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INTELLIGENT CITIES SUMMIT

Intelligent Cities - Municipal IoT, Big Data Summit logo

5TH ANNUAL INTELLIGENT CITIES SUMMIT 2022

November 09-10, 2022 - In Person

IOT, CODE ORANGE EMERGENCY SERVICES SUMMIT 2022

November 09, 2022 - Virtual

PEOPLE FIRST SUMMIT 2022

November 10, 2022 - Virtual

6TH ANNUAL IOT, BIG DATA HEALTHCARE SUMMIT 2022

November 10, 2022 - Virtual
IOT, Intelligent Cities
IOT, PEOPLE FIRST SUMMIT / MAY 26 & MAY 28, 2021

Canada is one of the most diverse countries in the world. In November 2015, Canada captured global headlines with the unveiling of a diverse cabinet that “looks like Canada”. While this was a tremendous milestone, it is important that we do not rest on our laurels and continue to work towards diversity, equity, culture, and engagement at every level of the public sector.

Statistics Canada projects that by 2031 close to 1 in 3 Canadians (31.0%) will be members of a visible minority and almost 1 in 2 (44.2% to 49.7%) will be either an immigrant or a child of an immigrant by 2036. In 2016 the recruitment of people with disabilities to the federal public service decreased from 3.5% to 3.3%. Over the past decade, the overall proportion of women in the public service has increased by 18%, and the overall proportion of visible minority employees increased by 279%.

While we do see significant progress, much work remains to be done across every aspect of inherent diversity (ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, different abilities, etc.), especially as we increasingly step into the digital world and develop the future of work.

The 2021 People First Summit will bring together government leaders in talent and human capital, along with technology and solution providers to discuss the way forward for the public sector.

Why attend?

  • Be a part of productive conversations as leaders discuss the opportunities and challenges ahead in the public sector
  • Connect with thought-leaders and technology providers from across Canada and the world
  • Discover some of the latest tools and techniques being used successfully through case studies
  • Build your own highly personalized agenda, as one ticket gives you access to content from four different summits!

9:55

Opening remarks by Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, IoT Events; Welcome message by Bonnie Crombie, Mayor, City of Mississauga

9:55

Opening remarks by Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, IoT Events; Welcome message by Bonnie Crombie, Mayor, City of Mississauga

9:55

Opening remarks by Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, IoT Events; Welcome message by Bonnie Crombie, Mayor, City of Mississauga

9:55

Opening remarks by Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, IoT Events; Welcome message by Bonnie Crombie, Mayor, City of Mississauga

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DAY 1 – November 09, 2022

DAY 2 – November 10, 2022

Chair: Marc Lijour, VP, Capacity Building and Innovation, ICTC

8:00

Breakfast and Registration
Chair: Marc Lijour, VP, Capacity Building and Innovation, ICTC

8:55

Opening remarks
Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, Intelligent Cities

8:55

Opening remarks
Hifazat “Faz” Ahmad, CEO & President, Intelligent Cities

9:00

Panel: Exploring the Community Innovation Agenda from the Ground Up
Moderator: Alison Herr, Program Director, Evergreen
Molly Fremes, Program Lead, COIL Smart Cities Office, City of Guelph
Jessica McDonald, Director, Community Development Department and Energize Bridgewater Project Director, Town of Bridgewater
Patrick Lozeau, Innovation Advisor, City of Montréal

9:00

Panel: Inside the Life of CIOs & CDOs
  • Decoding Leadership Challenges
  • Ways to Future-Proof Cities
  • External Tech Lessons: Educating Partners and Associations
  • Vision vs Reality
Moderator: David Graham, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Carlsbad
Cyrus Tehrani, Chief Digital Officer and Director of Innovation, City of Hamilton
Art Thompson, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Detroit, USA

9:45

Panel: Making Intelligent, Liveable Cities in a Post Pandemic world
  • Redefining cities
  • Lessons from COVID-19
  • What does the future look like?
Moderator: Jenny Alfandary, President and CEO, Westario Power
Sheila Bassi-Kellett, City Manager, City of Yellowknife
Dawn M. Comer, Director of Technology Inclusion, City of Los Angeles
Jag Sharma, President & CEO, Toronto Community Housing

9:30

Keynote: Intelligent Cities using wireless technology to address the Social Divide Powered by Ingram Micro
Timothy Schnare, Regional Sales Manager -Central Canada, Cradlepoint

10:15

In person: Networking Break
Virtual Panel: Pioneering Transformation through Digital Infrastructure & Innovation
  • Getting to the Basics: Skills and Research
  • Resolving Urban Challenges
  • Future-proofing Cities through Technological Advancement
Moderator: Teppo Rantanen, Executive Director, Growth, Innovation, and Competitiveness, City of Tampere, Finland
Piero Pelizzaro, Head of the European Affairs and International Relation Department, City of Bologna
Jan Bradley, Director & Chief Information Technology Officer, City of Calgary

10:00

Panel: How to Make Cities Intelligent?
  • What are the milestones?
  • Looking at the big picture: Is Intelligence only limited to deploying technology?
  • Designing cities for Gen Z and Gen Alpha?
Moderator: Thomas Robinson, SBB AG Innovation, Research, and incubation Hilfikerstrasse, Zurich
Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology & Innovation, UK
Cyrus Tehrani, Chief Digital Officer and Director of Innovation, City of Hamilton
Art Thompson, CIO, City of Detroit, USA

10:45

Panel: What Does it Take to Manage a Thriving and Tech-Forward Municipality?
  • Aggregating and utilizing data from multiple stakeholders
  • Establishing data policies
  • Streamlining communication channel
Moderator: Mike Melinyshyn, CFO, Director of Corporate Services & Innovation, Town of Innisfil
David Graham, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Carlsbad
Burcu Özdemir, Coordinator of Smart/Intelligent Transportation Systems, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Jim Vair, President, Capital Networks

10:30

In- person: Networking Break
Virtual Panel: Must-Haves for Intelligent Cities
  • 5 Top qualities of emerging municipalities
  • Innovating Technologies to gain from
  • Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Maimunah Jaffar, Director Lead Technology & Innovation, Iskandar Regional Development Authority, Malaysia
Miquel Estape, Deputy Director at Open Government of Catalonia, Spain
Chen-Yu LEE, Director, Taipei Smart City Project Management Office
Alexandra Cutean, Chief Research Officer, ICTC

11:15

Panel: Does Size Matter?
  • How to make smaller municipalities smarter?
  • De-urbanization and its impact?
  • Are small cities prepared?
Moderator: Bob Payette, CAO, District of Barriere, British Columbia
Rob Adams, Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Stouffville
Sheila Bassi-Kellett, City Manager, City of Yellowknife
Mike Melinyshyn, CFO, Director of Corporate Services & Innovation, Town of Innisfil

11:00

Panel: Rethinking Resilience
  • What does resilience signify in a post pandemic world?
  • Putting citizens at the heart of resilience efforts
  • New opportunities and challenges
Moderator: Sophie LaPlante, Business Development Manager- Cities, Axis Communications
Robert Bartlett, Chef Administrative Officer, District of West Vancouver
Cheryl Copage Gehue, Council Member and Engagement Advisor, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Halifax Regional Municipality
Shari Lichterman, Commissioner Corporate Services & Chief Financial Officer, City of Mississauga

11:45

Panel: Building Future-Ready, Intelligent Infrastructure
  • How do cities make sure their technologies are future proof?
  • Can you predict the right tools?
  • Staying Relevant: Maintaining and upgrading infrastructure
  • Importance of accessibility to support a more inclusive cities
Moderator: Rob Adams, Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Stouffville
Phillip Rizcallah, Chief Executive Officer, Accessibility Standards Canada
Burcu Özdemir, Coordinator of Smart/Intelligent Transportation Systems, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

11:30

Panel: Making Citizen-Centric Data Strategies
  • Getting the right data from the right sources
  • Gaining Citizen’s trust in sharing data
  • What do you do with the collected data
  • How to combine private and public data?
Moderator: Art Thompson, CIO, City of Detroit, USA
Jenny Alfandary, President and CEO, Westario Power

12:15

Networking Lunch

12:00

Panel: Data-Driven City Management
  • Taking evidence-based decisions
  • Using Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning to improve planning
  • How data can improve quality of educational system: A Case study from Poland
Moderator: Erin Britnell, Director, Corporate Strategy and Innovation, Town of Caledon
Nabeel Ahmed, Management Consultant, City of Toronto
Mark Damm, CEO, FuseForward
Al Wiggins Jr, Commissioner, Department of Public Works, City of Atlanta

13:15

Panel: How to Build Cyber Secure Cities?
  • How to Plan for the Unplanned
  • Protecting our Cities from Cyber Attacks
  • Cyberspace and Defeating Tomorrow’s Attacks
  • Avoiding services held at ransom
Moderator: Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Global Lead, Smart Cities, Stantec
Kalyan Chakravarthy, CIO, Region of Durham
Sumon Acharjee, Chief Information Officer, City of Markham

12:30

Keynote: Outcomes-Driven Innovation: Decoding London's approach to using digital and data innovation
Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology & Innovation, UK

13:45

Panel: Physical Safety and Security of the cities
  • Role of AI, Data and Smart technologies in the physical security of people
  • Cybersecurity from the inception through to the ongoing management of smart applications
  • 100 percent cybersecurity awareness among the city administrators
 Moderator: Mark Damm, CEO, FuseForward
Thomas Robinson, SBB AG Innovation, Research, and Incubation Hilfikerstrasse, Zurich
Jake Rudolph, CAO, City of Nanaimo
Seth Yurman, Assistant City Manager and Land Development Manager, City of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, USA

13:00

Panel: Making it Real: A Smart City Strategy and Roadmap for Markham
Moderator: Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Global Lead, Smart Cities, Stantec
Trinela V.E. Cane, Commissioner of Corporate Services, City of Markham
Arvin Prasad, Commissioner of Development Services, City of Markham
Sumon Acharjee, Chief Information Officer, City of Markham

14:15

Networking Break

13:30

Networking Lunch

14:45

Panel: Intelligent Mobility: Personal and Public Transportation
  • Rethinking fare and funding models
  • Addressing First Mile-Last Mile problem
  • The future of sustainable transport
  • The myriad use of mobility data
  • The future of autonomous vehicles
  • Green tech-driven mobility
Modreator: Namir Anani, President & CEO, ICTC
Sharon Fleming, Director Calgary Transit, City of Calgary
Eric Richardson, Deputy Chief Fleet Management Officer , City of New York
Roomer Tarajev, Smart City Manager, City of Tartu, Estonia

14:30

Panel: Privacy by Design
  • Ensuring responsible use of technology and data
  • Addressing citizen concerns and ensuring security of data
  • Embedding privacy in policies
Moderator: Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Global Lead, Smart Cities, Stantec
Erin Britnell, Director, Corporate Strategy and Innovation, Town of Caledon
Mike Melinyshyn, CFO, Director of Corporate Services & Innovation, Town of Innisfil
Kristie Pratt, Deputy City Clerk, Corporation Information Management Services, City of  Toronto

15:15

Panel: Meet the Municipalities
  • The in-betweeners? Striking a balance between state mandates and municipal needs
  • Are municipalities fighting for visibility?
  • Bridging the urban-rural divide
  • Creating a Positive Dialogue with small Communities
Moderator: Hifazat ‘Faz’ Ahmad, President, Intelligent Cities
Scott Butler, Executive Director, Good Roads
Bob Payette, CAO, District of Barriere, British Columbia
Al Wiggins Jr, Commissioner, Department of Public works, City of Atlanta

15:00

Panel: Libraries of the future
  • How can libraries adapt in the digital age?
  • What did the pandemic-led digital acceleration change for the libraries?
Moderator: Teresa Abbruzzese, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, York University
Christian de Castell, Chief librarian & CEO, Vancouver Public Library
Todd Kyle, Director, Digital govt and modernization, City of Toronto

15:45

Keynote: Changing Work and Changing Play: Optimizing Our Cities and Our Lives
Thomas Robinson, SBB AG Innovation, Research, and Incubation Hilfikerstrasse, Zurich

15:30

Networking Break

16:15

End of Day 1

16:00

Panel: Building a Modern Downtown?
  • Urban density – Pros & Cons to building high
  • Impact of working from anywhere (WFA) on local economy, employee administration and civic operations
  • Balancing the Needs of Homeless and Business Issues?
  • Vision for the inclusion of Homeless in Downtown Space?
Moderator: Robert Barlett, Chief Administrative Officer, District of West Vancouver
Brian Bridgeman, Commissioner, Planning and Economic Development, Region of Durham, Canada
Chris Jordan, Manager, Service Design, Calgary Transit
Jake Rudolph, CAO, City of Nanaimo

16:30

Panel: Future of Work
  • Future of work post-COVID for Municipalities
  • Hybrid Work Culture: Challenges & Opportunities
  • The Future of Public Spaces
  • Economic Impact
Moderator: Hifazat ‘Faz’ Ahmad, President, Intelligent Cities
Justin Ratcliffe, Economist & Research Analyst, ICTC
Anthony Iannucci, Chief Transformation Officer, Office of the City Manager, City of Richmond Hill
Visha Sukdeo, Associate General Counsel, Toronto Transit Commission
Selina Young, Director, Indigenous Affairs Office, City of Toronto

17:00

End of Day 02