5th Annual Smart Cities International Virtual Symposium 2021 | Smart Grid Observer | 23 February 2021 | Virtual Event

It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will live in urban areas. The global smart cities market is expected to reach USD 237.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 18.9% from 2019. Furthermore, nearly all global population growth through 2030 will be absorbed by cities -- about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the next 10 years.*

New insights and solutions are urgently needed in order to manage the scarce resources that will be impacted by this trend, as well as operate new and regenerated urban spaces. New generations of sensor networks, Big Data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications are being deployed in public and privately managed physical spaces to meet these requirements, though many challenges remain. As they prepare to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, municipal governments around the world are looking to the future and formulating their Smart City strategies. Now is the time to engage and learn from industry peers at the forefront of this key trend.

Topics to be addressed include:
• Moving toward the post-COVID-19 smart city
• Leveraging the smart energy grid for other municipal applications
• Smart lighting advances, platforms and business models
• Smart transportation and parking
• Environmental monitoring and waste management
• IoT applications and communications networks for enabling the Smarter City
• Learning from the leaders: key smart city developments around the world
• Market trends and growth drivers: challenges and opportunities
• Phased, cost-effective approaches: efficiency measures that can fund additional steps
• Building a culture of performance via data analytics and benchmarking
• Enhancing sustainability, accessibility and livability
• Key emerging technologies and applications
• And more

2021 Speakers

Meghan Cook
Program Director, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY

Monali Shah
Head of Industry Solutions, Google

Albert Gauthier
Chief Technology Officer, City of Rochester, NY

Dan Hoffman
City Manager, City of Westminster, Virginia

Stacey Mansker-Young
Deputy CIO, City of Chicago profile

David Graham
Chief Innovation Officer, City of Carlsbad, CA

Michael Hess
Director of Future Ready, City of Orlando

Ron Zimmer
President & CEO, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)

James Carlini
President, Carlini & Associates

Lou Celi
CEO, ESI ThoughtLab

Karen Lightman
Executive Director, Metro 21: Smart Cities Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Chris Castro
Director of Sustainability & Resilience, Co-chair of Future-Ready Initiative, City of Orlando

Rana Sen
Managing Director and US Smart City Initiative Lead, Deloitte

Maimunah Jaffar
Director - Lead Technology and Innovation, Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)

Elizabeth A. Kócs, PhD, MBA
Director, Energy Initiative, University of Illinois at Chicago

Maria S. Bocanegra
Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission

Katie Kaluzny
Associate Director, Illinois Green Alliance

Prashanthi Rao Raman
Director, Global Government Affairs, Cruise, LLC

Aymeric Rousseau
Section Manager, Vehicle and Mobility Systems, Argonne National Laboratory

Scott Lepold
Business Development Manager, Utility Solutions, Geotab Energy

James Carlini
President, Carlini & Associates

Keith Moran
Founder, Moran Economic Development

The Hon. Russell W. Hartigan
Former President, Illinois Bar Association

Jason Anderson
President and CEO, Cleantech San Diego

Brian Dillard
Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Antonio

Itai Dadon
Global Head of Smart Cities, Itron

Matt Petersen
President & CEO, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

Sarah Coulter
Executive Director, Calumet Collaborative

Erika Allen
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Operations, Urban Growers Collective

Dawveed Scully, AICP
Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Ellington Ellis
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, GBS

Daniel Kushner
Manager of Smart Grid Programs, ComEd

Basmah Nadeem
Urban Studies Major, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Amanda Ang
PhD Student, University of Southern California

Katherine Nickele
Transportation Planner, Sam Schwartz

Liam Donnelly
CEO & Founder, WasteNot Compost

Claire Juracka
Masters Student, Institute for Sustainability and Energy, Northwestern University

Spencer Stanton
Masters of Science in Energy & Sustainability, Northwestern University

2021 Sponsors and Partners

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Bronzeville Community Development Partnership
• Innovation Metropolis
• Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd)

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• Informa Tech
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• Meeting of the Minds
• oneM2M
• Urbanicity
• Next City
• Clean Energy Trust
• WITI
• Illinois Technology Association
• HomeGrid Forum (HGF)
• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
• Research Triangle Regional Partnership
• OGC
• The Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA)
• Smart Cities San Diego
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