Business for Smart Cities 2019 | City Development Fund | 29 January 2019 | Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Velyka Vasylkivska St, 55, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

Business for Smart Cities is a global event that annually gathers the leaders of the region to define solutions to the problems of their cities and find the most appropriate partners to develop projects and services.

Mayors and representatives of cities, governments, and private companies will present their successful stories of cooperation with business in transforming cities to Smart & Sustainable. They will present how they have achieved real and successful partnerships. The experts will address ideas and achievements in enhancing the role of business in City Smart Strategies in Ukraine, the Region, and make global comparisons. This session will also address New Economy. The speakers will provide input on circular economy, block chain technologies, green and blue economy, and other innovative solutions. In addition to the Congress, six conferences focused on specific sectors for about 100 participants each will be conducted (two parallel conferences per day). The speakers will present their experience and aspirations for implementation of projects by the following topics:
• Smart Mobility: Electric and driverless cars, integration of transport modes and sustainable mobility etc.
• Smart Environment: Renewal energy, energy efficiency, solid waste management etc.
• Smart Economy: Industrial and innovation parks, their role in sustainable growth
• Smart Living: Health and Sport, and how technologies are enabling to improve living conditions and the practice of sports
• Smart Governance: Coordination between public administrations in the development of smart projects, e-governance or how to integrate technology in the management of the city
• Smart People: Living labs, education, ethics, etc. and their role in transforming cities in Smart & Sustainable

2019 Speakers

Stepan Kubiv
Minister of Economic Developemtn E-Trade, First-Vice Prime Minister, Ukraine

Vitaliy Klitschko
Mayor of Kiev, Head of Kyiv City State Administration

Jordi Hereu
President, IdenCity

Matthew Jordan-Tank
Head of Infrastructure Policy and Project Preparation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Ellis J. Juan
Independent External Advisor on Infrastructure Finance, Public Private Partnerships and Urban Development

Patrick Avato
Lead IFC's Cities Initiative in EMENA

Patricia Purcell
Head of Partnerships, UN Global Compact Cities Programme

Daniel Fedson
Director, Global Infrascture Hub

Mikhail Titarchuck
Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Serviy Savchuk
Head of State Agency on Energy Efficieny and Energy Saving of Ukraine

Prof. Adam L. Prokopowicz
Adviser International Programs

Josep Miquel Pique
President, Technova Barcelona - La Salle Innovation Park

Kari Aina Eik
Secretary General, Organization for International Economic Relations

Dr. Irfan Al Hasani
Economic Expert, Dubai Competitiveness Office

Todurov Boris
Chief Executive Officer, Heart Institute

Walter Fang
Vice Chairman, Edge Computing Consortium

Eva Bufi
Managing Director, Ardana Consultants

Yuriy Nazarov
Director of the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Kyiv City State Administration

Joana Barbany
General Director Digital Society Catalonia Government

Prof. Iryna Zapatrina
Chairwoman, Ukrainian PPP Development Center

Artyom Liss
Editorial Lead, BBC World Service 2020 Project

Enrique Melero
Managing Partner, Helvetia Fintech

Olga Simson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Law

Epi Ludvik Nekaj
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Crowdsourcing Week

Charles Whitehead
Professor, Cornell Law School

Hannes Astok
Director for Development and Strategy, Member of the Management Board, Estonian e-Governance Academy

Isabelle Wachsmuth-Huguet
Project Manager, Service Delivery and Safety Department, Health Systems and Innovation, World Health Organization

Terje Strom
Chief Executive Officer, Bir Nett

Fernando Vilariño
Chairman, Enoll Executive Board

Gokhan Yildirim
President & Founder, World Sustainable Energy Institute

Dr. Roland Ramusch
Sector Specialist - Solid Waste, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Lin O'Grady
Deputy Director, Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure Team, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Yaroslav Zablotskyi
MD, Professor, Head of a Private Academy

Domenica Carriero
Associate Economic Affairs Officer, UNECE

Oleg Drozdov
Architect, Artist, Founder of the Design Bureau, Drozdov&Partners

Dejan Crnek
Deptuy Mayor of Ljubljana

Julia Alekseeva
Initiator of the Project "Travel Cluster 300+"

Dr. David Tyler
Associate Director, Water & Wastewater

Alexandra Dumitrascu
Development Director-Romanian Smart City & Mobility Association

Vladislav Herchykau
Founders & Chief Executive Officer, Bamboo Group

H. Irfan Aker
Chairman of the Board, Dolsar Engineering

Mykhaylo Bubnov
The Country President, Schneider Electric Ukraine Company

Michael Chian
Founder, Beeducation Adventures

Frans-Anton Vermast
Strategy Advisory and International Smart City Ambassador for Amsterdam Smart City and Chief Technology Office

Dmitry Bespalov
Transport planning and modeling expert

Michael Girel
Entrepreneur, Founder & Chief Executive, AuxBridge

Yevheniy Yevtushenko
Business Development Director, Deps

Victor Martinez de Rey
Director of Urban Quality and Mobility, Sant Cugat del Valles

Kozakevych Yuriy
Chief Executive Officer, Industrial Park "Ivano-Frankivsk"

Danny Gauch
Director General, Worlddidac Association

Michal Jaworski
National Technology Officer, Microsoft

Gulnara Roll
Head of Housing and Land Management Unit at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Dmytro Novitsky
Chairman of the Board - General Director of PJSC

Victor Zhora
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Infosafe IT

219 Sponsors

ORGANIZER:
• City Development Fund
• Ardana Consultants
• PPP Academy

SUPPORTING:
• Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Kyiv City State Administration
• Minregion

PARTNERS:
• UNECE
• Global Compact Network Ukraine
• United Smart Cities
• Global Infrastructure Hub
• Microsoft
• Organization for International Economic Relations
• Istanbul PPPCoE Center of Excellence
• Association Cities
• NSC Olimpiykshiy
• Institute of Global Innovation, Economics and Logistics

GENERAL:
• Ukranian Traffic Safety

PLATINUM:
• HIKVision
• Dell
• ERC
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise

GOLD:
• Deps
• Intellectual Construction
• Belintech
• VM Construction
• Cisco
• Elko
• Oschadbank
• Huawei

SILVER:
• E2Go
• Info Dafe
• Oracle
• Security Systems Management
• Life Is on
• Jerelo
• Fortinet
• MUK

MEDIA:
• Turkish Ukranian Business Association
• Kiss FM
• Swedish Business Associaton in Ukraine
• Bykvu
• Uain
• Visti
• Hochu
• My Kiev
• Zik