Topics to be addressed include:
- Leveraging the smart energy grid for other municipal applications
- Smart lighting advances, platforms and business models
- Smart transportation and parking
- Environmental monitoring and waste management
- IoT applications and communications networks for enabling the Smarter City
- Learning from the leaders: key smart city developments around the world
- Market trends and growth drivers: challenges and opportunities
- Phased, cost-effective approaches: efficiency measures that can fund additional steps
- Building a culture of performance via data analytics and benchmarking
- Enhancing sustainability, accessibility and livability
- Key emerging technologies and applications
- And more
Chicago's Smart City Leadership: As a center for smart city application and deployment, Chicago is uniquely situated to lead the national conversation about moving toward the city of the future.
Focus on Implementation: The conference places primary focus on actual implementations, key case studies and lessons learned to date, in order to formulate real-world success strategies going forward.
Technology Exhibition: Exhibition tables in the coffee break and luncheon area allow for quality networking with industry thought leaders and interaction with cutting-edge innovations
Senior-Level Executive Attendees: The Symposium is uniquely designed for senior decision-makers, CIOs, and executives charged with making the smart city a reality in today's environment
Emphasis on Qualty Networking: Ample time is reserved for focused, one-on-one meetings and high-value interaction among attendees
Who Should Attend?
- Government policy makers and managers
- Mayors and municipal leaders
- Urban planning professionals
- Telecommunication companies
- Electric, water and gas utilities
- Developers and construction companies
- Electric vehicle and transportation organizations
- Financial and investment professionals
- Smart grid and communication technology providers
- IT and Big Data analytics companies
- Standards and regulatory organizations
- Industry associations
Program Schedule
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
1:00 - 5:15 pm Pre-Conference Workshop: The Future of Mobility details
- Elizabeth A. Kócs, PhD, Director, Energy Initiative, University of Illinois at Chicago
- George W. Crabtree, Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
- Bryan Tillman, Project Manager, 360 Energy Group
- Additional speakers TBA
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 am Putting People First in Sustainable Urban Development details
- Gerben Van Straaten, CEO, World of Walas
9:00 - 10:00 am Refining the Smart City Vision: Innovative Approaches and Strategies details
- Tim Antoniuk, Associate Professor, Design Studies, University of Alberta
- Sandy Albert, Director of Real Estate, Common
10:00 - 10:30 am Networking Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 pm How Partnerships are Shaping Illinois' Smart City Development details
- Rebekah Scheinfeld, Commissioner, Department of Transportation (CDOT), City of Chicago
- Melissa Washington, Vice President, External Affairs and Large Customer Service, ComEd
- Nick Cosentino, Special Projects Manager, State CIO, Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT)
- Andrew Feuerborn, Director of Data & Analytics, City of Aurora
- Mary Jo Warskow, Technical Projects Manager, Elevate Energy (Moderator)
12:00 - 1:00 pm Networking Luncheon
1:00 - 1:30 pm Keynote Address
- Dr. Wilfred Pinfold, Chief Executive Officer, urban.systems
1:30 - 2:30 pm The Array of Things and the Future of the Smart City details
- Charlie Catlett, Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; and Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
- Danielle Dumerer, CIO & Commissioner, Department of Innovation & Technology, City of Chicago
2:30 - 3:00 pm Networking Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:45 pm Viva Las Vegas, Where Tech is Used for Good details
- Michael Sherwood, CIO, City of Las Vegas
- Ellory Monks, Co-founder, The Atlas Marketplace
3:45 - 5:15 pm Is America Prepared for Energy Democracy? details
- Dr. Danielle Kizaire, Co-Founder, Bronzeville Urban Development
- MeLena Hessel, Clean Energy and Sustainable Business Policy Advocate, Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Kim Foreman, Executive Director, Environmental Health Watch
- Nancy Hamill Governale, Founder, Zero Energy Lab, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Katanya Raby, Associate Outreach Planner, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
- Kyra Woods, Organizer, Clean Energy Campaign, Sierra Club
5:15 - 6:15 pm Networking Reception
Thursday, January 24, 2019
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 am Modernizing Our Cities: The Role of the Utility and Other Players
- Carlos Nouel, Vice President, Innovation and Development, National Grid
9:30 - 10:00 am Energy Independent Smart Cities details
- Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx
10:00 - 10:30 am Networking Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 pm Different Approaches To Structuring A Smart Cities Movement details
- Skip Newberry, President and CEO, Technology Association of Oregon
- Lisa Brown, Senior National Director, Municipal Infrastructure and Smart Cities, Johnson Controls
- Jake Williams, Associate Publisher & Director of Strategic Initiatives, StateScoop (Moderator)
- Additional Panelists to be announced
12:00 - 1:00 pm Networking Luncheon
1:00 - 2:30 pm Catalyzing Smart Communities: Changing Parameters and Players details
- Larisa Dobriansky, Chief Business & Policy Innovation Officer, General Microgrids
- Craig Lewis, Founder & Executive Director, Clean Coalition
- Daniel Lauf, Program Director, Environment, Energy & Transportation Division, National Governors Association
- Additional Panelists to be announced
2:30 - 3:00 pm Networking Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:30 pm IoT and LPWA: Two Smart City Acronyms That Need Each Other details
- Syed Zaeem Hosain, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aeris
3:30 - 4:00 pm The Smart City Protocol: Key to Interoperability in Cities details
- Simon Dunkley, Secretary General, TALQ Consortium
