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Deloitte at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023
Tuesday, 7 November 2023 9:00 a.m.

In-person - Event

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7 - 9 Nov. 2023

09:00 a.m.

Deloitte at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023

Deloitte is proud to announce our presence as Global & Industry Partners at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023. Join us at our booth to explore how we are driving urban innovation, addressing pressing city challenges, and creating better futures for communities worldwide.

Create better futures | Fulfilling our dreams through data and technology
 

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) is the world’s biggest and most influential event on urban innovation. Immerse yourself in dynamic discussions that focus on key areas propelling value and enhancing urban ecosystems. Engage with our subject matter specialists, unveiling our contributions across Sustainability, Infrastructure & Buildings, Mobility & Transport, and Digital Modernisation encompassing Cyber, AI, and 5G.

Smart City Expo World Congress serves as a platform for leaders to come together and discuss the most pressing challenges facing cities worldwide. We look forward to connecting with you and together shaping the urban landscape of tomorrow.

"We are putting all our energy and focus on ensuring human centricity is at the core of all our tech developments and innovations."

Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte

Deloitte’s Sessions at the Congress

Our global leaders will lead discussions in the following Congress Sessions:

Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 14:15h - 15:00h

Location: Hall 1 | Auditorium

Decription: Visionary design will lead cities to a new era of thriving, resource-efficient and future-ready urban environments. By embracing technological advancements, decarbonisation principles and innovative infrastructure strategies, cities are being reshaped for the better. How can greener buildings and infrastructure bring cities to a sustainable reality, and towards a technologically enabled, balanced urban landscape?

Moderator: Ms. Martha Thorne, Senior Advisor, Henrik F. Obel Foundation

Speakers:

  • Mr. Luke Houghton, Global Infrastructure Leader Advisory, Deloitte
  • Mr. Talal Al-Marri, Senior Vice President of Community Services, Aramco
  • Ms. Eszter Dávida, New European Bauhaus + KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre
  • Dr. Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita, Yale School of Architecture

Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 15:15h - 16:00h

Location: Hall 1 | Auditorium

Moderator: Ms. Nicol Turner Lee, The Brookings Institution

Speakers:

  • Mr. Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte
  • Mr. Andrea Sorri, Segment Development Manager Smart Cities EMEA, Axis
  • Mr. Manminder Takhar, Global Chief Technology Officer – Digital CitiesDell Technologies

 

Date and hour: Tuesday 07, 15:40h – 16:25h

Location: Hall 2 | Green Room

Description: Cities have the power to drive change in the fight against the climate crisis. Tackling interconnected urban challenges, including the energy transition or food insecurity, calls for comprehensive solutions. Through curbing emissions, leading scalable projects, and fostering collaboration, cities can enact effective climate action. However, the question remains: which strategies will yield time and cost-effective results in achieving these crucial objectives?

Moderator: Dr. Hannah Abdullah, Senior Programme Officer & Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Speakers:

  • Ms. Anna Kowalewska, Global EU Institutions Sustainability Leader
  • Ms. Martina Colman, Head of Climate Science, Climate Essentials
  • Ms. Alis Daniela Torres, Head of Green Digital TransformationICLEI Europe

Date and hour: Wednesday 08, 13:00h - 14:30h

Location: Hall 2 | Tomorrow.Mobility Room

Description: Despite policies and industrial priorities heavily pushing for the electrification of transportation, challenges related to design, lifecycle, and sourcing of critical metals are threatening to prevent the realisation of 2030 objectives. This session will discuss the various requirements to accelerate the uptake of vehicles with smaller, more efficient batteries without compromising range, as we race to net zero.

Speakers:

  • Mr. Harald Proff, Global Automotive Sector Leader, Deloitte

Deloitte Booth Talks

Join us at our 310sqm booth, to discover our latest solutions, thought leadership and case studies, and attend a series of engaging presentations:

  • How Synergy helps the region of Porto to keep on track their Climate goals

Venue: Deloitte Booth

Time: 14:30h  - 15:00h

Speakers: Rui Pimenta, Board Member, AdePorto & Ricardo Martins, Associate Partner, Deloitte

  • Towards a Blueprint for a Mobility-as-a-Service Ecosystem

Venue: Deloitte Booth

Time: 11:00h  - 11:30h

Speakers: Harald Proff, Global Automotive Sector Leader, Deloitte & Miguel Eiras Antunes, Smart Cities & Urban Transformation, Global Leader, Deloitte

Ecosystems & alliances

 

Through our strategic collaborations with some of the world’s largest technology firms and innovators, we are shaping the future.

Salesforce

Together with Salesforce, we empower our clients to respond to the dynamic environment and reimagine their interactions with employees, suppliers, and customers.

Prompted by the extraordinary potential of data and AI, we can deliver Trustworthy AI™ for CRM, enabling our clients to seize the competitive edge with confidence. With trust as our guiding principle, we can help you create bespoke customer engagement and unlock new dimensions of productivity advancement.

ServiceNow

Smarter workflows can lead to value-creating outcomes and a better future for everyone. Deloitte + ServiceNow are re-architecting work to help give your organisation the critical tools to absorb today’s continuous flow of disruptions.

Check out our participation at last year's Smart City Expo World Congress

Join Deloitte at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023 as we shape the future of urban environments and forge impactful partnerships that pave the way for a brighter tomorrow.

Key contacts

Beth McGrath

Deloitte - Global
Beth McGrath is Deloitte’s global leader for Government and Public Services. In her role, she is committed to strengthening synergies across global Industries and government and public services with a focus on client mission needs and solutions. McGrath has broad, multidisciplinary, strategic, and operational management experience acquired from 25+ years of successful performance in the United States government sector. As a member of Deloitte’s Strategy practice, she advises government and commercial organizations on strategies that help further innovation and improve business operations.
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Mark Price

Deloitte - Global
Mark Price is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and a leader in our US Government and Public Services practice. Mark has more than 35 years’ experience leading strategy, operations, and technology transformation programs for a wide range of government, healthcare, and higher education clients. Mark has worked with clients to develop and implement digital strategies and solutions to transform their business and deliver outcomes for constituents. His experience spans tax and revenue, healthcare, human services, transportation, motor vehicles, energy, resources, finance and administration, and large-scale technology transformation. Mark has also led major transformation projects for several healthcare clients around the world and some of the leading higher education institutions in the US. Prior to joining Deloitte, Mark served as Head of Strategy and Business Planning for the University Hospital of Wales, one of the largest academic medical centers in the UK. Previously, Mark served as consultant with a boutique consulting firm in the UK where he conducted international strategy engagements for primarily high-tech clients. Mark contributes significantly to Deloitte research and publications and has been called upon to speak on the topic of transformation in government, healthcare, and higher education across the US and overseas. Mark holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of Wales, UK. Mark lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand before settling in the US. Mark and his wife Kim live near Boston, Massachusetts, and their twin children Adam and Olivia are currently at college. Mark is an avid cyclist and rides the Pan Mass Challenge every year to raise funds for cancer research.
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Michael Flynn

Deloitte - Global
Through his global roles, Michael has worked with Deloitte teams around the world advising public, private and banking sectors on government and infrastructure (including PPP), Real Estate, Project Finance and public sector related transactions. His roles also involve advising on business case development, value capture, new financing, refinancing and restructuring of funding positions in corporate and infrastructure projects. He has advised across a variety of sectors including energy, renewables (wind, biomass, solar and storage), education, healthcare, transport, water, waste & energy, regeneration, smart cities and real estate. Michael is a member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) PPP Business Advisory Board and an elected Irish council member of the International Project Finance Association.
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Miguel Eiras Antunes

Deloitte - Global
Additionally, Miguel leads the public sector practice in Portugal and the DCE (Deloitte Central Europe) cluster, which includes public entities in 42 countries across Europe and Africa. Throughout his career, Miguel has built a path of excellence and success in managing complex projects and leading large-scale organizational and technological transformation initiatives. He has led the creation and development of various consulting business units, including areas of strategy, innovation, health, telecommunications, transportation, hospitality and services, and the public sector, among others.
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Dr. Harald Proff

Deloitte - Global
Harald is the Global/DCE/German Automotive Sector Leader. Harald brings more than 20 years of experience advising multinational companies. His work focuses on transformation programs in industrial manufacturing as well as consulting on the increasing digitization and networking of value chains. He has worked for various automotive OEMs and consumer goods industries including sanitary, food, and optical. In addition to Germany, he has also lived and worked in South Korea and Brazil. Before moving on to Deloitte, Harald was a partner for Manufacturing in the European Operations Practice at McKinsey. Since joining our firm in 2015, Harald has led the Operations Practice.
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Richard Carson

Deloitte - Global
Richard is a leader in Deloitte’s Customer Practice in Canada with deep national and international experience in citizen and business service, retail and channel strategy, customer strategy, pricing and product development, and marketing and growth strategies in various industries. Richard is also the National Alumni Partner Leader for Canada. He has been with Deloitte since 1996 and a frequent speaker in the media and at conferences. Richard also serves on a number of volunteer boards.
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Anna Kowalewska

Deloitte - Global
Anna is a Partner in Deloitte Central Europe Sustainability and Climate team. She leads sustainability advisory practice for Government and Public Sector industry across Central Europe, working with a virtual community of more than 80 sustainability professionals with deep thematic expertise to support green and just transition effectively. Anna also leads sustainability for the European Institutions account. Anna advises clients on their sustainability journeys, supporting development and implementation of sustainability strategies, action plans, processes and policies, and sustainability reporting. She advises on sustainable finance agenda, transition planning and responsible investments. Working with her clients, she supports knowledge and best practices sharing, awareness raising, and capacity building. She worked in more than 30 countries on four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, implementing framework contracts and projects on sustainability, international development, and infrastructure. She has extensive experience working with multilateral development banks and international development organizations, providing advisory services, joining working groups, providing inputs to global standards, and creating new partnerships.
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Raimon Ripoll

Deloitte - Global
Throughout his professional career, he has participated in and coordinated national and international audit projects, due diligence and company valuations, design and implementation of internal control systems, operations consulting and improvement of results, advisory projects for different industries and also He has extensive experience in different projects for investors, operating internationally, and venture capital companies. Graduated in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Barcelona, he is a member of the IESE Food and Beverage Advisory Council, the UPF Social and Business Forum and the Board of Directors of Barcelona Global.
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Jean Barroca

Deloitte - Portugal
Jean Barroca is the Global Public Sector Digital Modernization Leader, working closely with Deloitte Public Sector Leaders across the world to help develop and deploying solutions and assets to support the Public Sector in their Digital Modernization. Jean is also the Senior Manager responsible for CitySynergy working with clients globally supporting Smart City and Future of Mobility initiatives. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2018, Jean worked with the World Bank in the Latin America & Caribbean and Africa regions in Smart Cities, Mobility, and Open Data. He was also part of the World Bank Innovation Labs team.
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