About Smart City Expo World Congress
Smart City Expo World Congress is the world’s biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. Taking place from 7th to 9th November 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, leaders from innovative companies, governments and organisations gather to move cities towards a better future. The aim of the Expo is to collectivise urban innovation across the globe and empower cities to face the critical challenges the world faces today. With a mission to accelerate a brighter urban paradigm towards green, efficient and thriving cities that leave no one behind.
How are we participating
We are delighted to be at the Smart City Expo World Congress this year in Barcelona. Working together with key stakeholders, we are reimagining the future of our urban spaces to enable tomorrow’s cities.
We provide our clients with rich insights on the dramatic shifts underway in how we move, build, power, make things; and feed ourselves. It is a broad, bold, strategic perspective that empowers cities of the future to promote prosperity and sustainability. As businesses around the world respond to new realities, they are overhauling traditional views of value, which are being created, destroyed, and preserved in new ways—and they are forming new ecosystems.
A city is a complex “ecosystem of systems” where citizens, visitors and businesses interact together across multiple domains. A smart city ecosystem is one where technology enables value creation to all stakeholders that interact with the city. Our extensive experience with smart city projects worldwide, both public and private, helps us deliver the best technology enabled outcomes for cities.
Meet our experts at the Smart City Expo 2023 to learn how we are partnering with city leaders, planners, solution providers, funding institutions and other stakeholders to create cities of the future.
Congress sessions
Tuesday
7 November
- 10.30h - 11:15h: Data Insights Inspiring Urban Innovation
Speaker: Kaveh Vessali, Digital, Data & AI Leader, PwC Middle East
Location: Hall 1 - Innovation Plaza
Wednesday
8 November
- 13:00h -13:30h: Powering the electric mobility transition
Speaker: Heiko Seitz, Global eMobility Leader, PwC Middle East
Location: Hall 2 - Tomorrow.Mobility Room - 16:30h - 17:15h: From Climate to Goals to Action: Cities Taking Charge
Speaker: Hazem Galal, Global Cities and Local Government Leader and Global Smart Mobility Co-Leader, PwC Middle East
Location: Hall 1 - Auditorium
Theatre programme
Don't miss our engaging live sessions at our booth featuring experts and industry leaders.
Tuesday 7 November
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Value in Motion - reconfiguring city ecosystems | Hazem Galal, PwC Middle East |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | How cities can transform from smart to cognitive: case studies from brownfield and greenfield cities | Varun Paul, PwC Middle East |
| 12:00 - 12.30 | Cognitive cities and the city operating systems | Rajat Chowdhary, PwC Middle East Mansoor Hanif, NEOM |
13:30 - 14:00 |
Leveraging AI for the cities of the future |
Greg Wilson, Microsoft |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Smart consumers in cities of the future |
Megan Higgins, PwC UK |
15:30 - 16:00 |
Developing EV charging ecosystems - sustainably and profitably |
Heiko Seitz, PwC Middle East |
As of 25 October 2023. Subject to change.
Wednesday 8 November
11:00 - 11:30 |
Data space opportunities for cities and OEMs |
Jonas Seyfferth, Strategy& Germany |
| 12:00 - 12.30 | Commuter centric mobility for cities | Nirav Shah, PwC India |
| 13:30 - 14.00 | Madinah's Human-centric Smart City Strategy | Mr. Abdulrahman Ibrahim, Al Madinah Region Development Authority |
14:30 - 15:00 |
Unlocking the full potential of cities with satellite data and AI |
Adam Knaze, PwC Slovak Republic |
15:30 - 16:00 |
How to gain insights from data with the PwC smart city platform |
Louisa Uhlemann, PwC Germany, Sophia Hiermaier, PwC Germany |
As of 25 October 2023. Subject to change.
Thursday 9 November
10:30 - 11:00 |
Electric mobility as an enabler of intermodality |
Paolo Guglielminetti, PwC Italy |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | How AI and digital twins make cities smarter | Kaveh Vessali, PwC Middle East |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Urban air mobility: contemporary initiatives and future enablers | Paolo Guglielminetti, PwC Italy |
12:00 - 12.30 |
City revenue and financing |
Hazem Galal, PwC Middle East |
As of 25 October 2023. Subject to change.
Where to find us:
Booth location: D196
Gran Via, Hall 2, Level 0, Street D, Stand 196
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Hazem Galal
Partner, Global Cities and Local Government Leader, and Global Smart Mobility Co-Leader, PwC Middle East
Partner, Global Automotive Leader, and Global Smart Mobility Co-Leader, PwC Germany