Workshop/Session Title: 5. Session on Smart Cities
The connected world: Smart Technologies and Entrepreneurship with focus to Africa
Date: 8-10 May 2017
Venue: Roses Beach Hotel , Monastir
Organised by ISEMIS 17 andUniversity of Monastir
Workshop/Session Aim:
The concept of the “smart city” has been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework and to highlight the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies, social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities. It is significant to mention that by 2050 more than 50% of the global population will live in cities. As a result, a growing number of large tech companiesare increasingly focusedon smart cities, as they see their technologies and tech solutions as helping make cities, especially very large ones, more easily manageable, and therefore “smart.” Africa already boasts the fastest mobile subscriber growth in the world, with the average subscription rate at 72 percent and expected to reach 97 percent by 2017. Mobile surge is one of the key factors affecting the growth of economic activity, and thus GDP. In addition, some 62 percent of the continent’s population is under 25 years of age. Given the ageing European population, many international brands will be attracted to an African market full of young consumers. With the mindset of these young Africans, who operate within an environment where anything and everything is possible – an attitude which tends to stimulate entrepreneurship and the spirit of innovation – Africa is well-positioned to take off as a new place for smart cities.Given the enormous scope ofthe smartcities initiatives in Africa, we expect to see lots of entrepreneurial success stories around smart cities-related technologies and solutions. The big players are all anxious to work with innovative startups. The new trend is here behind our door: SMART people create SMART cities, and smart entrepreneurs respond to the current trends by being innovative and creative.
We expect from this workshop on “ Smart Technologies and Entrepreneurship” that our program will be one of the first African Forum where knowledge and forecast exchange will attract world-class researchers, entrepreneurs and technologists by providing them with direct access to government needs and opportunities, staff and their expertise, in addition to product development, ramp-up support, and insights into a gold mine of government problems and opportunities through the various Countries and Cities in Africa..
We expect to drive significant innovation and growth in areas of pressing importance such as data, mobile and cloud services, healthcare, education, transportation, energy and infrastructure through the whole innovation process (Startup Ideas, Corporate Innovations, Research Commercialisation).
Our main objectives are 1. to establish the Smart Cities Africa Research and Innovation Council during the conference 2. To launch an Open Marketplace of Smart Cities apps. 3. To give coaches for Smart Cities start-ups and 4. Lab Space for apps development with some international experts.
Workshop/Session Committee:
1. Renato Lucio di Castro Junios, International Snart City expert, Brazil/Italy
2. Olufemi Ogunkeye, Architect – Innovation City Ltd, Lagos , Nigeria
3. Nejib Abida, President and General Manager of Technopole Sfax, IASP member
4. Speaker : Peter Laan, Visionary Entrepreneur at Faro Avies, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
5. Alessandro Cavascini, KIC- InnoEnergy , Barcelona, Spain
6. Rene Kirstein Harboe, Faktor-3 Ltd., Denmark
7. Papa Konte Amadou, ICT Advisor to the Mayor, City of Dakar, Senegal
8. Representative of ICEMIS by its Smart City RTD team leader )TBC)
Workshop/Session Organizer (Chair): Mrs Tunde Kallai
Organizer Address : TR Associates Ltd, EU Senior Expert, Managing director, Malta Position, +41 78 8343104,
Morning session:
1.Smart Cities as worldwide perspectives and Africa-vision with digital entrepreneurship
Speaker: Renato Lucio di Castro Junior , International Smart City expert
2. AfricanSmart Cities Models in Sfax , Dakar and Lagos
Speakers: Mabrouk Kossentini , Mayor of Sfax & Klalifa Sall, Mayor of Dakar &
Olufemi Ogunkeye, Architect – Innovation City Ltd, Lagos
3.Technopoles as Smart Cities Innovation Centres
Speaker: Nejib Abida, President and General Manager of Technopole Sfax, IASP member
4. Healthy Regions (Health, Care, Ageing)
Speaker : Peter Laan, Visionary Entrepreneur at Faro Avies, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
After lunch:
5. Call for Energy - ICT start-ups to collaborate/develop new apps:
FASCOM is an open energy platform for new apps in street lighting: IoT and communication with devices (H2020 KIC InnoEnergy)
Speaker/Coach: Alessandro Cavascini, KIC- InnoEnergy ,
Press conference – Reception
6. Want to be a Smart Cities Entrepreneur?? (Talent development: Smart Specialisation for tech entrepreneurs)- Talent Forum: Smart City Startups Pitches (MENA region & Sub-Saharan Africa)
Coach: Tunde Kallai, TR Associates Ltd.
8.How to design your product?
Coach: Rene Kirstein Harboe, Faktor-3 Ltd., Denmark
9. PPPP models and Open Innovation through the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA)
Speaker: Papa Konte Amadou, ICT Advisor to the Mayor, City of Dakar
10. Establishment of a Smart City Africa RTD and Innovation Technology Council Founders: Tunde Kallai & Nejib Abida