Thursday, 8 May 2014

Opening Session

• Land Information Systems for Smart Cities , Ms. Virginia Cram-Martos, UNECE
• Speech for the Opening Session  Ms. Elena Szolgayová, Chair, UNECE CHLM
• The role of the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA)  Mr. Elshad Khanalibayli, Chair, UNECE WPLA
• HM Land Registry: From tradition to revolution  Mr. John Peaden, Land Registry, England
• Smart Initiatives across italian cities  Mr. Stefano Scalera, Agenzia del Demanio, Italy
• Committee for Architecture and Construction under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan  Mr. Abduvali Komilov, Committe for Construction and Architecture, Tajikistan

Session 1. Land as the basis of smart city management

• Land Administration for sustainable development in smart cities  Mr. Kees de Zeeuw, Kadaster International, The Netherlands
• Smart City Graz  Mr. Siegfried Nagl, Mayor of Graz, Austria
• Sustainable and Harmonised Development for Smart Cities – The Role of Geospatial Reference Data  Mr.Peter Creuzer, LGLN, Germany
• Public-Private Partnerships and Smart Cities  Mr.Tony Bonnici, UNECE
• Smart urban solutions in the UNECE region  Ms.Gulnara Roll, UNECE secretariat
• Smart and Sustainable  Ms.Andreas Littkopf, EAA, Austria
• OiER, Organization for International Economic Relations  Ms. Kari Aina Eik, ECO, Austria
• Advisor on Performance Efficiency Department of Lands Thailand  Mr.Somkid Sari, Department of Lands, Thailand

Session 2. Land Information systems for energy efficient housing

• Smart Cities, Smart Systems, Smart Citizens; Open Innovation, Smart Policy Making & Co-production  Mr.Dave Carter, MDDA, UK
• Energy Efficiency in housing sector of Ukraine  Ms.Natalya Oliynik, Director of the Department for Strategic Reform and Development of Housing Sector, Ukraine
• Land Use Zoning Plan for the self-governing city of Rustavi  Mr.David Gigineishvili, Head of Spatial Planning and Construction Policy Department, Georgia
• Module for residential district. Alternative to a micro-district  Ms. Alena Rakava, Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Belarus
• Laser Scanning as a Tool to Assist Energy Savings on a Large Housing Project  Mr.Nick Russill, TerraDat, UK
• LIS based information tools supporting energy and climate policy  Mr.Martinus Vranken, Kadaster, The Netherlands 

Friday, 9 May 2014

Session 3. Land Information systems for urban planning

• Geodata and spatial planning-challenges and opportunities  Mr. Didier Vancutsem, ISOCARP, The Netherlands
• A Many Form of Innovation  Mr. Christopher Barlow, Thomson Reuters, USA
• GWF 2014: City of Chicago  Mr. Doug Hurdlebrink, Deputy Commissioner of the city of Chicago, USA

Session 4. Smart cities supporting efficient transport management

• Sustainable Public Transport and Mobility  Mr. Konstantinos Alexopoulos, UNECE, Switzerland
• A dynamic nexus  Ms. Brinda Wachs, UNECE-WHO, Switzerland
• Actionable transportation analysis by turning all our Gsm-phones into sensors  Mr. Ülo Sare, Reach-U, Estonia
• Oracle Smart City Platform Managing Mobility  Mr. Iemke Idsingh, Oracle, The Netherlands
• GIS Enabling Smart Cities & More Efficient Transportation  Mr. Nick Land, Esri Europe, UK

Session 5. Smart cities for environmental conservation and disaster risk reduction

• Making Cities Disaster Resilient  Mr. Abhilash Panda, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Switzerland
• Journey to a Future City  Mr. Iain Langlands, Glasgow City Council, Scotland
• Addressing urban disaster risks via a combination of responsible land use and critical infrastructure management  Mr. Nikolay Bobylev, University of Birmingham, UK
• Collaborative development for smart cities using big sensor data  Mr. Manuel Garcia Alvarez, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Concluding Panel Discussion

• Land information systems for smart cities - conclusions  Ms. Gulnara Roll, UNECE secretariat
• UNECE Working Party on Land Administration - conclusions  Mr. Elshad Khanalibayli, UNECE WPLA