United Nations Pavilion @ Smart City Expo Congress

Opening Remarks:

Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Ugo Valenti, Director, Smart City Expo World Congress
José de la Uz Pardos, Mayor of Las Rozas and President, Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI)

Keynote:

Dae-ho Choi, Mayor, Anyang, Korea (Republic of)

Moderator: TBC

Speakers:

Kathryn Travers, Policy Specialist, Ending Violence against Women and Girls, UN Women
Ryszard Frelek, Counsellor, External Relations Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Sanjeevani Dilanthi Singh, Economic Affairs officer, Sustainable Urban Development Section, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Indra-Jeet Mistry, Urban Forestry and Green Cities Officer, Forestry Division (NFO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo, Giga Programme Manager, ITU

This session is organized by UN-Habitat.

Speakers:

Livia Nonose, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)
Sophie Naue, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)

This session is organized by UN-Habitat.

Moderator: Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, UN-Habitat

Speakers:

Mukul Bhola, Director of the United Nations Satellite Center, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
TBC

This session is co-organized by UN-Habitat and ITU.

This session is co-organized by UN-Habitat, ITU and the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET).

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speaker:

Daniel Vega Diaz, Deputy Directorate for Smart Territories, Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP)
Jordi Ortuño Ribé, Directorate of Innovation and City Technologies, Barcelona City Council

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speakers:

Gamze Hakli Geray, Adjunct Faculty Lecturer, Middlesex University Dubai
John Smičiklas, Director, ESG, Morguard Corporation

Moderator: TBC

Speakers:

Mukul Bhola, Director of the United Nations Satellite Center, UNITAR
Daniella Maor, UNICEF Partnerships and Elena Bonetti, Consultant and Environmental Regulations Lawyer, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

The session is co-organized by ITU and UN-Habitat.

Speakers:

H.E. Mr Sekou M. Kromah, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Liberia
Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, UN-Habitat
Chenayi Mutambasere, Director, Africa Centre for Economic Justice

This session is co-organized by ITU and UN-Habitat.

Opening Remarks:

Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Speakers:

Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, UN-Habitat
Cristina Bueti, Focal Point on Smart Sustainable Cities and AI-Enabled Citiverse, ITU
Ammar Mousa Khadim, Mayor, City of Baghdad
Dae-ho Choi, Mayor, Anyang, Korea (Republic of)

This session is co-organized by ITU, the European Commission, OASC and UNICC.

Opening Remarks:

Karl-Filip Coenegrachts, Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Director, Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (OASC)

Speakers:

Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
Martin Brynskov, Founding Director and Standardisation Lead, OASC
Antonio Jara, CTO, Libelium
Kyoungjae Sun, Senior Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic of Korea
Anna Wennblad, Project Manager for European Citiverses Uniting for Inclusiveness

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speaker:

Okan Geray, Senior Digital City Strategy Advisor, Dubai Digital Authority

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speaker:

Okan Geray, Senior Digital City Strategy Advisor, Dubai Digital Authority

This session is co-organized by ITU, OASC and City of Valencia, under the framework of Global Initiative on AI, Digital Twins and Virtual Worlds – Discovering the Citiverse.

Moderator: Cristina Bueti, ITU Focal Point on Smart Sustainable Cities and AI-Enabled Citiverse

Opening remarks:

Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
Karl-Filip Coenegrachts, Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Director, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
Anish Sethi, Chief Digital Solutions Centre, United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)

Keynote:

L.P.A. Dekkers, Vice-Mayor, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (TBC)

Speakers:

Ernesto Faubel, Chair of European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) on Local Digital Twins
Teppo Rantanen, Senior Advisor, Business Tampere
Louisa Barker, Senior Research Manager, IDC Government Insights, Europe
Christina Yan Zhang, CEO, The Metaverse Institute
Pilar Orero, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

This session is organized by UNITAC.

Opening Remarks: Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, UN-Habitat

Speakers:

Livia Nonose, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)
Sophie Naue, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)

This session is organized by ITU.

Speakers:

Cristina Bueti, ITU Focal Point on Smart Sustainable Cities and AI-Enabled Citiverse
Martin Brynskov, Founding Director and Standardisation Lead, OASC
Eliana M. Pérez, Director of Communications, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic
Manuel Martínez Niño, Executive Director, CINTEL and Dennis García, Senior Manager, CINTEL
Representative of LoRa Alliance

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speakers:

Ramy Ahmed Fathy, Chief of International Cybersecurity, National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), Egypt
Manuel Cabugueira, Board Member, ANACOM

Moderator: Andras Szörényi, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Cities Hub

Speakers:

Francine Pickup, Head of the UNDP Office in Madrid, Deputy Assistant Administrator & Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Oscar Ivanova, Project Management and Communications Analyst, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
UN-Women LATAM

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speakers:

Ezequiel García, Director of Institutional Relations, SEGITTUR
Lorena Villar, Senior Project Specialist, UN Tourism

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speaker:

Okan Geray, Senior Digital City Strategy Adviser, Digital Dubai Authority

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speakers:

Ivy Yang, AI/Digital Policy Navigation Specialist, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
Gert Hilgers, Local Digital Twin (LDT) Strategist, OASC

This session is organized by the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative.

Speakers:

Bas Boorsma, Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Teppo Rantanen, Senior Advisor, Business Tampere
Chenayi Mutambasere, Director, Africa Centre for Economic Justice
Bamidele Adebisi, Professor of Intelligent Infrastructure Systems and Director of Smart Communities and Innovations, Manchester Metropolitan University

This session is organized by UN-Habitat.

Speakers:

Livia Nonose, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)
Sophie Naue, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)

This session is organized by UN-Habitat.

Opening Remarks: Edlam Yemeru, Director, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Moderator: Roberta Maio, Digital Rights and Inclusion Officer, UN-Habitat

Speakers:

Sophie Naue, UNITAC
Tanya Merger, ICLEI
Peter Sailer, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbHG, Germany (TBC)

Closing Remarks:

Cristina Bueti, ITU Focal Point on Smart Sustainable Cities and AI-Enabled Citiverse
Aline Machado da Matta, Head of the Geneva Office and Head of the UN Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities, UN-Habitat