“Beyond smart cities” discusses the ongoing activities and solutions when it comes to connecting geographical spaces, sectors, and platforms. They seek to solve public and citizens challenges through technology-based solutions within the framework of partnerships between multiple participants. Working across different cities or even regions and countries and with different solution providers and owners can offer fully new aspects of paths to solutions that had never been there before. With exemples coming from e.g., tourism and smart destinations, we will look at additional values already getting created by the organisations represented by our panellists. Examples will include: connecting tourism solutions between Italy and the Principauté de Monaco, how Al Madinah (MRDA) is increasing the level of satisfaction by leveraging technology across the tourist journey, successful transformations of tourism in a province or island to become a Smart Tourism Destination (DTI).
The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Michael Prange, University of Applied Sciences Kiel and will include following presenters:
Mannix Manglani Mankani, General Manager, MNX Online
Carlos Corrales, CEO of FIWOO and Secmotic
Côme Sauval, Head of the Platforms and Data Division, Principauté de Monaco
Björn De Vidts, Acting CEO of athumi (Flemish Data Utility Company)
Abdulaziz Althobaiti, Business and Systems Analyst,Madinah Region Development Authority