Twelfth session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies
Introduction
The substantive segment of the team of Specialists session will be dedicated to the topic “Smart and sustainable cities: the role of governance and innovation policy”. Policy makers and representatives of cities, business, civil society and academia will share experiences from the ECE region on how to promote innovation in an urban context, how innovation can help solve sustainability challenges in cities, how to run cities in innovative ways so that technology benefits everyone and citizens can participate actively, and on what policy makers at all levels can do to facilitate the transition to smart sustainable cities.
The second day of the Team of Specialists session will feature inter alia discussions on high-level innovation policy principles for sustainable development and on UNECE’s first pilot sub-regional innovation policy index.
Documents
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Programme | - | - | |
Provisional agenda for the meeting ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/1 |
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Report ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/2 |
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Report of the 13th session of CICPPP ECE/CECI/2019/2 |
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution – reshaping innovation policies for sustainable and inclusive growth ECE/CECI/2019/3 |
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Proposal for draft Terms of Reference for a Task Force on High-Level Policy Principles on Innovation for Sustainable Development ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/INF.1 |
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Discussion on the draft methodological guide for the national Innovation for Sustainable Development Reviews ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/INF.2 |
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Progress report in the implementation of the Subregional Innovation Policy Outlook ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/INF.3 |
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Progress report on the Innovation for Sustainable Development Review of Georgia ECE/CECI/ICP/2019/INF.4 |
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Statement by Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND) |
Speakers
Name and Biography | Title |
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Alexandre Bosshard | Member of the board of the Department for Industrial services and Technical Office of the City of Pully, Switzerland |
Aziza Akhmouch | Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
Bilel Jamoussi | Chief, Study Groups Department, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
Cristina Garrido | Director of Innovation, Anteverti, Spain |
Kate Robinson | Climate and Innovation Policy Manager Europe, EIT Climate-KIC |
Miguel Eiras Antunes | Partner, Deloitte PLC |
Stephanie Trpkov | TOPAX Consulting and World Bank |
Alexandr Pishchelko | Head of State Public Institution "New Management Technologies", city of Moscow, Russian Federation |
Robert Lewis-Lettington | Chief, Legislation Unit, UN-HABITAT |
Serge Novaretti | Policy and Programme Manager, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission |
Christopher Hire | Managing Director, 2thinknow, Australia |
Agata Krause | Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
Alice Charles | Lead, Cities, Infrastructure and Urban Services, World Economic Forum |
Ana Paola Lopez | i.lab Programme Manager, Digital Innovation Department, Barcelona Activa – Barcelona City Council |
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman | CEO, Women@theTable |
Krista Kampus | Head, Smart City Projects Competence Centre, City of Tallinn, Estonia |
Rocco Bubbico | Policy Advisor, European Investment Bank |
Dmitriy Cheshkovskiy | Head of International Relation Department, Kyiv Smart City, Ukraine |
Jennifer Rae | Head of Innovation, NESTA, United Kingdom |
Medet Dyussembayev | Director of Technology Transfer Centre, National Agency for Technological Development, Kazakhstan |
Davor Meersman | CEO, Open and Agile Smart Cities |
Kapil Narula | Senior Researcher, University of Geneva |