Summit
Turning the City Hall into a center of ongoing excellence & innovation.
The Smart Cities Summit gathers mayors and municipality administrations from around Europe and aims to address all of the crucial factors that are facing urban administrators in today's digital world.
Chaired by the Mayor of Sofia
Invitation Only Event
About the Summit
From promoting technological and commercial innovation in the private sector, to turning City Hall itself into a center of ongoing excellence, the Smart Cities Summit aims to address all of the crucial factors that are facing urban administrators in today's complex Digital world.
With the hopes of contributing to the city and optimizing its potential to the fullest extent, WEBIT.FESTIVAL and Sofia Municipality invites entrepreneurs, politicians, city counselors, and other senior urban administrators to join forces and come together for an opportunity to share their experiences on how to promote innovation in their cities, while engaging a broader audience in both the public and private sectors.
AUDIENCE
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35%
Municipality
Administrators; -
30%
Policy
makers -
15%
Enterprise /
tech providers - 02% Retailers
-
03%
Tech Solution
Providers
- 45% Central & Eastern Europe
- 45% Rest of Europe
- 06% USA
- 02% Asia
- 02% Rest of the World
Date: 19 April
Agenda includes:
Cities Digital Transformation Track
15:35 - 15:40 Opening Address
Doncho Barbalov Deputy Mayor on Finance, Sofia
15:50 - 16:00 Making cities smarter and more inclusive
Vanya Manova MasterCard / Country Manager Bulgaria
16:00 - 16:30 Mayors panel: Smart Administration
16:30 - 16:35 Fireside Chat: Payments innovations for smart cities
Andrea Fiorentino Head of Mobile Market Readiness, Business Strategy & Innovation, Visa Europe
16:45 - 16:50 Energy Transition – How RWE tackles the challenges
Andreas Breuer VP New Techologies/Projects, RWE Deutschland
16:50 - 17:00 Fireside chat: Digital Citizenship
Stefan Malinowski Senior Project Manager, Telelink
17:00 - 17:15 Cities in the cognitive era
Alexey Ershov VP Smarter Cities Europe, IBM Corporation
17:15 - 17:30 The city as an innovation platform
Daniel Sarasa Smart City Program Manager, Zaragoza City Hall
17:30 - 17:45 Urban tech, air pollution & the future of smart environmental policy
Romain Lacombe Founder & CEO, Plume Labs
17:45 - 18:00 Made from air - carbon negative cities
Daniel Schwaag Co-director & founder, Elegant Embellishments
18:00 - 18:10 Cities as Digital Research and Innovation Ecosystems
Roumen Nikolov Head of Computer Science Department and UNESCO Chairholder at SULSIT, Bulgaria
Smart Mobility & Transportation Track
18:10 - 18:25 Our Car as Power Plant
Prof. dr. Ad van Wijk Professor Sustainable Energy, TU Delft
Smart Energy Track
18:25 - 18:40 Innovation and Digital Transformation accelerating the GDP growth in the New Economy: Example of Smart Energy, Smart Cities and Smart Consumers
Maher Chebbo General Manager Energy & Natural Resources EMEA & MEE, SAP
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Cmart Cities Summit
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
THE PRESIDENT OF BULGARIA
THE MAYOR OF SOFIA