Presentations
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2:
Welcome(*)
Stefanie Dreyer – Journalist and Conference Moderator
Welcome speeches by City of Larissa, Major Cities of Europe and Greek Government
Apostolos Kalogiannis – Mayor of Larissa
Giorgio Prister – President of Major Cities of Europe
SESSION 1 – Digital Larissa and Greece
Government plan for digital transformation(*)
Theodoros Livanios – Deputy Minister of the Digital Governance Ministry
Digital transformation of Larissa: taking steps into the future
Georgios Soultis – Deputy Mayor of Larissa
Konstantinos Diamantos – Deputy Mayor of Larissa
How to build an intelligent city: the case of Rhodes(*)
Ioannis Kampouris – Municipality of Rhodes
Smart City Operation as a Service. The case of Trikala
Odisseas Raptis – CEO of e-TRIKALA
Transforming modern societies into citizen-centered smart cities: The case of the city of Heraklion(*)
George Sisamakis – Deputy Mayor, Municipality of Heraklion
Digitalizing water for smarter cities(*)
Spyros Lakkas – Head of OEM & Vertical Sales, Digital Industries, Siemens
Aerial urban mobility in the city of Trikala Project HARMONY
George Gorgogetas – Electrical and Computer Engineer, e-TRIKALA
ICT solutions for immigrants Project EASYRIGHTS
Inna Tolskaya – Technical Linguist, Capeesh, Norway
Secondary school education for a sustainable lifeProject ECOSTEAM
Serena Di Grazia – Consultant of Confservizi Cispel Toscana
SESSION 2 – Transformation, Pressures and Trends
Digital Trends – the public sector perspective
Martin Ferguson – Socitm’s Director of Policy & Research
Policy framework for the Sustainable Digital Transformation of Local Societies(*)
Costis Mochianakis – DG Organization for Local Development HERAKLION Single Member S.A
SESSION 3 – Becoming Digital by Design
Digital Workplace Transformation Programme
Dominic Byrne – Local Government Digital & ICT Strategy Project Manager, LGMA, Ireland
Innovation for more inclusive public services
Grazia Concilio – DASTU, Politecnico di Milano
Anna Koronioti – Institute of Entrepreneur-ship Development, Larissa
New ways to communicate with citizens
Daniele Biagioni – Communication and Participation Office, City of Modena
Digital Twins for smarter decision making Project DUET
Lieven Raes – Advisor, Digital Flanders
SESSION 4 – Platforms and Data for cities
Urban policy making in Sofia, through analysis of crowdsourced data
Panayotis Michael – ICCS, National Technical University of Athens
Snap4City Platform Big Data Decision Support
Paolo Nesi – Professor of IT Systems, University of Florence
Platforms and data in the City of Piraeus
Michail Bourmpos – Director of IT, Municipality of Piraeus
Project DataVaults – An ecosystem for personal data sharing
Paolo Boscolo – IT Director, City of Prato
Artificial Intelligence – Personalizing and optimizing services in smart cities
George Giannakopoulos – Scientific Officer, ahedd Digital Innovation Hub & Researcher, IIT, NCSR Demokritos
Round table: The failure of digital transformation
SESSION 5 – Empowering citizens & civil servants
Learning city for democracy: Learning how to create active citizens and sustainable community
Dimitris Deligiannis – Deputy Mayor of Larissa
Digital competences initiatives in Tuscany: no one left behind
Gianluca Vannuccini – CIO of Tuscany Region
Winning the “War for Talent” for our Smart Cities
Panos Fitsilis – University of Thessaly
Leadership in digital transformation
Nadira Hussain – CEO of Soctim, UK
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2:
SESSION 6 – 100 Climate-neutral and Smart Cities
Climate neutral smart Cities: an introduction
Maria Vassilakou – Member of the EU Horizon Mission experts board on Climate neutral smart Cities
Eilat Smart City: reaching 0% emission by 2030
Elad Topel – Smart City Manager, Municipality of Eilat
Smart and green transition for urban sustainable development: the city of Trikala
Konstantina Zachari – Advisor to Mayor, City of Trikala
A unique example to drive urban innovation: the Torino City Lab
Laura Ribotta – Smart City, EU funds and innovation Unit, City of Turin
Net zero city: Florence path towards climate protection
Alessandra Barbieri – Manager of Fund-raising and European Projects Office, City of Florence
MAIN SPONSOR – BETTER CITIES FOR ALL
OTS Smart Cities: Paving the way for human centric cities(*)
Stefanos Kytanis – Business Development & Sales Manager, OTS SA
Smart City Infrastructure, the future of the past(*)
Nikitas Georgiadis – Sales Account Manager, Public Sector, Cisco
Supporting financially vulnerable households through the new e-Parking System at the Municipality of Trikala
Iraklis Bourantas – COO & Co-Founder, Novoville
Unified Digital Solutions for Smart Cities(*)
Dimitris Mixalagas – Managing Director FORUM DISTEMICHA P.C.
PARALLEL SESSIONS – Workshop EU Projects
Digital Twins for smarter decision making Project DUET(*)
Pavel Kogut – EU Projects and Research expert, 21cConsultancy Ltd.
Policy Cloud data-driven policies:a reality for your city
Letizia Mari – Trust-IT Services
Panayiotis Michael – ICCS
Vrettos Moulos – ICCS
Javier Sancho – SARGA
Jose Maria Subero – SDA, Head of Digital Services of Aragón
Antonio Calvo de la Prida – Head of Information Security Unit, Regional government of Aragón
Smart and Ambient Intelligence for Tourism in Major European Cities towards 2030
Dimitrios Buhalis – Bournemouth University Business School, UK
Smart solutions for the environment and citizens; innovation based on IoT, 5G and AI(*)
Lydia Tsiouka – Sales Director WINGS ICT Solutions
Intelligent City- An Innovative Toolkit of Smart IT Applications for the Public and Regional Sector
Ioannis Michopoulos – EVOLUTION PROJECTS, General Director
2018-2022: Conclusions and experiences from the implementation of Digital Transformation projects in Greek Municipalities
Anastassios Manos – Managing Director DOTSOFT
Green Carport – Solar-Powered Green electricity for e-vehicle and e-bike charging stations in urban areas(*)
Giannis Niklitsas – General Manager FORUM SMART CITIES
SESSION 8 – Breaking barriers between health and social care
Digital Transformation of Health and Assistance Services , as a catalyst for the provision of integrated care: lessons learned from the Digital Cities of Central Greece
George E. Dafoulas – Clinical Research Fellow, University of Thessaly and CitiesNet Municipal Agency, Central Greece
SESSION 10 – The climate transition, how EU missions can boost resilience in Cities
Open Meeting of the CommEUnity group(*)
Alessandra de Seneen – Secretary General at INSOR and Partner BAICR cultura della Relazione
Eric Legale – Managing Director of Issy Media/City of Issy-les-Moulineaux
Grazia Concilio – Associate professor in Urban studies, Politecnico di Milano
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4:
Technology Focus: Blockchain & Resilience as a Response to Chaos
Michalis Christakis – President of the Panhellenic Associa-tion of General Secretaries in Municipal Authorities in Greece, ‘Klesthenes’
SESSION 11 – Resilience and Cybersecurity
Introduction to the session(*)
Oliver Schwabe – Chair of EU City Cyber Security Infor-mation Sharing and Analysis Centre (ISAC for Cities)
Video: Innovating our Future… Together
Rossen Naydenov – Officer at ENISA – The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity
Dynamic cybersecurity management for organisa-tions and local/regional networks based on aware-ness and collaboration – Project CS-AWARE-NEXT
Alex Papanikolaou – CEO & Co-founder of InnoSe
Resilience in local Governments: US perspective
Alan Shark – CompTIA VP Public Sector and Executive Director of PTI, USA
Tabletop Exercise “You have been hacked – please pay €100k in bitcoin in 72 hours or we will release sensitive data to the public.”
Lead: Alan Shark and Oliver Schwabe
Actors: senior IT leaders from multiple European cities
Open Meeting of the ISAC for cities group Cybersecurity community
Oliver Schwabe
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