Smart Transformation Forum 2021

Smart cities leverage the latest technology to address aspects such as city safety, economic development, waste disposal, utilities network efficiency, urban planning using green solutions, transportation concerns, and the like. The past few years have seen cities absorbing digital transformation trends to improve their citizens quality of life.

The smart city-tag is a concept that has to be earned in Romanian cities, by pushing on the main aspects such as: safety and security, economic
development, waste and utilities management, urban green planning, smart transportation & smart infrastructure and technology enablement.
Smart cities are referred to as wired cities, digital cities, intelligent cities, cyberville.

In 2021, there are core technologies that will stay a part of the
transformational journey of smart cities.

Leveraging on best practices of the already completed projects and the success stories of several Romanian cities, The Diplomat – Bucharest
organizes the sixth edition of Smart Transformation Forum to be held on 9 September 2020.

For registration, please find more info here.

EVENT AGENDA

08:00 – 09:00 Welcome coffee & Registration of participants

09:00 – 11:00 PANEL I THE ROADMAP TO SMART CITY

• Smart City in Romania: Status, current evolution, things to be done

• Coordination, financing and successful Smart City initiatives

• Onboarding tech companies in smart city local projects

• Citizenship empowerment & Responsive city institutions and online platforms

• People-oriented city facilities’ enablement : projects, implementation, plans

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 – 13:30 PANEL II   SMART LIVING & SMART MOBILITY 

• 5G technology implementation

• E-mobility: EV, smart infrastructure, evolution & challenges

• Smart cities - Green cities

• Local implementation of technology: Robots, AI, machine learning, digitalized city institutions

• Smart cities – Energy efficient

13:30 - 14:30 Networking Lunch

VORBITORI CONFIRMATI:

EMIL BOC,  President of the Romanian Municipalities Association

CRISTIN POPA, Executive Director,  Monitoring and Control Executive Division, ANCOM

OCTAVIAN OPREA, President of the Authority for the Digitalization of Romania (ADR)

CONSTANTIN TOMA, Mayor, Buzau Municipality

CHRISTIAN VON ALBRICHSFELD, Head of Country, Continental Romania

MIHAI BOLDIJAR, General Manager, ROBERT BOSCH Romania and Bulgaria

ONDREJ SAFAR, Country Manager CEZ Group in Romania CEO and President of the Management Board of CEZ Romania

LAURA BAIASU, Quality Lead Europe at Wipro Digital Operations and Platforms

CATALIN STANCU, Associated Senior Expert, Horvath & Partners

CATALIN TANASESCU, VP Business Development, Archibus

STEFAN TUDOS, Vice-President, Genesis Property

ALEXANDRU NEN, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, SMART CITY & IOT SOLUTIONS, Telekom

CARMEN ADAMESCU, Partner EY , Moderator Panel I

VALERIU BINIG, Director, Regulatory and Antitrust at Enel, Moderator Panel II