PREMSA PRENSA PRESS PRESSE
13th to 15th November 2012
www.smartcityexpo.com
The second edition will have a technology and sustainability as its theme
Smart City Expo & World Congress 2012 will bring
together over 200 experts in urban transformation
Cities will be at the centre of attention of world development in the next few decades and the
majority of the planet’s inhabitants will be living in them. As new cities are built and existing ones
are transformed, it will be a key aspect in the future of humanity. In order to respond to this
challenge and tackle the main strategies to achieve a sustainable urban future, Smart City Expo &
World Congress, the leading European event on smart cities, will bring together urban experts from
around the world and the most revolutionary thinkers.
In order to tackle this challenge, cities will have to be transformed in order to integrate larger
populations and manage existing resources, guaranteeing quality of life of their inhabitants and
driving economic development. This involves combining the ideas, resources and tools of mobility,
ICTs, the environment, energy efficiency, town planning, knowledge economy and demographic
management.
The second Smart City Expo & World Congress, which will highlight technology and sustainability, will
reflect this diversity of disciplines in its congress programme that will be structured around 9 topics:
Energy, Environment, Innovation & Technology, Collaborative City & the Smart Society, Town
Planning, Mobility, Economy & Governance, Emergency & Security, Smart GEO; the latter two are
new to this year’s programme.
The list of over 200 keynote speakers includes Kenneth Berlin, lawyer specialising in the
environment and advisor on the subject to US President Barack Obama; Carlo Ratti, Director of the
SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aaron Renn, analyst and Principal of
the urban studies studio The Urbanophile; Dan Hill, coordinator in design of the Finesa Foundation
for Innovation, Sitra; Charles Landry, economist specialising in urban development and founder of
Comedia; Robert Puentes, specialist in infrastructures and urban mobility at the Brookings
Institution, New York; Thomas Barrett, Director of technical services and financial advice at the
European Investment Bank; John Moore, analyst and founder of Government in the Lab; and Ricky
Burdett, urbanist and professor at the London School of Economics. (See full list of confirmed
speakers).
The second Smart City Expo & World Congress will be held from the 13th to 15th November 2012 in
the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via Exhibition Centre. In its first year, it brought together over 6,000
visitors from 51 countries, 118 companies and over 200 international speakers making it one of the
leading world events on smart cities and sustainable urban development.
Barcelona, 13th September 2012
Folc Lecha
93 233 3555
flecha@firabcn.es
Fira de Barcelona
www.firabcn.es
Complete list of speakers confirmed by 13th September 2012
Aaron M Renn
Principal, Urbanophile LLC
Abdallah Abdallah
Sales & Marketing Manager - Middle East, Wonderware
Abha Joshi-Ghani
Manager, Urban Development and Local Government Unit - The World Bank
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Founder, Good Night Lamp / Designwarm
Alfonso Rubio
Chief Executive Officer, ESRI Spain
Alfredo Escribà
Transportation General Manager, Telvent
Allan Jones
Chief Development Officer, Energy and Climate Change - City of Sydney
Andreas Lykke-Olesen
Partner Architect, MAA - Kollision
Andreas Wytzisk
Second Managing Director, 52º North
Andrew Carter
Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Cities
Andrew Vande Moere
Author of infosthetics.com and Associate professor at the K.U.Leuven
Anne Culver
Executive Vice President, Scenic City Certification program
Annie Xu
Smart Cities Senior Vice President, Schneider Electric
Antoni Peris
President, Sedigas
Ashley Atkinson
Director of Project Development and Urban Agriculture, The Greening of Detroit
Ayman Moghnieh
Consultant, Quadrigram
Bastian Fischer
Vice President Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit
Ben Hamilton-Baillie
Director, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd.
Beth Urban
Executive Director, American Community Gardening Association
Bill Dunster
Principal, ZED Factory
Boyd Cohen
Director of Center for Entrepreneurship, La Universidad de San Andrés
Brent Toderian
President, Toderian UrbanWORKS & former Vancouver Chief City Planner
Bruno Berthon
Global Managing Director, Sustainability Services – Accenture
Carlo Ratti
Director, SENSEable City Laboratory – MIT
Chao Teng-Hsiung
Chairman, Farglory
Charles Landry
Founder, Comedia
Charlotte Gabriel-Robez
Marketing, Astrium Geo, EADS
Chetan Vaidya
Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi
Chris Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, Urban Taskforce, Australia
Claudio Orrego Larraín
Mayor of Comuna de Peñalolén
Colette Maloney
Head of Unit, Smart Cities & Sustainability (DG Connect), European Commission
Daan Roosegaarde
Director, Studio Roosegaarde
Dan Hill
Strategic Design Leader, Sitra - the Finnish Innovation Fund
Dar Roberts
Professor in the Department of Geography, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
David Beeton
Director, Urban Foresight
David Comas
Partner and manager, Nexus Geografics
Didac Lee
Entrepreneur, Inspirit
Dimitri Zenghelis
Senior Economic Advisor, Cisco - Senior Fellow, London School of Economics
Donald C. Clark
Vice President of Global Industry Solutions, Invensys Wonderware
Esteve Almirall
Professor, Esade and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Federico Casalegno
Director, MIT Mobile Experience Lab
Fernando Rayón
Director of Planning and Technology, Agbar
Florian Brack
Head of the Center of Open Space Management, Zurich University of Applied
Sciences
Gero Kura
Infrastructure Development Manager, Invensys Wonderware
Gordon Falconer
Director, Urban Innovation Smart+Connected Communities - Cisco Systems
Greg Clark
Chief Executive Officer, The Business of Cities Ltd
Guliz Ozturk
International Marketing Manager, Kentkart Ege Elektronik A.S.
Guy Vekemans
Strategy developer smart cities, Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Heike Barlag
International electric mobility research projects, Green eMotion
Hung Song
President & CEO, KCSS - KT Cisco Smart Services
Isher Alhuwalia
Chairperson (ICRIER), Vice Chairperson (GDN), Vice Chairperson of the Global
Development Network (GDN), New Delhi - Indian Council for Research on
International Economic Relations, Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi
Ismael Fernández Mejía
President, ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Jacques Soignon
Green spaces director, City of Nantes
Jean Robert Mazaud
Chief Executive Officer, S'PACE architecture & environment
Jeb Brugmann
Founding Partner, The Next Practice
Jeffrey Risom
Associate, Head of Gehl Institute - Gehl Architects
Jennifer Belissent
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Jim Poss
President & Founder, BigBelly Solar
Jim Walsh
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AECOM
Jin-Hyeok Yang
Director, KC Smart Service, A KT and Cisco Collaboration
John B. Robinson
Associate, Provost Sustainability
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Professor, Department of Geography - University of British Columbia‘s Vancouver
John E. Fernández
Professor and Director of the Building Technology Program - Department of
Architecture, MIT
John F Moore
Founder and Chief Executive officer, Government in The Lab
John Howkins
Director, Howkins & Associates
John Tierney
Chief Innovation Officer, Dublin City Council
Jong Sung Hwang
Chief Innovation Officer, Seoul City Council
Jordi Corbera
Centre Suport Programa Català d'Observació de la Terra - ICC
Jorge Nuñez Ferrer
Associate Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies
Justin Hall-Tipping
Chief Executive Officer, Nanoholdings
Kareem Yusuf
Vice President - Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, IBM
Katherine Woodhouse
Green Buildings Program Director, Schneider Electric
Kenneth Berlin
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Policy and Planning - Coalition for Green
Capital
Klaas Schuring
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Location Benelux - KIC-InnoEnergy SE
Kulveer Ranger
Former Director, Environment & Digital London
Leda Guidi
Citizen communication service, Comune di Bologna
Lluís Domenech
Director Architecture, Barcelona Sagrera Alta Velocitat
Lluis Puerto
Director of the RACC Foundation and Member of the Board of Directors at the
European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP)
Manuel Valdés
Director of Infrastructures, Barcelona City Council
Mark Major
Clean Transport and Sustainable Urban Mobility
Title Policy Officer - Project Officer - European Commission
Markku Raitio
IT Director - Economic and Planning Centre, City of Helsinki
Matthias Ruth
Professor, Northeastern University
Melissa Stark
Clean Energy Leader, Accenture
Michael Braungart
Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University Lüneburg and Twente
Founder and Scientific Director, Environmental Protection and Encouragement
Agency
Michael Dixon
General Manager - Global Smarter Cities, IBM
Mike Lydon
Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative
Mike Short
Vice President, Telefonica Europe
Neil McInroy
Chief Executive, Centre for Local Economic Strategies
Nicola Villa
Managing Director, Global Urban Innovation - Cisco
Nigel Jacob
Co-Chair - Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Norela Constantinescu
Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission
Olivier Parodi
Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Pablo Sánchez Chillón
Innovative Urban Planner, Eolexcitylab
Paolo Gamba
Associate Professor in Telecommunications, Università degli studi di Pavia
Patrick Meier
CEO and Founder, Ushahidi
Paul Timmers
Director of Sustainable & Secure Society (DG Connect), European Commission
Pedro Ballesteros
Coordinator, EU China Urbanization Partnership
Pedro Vidal Matamala
ITS Unit Coordinator, Sub-secretary of Transport
Per Blixt
Head of Unit (DG Connect), European Commission
Peter Corbett
Chief Executive Officer, iStrategyLabs
Peter Hirshberg
Chairman, Reimagine Group
Peter Kageyama
Producer, Creative Cities Summit
Peter Williams
Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations - IBM
Philip Monaghan
Founder & CEO, Infragilis
Philippe Joubert
Senior Advisor, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Praveen Subramani
Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Projjal K. Dutta
Director of Sustainability Initiatives, New York Transportation Authority
Ralf-Peter Schäfer
Head of the TomTom R&D Centre Berlin, TomTom
Ricky Burdett
Director of LSE Cities and Professor of Urban Studies - London School of Economics
Rob McIntosh
Creative Director, Frog Design
Robert Puentes
Senior Fellow and Director, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative - Brookings
Institution
Robert Widz
EMEA Geospatial Executive Director, SG&I
Robin Duke-Woolley
Chief Executive Officer, Beecham Research Ltd
Santiago Olivares
Chief Executive Officer, Ferrovial Servicios
Sascha Haselmayer
Director, Living Labs
Scott Henneberry
Smart Grid Strategy Vice President, Schneider Electric
Simon Keith Goddard
Architect, Gehl Architects
Stephen Lau
Professor and Acting Head of Department of Architecture - The University of Hong
Kong
Suzana Kahn Ribero
Green Economy Sub-secretary, State Environment Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro
Svetlana Grant
Director of Smart Cities - Connected Living Programme, GSMA
Tengfei Tong
Deputy Director, Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy & Information
Resources
Theresa A. Pardo
Director - Center for Technology in Government, SUNY Albany
Thomas C. Barrett
Director, European Investment Bank
Thomas H. Kolbe
Professor and Director - Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin
University of Technology
Tim Campbell
Chairman, Urban Age Institute
Tim Stonor
Managing Director, UCL Space Syntax
Torbjorn Lahrin
Chief Executive Officer, Astando
Valentín Alfaya
Quality and Environment Director, Ferrovial
Vinodh Swaminathan
Director - Strategy & Market Management, IBM
Youssef Diab
Professor and Scientific Director - University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Yulong Wu
Chairman, Lilosoft