19.10.2023 | VIRTUAL EVENT
GOING LIVE 9AM (CET) 10AM (EEST)
#smartcitynordic
SMART, PEOPLE CENTRIC AND CONNECTED CITIES
As the world has endured the turbulences of the last few years, and keeps preparing for the next one, we need to keep transforming the spaces we live in.
Digital technologies connect people, information, and urban elements, allowing smart cities to function as a single organism to improve the quality of life. Considering the climate emergency, urban solutions are not merely smart, but also sustainable.
Tech-driven innovations optimize energy consumption in a large scope of applications from mobility to urban planning and waste management. Significant efforts to make the infrastructure transparent and secure will ensure a citizen-oriented approach to city management, expanding community collaboration, inclusivity, and creativity. As cities get smarter, they redefine and readapt urban ecosystems to new ways of functioning and living for citizens.
Smart Cities are built on a number of layers that interconnect and determine how a city functions overall. Mixing tech applications, data and public use, we’ve created an ecosystem that keeps transforming and adapting not only to citizens’ needs, but also to emerging innovations that have the potential to simplify urban planning.
It is around these forward looking topics our agenda is built to guide you building up smart, sustainable and resilient cities of the future. And it all equals to better quality of life in our modern environments.
Welcome to SMART CITY NORDIC 2023!
SUSTAINABLY SMART CITIES
THEMES
HUMAN-CENTRIC URBAN REVOLUTION
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
AN UNPARALELLED TV & EVENT HYBRID
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MODERATOR 2023
NINA RAHKOLA
JOURNALIST, TV-HOST
Nina Rahkola is a documentarist and journalist who has been hosting several current affairs shows in Finnish television. She has received awards for her documentary projects where she meets people around the world, including Iraq and The United States. Rahkola is known for intensive yet humane interviews with the politicians and Finnish celebrities from different walks of life.
SPEAKERS 2023
SANDRA BAER
CEO I PERSONAL CITIES
BRAND AMBASSADOR | SmartCitiesWorld
Ms. Baer leads Personal Cities, http://personalcities.org/, a smart city company helping cities take bigger, bolder actions to reimagine their future. Their work is focused on rebuilding trust and finding new solutions to the most intransigent challenges every community faces—climate, technology, transport, housing, safety and more. As the Brand Ambassador, SmartCitiesWorld, https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/, Ms. Baer advocates for new thinking, new actions to help the ecosystem of a city become compassionate, intelligent, and sustainable. Ms. Baer holds BA and MBA degrees and a Global Advanced Management Certification from Georgetown University. As a professional speaker, she has lived and worked across five continents and currently resides in Washington DC.
esteve almirall
DATA SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND SMART CITY PROFESSOR I ESCADE, BARCELONA | DIRECTOR | CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN CITIES
Esteve Almirall serves as Associated Professor at Esade and Dtr. of the Center for Innovation in Cities. He lectured at various universities, including UC Berkeley, Purdue, UPF, UPC and EPFL. He has a mixed background in both AI and Management Sciences, particularly in Innovation. He was one of the founders of the European Networks of Living Labs with +400 Living Labs around the world and coordinated several high-impact European Projects such as Open Cities or Commons for Europe and he participated as principal researcher in many other projects. Esteve also worked for the World Bank and the European Commission as an expert. He has been deeply involved in the Smart Cities movement since its inception. As a recovering geek he prides himself on teaching Python, Julia, Machine Learning, Cloud Planforms and AWS as well as Competing with AI & Cloud, Smart Cities, Innovation and Management.
NICOLAIE MOLDOVAN
SENIOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST I EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
"As a Senior Urban Development Specialist & Policy Advisor for Cohesion Policy, Structural Reforms & Budget at the European Parliament, Nicolaie Moldovan have extensive knowledge of EU financial instruments like the Multiannual Financial Framework and the Recovery and Resiliency Facility. With 20 years of experience in local public administration, he have expertise in local communities, sustainable project development and implementation, securing over €600 million in funding for 180 approved and 50 coordinated projects. One highlight of his career was overseeing the profound transformation of the Alba Carolina Citadel, the largest Vauban fortress in Central and South-eastern Europe, securing public funding for its restoration and functional reconversion. He is also a trainer in project management and co-author of various support studies for local and intercommunity urban development. Follow his publishing activities at https://www.europeofcities.com/blog. He is passionate about travelling, reading, and beaux-arts."
More speakers will be published soon!
PAST SPEAKERS 2022
RICK COTTON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY (US)
Rick Cotton became Executive Director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in August 2017. Prior to joining the Port Authority, Mr. Cotton served as Governor Andrew Cuomo's Special Counsellor for Interagency Initiatives, serving as the point person for most of the Governor's major downstate infrastructure priorities. Mr. Cotton joined the Cuomo administration following 25 years at NBC Universal, where he held several positions, including 20 years as EVP and General Counsel and four years as President and Managing Director of CNBC Europe. He has served in senior advisory roles at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Cotton is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, and he served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court.
ANDREW PHIPPS
GLOBAL HEAD OF ESG INSIGHT & GLOBAL FUTURIST I CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD (UK)
Andrew leads our global, research and marcomms focus on the critical topic of sustainability. Sustainability is both a professional and personal passion and he has an absolute commitment to making a positive impact in the way we operate as a global business of scale. Andrew is studying for a Masters in Sustainability and Behaviour Change to ensure his knowledge remains current and his desire to be a lifelong learner is one of his driving forces.
SACHA STOLP
DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING I CITY OF AMSTERDAM (NL)
Sacha Stolp is the Director of Innovation for Future-Proof Assets for the City of Amsterdam. As Director of Innovation it is her task to prepare the existing city and her assignment to the consequences of climate change, energy and raw material transition and the on-going development of smart city. Innovations like Smartroof 2.0, Photosyntesis and CitySports are some of several pilot projects realized in collaboration with knowledge institutions and the business community. Sacha studied economics at the University of Amsterdam.
Jussi Maaniitty
Head of Innovation and Technology I NOKIA ARENA (FI)
Jussi has been part of Nokia Arena development from 2020. His responsibility includes Nokia Arena innovation, technology and digital services. One of the key responsibilities has been the optimization of the arena operations using IOT and data. Prior to Nokia Arena role Jussi has worked in key roles in leading digital businesses and designing customer journeys, especially related to Media and Mobility. Jussi has an MSc degree in Interactive Technology and BSc in Programming.
ALEXANDER LANG
DIRECTOR, CLIMATE-NEUTRAL AND SMART CITY I CITY OF MUNCHEN (DE)
Active in the field of urban development and planning for over 25 years. His responsibilities include project management for the largest municipal housing development program in Germany, "Wohnen in München VII" (Living in Munich VII), the preparation and updating of the city-wide integrated energy use plan for Munich, and the management of the city-wide "Integriertes Handlungsprogramm Smart City" (Integrated Action Program Smart City). In addition, as head of the department, he is responsible for national and international cooperation projects in the fields of climate protection, urban energy planning and smart city.
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