Smart Cities Global Technology & Investment Summit 2018 | TMT Finance | 27 June 2018 | Centre International de Conférences d'Alger

Join Smart City leaders from around the world, to discuss the current trends, challenges and goals for creating smarter cities with a special focus on Africa and global emerging markets.

With over 150 international speakers from global Smart City Developments announced and 50 more including Mayors, Government Leaders and Global Technology Thought Leaders to be revealed shortly, the programme will share insights into smart technology and ecosystems, smart mobility and infrastructure, smart data and sustainability as well as investigate the Government’s role in stimulating new technology.

2018 Speakers:

Mr. Abdelkader Zoukh
Governor of Algiers, Algeria

Fatiha Slimani
Head of Smart City Algiers, Algeria

Dr Riad Hartani
Strategic Technology Adviser, Smart City Algiers

Jonathan Trent
Professor at U.C. Santa Cruz/NASA Scientist, Director, OMEGA Global Initiative

Didier Nkurikiyimfura
Head of Technology and Innovation, Smart Africa Secretariat

Emery Rubageng
CEO, ROKA Global Resources

Elmira Bayrasli
Entrepreneur and Co-Founder , WPI's Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Project

Ian Stone
Director, Pontis Partners; Independent Non-Exec Director, Tencent

Prof. Rajendra Pratap Gupta
Advisor to Health Minister of India and Policy Maker, India

Enzo Quattrociocche
Secretary General, EBRD

Silje Bareksten
Head of Smart City, Oslo Business Region, Norway

Betty Enyonam Kumahor
Managing Partner, Cobalt Partners

Prof. Mérouane Debbah
Director of Huawei R&D, France

Mohamed Hedi Mejai
Head of Investments at Islamic Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia

Sumit D. Chowdhury
CEO & MD, Gaia Smart Cities Solutions

Mrs. Adedoyin Odunfa
MD/CEO, Digital Jewels Ltd.

Rabah Arezki
Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region (MNA), World Bank

Benoit Denis
Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank

Latif Ladid
Chair at 5G World Alliance & President, IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg

Malik Faraoun
Deputy Head for the Middle East and North Africa, World Economid Forum

Wendy Chen
CEO, Omnistream, Hong Kong

Dr. Mazlan Abbas
Co-Founder & CEO, Favoriot

Dr. Sid Ahmed Benraouane
Professor & Digital Transformation Expert, University of Minnesota, US

Rabih Khoury
Senior Executive, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) MEA UAE

Alina Gratschner
Managing Partner, Accelerate Korea

Jameson T. Auten
VP Regional Service Delivery and Innovation, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, USA

Albert Ankrah
Executive Director, Ghana Gulf Chamber of Commerce

Issa Aghabi
Venture Captial, IFC - MENAP Lead

Nizar Jegham
Senior Consultant, NXN

Janet Heckman
Managing Director, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED), EBRD

Ian Pulford
Director, City Labs, UK

Dr. Arthur Minsat
Head of Unit – Africa, Europe & Middle-East (Acting), OECD Development Centre, Paris, France

Boutheina Guermazi
Practice Manager, ICT, World Bank

Pedro Fazenda
Sustainable Energy Systems, MIT Portugal Program

Dr. Mustafa Ergen
Chief Architect, Turk Telecom, Istanbul, Turkey

Paddy Ramanathan
Founder and Managing Director, iValley Innovation Center, USA

Ananda Sen Gupta
CEO, Trackmybeat, New Delhi, India

Eric Chan
CEO, Mobileslate, Silicon Valley, USA

Derrick de Kerckhove,
Professor, (former Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, University of Toronto, Canada

Richard Budden
Smart Cities Lead, Esri for West Asia, Middle East & Africa

Riadh Boukhris
Founder & CEO, Blue Mena Group, Dubai, UAE

Devid Gubiani
CEO, Bolt Super 4G, PT First Media, Indonesia

Frank Rayal
CEO, Telesystem Innovations Inc. (TSI), Toronto, Canada

Shervin Bakhtiari
TMT Innovation, Business, & Investment Consultant & Advisor, China

Sofiane Abbar
Urban Computing Expert, QCRI

Boris Mann
CEO, Finahaven, Vancouver, Canada

James Noakes
Mayoral Lead for Energy and Smart City , Liverpool City Council

Jean-Christophe Ramos
Founding Partner, Founders Ventures

Eric Keogh
CEO, Impact Global Emissions

Nigel Harrison MBE
Executive Director, Cyber Security Challenge UK

Xue Man
Public Relations Vice-President, Huawei Group

Dr. Saba Alzabin
Senior Scientist & Clinical Advisor

Ramzi Mahmoudi
Fondateur & Président , ATN

Hyoung Gun Wang
Senior Economist and Head of Smart Cities, World Bank

Prof Boualem Chennoufi
Visiting Professor, UAE University

Graham Thrower
Head of infrastructure and Investment, Urban Foresight

Baghdad Gherras
Data Product Manager and Practice Head - Data Science, Dubai

Alpay Alptekin
Chairman and CEO, Fikiron Inc. Venture Capital

Ryad Titah
Ph. D. Professeur Agrégé/Associate Professor Holder of the Professorship in Electronic Government and Digital Cities, HEC Montreal

Messatfa Hammou
Government Industry Solutions Leader MEA, IBM Global Markets

Konstantinos Champidis
Chief Digital Officer, City of Athens

Aissa Sophiane Azzizi
Directeur de la Clientele, SEAAL

Jean-François Teillet
Partner, Jones Day

Hamza Ali
M.Sc. Candidate , HEC Montreal

Tewfik Lamrani
CEO, Condor DASAN, SPA

Nobu Saito
CEO, Shoreblend

Clement Ndegeya
CEO, EC Property Management Ltd

Hamoun Messatfa
IBM Government Industry Leader Middle East & Africa, IBM

Fodhil Benturquia
CEO & Founder, Okadoc

Yehia Houry
Investment Officer, Venture Capital

Rizwan Hussain
Government Industry and Smarter Cities Leader, IBM

Faten Aissa Zardi
CEO, Incubator Sousse

Joachim Schonowski
Head of Innovation Smart Sustainable Cities, DIN co-chair Smart City Standards Forum

Hilal Houssain
Senior Financial Product Development Specialist - Fintech, Islamic Development Bank Group

Prof. Nabyl Chenaf
Dean, School of Architecture Art and Design and Professor of Architecture, American University in Dubai

Nathalie Dumarey
Smart City Manager, Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities

Ismail Hamdad
Founder & CEO, AdsumNET

Ben Banerjee
Board Member, Inn Mind

Dianne Schepers
Board Member, Livingstone Ventures

Anouar Hachemane
Founder, I Africa Hub and India Maghreb HUB

Frans-Anton Vermast
International Smart City Ambassador, Amsterdam

Luca Cicchelli
Internet Exchange Manager, TOP-IX

Carlo Maria Rossotto
Lead ICT Specialist , The World Bank

Kamel Moula
Architect , CreaTIC-Algerie

Lorenzo Benussi
Chief Innovation Officer, Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo

Claudel Kamgang
Associate Director, Mckinsey & Company

Sergio Fernandez De Cordova
Chairman, PVBLIC Foundation, P3 SmartCity, Blockchain Commission, Imperative Fund, SmartCities NY

Dr. Mussaad Al-Razouki
Chief Business Development Officer, Kuwait Life Sciences Company, Kuwait

Samer Bagaeen
Associate Director, 100 Resilient Cities

Davor Meersman
General Manager & Co-Founder, Open & Agile Smart Cities

Yousuf Mohammed Al Shaiba
Director - Smart Services Development Department

Gwendal Pelicot
Regional MD, EOH

Mitchell Kosny
Associate Director and Professor of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University

Peter Lyons
Partnership Development Lead, World Economic Forum, New York

Timo Hämäläinen
Urban Policy Advisor, MDI - Management Design Intelligence

El-Hadi Khoumeri
Associate Professor, National Higher School of Technology (ENST)

Martin Tom-Petersen
CEO, Smart Cities Catalyst

Tanveer Kathawalla
CFO, Analytical Space

Tiina Kaho
Executive Director , Helsinki Metropolitan Smart and Clean Foundation

Michael Mulquin
President, Smart Cities Association

Dr. Hamid Menouar
Senior R&D Expert and Product Manager, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Doha, Qatar

Olivier Le Ber
Practice Manager, Transport Pakistan, Afghanistan, Middle East and North Africa Global Practice Transport & Digital Development

Majid Al Ghaslane
CEO, Front End

Gordon Wright
Future Cities Lead, UP!

Ljupco Despotovski,
Entrepreneur, business developer and startup consultant, , Macedonia

Marc Winn
Co Founder, The Dandelion Foundation, Guernsey

Dr. Rachid Gherbi
Professor in Computer Science at Paris-Sud XI Orsay University, France

Trinh Ngo
Founder & Partner, VinBrain, Silicon Valley, USA

Pr Claude Rochet
University of Versailles

Joel Myers
CEO, HoozAround Corp./Vice Chair for the IEEE Working Group on Smart Cities on the IoT

Uwe Allgäuer
Co-Founder, Coworking Bansko

Tayeb Ben Meriem
OAM Senior Standards Specialist, Orange

Vanco Popov
Senior Consultant and Investment Analyst, Macedonia

Aziz Zenasni
Director of Smart City Programs, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Dan Ault
Assistant Town Manager & Chief Innovation Officer, Town of Cary, North Carolina

Rémy Fekete
Partner, Jones Day

Xavier Reille
Country Manager, IFC

Arjan Luiten
Innovation Manager & Urban Developer, BETACITY

Dewan Karim
Senior Transportation Planner, Toronto, Canada

Ghani Kolli
Founder & CEO, HumanYo+Impact

Patrick Sophienne Baudry
Co-Founder & CEO, Jumia Group Algeria

Gary Schwartz
Managing Director,, Pegasus Fintech, USA

Bartosz Dominiak
Smart City Advisor & Blogger, Warsaw, Poland

Oana Bouraoui
Partnerships and Projects Manager, European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF)

Anita Füzi
Innovation Associate, Limitless sarl

Dr Ana Gosteva
Fintech Expert, Switzerland

Professor Malika Allab-Yaker
President of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology

Saskia Beer
CEO & Founder, Transformcity

Grazia M. Fiore
User Programme Co-ordinator, Eurisy

Nassima Berrayah
Founder, Women Entrepreneurs Accelerator

Rolf Lumpe
Managing Director, RAL Capital Limited

Nilesh Parikh
Founder & CEO, v-imagine.org, Dallas

Dr. Vishal Sharma
Principal, Metanoai, Silicon Valley

Karim Cherfaoui
CEO, Divona

Vladimir Bataev
Principal Consultant, Zaz Ventures

Kiran Inampudi
Startup Advisor, Alchemist Accelerator, San Francisco, USA

Bahar Namaki Araghi
Head of Smart Mobility Center, Technical University of Denmark

Marcelo Garcia
Founder, Broadlights

Tobias Martens
Senior Project Manager, XU Exponential University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Anand Gupta
Big Data CEO, Dallas

Abdelaziz Djellal
Specialist in Health Management and e-Health/ / Teacher-researcher, Faculty of Medicine Paris XIII

Tunde Lapido
Head of Partnerhsip, Stellar.Org

Haig Sarkissian
Founder & Principal Consultant, Wireless 20/20, New York, USA

Dr. Anurag Maunder
CEO & Founder, dLoop, San Francisco, USA

Matthew Smith
CEO, Fieldcloud

Mourad Alia
CEO, Clouding Things

Prof. Adel Belouchrani
Academy of Sciences, Algeria

Jaime Ruiz Huescar
E-mobility manager city of Murcia, Local Energy & Climate Change Agency of Murcia

Marco Buemi
Sustainable Development and Social Innovation Manager, Italy

Tuija Hirvikoski
President, ENoLL European Network of Living Labs

Wassila Mouzai

Ahmadou Lamine
Smart City Specialist, Ville dAix en Provence

Anthony Nicalo
Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder, Finhaven

Dr. Belgacem Haba
Senior Fellow and Vice President, Xperi Corporation

Dr. James Shanahan
CEO, Duncan & Church Silicon Valley, USA

Gilles Betis
Founder , OrbiCité

Karim Dakki
CFO Middle East & Far East, Proclad

Mathilde Colin
Business Project Manager SMEs & Innovation, TUBÀ Lyon

Farid Yaker
Programme Officer, UN

Dr. Nourredine Melikechi
USA

Mario Luoni
CTO & Solution Architect, MRS Corporation, Tokyo

Nasser Almuraqab
Director of IT, University of Dubai

Aranka Anema
Founder & CEO, Global Health PX

Adolfo Borrero Villalón
Vice-President of Regional Action and President Smart Cities Commission , Ametic

Magdalena Zawodny-Barabanow
Social innovation and entrepreneurship, City of Gdansk, Poland

Dr. Zaki Allal

Richard Windsor
Founder, Radio Free Mobile, UAE

Syed Muhammad Abbas
IT Governance & ITSM Advisor, Information Technology Authority

Cameron MacLeod
Founder/CEO, Global Civic Innovation Centre

Etienne Piciocchi
Strategy and Corporate Finance Consulting Director, Xona Partners

Stephania Petit Homme
CEO, ACHSO

Dr. Abdelkrim Doufene
USA

Gopal Dommety
CEO, OpsMX, Silicon Valley, USA

Alex Shaw
CEO, Silicon Valley, USA

Prof. Moumen Darcherif
France

2018 Sponsors:

HOST:
• Algiers

HEADLINE:
• Huawei

SPONSORS:
• World Bank Group
• IFC
• Alstom
• Daewoo
• Tell Group
• SIAD
• TMT Finance News

LOCAL EXHIBITOR:
• Amenhyd

MEDIA:
• SmartCitiesWorld
• IoT Now
• IoT Global Network