10.00 – 10.15 | Official Opening
Carolien Gehrels - Vice Mayor and Alderman of the City of Amsterdam
10.15 – 10.35 | Keynote – Beyond Smart Cities
Cities must have conscientious and deliberate mechanisms of forward thinking, including the social capital of cohesive leadership and policies of continuous learning. Smart cities establish a civic environment that is propitious for innovation. With these conditions, they set long term strategic vision, and make continuous mid- and short-term adjustments along the way. Mechanisms of learning and innovation are essential features of smart cities. They reflect the broad common interests of the city, including public, commercial, corporate and civic interests. Most of all, they are organized to conduct continuous collective learning.
Tim Campbell PhD -
Chairman World Smart Capital Advisory Board, Kelso, UK
- Chairman Urban Age Institute, Washington DC
10.35 – 11.15 | Amsterdam has the natural habitat to build the WSC concept as Pilot City 2012 | 2013
In the seventeenth century Amsterdam was the centre of the world. Ships from the city sailed to all four corners of the world and formed the basis of a worldwide trading network. The city was on the forefront of urban planning, construction of canals, economy, social structure, government, finance, print-making, the art-market and the activities of painters, cartographers and scholars.
The same has happened again.
Amsterdam is the capital and centre of the most digitally connected economy in the world with a global mindset when it comes to innovative urban development. Very few cities can match the cross-border collaboration between the various workforces and citizen groups. Today, Amsterdam truly is a smart city, confirmed by the EU which awarded Amsterdam the Star City Award in 2011 after a selection procedure including all 27 member states.
Ger Baron - Project manager Amsterdam Smart City, member of the World Smart Capital Advisory Board
Zef Hemel -
Professor Urban and Regional Planning, University of Amsterdam
11.15 – 11.45 | Panel Session
The World Smart Capital concept explained
A smart city should put in place, and able to demonstrate, a system of continuous learning and innovation so as to be able to define, engage, and solve (or avoid) new problems as they arise. In other words, smartness is not a static, one time achievement, but rather a state of affairs that continually serves the interests of the city.
The World Smart Capital concept will embrace not only a city's endowment of hard infrastructure ('physical capital'), but also the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure ('intellectual and social capital'). It will be an active platform for knowledge-exchange between cities and their partners at all levels. A key part of the platform is the yearly designation of the title World Smart Capital to an eligible city.
Members of the World Smart Capital Advisory Board will explain how the public, academic and private sectors can play a role in the WSC concept.
Tim Campbell - Chairman WSC Advisory Board, Chairman Urban Age Institute
Dan Hoornweg - Member WSC Advisory Board, Lead Urban Advisor World Bank
Prod Laquian - Member WSC Advisory Board, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa - Member WSC Advisory Board, Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia
Ger Baron - Member WSC Advisory Board, Project Manager Amsterdam Smart City
Ajit Jaokar - Member WSC Advisory Board, Chair Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Generation Panel, Editor OpenGardensBlog
11.45 – 12.05 | Coffee Break
12.05 – 12.25 | Urban development and smart growth in Asia
The sessions before the break showed the development of cities in Europe and beyond. The subject of this session is city development and smart growth in Asia, where we see more and more people moving permanently out of rural areas to urban areas.
Prod Laquian - Member WSC Advisory Board, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia
12.25 – 12.45 | Urban and local governance
Based on some of his Harvard lectures, Ronald MacLean-Abaroa will introduce you to a smart approach to reform cities with a built-in anti-corruption design.
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa - Member WSC Advisory Board, Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia
12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch Break
13.45 – 14.30 | Panel Session
The Pilot Projects | Testing Grounds as the umbrella of the WSC Program. With existing pilot projects of the Amsterdam Smart City project and new pilot projects as part of the WSC Pilot Program.
The panellists will discuss how the knowledge-exchange between cities could benefit from local small-scale pilot projects and testing grounds. Beneficial factors are: How to get the most value from pilot projects for citizens. Using pilot projects as catalysts for the collaboration between the actors from the public, private and academic sectors. How corporations - the private sector – should play their role. How cities can help and support other cities with the execution of pilot projects.
Ger Baron (Moderator)- Member Advisory Board World Smart Capital |Project Manager Amsterdam Smart City
Pallas Agterberg -
Strategy Director, Alliander, The Netherlands
Jan Wester -
Principal Strategist, TNO, The Netherlands
Albert Seubers -
Director Global Strategy & Business Development ICT in Cities, Atos International, France
Timothy Papandreou -
Deputy Director Sustainable Streets – Planning and Policy San Francisco, US
14.30 – 15.30 | Panel Session
City networks are blossoming - cities are networking and want to learn from each other
The Green Digital Charter commits cities to reducing emissions through Information and Communications Technologies (ICT); therefore promoting progress in tackling climate change through the innovative use of digital technologies in cities (the Green Digital Charter for Cities and the NiCE project which is developing tools to support the Charter. New Urban Mechanics is an approach to civic innovation focussed on delivering transformative city services. La Fabrique de la Cité reports on its research with the theme 'what is it that drives (or not) public action on urban mobility issues'. How cities are networking to advocate a Smart Cities program in India
Tim Campbell PhD (moderator) -
Chairman World Smart Capital Advisory Board, Chairman Urban Age Institute
Vin Sumner -
Managing director, Clicks and Links, Chester, UK
Nigel Jacob -
Director, New Urban Mechanics, Boston, US
Remi Dorval -
President, La Fabrique de la Cité, Paris, France
Srinivas Chary Vedala -
Professor and Director Urban Governance, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), India
15.30 – 16.00 | Tea Break
Track I (for all participants of WSC Summit & Convention)
16.00 - 17.30 | Break Away Session
Selecting members of 2 Steering Councils and 3 Steering Committees
Session 1A-1 Public sector – Cities – Regional Governments
- 2 Members of the Steering Council (Public sector) will be elected and 5 Members are appointed by Amsterdam as the World Smart Capital 2013
- 42 Members of the Steering Committee (Public sector) will be elected
Session 1A-2 Academic sector – Knowledge Institutions – Research Institutions – NGO's
- 4 Members of the Steering Council (Academic Sector) will be elected and 3 Members are appointed by Amsterdam as the World Smart Capital 2013
- 42 Members of the Steering Committee (Academic Sector) will be elected
Session 1A–3 Private sector – Corporations – Providers of products and services
- 7 Members of the Steering Council (Private sector) are representatives from the Founding Members of the World Smart Capital Initiative
- 42 Members of the Steering Committee (Private sector) will be elected
16.00 – 17.00 | National Steering Committee
Representatives from the Public, Academic and Private Sector will help the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area build the 2013 Pilot Program, advising on the composing of the Pilot Projects and the shaping of the WSC Framing Events and all other scheduled projects and events
Break Away Session IB (National) Public sector – Academic sector – Private sector
Selecting and electing 21 Members of the National Steering Committee, 7 from each sector
17.00 |
Close of Day 1
Drinks
18.00 – 20.30 |
Diner for Candidate cities
Cities which want to become the next World Smart Capital in 2013 are exclusively invited for this dinner. During dinner the designation procedure will be explained
Track II – (only in Dutch and on separate invitation)
16.00 - 17.30 | Aparte sessie
Bijeenkomst van Kenniskring Amsterdam en VNO-NCW Metropool Amsterdam onder de titel 'ICT in de Metropoolregio Amsterdam: unieke infrastructuur biedt enorme kansen'.
Voorzitter: Marry de Gaay Fortman, Amsterdam Economic Board, voorzitter VNO-NCW Metropool Amsterdam, advocaat en partner Houthoff Buruma
Bijdragen van:
Carolien Gehrels - Amsterdam Economic Board, wethouder Economische Zaken, gemeente Amsterdam
Harry van Dorenmalen - Amsterdam Economic board, Chairman IBM Europe, Country General Manager IBM Netherlands
Job Witteman - CEO AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange)
Albert Seubers - Director Global Strategy & Business Development ICT in Cities, Atos International
Marten den Uyl - CEO VicarVision
17.30
Netwerkborrel samen met deelnemers van World Smart Capital Summit & Convention
and the World Smart Capital concept
How the World Bank's Urbanization Knowledge Platform can help cities share, learn from each other and exchange practical ideas and solutions.
Dennis Linders - JPA at World Bank Washington, US
10.20 – 10.40 |
Pervasive connectivity is one approach to city transformation
As one of the driving forces behind the development of the Amsterdam Citynet Herman Wagter is an expert on cooperation between local governments and the market in Fiber to the Home deployments with hands-on experience into actual deployment of next-generation infrastructure. Wagter's expertise lies in understanding the role of stakeholders (including local governments and home owners) in last mile deployment and the potential for new business models.
With advances in broadband, wireless, and smart urban infrastructures, pervasive connectivity is one approach to city transformation.
Herman Wagter -
Next Generation access (NGA) expert with Diffraction Analysis' Network, France
10.40 – 11.15 |
Measuring Smartness
The selection of winning cities in the World Smart Capital competition is based on criteria that are designed to reflect both range and depth of a city's smartness. Smart cities should reflect not just the degree to which a city is connected to technological infrastructure, and not just the extent to which it makes use of ICT, for instance, in coordinated connections and ease of access for citizens. These hard and soft technological components have come to represent customary elements in the definition of smartness, and they are useful and important. But the promise of high tech tools is only as strong as the human managerial systems that guide the city in the first place. In the worst case, high tech systems may only lead to large investments in hardware with little or no social and economic payoff, an outcome that is tantamount to dressing a pauper in prince's clothing.
Cities must also have conscientious and deliberate mechanisms of forward thinking, including the social capital of cohesive leadership and policies of continuous learning. Smart cities establish a civic environment that is propitious for innovation. With these conditions, they set long term strategic vision, and make continuous mid- and short-term adjustments along the way. Mechanisms of learning and innovation are essential features of smart cities. They reflect the broad common interests of the city, including public, commercial, corporate and civic interests. Most of all, they are organized to conduct continuous collective learning. Accordingly, the smart city competition will employ criteria to reflect these many dimensions of smartness.
Members of the WSC Advisory Board will explain the draft WSC Criteria. In an interactive discussion all delegates can propose alterations to the draft WSC Criteria.
Tim Campbell - Chairman WSC Advisory Board, Chairman Urban Age Institute
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa - Member WSC Advisory Board, Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia
Anthony Vanky - Associate Director SENSEable City Lab MIT, Cambridge, US
Ajit Jaokar - Member WSC Advisory Boar, Chair Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Generation Panel, Editor OpenGardensBlog
11.15 - 11.40 | Coffee Break
11.40 – 12.00 | The Selection Procedure and the role of the Selection Committee in selection of winning cities
Prod Laquian - Member WSC Advisory Board, Emeritus Professor University of British Columbia
12.00 – 13.00 |
Panel session
Amsterdam Smart City Pilot projects
Amsterdam Smart City is a unique collaboration between the inhabitants of Amsterdam, businesses and governments in order to illustrate how energy can be saved, now and in the future. Together we are developing smart projects that will change the world. We test them first in Amsterdam.
In this session the Amsterdam Smart City presents its existing Pilot Projects|Testing Grounds. The subject, structure and goals of each Pilot project will be presented, including the staging of the quarterly Milestone Meetings in March, June, September and December. The interactive sessions provide an active role for attendees (discussions, suggestions, alterations, adoption). The following
The Amsterdam smart grid testing ground
This project will serve as a testing ground to prove that smart grid technologies can better manage energy use and transmission while also reducing electricity outages and congestion. This pilot project touches four areas: working, living, mobility and public space.
Dynamic Traffic Management
This pilot project will focus on how the city can leverage advances in traffic management technology to create more efficient, safer and cleaner communities.
Green Metropole
Amsterdam Green Metropole is a Clean Tech Centre for Sustainable Business with the aim to enhance the city's sustainable projects.
Waste Management
Waste management is a major challenge in urban areas. This pilot project is geared towards finding a solution to waste management challenges. It provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of the new technologies.
eHealth
The aim of the pilot project is to illustrate that eHealth is an effective mean in increasing access to healthcare of high quality in urban areas.
Sytze Dijkstra -
Chair WG Energy Supply & Networks in EU Smart City Platform, Business Development ECN, The Netherlands
Martijn Kriens -
Program manager HealthLab, Amsterdam Innovation Motor, The Netherlands
More presenters to be confirmed
13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.30 |
Selection and election of Selecting Committee
In this session the various members of the Selecting Committee will be selected and elected. In total 12 members will be elected.
Session A: representatives of the Public sector
- 1 member from the Steering Council
- 1 member from the Steering Committee
Session B: Academic sector
- 4 members from the Steering Council
- 4 members from the Steering Committee
Session C: Private Sector
- 2 members from the Steering Committee
Confirmation of elected members in the various Councils and Committees
- The Selecting Committee
- The 3 Steering Councils, 3 Steering Committees and 1 National Steering Committee
- The 7 Cities as members of Advisory Board for WSC Amsterdam Pilot Program
14.30 – 15.40 |
Panel session
Citizen inspired pilot projects as a catalyst for smart cities
Smart cities evolve towards a strong integration of all dimensions of human, collective, and artificial intelligence available within a city. It's all about the intelligence, inventiveness and creativity of the individuals who live and work in the city. But do not forget the collective intelligence of a city's population and the digital infrastructure of a city. The real-time city is now real, helped by the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years. This development is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
The panellists will provide insights into the following projects:
Open Data
This pilot project in Amsterdam is organized In a joint effort with the cities Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki and Paris, the goal of this pilot project is how to achieve a more efficient city council and to achieve a very attractive environment for inward investments. The experiences and the results of the Open Data Hackethon (scheduled on 16 June 2012) will be discussed during the WSC Summit & Convention. The crowdsourcing platform www.amsterdamopent.nl was launched on 1 June and the website http://amsterdamopendata.nl is Amsterdam's open data platform showing the apps developed within the Open Data program. This session will show the Commons4EU concept as well.
Apps for Smart Cities
This is a global project, launched in Amsterdam. To harness the true potential of Smart cities, the city must become a platform i.e. an enabler for developers, creativity and applications. In doing so, the city becomes like the Internet i.e. a connector and an enabler for citizens which aims to empower the citizen.
New citizen inspired pilot projects as part of the World Smart Capital Amsterdam program During the PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam (17-18 September 2012) a special World Smart Capital Workshop will be organized to define the number of new citizen inspired pilot projects.
How other cities put their projects together
This is an interactive discussion between the audience and the panel, complemented with representatives from city initiatives and projects in France, US and India
Assaf Biderman (moderator) -
Associate Director SENSEable City Lab MIT, Cambridge, US
Egbert Franssen - Director Cultuurfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ajit Jaokar -
Member World Smart Capital Advisory Board, Chair Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Generation Panel, Editor OpenGardensBlog
Katalin Gallyas -
Policy Researcher Economic Affairs Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nigel Jacob -
Director, New Urban Mechanics, Boston, US
Remi Dorval -
President, La Fabrique de la Cité, Paris, France
Srinivas Chary Vedala - Professor and Director Urban Governance, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), India
15.40 -16.00 | Tea break
16.00 – 17.15 |
Panel session
New technology inspired pilot projects and testing grounds
The subject, structure and goals of each Pilot project will be presented, including the staging of the quarterly Milestone Meetings in March 2013, June 2013, September 2013 and December 2013. The interactive sessions provide an active role for attendees (discussions, suggestions, alterations, adoption). The following projects will be discussed:
Science for the City
Based in the Science park, this Pilot project involves top scientists to solve complex urban development issues. TNO is the initiator with help from the educational institutions in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
New Urban Logistics
This pilot project aims to create constructive outcomes that urban areas can use in order to better integrate urban logistics into policies and plans for resilience. The results will ultimately be used as a substantive input for a road map being created for urban areas to enhance the resilience of the flow of goods and services, whilst simultaneously improving their adaptive capacity for emission reduction.
Optimizing parking citywide
This Pilot project implements an innovative parking management strategy and a master parking plan, based on the application of sensor and other ID-technologies.
Insight in all traffic participants
With help of San Francisco, the subject of this Pilot project is to get a useable insight in traffic movements of all traffic participants
Smart Lighting
Smart lighting is the future for urban lighting and is based on the priorities of low environmental impact, reduced light wastage for darker night skies and clever design. This pilot project is an universal approach for design and development of a smart lighting system.
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa (moderator) -
Member WSC Advisory Board, Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia
Jan Wester -
Principal Strategist, TNO, The Netherlands
Albert Seubers -
Director Global Strategy & Business Development ICT in Cities, Atos International, France
Timothy Papandreou -
Deputy Director Sustainable Streets – Planning and Policy San Francisco, US
Sytze Dijkstra -
Chair WG Energy Supply & Networks in EU Smart City Platform, Business Development ECN, The Netherlands
René Wansdronk - Wansdronk Architectuur, The Netherlands
Erik Koldenhof -
Director Westpoort Warmte, The Netherlands
Travis McGready -
Executive Director, Kendall Square Association, Cambridge, US
17.15 – 17.35 |
Call for cities, knowledge institutions and corporations to actively join the WSC Amsterdam Program
The World Smart Capital Advisory Board invites all attendees to come forward with input about possible contributions and ideas about staging pilot projects or testing grounds – with or without their involvement.
17.35 – 17.50 |
Closing session – Co-creating within a fruitful collaboration
Tim Campbell PhD -
Chairman Advisory Board,
Chairman Urban Age Institute
17.50 | Drinks
18.45 | Official diner party for all guests
09.00 - 09.30 | Farewell Breakfast
09.30 - 09.45
| Introduction Jacqueline
Jacqueline Cramer, Former Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Professor of Sustainable Innovation, Utrecht University
09.45 - 10.45 |
Keynote Jeremy Rifkin
Keynote by Jeremy Rifkin, author of The New York Times bestselling book 'The Third Industrial Revolution' as well as 18 other books. He is an advisor to the European Union and to heads of state around the world. He is also the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.
10.45 - 11.10 |
Keynote - The European Energy Policy for Smart Cities – Marie Donnelly
Cities at the heart of the energy challenge
Integration potential between energy, transport and ICT
How can EU Smart Cities projects supports European cities?
Marie Donnelly, Director for Sustainable Energy, Research, Innovation & Energy Efficiency, DG Energy,
European Commission
11.10 - 11.40 | Coffee & Closing
