Program Spring 2023

DAY II, 1st June 2023

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:10 Opening of Day 2

9:10 – 10:20 ENERGY TRANSFORMATION OF A SMART CITY

9:10 – 10:00 Debate:

• The energy crisis of 2022/2023 – the effects on the economy and power engineering
  • group purchases of energy
  • advisory services regarding optimization of power energy use parameters
• Optimization of measuring systems –
• Carbon neutrality of cities till 2050 – European Green Deal
• Saving strategy for the future  – how to speed up the construction of renewable energy sources
  • community power engineering
  • an efficient approach to carbon footprint
• Energy storage and energy banks – infrastructure and technological solutions
  • renewable energy sources in a city – functionality increase of photovoltaic installation with the
    use of electric cars
• Smart-lighting in infrastructure management

Speakers:

• Krystian Kinastowski, Mayor of the City of Kalisz
• Mariusz Śpiewok, First Deputy Mayor of the City of Gliwice, Urząd Miasta Gliwice
• Mikołaj Kostka, First Deputy Mayor of City Ostrów Wielkopolski
• Maciej Witczak, CEO, Oświetlenie Uliczne i Drogowe
• Mariusz Dzikuć, Development Director, Fortum
• Maciej Jeziorski, Director of Public Sector CEE, Signify Poland

Moderator:

• dr Justyna Glusman, Managing Director, Stowarzyszenie Fala Renowacji

10:00 – 10:10 Presentation: “The Interact platform as the foundation of the Green City”

• Jakub Guźniczak, Smart City Expert, Signify Poland

10:10 – 10:20 Case study: “Energy efficiency – energy management in urban buildings urban
buildings in the imperius® cloud based on the example of realized implementations”

• Bartosz Marciniak, Board Member, Smarte

10:20 – 11:20 WATER IN THE CITY

10:20 – 10:30 Presentation: “Early detection of risks through remote water quality
monitoring”

• Robert Solnica, Head of Sales Department Market Holding & Power Industry, T-Mobile Polska
• Robert Bednarski, Director for Smart City, Urząd Miejski Wrocławia

10:30 – 11:20 Debate:

• Smart metering and remote monitoring of the work of district heating networks and water and sewer systems
  • remote reading – the way from utility companies to the building manager
  • availability of dedicated solutions in a city
• Water purity analysis and monitoring
• Water management
• Water treatment technology – the quality of water in Polish cities

Speakers:

• Marek Cebula, Mayor of the City of Krosno Odrzanskie
• Witold Ziomek, Chairman of the Board, Municipal Water and Sewerage Company in Wroclaw
• Magdalena Raczko, Sales Manager in the Business Support Department, Polkomtel
• Robert Solnica, Head of Sales Department Market Holding & Power Industry, T-Mobile Polska

Moderator:

• Damian Simiński, Editor-in-Chief, Wodociągowiec.pl

11:50 – 12:40 SMALL CITIES AND COMMUNES – THE STRATEGY OF
BEING SMART

11:50 – 12:40 Debate:

• Smart City 4.0 – how to use the community, involvement, and the voice of inhabitants
• Adoption of smart solutions and generation of savings in smaller communes – barriers, and solutions
  • a search of unobvious income sources
• Model of open innovations – funding and acquisition of funds
• Investments in IT infrastructure development
• Suburbia – what strategy for the suburbs and who is going to benefit
  • cooperation of suburban communes with metropolitan areas
• Smart farming – development concepts (Smart Rural)

Speakers:

• Anita Białek, Deputy Mayor of the Kije
• Roman Kaczmarczyk, Mayor of the City of Lądek-Zdrój
• Artur Tusiński, Mayor of the City of Podkowa Leśna
• Paweł Biarda, Management Board Member, Head of Sales and Business Development, Nexera

Moderator:

• Szymon Ciupa, SmartCity Expert Editor-in-Chief, GIS Expert

12:40 – 14:00 TRANSPORT TO THE FUTURE

12:40 – 12:50 Presentation: “Public transport tailored to the needs in Rybnik”

• Ewelina Włoch, Head of the Department of Digitization and New Technologies, Urząd Miasta Rybnik

12:50 – 13:05 Case study: „Good practices in the implementation of ITS systems in Poland”

• Dominik Weder, Smart City Specialist, Sprint

13:05 – 14:00 Debate:

• Ecological forms of transport – key aspects
  • traffic flow and comfort of movement
  • operation and maintenance of transport systems
  • micro-mobility as the integration of transport networks
• How to efficiently manage public transport and traffic in large urban areas – best practices
• Digital twin and IoT in transport
• Challenges connected with investments into charging infrastructure for electric cars and buses
• Hydrogen – the fuel of the future for Polish cities
• Transport, smart parking, and mobile payments
  • unification and payment standardization
  • E-control – regulation of paid parking zones
  • attractive tourism – amenities for tourists visiting Polish cities
• Vehicle maintenance and safety – control over non-standard behaviors of drivers

Speakers:

• Arkadiusz Wiśniewski, Mayor of the City of Opole
• Łukasz Kosobucki, Chairman of the Management Board, Komunikacja Miejska Rybnik
• Grzegorz Kwitek, Management Board Member, Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia
• Joanna Erdman, Chairman of the Managment Board, Fundacja Polska Bezgotówkowa
• Tomasz Turczynowicz, CEO, Smart Factor
• Tomasz Wojtkiewicz, Chief Executive Officer, Nextbike

Moderator:

• Małgorzata Gutowska, CEO, Metropolitan Transport Authority

14:00 – 15:05 DIGITAL CITIZEN – A MAN IN THE CITY

14:00 – 14:10 Presentation: “Urban Lab – as a tool for collaboration with city users”

• Tomasz Skoczylas, Director of the Center for Urban Innovation – Urban Lab, Urząd Miejski Rzeszow

14:10 – 14:20 Presentation: “Decidim supports digital democracy – Warsaw implementation of
open source code platform”

• Krzysztof Wittels, Chief Specialist, City Hall of Warsaw
• Marcin Adamski, Head of the Smart City Projects Department, Office of Information Technology, City Hall of Warsaw

14:20 – 15:05 Debate:

• Payment Security for seniors and children – education
• Review of participatory budgets – inspirations and the most exciting ideas of inhabitants
• The role of Urban-labs and urban business incubators
• Health care and senior care – the role of local governments in providing access to telemedicine and telecare

Speakers:

• Krystyna Danilecka-Wojewódzka, Mayor of the Slupsk
• Robert Bednarski, Director for Smart City, Urząd Miejski Wrocławia
• Wojciech Ciesielski, Deputy Director of the IT Department, Urząd Miasta Łódź
• Sławomir Świder, Mayor’s Plenipotentiary for IT, Rzeszow City Hall
• Prof. Jacek Cichoń, Head of the Department of Computer Science Foundations, Wroclaw University of
  Technology

Moderator:

• dr Sebastian Grabowski, Smart City expert of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and
  Telecommunications, Host of the CityMiasto channel

15:05 Lunch