European Sales Director at Lucy Zodion , United Kingdom

Passionate about energy and new technologies, his objective is to help people, professionals and municipalities to optimise their lighting strategy and sustainability. Our world is changing drastically, and we need to change our perspective on energy usage to help and facilitate this revolution
Thierry started his career in the lighting industry in 2007 as a field application engineer and then move to the commercial and business development side of the business in 2012. His strong technical background and his deep understanding of the market make him a specialist of understanding key factors for customers to successfully deploy and embrace the smart city revolution.

Session:Successful LORAWAN deployment for street lighting management.

Based on our 10+ years experience on street lighting management, we will explain why choosing an open and interoperable solution is key for the future of Smart City solution. We will also adress what are the main considerations to think about when engaging in a smart city project, and finally present a real case study of 20k luminaires based on a LORAWAN solution and what are the key takeaways 2 years after the deployment.

Learning outcomes:

• Smart City Project Management.
• LORAWAN technology.
• Real outcomes from a real installation.

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Head of Technology at Aqarat Real Estate Development Company , Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Shalan is the editor of a book titled “Innovative and Agile Contracting for Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0” that is published by IGI Global in 2021.

He is a Bilingual, multidiscipline motivated business-technology interpreter. Enthusiastic to get more people in the digital transformation train and an optimistic builder in the 4th industrial revolution.

Mohamamd is a practitioner, author, guest speaker and researcher with published chapters, articles and presentations. Willing to distilling complex problems into simple solutions, add value and volunteer.

He is well certified and connected with 9 professional certifications (PMP®, PMI-RMP®, CSX®, CRMA®, ITILF®, CISA®, CGEIT®, CRISC®, CXO®), active membership in 6 well-recognized professional organizations, and attended distinguished training classes in 16 countries. Adding to his master’s degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Jordan.

Mohammad is a working professional since 1995 in the Technology industry and Digital Transformation leadership. He has worked out major operational assignments, portfolios, programs and projects spanning in more than 50 countries. His assignments include distributed activities, numerous dependencies, heavy correspondences, multiple vendors and multi-discipline contractors.

Currently Mohammad Shalan is working as a Head of Technology at Aqarat Real Estate Development Company is Saudi Arabia and Volunteering as the Digital Transformation Director for the Saudi Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI).

Session: Innovative Contracting for Resilient Smart Cities

No one or enterprise can do everything by its own or using the internal resources. Thus, it is important to collaborate with others either because one might lack the resources or the know-how.
Traditionally, it was easy to have a list of partners and to right a contract that will govern the relation between the owner and the contracted party. Emerging technologies and business dynamics created an environment where traditional contracts are no longer fit; similarly, are the contracting styles, processes, and procedures.
Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation is transforming everything and creating a new business future. Contracts are affected in several aspects including:
• Having more contracts and more options
• The need to act quickly and timely
• The focus on continuous innovation and partnership
I am discussing a real scenario from my experience. Aqarat has been a master real-estate and land developer since 1945, They used to acquire a huge land of say 1 Million Square meters, they develop it in few years and sell into pieces called blocks and plots after making the main infrastructure of streets, electricity and water. In this Aqarat are used to contract with 2 or 3 subcontractors to complete the job.
Today, we are moving toward building a smart city in which you need to care about implementation and operation. Emerging technologies are major part of the city. We cannot rely on 2 or 3 main contractors; we need to introduce new concepts such as
• Agile planning and implementation
• Long life innovation and operation
• Value deconstruction and complex infrastructure
• Working at the leading edge
For this reason, we need to deal with large number of contracts to avoid utilizing old technology and have a multilayer contractor who are not delivering value in agile manner.
Innovative contracts and contracting styles are utilized to improve efficiencies, cope with the organization needs, and facilitate agile, trusted, and near real time transactions.
One Important characteristic of the Industry 4.0 enabled projects is inviting a lot of changes because the final product cannot be defined from the early start, and here it comes the requirement for innovative contracting.
Innovative contracts are introduced to comprise a set of holistically approached techniques that aim at enhancing the collaboration between stakeholders and combine several factors of effectiveness.

Learning outcomes:

• Building innovative contracts to generate value and enable collaboration.
• Handle the changing business dynamics and related emerging technologies.
• Understand Smart Resilient Cities to enhance human lives, behaviors and experience.

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Professor at Alexandria University , Egypt

Alexandria, Egypt
Nuclear Engineer, Researcher at Alexandria University, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation
department concerned about digital transformation and renewable energy through my work as a
founder of Green society initiative to raise Environmental awareness to fight climate change and
move to achieve sustainable development goals.
My years of experience spent to empower employees, entrepreneurs and startups to adapt with
change as effectiveness leaders.
My Educational background is Master of business administration, specialized diploma in
advanced nuclear power plants.
Moreover, I’m board member of Egypt syndicate of Engineers, Member at federation of Arab
Engineers. It was such a great achievements Awarded an Earth day Ambassador of Egypt
April22, 2020. Represented Egypt in 16 international forums, conferences and festivals between
Russia, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda, Sharm Elsheikh, Cairo and the New Administrative Capital
like The international forum of young power engineers and industrialists from 10-16 July, 2016 –
Russia, World youth forum from3-6 November ,2018,3rd international conference for science
diplomacy for sustainable development from 12-14 March 2019, Global virtual Summit on 14th
May, 2020 , V-Transform – Rise of Virtual Events, 4th December, 2020 and Science festival
from 21-26 February, 2021.
Also, I had 20 TV interviews per last 4 years about nuclear energy, green energy, suitability,
climate change crisis and digital transformation.

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Technical Consultant-GIS at CURIP, India

Speaker Profile: Dr. T R Nisar Ahamed

Currently he is Technical Consultant for GIS projects to Centre for Urban and Rural Information Planning enterprise, Bangalore. He holds Ph.D from IIT Bombay. His area of interest include: Enterprise GIS Implementation, ICT for Smart City and Sustainable development, Decision Support System, 3D BIM modeling etc.

He has over eighteen years of substantial, proven & versatile work experience in practical Geographic Information System Application development, analysis and implementation in many domains such as utility infrastructure management, Water Transmission, system, urban development and resource optimization at Enterprise Level, SDI Implementation, 3D BIM Modeling, Smart city implementation etc.

He worked as consultant at different capacities for Parsons Corporation, Promax Solutions, TechButtons IT Solutions etc for some of the major Overseas GIS implementation projects.

A Certified Project Management Professional and adopts extensive use of PMI guidelines for Project Initiation, Planning and Implementation, SDLC approach for Project.

Session: 4.0 Industrial Revolution and Spatial Technology

Industrial Revolution 4.0 and data driven technologies

The Industrial revolution, IR 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 brought huge technological advancement in steam, electricity and digital domains. Each revolution changed the working condition and lifestyle of citizens. The present IR 4.0 is remarkable in the history of IR, which shaped the world through collaboration, connected, integrated and embedded the technology into our industries and citizens.

Primarily, IR 4.0 is data-driven due to dependencies on data driven decision capabilities in the internet of things (IoT), Sensors, AI, location based systems, Big Data, Smart cities. Geospatial Technology is a key component of IR 4.0 because of business benefits of spatial dimension and location advantage with the connected technologies.

Learning outcomes:

• Data- Driven Technologies & IR 4.0
• Data-driven and Data-centric approach for Smart Cities
• IR 4.0, Smart Cities and Geo-spatial Technology for sustainable development
• Geospatial Technology drives IR4.0

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Technical Director of Robots Expert Finland Ltd., Finland

Gokul Srinivasan (male) M.Sc. Gokul has an educational background in robotics (unmanned aerial systems) and artificial intelligence from University of Texas. After graduating from UT, he gained field experience with UAVs (commercial, tactical & defense), sensor systems, ground systems working with corporations such as GE and gained experience working on DoD projects implementing concepts related to autonomous unmanned airborne systems. During that time, he also held TS security clearance. After moving to Finland, he co-founded a company that did the first ever commercial launch of autonomous drone deliveries while leading a team of 20 experts. The drones completed more than 100 BVLOS autonomous flights during the course of the commercial launch. Following that, he was listed as one of the top 5 founders in Finland in 2019 (Nordic Startup Awards). Over the period of 3 years, Gokul contributed to 4 patents (2 in the US, 2 in Finland, patent currently under review) involving AI, drones, and defense/commercial applications. He also gained hands-on experience with robotics, UAVs, UGVs, multi-agent systems, distributed AI systems & AI in general. He is now leading REX’s efforts towards the 5GDrones Project, a H2020 project funded by the European Commission. Gokul is also an actively contributing member of the NASA Advanced Air Mobility Technical Working Group, and African Drone Forum UAV Payload Delivery Group.

Session: 5G benefits and challenges for unmanned aviation

5G will open up new opportunities for UAV’s. eMMB, URLLC and mMTC can bring new use cases, increase safety and performance, but as always, there is also the other side of the coin. In this presentation, Gokul open up these opportunities and challenges which have been found in  3 years project, 5G!Drones, funded by H2020.

Learning outcomes:

• In this session, participants will learn what kind of different 5G Technologies will be used for drones
• In this session, participants will learn what the challenges are to use 5G in Control & Command and payload data transmission
• In this session, participants will get familiar research topics and preliminary findings from the H2020 funded project 5G!Drones

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Director of P-A-T-H Professional Alliance for Technology and Habitat, USA

CoViD Command, Smart Cities, Green Building LEED YOGa SDGs ESG & Resilience for Informal Economies..

UN World Habitat Award & acclaims for Housing, post Disaster Shelter/Sanitation to Smart Sustainable Townships.. P-A-T-H a voluntary group Makrand established has worked across United States, India, China and provided services/training in Africa, Asia, EU Ecuador Haiti & UAE.

Session: Smart CoViD Command for Opening Economies with Targeted SDGs Solutions

CoViD Containment and opening economies via empowering Local Women & Minorities Owned Businesses, Recharging Small Medium Scale Enterprise for appropriate products & processes (with internet proven Resilient, localization never a threat to globalization yet Corona new norms complement responsive development attuned to nature, caring for community culture, creating capacities for long term sustainability with best and worst practices for UN SDGs 7 to 12 target Solutions.

Learning outcomes:

• Self Held CoViD Containment for families & Municipalities
• UN SDGs Framework & Target Solutions
• Smart City Tools & Technology
• Back to work productivity for owners & managers

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Business Development Partner at Robots Expert, Finland

Georgi Georgiev Graduated the National High School for Economics & Trade in Plovdiv. He holds two degrees from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany – for Architecture and for Urban Planning Engineering. In 2019 he obtained a doctoral degree on SRTI-BAS/Fraunhofer on the topic Urban Air Mobility integration in Cities.

Since 2010 he has worked as a Designer & Coordinator of large scale international projects and networks on the field of Sustainable Urban Development & Innovation for Fraunhofer IBP. 2014 – 2017 he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design ILEK, University of Stuttgart – Prof. Werner Sobek.

Consultant on various international projects in the area of Innovation, Urban development and construction management.

Visiting Professor for Construction Process Management at the Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics in Nanchang, China. Visiting Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

Since 2019 – External consultant for well known innovation development and integration organizations and companies in Germany and the entire EU.

Since 2020 – Business Development Partner of Robots Expert on Cooperation with Cities, Regions and Commercial partners.

Session: Urban Air Mobility UAM integration strategies

Urban Air Mobility UAM integration strategies for European Cities and Regions

The fixation in one-dimensional curvilinear vectors – roads, railways and cableways – of modern passenger and freight transport concepts greatly slows down and almost stops the required speed of development of public transport systems.

One type of innovative intelligent mobility has recently undergone a very rapid development – Urban Air Mobility – which uses the third and therefore vertical dimension in the urban mobility system. To realize this dimension, cities need multimodal and interdisciplinary solutions for the rapid and successful integration of UAM in the urban planning process, incl. the legal, infrastructural, UTM, societal, financial and business dimensions.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the potentials of UAM for Citizens.
• Develop an own opinion and idea of UAM.
• Have a deep insight into the legal and urban planning challenges before UAM.
• Find the right partner for UAM integration.

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Director of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Truphone for Things, USA

Emanuel is a high-energy technology enthusiast. He is an IoT-Inc Certified IoT Professional with 10 years of experience in the industry. From early stage startups to Fortune 50 multinationals, Emanuel loves connecting people and things across borders.

Session: Drones in the Smart City

I will present a recorded webinar that highlights the latest innovations in UAV and drone tech. In discussing the most practical to the most ridiculous use cases, I will paint the picture of how cities can use drones to address some of their most pressing concerns: housing, traffic, emergency services, COVID and budgets etc.

Learning outcomes:

• Learn what the need is for cities to innovate.
• Learn how IoT and drones can reduce the city’s financial burden.
• Learn how eSIM enables drone security.
• What the current use cases are?

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Executive Director at Center for Smart Building Technology, USA

Frank Mruk is an architect, artist and strategist. His research explores the nature of strategy in the creative pursuit of competitive advantage and innovation. He is the executive director of the New York Center for Strategic Innovation and the Boston Center for Smart Building Technology. He was educated at Pratt Institute, Pace University and at the University of Oxford. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, the Parsons School of Design, New York University, and at the New York Institute of Technology where he served as associate dean for the School of Architecture and Design and has been a visiting critic at the WE School, the United Nations, Oxford Brooks University, the University of Chile, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Columbia University and at Yale University.

Frank studied with Lebbeus Woods and Raimund Abraham. He also worked for Cuban cinematographer Nestor Almendros during the filming of Heartburn with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. He spent 10 years working on Wall Street for Maurice Greenberg at American International Group and later at Morgan Stanley, and in professional practice for the Aga Kahn (AKAA) winning Architect Emre Arolat and earlier for William Breger, past Dean of the New York School of Interior Design. He has consulted for the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, Apple Computer and has served on the board of the American Institute of Architects, the Association for Strategic Planning, and Habitats for Music. Frank was elevated to Fellowship in both the Strategic Planning Society and the American Institute of Architects. He has been a frequent lecturer on the topics of strategy and innovation. He co-authored two of the world’s largest and most influential standards for Strategic Management and Strategic Planning, the Association for Strategic Planning’s Strategic Planning and Strategic Management Body of Knowledge and its Certification Exam Study Guide and the Institute for Management Accounting’s Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis program.

He has been a vocal contributor to numerous efforts focused on the rethinking of suburbia, the profession and on issues of design practice. Mruk is also known for his efforts on transforming the built environment via competitions, sustainability and resiliency efforts, and international urban interventions, including representing the U.S. at two major interdesigns: Sweden’s City Move in 2009 and Mumbai’s Humanizing the Metropolis in 2014. In 2015-2016, he worked on the restoration of Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein outside of Paris with Judith Dimaio and NYIT students, assisting Pierre Antoine Gaiter, Chief Architect for the Monuments of France. He has been an organizer, contributor and speaker at numerous events: TEDx, DESIGNxRI, NYCxDESIGN,TEDxNYIT, TEDxFallRiver, and the TED Global Oxford conference in 2009.

Session: Climate change COVID-19 Social unrest: A timely opportunity for alignment and progress

Inspections of disruption, opportunity or black hole

Our world is on the cusp of a tipping point and the global economy urgently needs to decarbonize to avert the worst impacts of climate change. New technologies have and will continue to be critical in addressing this crisis, however, these technologies will only be as effective as the workforce tasked with designing, installing and operating them. Large portions of the incumbent workforce began their careers before the last two decades of rapid technological advances in building sciences, and women and people of color are underrepresented in this workforce. Young people interested in addressing climate change do not always see the connection to a career in the building trades or recognize the opportunity for good paying jobs and career growth in this field. Existing training tends to focus too much on the “what” of energy efficiency through proprietary and vendor-specific instructions, and very little on the “why” and “how” of energy efficiency developed through a holistic understanding of a building as a collection of interrelated systems. A lack of interdisciplinary training and education continues to prevent full realization of energy savings. The existing paradigm of trades-specialization, while important for things like licensures, does not equip workers with the full range of knowledge required to design, build, and operate the 21st century built environment. Recognizing these challenges and opportunities, a wide range of stakeholders including employers, energy efficiency program administrators, community colleges, and local governments, are collaborating to create a new occupational ecosystem for clean energy workers of the future. Workforce development provides economic opportunity to historically disadvantaged communities while also solving a critical need in the fight against climate change. This multifaceted approach to addressing the clean energy labor shortage in Boston will contribute to solving the information, knowledge and equity gaps in the skilled trades. While this approach may not be directly replicable in every region, there are lessons-learned that can help inform similar collaborations nationally. The needs of the energy efficiency workforce will almost certainly evolve as technologies and strategies change over time, but the collaborative framework developed in Boston can serve as a model for one way to build a diverse clean energy workforce of the future.

Learning outcomes:

• In this session, participants will be able to discuss alignment strategies for economic development, workforce development, and climate change.
• In this session, participants will be able to describe the best practice strategies used to deal with climate change in Boston.
• In this session, participants will be able to discuss synergistic place making opportunities.
• In this session, participants will be able to identify new collaboration opportunities for smart cities.

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Lab Manager at BoMax Hydrogen, LLC., USA

Edward was born and raised in central Florida. After studying philosophy in Australia, he returned back to the United States to once again reside in central Florida. He now works at three different jobs, one of which is as a lab Technician for Bomax.

Through working with Bomax, he has entered into the renewable energy landscape of green hydrogen.

He has taken great interest In seeing how this hydrogen is extremely important for the future of energy throughout the world. The world is demanding clean renewable energy and Edward is ready to devote his time and attention to seeing that the world is provided with technology that Bomax has to offer.

Session: Green Hydrogen

BoMax Hydrogen is the missing piece of the Hydrogen Puzzle

The appeal of BoMax Hydrogen is that it is a carbon free green method for making pure hydrogen on site where it is needed for use in fuel cells. BoMax combines inexpensive earth materials that form its nanoparticles with a natural catalyst extracted from soil bacteria. The reactants are put in front of visible light LEDs and they make hydrogen. This patented system (March 2017) is based on the dissertation work of Dr. Deborah Maxwell while at the University of Central Florida. Since opening the BoMax lab in the Space Life Sciences Lab at Kennedy Space Center, we have optimized the hydrogen production to the point of transitioning to construct prototypes.

Learning outcomes:

• View energy as a flexible landscape
• Determine fuel sources based on earth science
• Apply green hydrogen principles to all energy problems
• Move to the next phase of hydrogen technology

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