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Deloitte at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023
Tuesday, 7 November 2023 9:00 AM

In-person

7 - 9 Nov.

09:00 am

Deloitte at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023

Deloitte is proud to announce our presence as Global & Industry Partners at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023. Join us at our booth to explore how we are driving urban innovation, addressing pressing city challenges, and creating better futures for communities worldwide.

Create better futures | Fulfilling our dreams through data and technology
 

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) is the world’s biggest and most influential event on urban innovation. Immerse yourself in dynamic discussions that focus on key areas propelling value and enhancing urban ecosystems. Engage with our subject matter specialists, unveiling our contributions across Sustainability, Infrastructure & Buildings, Mobility & Transport, and Digital Modernization encompassing Cyber, AI, and 5G.

Smart City Expo World Congress serves as a platform for leaders to come together and discuss the most pressing challenges facing cities worldwide. We look forward to connecting with you and together shaping the urban landscape of tomorrow.

    "We are putting all our energy and focus on ensuring human centricity is at the core of all our tech developments and innovations."

    Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte

    Deloitte’s Sessions at the Congress

    Our global leaders will lead discussions in the following Congress Sessions:

    Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 14:15h - 15:00h

    Location: Hall 1 | Auditorium

    Decription: Visionary design will lead cities to a new era of thriving, resource-efficient and future-ready urban environments. By embracing technological advancements, decarbonisation principles and innovative infrastructure strategies, cities are being reshaped for the better. How can greener buildings and infrastructure bring cities to a sustainable reality, and towards a technologically enabled, balanced urban landscape?

    Moderator: Ms. Martha Thorne, Senior Advisor, Henrik F. Obel Foundation

    Speakers:

    • Mr. Luke Houghton, Global Infrastructure Leader Advisory, Deloitte
    • Mr. Talal Al-Marri, Senior Vice President of Community Services, Aramco
    • Ms. Eszter Dávida, New European Bauhaus + KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre
    • Dr. Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita, Yale School of Architecture

    Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 15:15h - 16:00h

    Location: Hall 1 | Auditorium

    Moderator: Ms. Nicol Turner Lee, The Brookings Institution

    Speakers:

    • Mr. Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte
    • Mr. Andrea Sorri, Segment Development Manager Smart Cities EMEA, Axis Communications
    • Mr. Manminder Takhar, Global Chief Technology Officer – Digital Cities, Dell Technologies
    • Ms. Natalia Olson Urtecho, Growth Advisor & Investor, Rapid Scale VC & Plug and Play

     

    Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 15:25h - 16:10h

    Location: Hall 2 | Green Room

    Description: Cities have the power to drive change in the fight against the climate crisis. Tackling interconnected urban challenges, including the energy transition or food insecurity, calls for comprehensive solutions. Through curbing emissions, leading scalable projects, and fostering collaboration, cities can enact effective climate action. However, the question remains: which strategies will yield time and cost-effective results in achieving these crucial objectives?

    Moderator: Dr. Hannah Abdullah, Senior Program Officer & Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

    Speakers:

    • Ms. Anna Kowalewska, Global EU Institutions Sustainability Leader
    • Ms. Martina Colman, Head of Climate Science, Climate Essentials
    • Ms. Alis Daniela Torres, Head of Green Digital Transformation ICLEI Europe
    • Ms. Mariana Fiuza, Urban Planner, United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

    Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 16:45h – 17:35h

    Location: Hall 2 | Tomorrow.Mobility Room

    Description: Buildings generate 40% of annual global carbon emissions. How can cities work with industry to deliver net zero roadmaps while still meeting demand for increased housing, urban services, and infrastructure? Hear from city, industry and NGO leaders on the policies, partnerships and solutions which have begun to move the needle on this global issue.  During this congress session, we will also launch the Whole Life Carbon Assessment Mandates model policy, which our Sustainability and Smart Cities Taskforce members have been working on.

    Moderator: Mr. Jeff Merritt, Head of Centre of Urban Transformation, World Economic Forum

    Speakers:

    • Mr. Jean Barroca, Global Public Sector Digital Modernization Leader, Deloitte
    • Ms. Nidhi Gulati, Principal, Business Consulting, Sustainability & Design, Infosys
    • Ms. Kelly Alvarez Doran, Senior Fellow, Architecture2030 & Co-founder of Half Climate Design
    • Ms. Irene Skoula, Director, Energy and Buildings, C40 Cities 

    Date and hour: Wednesday 08, 13:30h – 14:30h

    Location: Hall 2 | Tomorrow.Mobility Room

    Description: Despite policies and industrial priorities heavily pushing for the electrification of transportation, challenges related to design, lifecycle, and sourcing of critical metals are threatening to prevent the realisation of 2030 objectives. This session will discuss the various requirements to accelerate the uptake of vehicles with smaller, more efficient batteries without compromising range, as we race to net zero.

    Moderator: Mr. Carlo van de Weijer, General Manager of the Eindhoven AI Systems Institute, University of Eindhoven

    Speakers:

    • Mr. Harald Proff, Global Automotive Sector Leader, Deloitte
    • Ms. Jennifer Dungs, Global Head of Mobility, EIT InnoEnergy
    • Ms. Rocio Paniagua Oliver, Low-Emission Vehicle Programme Manager, Electronics Watch
    • Ms. Martyna Zielinska, Senior Logistics Development Specialist, Łukasiewicz - Poznański Instytut
    • Ms. Mª Dolores Ortíz Sánchez, General Director, Ayuntamiento de Madrid

    Deloitte Booth Talks

    Join us at our 310sqm booth, to discover our latest solutions, thought leadership and case studies, and attend a series of engaging presentations:
    • How can infrastructure provide transformative benefits to society and improve quality of life for all?

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 11:00h – 11:30h

    Speakers: Luke Houghton, Global Infrastructure Leader, Deloitte

     

    • Yes SF, Leading urban transformation with the World Economic Forum, Deloitte & Salesforce

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 11:30h – 12:00h

    Speakers: Marcin Skucz, Managing Director, Deloitte & Jeff Merritt, Head of Urban Transformation, World Economic Forum & Dr. Carolin Möller, Digital Transformation Public Sector, Director, Salesforce

     

    • Road to net zero: Policy enablers for unlocking smart-city development in Europe

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 12:00h – 12:30h

    Speakers: Michelle Hill, Executive, Economic Advisory, Deloitte

     

    • Global Cities, Local Action: The Future of Infrastructure for Good

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 13:30h – 14:15h

    Speakers: Brian Greenberg, Global GPS 5G/Edge Leader, Deloitte &

    Honorable Michael Hancock, former Mayor of Denver, CO

    Mayor Victoria Woodards, City of Tacoma, WA - President of the National League of Cities (NLC)

    Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, City of Los Angeles, CA - Chair of Finance & Budget Committee

    Mayor Melissa Blaustein, City of Sausalito, CA

     

    • How Deloitte aims to help the region of Porto to reduce their climate footprint and become climate positive

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 15:00h – 15:30h

    Speakers: Ricardo Martins, Associate Partner, Deloitte & Rui Pimenta, Board Member, AdePorto

     

    • Data Spaces: Unlocking the Power of Connected Information - a check of the state of art

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 15:30h – 16:00h

    Speakers: Ricardo Martins, Associate Partner, Deloitte & Cristina Brandtstetter, Chief Marketing Officer, FIWARE & Tonia Sapia, Senior Marketing and Project Manager, FIWARE

     

    • Building a scalable and interoperable Smart City platform using Garnet Framework

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 16:00h – 16:30h

    Speakers: Ricardo Martins, Associate Partner, Deloitte & Ali Benfattoum, Principal PMT-ES AWS IoT, AWS

    • Energy optimisation in Buildings

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 10:30h – 11:00h

    Speakers: Sandra Kaae Bauer, Director, Deloitte & Jean Barroca, Global Public Sector Digital Modernization Leader, Deloitte 

     

    • AI, Digital Twins, and UAS solutions for infrastructure inspections and security

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 11:00h – 11:30h

    Speakers: Peter Liu, Consulting Managing Director, Deloitte & Ashley Smith, DC Manager, Deloitte 
      

    • Look to Norway: How to reduce GHG emissions, noise and pollution as well as improve the quality of life in urban areas

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 11:30h – 12:00h

    Speakers: Vanja Bjerch, Manager at Monitor, Deloitte & Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
      

    • The fusion of state-of-art payments and tech for frictionless mobility

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 12:00h – 12:30h

    Speakers: Ricardo Martins, Associate Partner, Deloitte & Chapin Flynn, Senior Vice President at Mastercard & Paulo Ferreira dos Santos, CEO, Ubririder
      

    • Local Digital Twins - building a new urban data ecosystem in the EU

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 12:30h – 13:00h

    Speakers: Jean Barroca, Global Public Sector Digital Modernization & Synergy General Manager, Deloitte & Ana Robalo, Manager, Deloitte & Inês Ramos, Strategy and Analytics and EU Institutions Director, Deloitte & Karl-Filip Coenegrachts, Chair, Open and Agile Smart Cities Network (OASC) 
      

    • Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainability

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 14:00h – 14:30h

    Speakers: Margarida Pisco, Manager, Deloitte
     

    • Synergy: Transforming cities for a better tomorrow

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 14:30h – 15:00h

    Speakers:  Nuno Afonso, Partner, Deloitte & Justin Herman, Global Public Sector and Area Vice President, ServiceNow & Marta Cotrim, Head of marketing and innovation team, Cascais Municipality 
      

    • Towards a Blueprint for a Mobility-as-a-Service Ecosystem

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 15:00h – 15:30h

    Speakers: Harald Proff, Global Automotive Sector Leader, Deloitte & Ricardo Ferrão, Consulting Solutions Leader for Transportation Industry, Deloitte & Ingo Schmuckall, Director Automotive Mobility, Deloitte & Katherine Rothmann, Global Automotive Sector Specialist, Deloitte & Gero Hiegemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Int. Automobil Management 
      

    • The Future of Cities powered by Salesforce

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 15:30h – 16:00h

    Speakers: Chris Dreyfus-Gibson, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Charlie Isaacs, VP and CTO for Customer Connection, Salesforce 
     

    • Integrated Cyber Physical Security Ecosystem

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 10:30h – 11:00h

    Speakers: Piyush Pandey, Global & US Smart Cities Cyber Leader, Deloitte & André Correia Sousa, Senior Manager, Deloitte & João Francisco Silva, Tech Senior, Deloitte

    • How Gen AI empowers cities, enhancing people’s lives through personalized services and connectivity

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 10:00h – 10:30h

    Speakers: Jean Barroca, Global Public Sector Digital Modernization Leader, Deloitte & Lara Bothur, Global Voice for Innovation & Corporate Tech Influencer, Deloitte & Charbel Aoun, Sr. Director Smart Spaces Business Development, NVIDIA 
     

    • Future Ready Initiative

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 10:45h – 11:15h

    Speakers: Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte & Sajid Khan, General Manager, Smart Cities & Transportation Strategy & Marketing, Intel Corporation & Justin Herman, Global Public Sector Area Vice-President, ServiceNow & Lou Celi, Chief Executive, ThoughtLab 
     

    • Kyiv, Ukraine – Navigating today’s challenges, while preparing for the future

    Venue: Deloitte Booth

    Time: 11:30h – 12:00h

    Speakers: Tomasz Ochrymowicz, Global Future of Ukraine, Deloitte & Denys Nazarenko, CIO Advisor, Kyiv City Council & Anna Szterenfeld, Director, ThoughtLab

    Ecosystems & alliances

     

    Through our strategic collaborations with some of the world’s largest technology firms and innovators, we are shaping the future.

    Salesforce

    Together with Salesforce, we empower our clients to respond to the dynamic environment and reimagine their interactions with employees, suppliers, and customers.

    Prompted by the extraordinary potential of data and AI, we can deliver Trustworthy AI™ for CRM, enabling our clients to seize the competitive edge with confidence. With trust as our guiding principle, we can help you create bespoke customer engagement and unlock new dimensions of productivity advancement.

    ServiceNow

    Smarter workflows can lead to value-creating outcomes and a better future for everyone. Deloitte + ServiceNow are re-architecting work to help give your organization the critical tools to absorb today’s continuous flow of disruptions.

    AWS

    Innovation is only the beginning. Driving real-world impact is the end game, and Deloitte and AWS can help you get there.

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      Beth McGrath is Deloitte’s global leader for Government and Public Services. In her role, she is committed to strengthening synergies across global Industries and government and public services with a focus on client mission needs and solutions. McGrath has broad, multidisciplinary, strategic, and operational management experience acquired from 25+ years of successful performance in the United States government sector. As a member of Deloitte’s Strategy practice, she advises government and commercial organizations on strategies that help further innovation and improve business operations.
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      Deloitte - United States
      Mark Price is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP US and the Global Government and Public Services Consulting (GPS) Leader. He also serves as Lead Client Service Principal (LCSP) for our work with the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Mark has more than 35 years’ experience leading strategy, operations, and technology transformation programs for a wide range of government, healthcare, and higher education clients. Mark has worked with clients to develop and implement digital strategies and solutions to transform their business and deliver outcomes for constituents. His experience spans tax and revenue, healthcare, human services, transportation, motor vehicles, energy, resources, finance and administration, and large-scale technology transformation. Mark has also led major transformation projects for several healthcare clients around the world and some of the leading higher education institutions in the US. Prior to joining Deloitte, Mark served as Head of Strategy and Business Planning for the University Hospital of Wales, one of the largest academic medical centers in the UK. Previously, Mark served as consultant with a boutique consulting firm in the UK where he conducted international strategy engagements for primarily high-tech clients. Mark contributes significantly to Deloitte research and publications and has been called upon to speak on the topic of transformation in government, healthcare, and higher education across the US and overseas. Mark holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of Wales, UK. Mark lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand before settling in the US. Mark and his wife Kim live near Boston, Massachusetts, and their twin children Adam and Olivia are currently at college. Mark is an avid cyclist and rides the Pan Mass Challenge every year to raise funds for cancer research.
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      Michael Flynn

      Deloitte - Global
      Through his global roles, Michael has worked with Deloitte teams around the world advising public, private and banking sectors on government and infrastructure (including PPP), Real Estate, Project Finance and public sector related transactions. His roles also involve advising on business case development, value capture, new financing, refinancing and restructuring of funding positions in corporate and infrastructure projects. He has advised across a variety of sectors including energy, renewables (wind, biomass, solar and storage), education, healthcare, transport, water, waste & energy, regeneration, smart cities and real estate. Michael is a member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) PPP Business Advisory Board and an elected Irish council member of the International Project Finance Association.
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      Miguel Eiras Antunes

      Deloitte - Global
      During his career, he led the creation and development of several consulting business units (throughout his career he led the areas of strategy, innovation, Health, Telecommunications, Transport, Hospitality and Services, Public Sector, among others). He has been involved in projects all over the world, as a project leader, quality control officer or specialist. More recently, the teams led by Miguel have been involved in the NEOM project (in Saudi Arabia), the largest urban development project in the world and often considered to be the most innovative urban ecosystem in the world.
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      Dr. Harald Proff

      Deloitte - Global
      Harald is the Global/DCE/German Automotive Sector Leader. Harald brings more than 20 years of experience advising multinational companies. His work focuses on transformation programs in industrial manufacturing as well as consulting on the increasing digitization and networking of value chains. He has worked for various automotive OEMs and consumer goods industries including sanitary, food, and optical. In addition to Germany, he has also lived and worked in South Korea and Brazil. Before moving on to Deloitte, Harald was a partner for Manufacturing in the European Operations Practice at McKinsey. Since joining our firm in 2015, Harald has led the Operations Practice.
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      Deloitte - Global
      Richard is a leader in Deloitte’s Customer Practice in Canada with deep national and international experience in citizen and business service, retail and channel strategy, customer strategy, pricing and product development, and marketing and growth strategies in various industries. Richard is also the National Alumni Partner Leader for Canada. He has been with Deloitte since 1996 and a frequent speaker in the media and at conferences. Richard also serves on a number of volunteer boards.
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      She has more than 13 years of professional experience, leading advisory assignments, managing client relationships and coordinating internal initiatives related to ESG, sustainability, international development and infrastructure. She worked in more than 30 countries, implementing framework contracts and projects for multinational organisations, public sector and private entities. For the past years she has been advising clients on climate mitigation and adaptation, sustainable finance and responsible investments in emerging markets. She has a deep understanding of both public and private sector perspectives on sustainability and investments and was engaged in multiple projects related to sustainability, financial and economic analyses, impact assessment, Project Finance and public-private partnerships.
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      Throughout his professional career, he has participated in and coordinated national and international audit projects, due diligence and company valuations, design and implementation of internal control systems, operations consulting and improvement of results, advisory projects for different industries and also He has extensive experience in different projects for investors, operating internationally, and venture capital companies. Graduated in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Barcelona, he is a member of the IESE Food and Beverage Advisory Council, the UPF Social and Business Forum and the Board of Directors of Barcelona Global.
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      Jean Barroca is the Global Public Sector Digital Modernization Leader, working closely with Deloitte Public Sector Leaders across the world to help develop and deploying solutions and assets to support the Public Sector in their Digital Modernization. Jean is also the Senior Manager responsible for CitySynergy working with clients globally supporting Smart City and Future of Mobility initiatives. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2018, Jean worked with the World Bank in the Latin America & Caribbean and Africa regions in Smart Cities, Mobility, and Open Data. He was also part of the World Bank Innovation Labs team.
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