AGENDA

7th Annual Event on October 24th - 25th, 2023
The Boulevard Club, Toronto

The following is a draft agenda. Changes may be made without notice.
All the sessions will be held in EST (Eastern Standard Time)

DAY 1 DAY 2

8:00 am

Breakfast and Registration

Moderated by:

8:55 am

Opening Remarks: Hifazat ‘Faz’ Ahmad, President, Intelligent Cities Summit

Moderated by:

9:00 am

Opening Keynote

Moderated by:

9:30 am

Tech Keynote: Hatch

Andrew Miller

Senior Consultant and Leader, Urban Solutions
Hatch
Moderated by:

10:00 am

Panel: Planning with Intelligence

  • Intelligent cities integration 
  • Characteristics of growing cities
  • Tools for implementation

Aruj Haider

Chief Digital and Innovation Officer
Westminster City Council, UK

Andrew Buss

Deputy CIO
City of Philadelphia

Burcu Özdemir

Coordinator of Smart / Intelligent Transportation Systems
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Moderated by:

10:30 am

Morning Networking Break

Moderated by:

11:00 am

Panel: Intelligent Cities Roadmap

  • Creating roadmaps – what, how, when? 
  • Understanding milestones
  • Innovating technologies in the public sector
  • AI and metaverse

Sumon Acharjee

Chief Information Officer
City of Markham

Alfred Wiggins Jr

Commissioner, Department of Public Works
City of Atlanta

Marco Palermo

Director, Digital Govt and Modernization
City of Toronto

Zoran Postic

Deputy City Manager
City of Vaughan
Moderated by:

Genesis D. Gavino

Chief of Staff
City of Dallas

11:30 am

Panel: Digital Transformation

  • Reality v.s. utopia
  • Governments improvising services
  • Creating learning hubs
  • Challenges and opportunities

Patrick McCormick

Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Department
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Teppo Rantanen

Executive Director, Growth, Innovation, and Competitiveness
City of Tampere

Dave Buchanan

Director, Public Sectors, Canada
HCLTech
Moderated by:

Giulio Cescato

Director of Planning and Urban Design
City of Markham

12:00 pm

DAY 1: Networking Lunch

Moderated by:

1:30 pm

Innovation Showcase

Moderated by:

2:00 pm

Panel: Humanizing Tech Cities

  • Ease of accessibility on the go
  • Ways to reduce human errors 
  • Servicity and auxiliary: co-creation and partnership

Maimunah Jaffar

Director Lead Technology & Innovation
Iskandar Regional Development Authority, Malaysia

Marco Palermo

Director, Digital Govt and Modernization
City of Toronto

David Graham

Chief Innovation Officer
City of Carlsbad
Moderated by:

Mike Melinyshyn

CFO, Director of Corporate Services & Innovation
Town of Innisfil

3:00 pm

Panel: Input-Driven Living

  • AI learning residents' behaviours and adapting
  • Intelligent traffic system
  • Intelligent adaptation 
  • What’s the hurdle? Policy, mindset or tech?

Teppo Rantanen

Executive Director, Growth, Innovation, and Competitiveness
City of Tampere

Jenny Alfandary

President and CEO | Board Director | Professor

Patrick McCormick

Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Department
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Nabeel Ahmed

Management Consultant
City of Toronto
Moderated by:

Heather McGeer

Research and Policy Analyst
ICTC

3:30 pm

DAY 1: Afternoon Networking Break

Moderated by:

4:00 pm

Panel: Intelligent Together: Resilience

  • How to build a resilient mindset?
  • Future-proofing tech
  • Intelligent cities post-covid

Marianna Marysheva

City Manager
City of Livermore

Alfred Wiggins Jr

Commissioner, Department of Public Works
City of Atlanta

Genesis D. Gavino

Chief of Staff
City of Dallas
Moderated by:

4:30 pm

City Spotlight: Atlanta Department of Public Works

  • Navigating advancing operational challenges
  • Overcoming paper-based processes
  • Mobile app for performance measurement
  • Redefining efficiency in routing vehicles and allocating resources

Alfred Wiggins Jr

Commissioner, Department of Public Works
City of Atlanta

Anou Sothsavath

Deputy Commissioner of Public Works - Operations
City of Atlanta

Keith Robinson

Deputy Commissioner of Public Works - Administration
City of Atlanta

Stefanie D. Grant

Division Chief of the Transportation, Public Works and SAVE
City of Atlanta Department of Law’s Operations Division

Kentorri Garmon

Director of Performance and Innovation Delivery
Department of Public Works - City of Atlanta
Moderated by:

5:00 pm

End of Day 1

Moderated by:

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