Organized by iCities, the event will bring together experts from around the world in online sessions and netwoking rooms on December 8th and 9th
ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) is an institutional supporter of Smart City Session, the first fully online global edition on smart cities, endorsed by Fira Barcelona, which will be held in Brazil on December 8 and 9, 2020. Associates and partners can register through the site with 20% discount.
The Smart City Session inaugurates a new experience in the segment. In addition to lectures by experts on topics that emerged from the pandemic crisis and will allow the planning of the year 2021, the event will have discussion rooms with guests, in which the public will be able to follow the debate and interact with the speakers and other participants in actions of business networking, matchmaking and meetings.
The event will also serve as an avant-première for the realization of the third edition of the Smart City Expo Curitiba, in 2021. This year's face-to-face edition, which was expected to gather around 10,000 people, was suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic. “The other smart cities events around the world, also supported by Fira Barcelona, had a hybrid format between classroom and digital, given the limitations of social isolation in each country and host city. It is with pride that we take the lead in the realization of the first event in the segment that will be an interactive experience made 100% online. It will be the second largest forum on smart cities in the world, this year, behind Barcelona's Smart City World Congress ”, celebrates Beto Marcelino, founding partner and director of government relations for the Brazilian company iCities - which brought together 5,000 people in Curitiba in 2018 and 7 thousand in 2019, during two days of fair and congress with specialists from all over the world.
The Smart City Session is based on four thematic pillars related to the city scenario and post-pandemic solutions: Happiness and Well-Being; Legacy of Pandemic; Urban Space Resilience; and Governance and Economics. Among the confirmed keynotes are the expert on smart cities, Renato de Castro, ambassador of Smart Cities at the TM Forum of London and COR (Rio Operations Center), member of the board of directors of Boston's Leading Cities and Senior Volunteer Adviser in the Union International Telecommunications (ITU) - the United Nations agency for information and telecommunications; and the founder of the Mobilize Brasil portal, Ricky Ribeiro, a member of the Corporate Sustainability team at EY (Ernst & Young). Diagnosed in 2008 with a degenerative neurological disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) took away all his movements.
Check out the list of experts confirmed at the event:
Alexandre Goldfeld Cardeman, CEO at Rio Operations Center
Anauyla Batista, COO and Head of Marketing at Plataforma Verde
Bia Lanza, research fellow at the Center for Technology in Government in New York
Caio Esteves Ribas, CEO at Places 4 Us
Daniela Swiatek, Project Consultant for the Corporate Mobility Index
Debora Sotto, Researcher in the Global Cities Program at the Institute for Advanced Studies
Edson Yabiku, Founding Director of Achilles + Partners
Fabio Rua, Director of Government Relations at IBM Latin America
Fabro Steibel, Executive Director at the Rio de Janeiro Institute of Technology and Society
Felipe Thiago de Jesus, director of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security Curitiba
Giancarlo Rocco, director of Investe Paraná
Grazi Carvalho, CEO Smart Citizen Institute
Gustavo Arns de Oliveira, creator of the International Happiness Congress
Itamir Viola, CEO of Viasoft
Jamile Sabatini Marques, Director of Innovation and Promotion at ABES
Janaina Pasqual Lofhagen, Project Awareness Analyst and iCities Expert course coordinator
José Carlos Mota, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro
Larissa Paredes Muse, IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee Leader
Leonardo César de Carvalho Ladeira, CEO at Public Purchases Portal
Luis Gustavo Comeli, professor at FAE
Luiz Henrique da Cruz Ribeiro (Ricky Ribeiro), Founder of Mobilize Brasil
Mariana Wandarti Clemente, Coordinator at Cidade Ativa
Maurício Casotti, Business Development Manager at CPQD
Raquel Cardamone, CEO of Bright Cities
Regiane Relva Romano, MCTI advisor
Smart City Sessions (online event)
December 8 and 9, 2020
Site registration www.smartcitysession.com
About iCities
ICities was founded in 2011 with the vision that cities should have a much more proactive role in the development of society. Among the most relevant projects of the company are the coming and organization of the largest congress on the theme of smart cities from Barcelona to Curitiba - the Smart City Expo Curitiba. ICities also works with consultancy for smart city projects for municipalities across the country.
