Global Smart City Trends

After his Degree in Internet Business Engineering and 5 years as a Software Engineer, he founded the Data In Motion in 2010. He saw the merit in Modulare and Model driven Software early in his career and has been an evangelist for this approach ever since. He is a member of the OSGi Alliance and an active participant in the different OSGi Experts groups.He will be talking about a couple of projects being conducted with Jena, a vibrant city of 110.000 people in the middle of Germany embarks on a journey to get smarter. With area-wide 5G coverage in the Background and a lot of ambition to start on improving the daily live and security of its inhabitants.

Charles is one of Asia’s leading technology industry innovators and thoughtleaders. His in-depth knowledge of emerging technologies, combined with hisunderstanding of the market demand, provides him with a unique ability to separate industry hype from reality. His pragmatic, vendor-agnostic approach makes him a valued advisor to influential decision makers across the technology ecosystem. Charles is a prominent keynote speaker who has presented at over 200 industryevents globally, where he shares his candid insights on IoT, Smart Cities, PropTech, Digital Transformation and 5G. Charles is the host of the TechBurst Asia podcast, a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company on IoT and sits on the Advisory Boards of technology start-ups and the GO SMART (Global Organisation of Smart Cities) initiative.

Project coordinator of M-Sec Project on Japanese side. M-Sec is an international collaborative research project between Europe and Japan, which stands for Multi-layered Security technologies to ensure hyperconnected smart cities with Blockchain, Big Data, Cloud and IoT”. I have been involved in 3 EU-JP collaborative research since 2014 as a project coordinator, ClouT, BigCloutT and now M-Sec is the 3rd project. I am also a management director for a Japanese SME; PortHofner, Inc. I am responsible for IT related projects such as Furusato (hometown in Japanese) Telework project funded by MIC.

Instrumental in Columbus becoming the sole winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart Cities Challenge in 2016, Jordan Davis has played a founding role as Director of Smart Columbus for the Columbus Partnership, leading strategy and partnerships for deploying emerging technologies to improve people’s lives in cities. In her role, she has overseen one of the country’s first self-driving vehicle deployments, formed partnerships with over 100 different organizations representing $720 million of aligned investment, and directed Columbus’ effort to increase electric vehicle adoption by nearly 500% breaking world records for EV education and leading the Midwest in market growth. Most recently, Jordan incepted Can’t Stop Columbus, a grass-roots innovation movement responding to the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19. The effort has attracted over 600 virtual volunteers, launched over 30 projects in 12 different issue areas of the community, and is now organizing to be a permanent organizing platform for civic tech and skilled volunteering into the future. In the community, Jordan is Co-founder and Director of the Central Ohio Leadership Academy, member of the board for the Columbus School for Girls, and former three term Chair of the Create Columbus Commission. Jordan has been fortunate to speak to audiences around the world about her pioneering work and has been honored as one of the ‘Top 25 Government Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers’ by Government Magazine, ‘Top 100 Influential Young Executives’ by American City Business Journals, a ‘Rising Star’ by Automotive News, and one of ten Mercedes Benz Future of Mobility Fellows in the world.

IoT Unit Head – Principal Investigator & Data Scientist at Insight SFI research Centre for Data Analytics – NUI Galway, Ireland. Dr. Martin Serrano is a recognized Research Data Scientist with more than 15 years’ experience in industry and applied research on Semantic Interoperability and Distributed Data Systems. Dr. Martin Serrano is a continuous contributor to the Scientific, Research and Innovation agenda (SRIA) for Europe and with a wide range of successful (EUFP5-FP7/H2020) collaborative projects, Irish (HEA PRTLI, SFI) and also Enterprise Ireland (EI) innovation projects. Dr. Serrano is also an International Associate to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) working on the use of formal methods for smart city self-assessment and social impact. He was involved in the HEA-futurecomms project where he was investigating methodologies and algorithms for the optimal use of IT technology (i.e. cloud systems and analytic systems) for remote health monitoring. Dr. Serrano is an active member of IEEE (Computer and Communication Societies) and ACM with more than 100 pair reviewed publications and he is the author of 4 academic books in related areas.

Ms. Vanessa Clemente holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona, and a Master’s degree in Global Management from the Antwerp Management School. Since 2015 has been working for the IT sector and in 2018, joined Worldline as business developer and Project Manager at the Worldline Mobile Competence Center. She is currently involved in different research programmes. Among them, she is the European Coordinator of H2020 M-Sec Project.

Minju CHANG is the Head of the Smart City Division of Sejong City's urban growth headquarters. She was in charge of regional economy, strategic industry, and international cooperation at the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and North Chungcheong Province since 2008. From 2015 to 2018, she was the director of urban transport in Sejong City.Since the Korean government designated Sejong City as a national pilot smart city in 2018, she has been striving for the success of Sejong National Pilot Smart City as the director of Smart City Division. She got a M.D. from the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University in 2008.

Dr. Brian Subirana is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID lab, a research scientist at MIT, and on the Faculty of Harvard University. He has recently been named the Director of the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. His MIT Sloan class was the first course ever to offer a recorded lecture on MIT open courseware. Before becoming an academic, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Subirana obtained his PhD in computer science at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now CSAIL), his MBA at MIT Sloan, has founded three start-ups, and has been affiliated with MIT for over 20 years in various capacities including visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research centers on the internet of things and AI (health especially COVID-19, Alzheimer’s, blockchain , electric vehicles, and supply chain) and on developing a mathematical theory for deep learning with forgetting (conversational commerce and digital learning).

Domenico Siracusa is the head of the RiSING research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). He received his PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano in 2012. His current research interests include orchestration of next generation Internet infrastructures, cloud and fog computing, SDN/NFV and virtualization, security and robustness. Domenico authored more than 100 publications appeared in international peer reviewed journals and in major conferences on networking technologies. He is project manager and technical leader of the H2020 EU-Korea DECENTER Project. In the past, he has been the coordinator of the ACINO project and the activity leader of the EIT Digital DigiFlow project, and was involved as principal investigator, workpackage leader or contributor in other FP7/H2020, EIT digital and commercial projects. Domenico is very active in the scientific community, acting as member of the Technical Program Committee of conferences, being reviewer of highly cited journals and participating to standardization committees and open-source initiatives.

Takuro Yonezawa is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. He received a Ph.D. degree in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2010. His research interests are the intersection of the distributed systems, human-computer interaction and sensors/actuators technologies. He led several smart city projects as a technical coordinator, such as FP7/Horizon2020/NICT European-Japanese collaborative research project (ClouT/BigClouT project), NICT social big data project, MIC G-Space city project, and so on. He was awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2009) and IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award (2013, 2020).

Dr. Daeyoung Kim is a Professor of School of Computing at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea. He has co-authored more than 270 academic papers in Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, and Block Chain since 1990. He is the Director of Auto-ID Labs at KAIST (http://autoidlabs.org) and leading the Oliot Open Source IoT Platform Project (http://oliot.org) which implements GS1 EPCglobal international standards and beyond. He is actively collaborating with industry in the fields of food service, agriculture, healthcare, connected cars, smart factory, and smart city. Dr. Kim is a member of Korean Open Data Strategy Council and a board member of GS1 Korea and Urban Technology Alliance (UTA). He is also leading a city platform experts group of Busan Eco Delta Smart City Project.

Dr. Sejun Song is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). Song conducts research projects including Smart and Connected Communities, Internet-of-Things, Mobile and Wireless Communications, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, Computer Networking. Song received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2001. He was working for Texas A&M University, College Station (TAMU) as an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution (ETID) and a director of the Cisco Test Engineering Center (Cisco-TEC). Before joining academia, Song has been working for industries including Cisco Systems and Honeywell Research Lab. Song is a recipient of the Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar for excellence in undergraduate teaching and a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, a NASA Summer Fellowship Award, Air Force Research Lab’s Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship Awards, a Cisco Summer Fellowship Award, and has received several best research video/paper awards including CCNC 2019, ISC2 2018, Mobisys 2014, ICCCN 2014, and CIEC 2013. His research has been funded by several agencies, including NSF, AFOSR, Cisco Systems, AFRL, NASA, NIH, CDC, TAMU, KT Research, and ETRI.

Tomáš Cholinský is a head of SIT Port section in „Správa informačních technologií města Plzně.“ He is responsible for the implementation of activities for the development of a community of technically gifted people aged 16+ and the implementation of activities related to supporting entrepreneurship, creating start-ups.

Mayor of Champagnier, France. Teacher and researcher at Grenoble Alpes (FR) and Milan Bicocca (IT) universities: geography, urbanism, sociology, mobility. Founder of the design office '45.5 Sustainable Engineering'.

Clément Dieudonné focused his career on new technology commercialization, in the manufacturing, energy and telecom markets. Currently with UBIIK, an energy management solution provider to utilities and industrials in Asia – after heading up the business development of M2COMM, a Retail IoT technology startup in Taiwan and France. He started at Applied Materials as business manager with semiconductor and solar manufacturing customers in the US, Switzerland and China. Clément holds a MBA from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and a Master of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology

Keisuke Innami was born in Osaka in 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Language and Culture (Portuguese) at Osaka University. He worked as a unique communication specialist of Knowledge Capital (KC), “Communicator”, for 2 and a half years since its inauguration. Currently, he is the Chief Assistant to General Producer at KC, mainly working for both internal and external relations, including international projects. He is also a Visiting Academic Staff of Center for the Study of CO* Design at Osaka University, and the lecturer of Training Course of Medical Interpreter at Osaka University.

Dr. Daeyeon Cho is a Chief Director of National Strategic Smart City R&D Program in Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement(KAIA), the former member of Special Committee of Smart Cities by Presidency. He has been in charge of planning and implementation of National R&D programs in the fields of urban problems, architecture, civil structures, and transportation since 2005. Among them there were the prominent achievements of 430 km/h high speed railways, 100-floor high-rise building, 1.6km long-span bridge. Before present position, he had been a director of corporate venturing and research in Korea Highway Corporation from 1995 to 2004. He worked at George Washington University as a visiting scholar in Center of International Science and Technology Policy(CISTP)(2011-2012). He got a Ph.D in Structural Engineering from Seoul National University in 1994.

David Vogt is an innovation leader based in Vancouver, Canada, who is focused on the personal, social and cultural potentials of emerging information technologies. He specializes in collaborative applied innovation programs employing urban environments as 'living labs' for the incubation of for-profit and nonprofit ventures. Dr. Vogt has cross appointments at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Hayato Shimizu is the mayor of the city of Saitama since 2009. He is also a guest professor of Kyoei University.

Pr. Aawatif HAYAR received the Degree of “Agrégation” in Electrical Engineering from ENS Cachan in 1992. She received the DEA and Engineer Degrees in Signal processing Image, Telecommunications and Networks from ENSEEIHT Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. Degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from INP Toulouse, 2001. She joined EURECOM from 2001 to 2010 in France. Aawatif has an HDR Degree from University Sud Toulon Var from France on Cognitive Wideband Wireless Systems in 2010 and an HDR on Green Téléommunication from University Hassan II Casablanca (UH2C) in 2013. In 2011 She joined UH2C as Professor at ENSEM and was appointed in 2019 as President of the University. Her research interests includes social frugal smart cities.

Dr. Chen-Yu (Leo), Lee is a consultant for Taipei Computer Association (TCA) as well as the director for Taipei Smart City Project Management Office (TPMO) established by Taipei City Government. TCA was built in 1974 and is the leading industrial organization in Taiwan. Before serving at TCA, Dr. Lee used to work in Institute for Information Industry (III), which is to strengthen the competitiveness of information industry. Dr. Lee has worked on numerous central government projects, including Smart City Promotion Project, Cloud Computing Industry Project, UX Project, E-learning Project, etc., and had over 15 years of research experience in ICT related industry.With long-term observation on smart city industry, Dr. Lee is considered one of the experts that able to provide professional analysis and strategic advice service to both smart city and ICT industry development

Currently CEO of Internet of Things startup, Sense Tecnic, Dr. Lea has over 25 years experience spanning academia, large corporations and startups. For the last 10 years, he has started or helped start 4 new companies while managing an active research program (University of British Columbia, Canada and Lancaster University, UK) into distributed and ubiquitous computing with a focus on Smart Cities.Prior to his startups, Dr. Lea spent over 15 years in industrial research in France, Japan and the USA, most recently as Vice President and Director of Sony’s US distributed system lab, located in Silicon Valley, CA.

Ann-Marie is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 30years experience in the property & construction market working across contracting and private practice before specialising in Facilities Management and looking after large offices, including RBS Gogarburn. She joined Strathclyde University in 2014 as Head of Operations to open and run the Technology and Innovation Centre before being seconded to Glasgow City Innovation District in Aug 2019 as Project Director.

Dr Mike Short CBE joined the Department for International Trade as the first Chief Scientific Adviser in December 2017.Mike leads the science and engineering profession in the department and ensures its policy is informed by the best science, engineering and technical advice. He advises on technical aspects of future trade deals as DIT looks to create new arrangements following Brexit, and works with the UK’s research, development and academic communities to boost scientific and engineering exports.Mike has over 40 years’ experience in electronics and telecommunications and served as Vice President of Telefonica, the parent company of 02. He managed the launch of 2G (GSM) and 3G mobile technologies in the UK and led research and development for Telefonica Europe.

Julie Snell has over 30 years’ experience as a business leader having successfully established new technology markets and leading technology innovation in telecoms / digital IT.Julie was part of the leadership team that developed BT’s first public Wifi project, BT Openzone. She spent five years on the board of the global telco group Wireless Broadband Alliance, two years as Chair. In 2017, Julie was appointed as director and CEO of Bristol’s smart city infrastructure and computer network company Bristol is Open.She is also Chair of Scotland 5G Centre, non-executive director at Col8, director of a building maintenance company and a mentor for Babbasa, to help young people realise their employment or enterprise ambitions.

Dr. Jong Sung Hwang is an ICT strategy expert who served in a numberof key positions in the IT policy planning in distinguishedorganizations. Currently he is a senior researcher at the National Information Society Agency. He is also a member of the Gov3.0 Committee of the Korean government, which designs and coordinatesgovernment and public sector innovation programs at a vice-ministeriallevel. Dr. Hwang is a former Chief Information Officer of Seoul Metropolitan Government as well as the former Secretary General of the World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (WeGO). He is also a Member of the Global AdvisoryBoard to the Smart City Exhibition and World Congress (SCEWC), and of the Steering Committee of the IoT World Forum. In particular he has long experiences in designing national IT strategies and developing a new breed of smart services. He drafted the first Korea IT Promotion Basic Plan in 1996 and initiated the u-City project, one of the world’sfirst smart city projects, in 2005. As a CIO of Seoul, he launched the Smart Seoul 2015 initiatives in 2011 and made Seoul as a best case for smart city recommended by the ITU. Dr. Hwang holds a Master’sdegree and a Doctoral degree in Political Science from YonseiUniversity in Korea.

Dr. Levent Gürgen is the president of the Urban Technology Alliance. He is also the founder and president of the startup company Kentyou, which provides open innovation enabler for smarter cities. Before creating Kentyou, he was R&D project manager in CEA-LETI for about 10 years. He has coordinated and been involved in numerous collaborative smart city projects involving various cities in Europe and in Asia. His involvement in those projects has been awarded in 2016 by the French Ministry of Research and Education as one of the 12 “Stars of Europe”.