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LIS for Smart Cities


Geospatial Media and UN Economic Commissions for Europe (UNECE) are pleased to bring together a two-day Discussion and Dialogue Forum on Land Information Systems (LIS) for Smart Cities, which will bring out some significant ways that LIS feeds into creating smart cities and the resultant benefits gained by local authorities.


Programme Objectives
  • To showcase some advanced examples of LIS laying sound foundation for functioning of smart cities
  • To share information on the gamut of software, services and technologies available for developing sound LIS and an integrated Smart City
  • Bring out some success stories of City Management authorities elaborating their experience of on successful implementation of Smart City concept
  • To understand and help land management professionals from transition nations to share some of the challenges they face in establishing Land Information Systems and integrating LIS for functioning as a Smart City
  • To brainstorm on future roadmap for transition countries with regards to effective and modern land management practices and Smart City establishment.
 SPEAKERS
Chair
Stig Enemark

Professor
Aalborg University
Denmark
Komilov Abduvali Hakimovich
Director
Committee for Construction & Architecture
Tajikistan
Evgeniy Mavrin
Deputy-Prime Minister of
Republic of Bashkortostan of
Minister of Economy Russian
Federation
Doug Hurdlebrink
Deputy Commissioner
City of Chicago
USA
Elshad Khanalibayli
Chair, UNECE Working Party on Land Administration & Head Investment and Cooperation Department State Committee on Property Issues, Azerbaijan
Christopher Barlow
Director Strategic Relations & Communications
Thomson Reuters
USA
Kees de Zeeuw
Director
Kadaster International
The Netherlands
Alena Rakava
Deputy Head of Regional Planning and Urban, Planning Department
Ministry of Architecture and
Construction
Belarus
Andrew Trigg
Chief Geographic Information Officer, HM Land Registry of
England and Wales
UK
Andrew Hudson Smith
Director
UCL Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis
UK
Mahmoud El Burai
Managing Director
Dubai Real Estate Institute
Dubai
David Gigineishvili
Head of Spatial Planning and Construction
Policy Department
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
Dave Carter
Head of Manchester
Digital Development Agency
City of Manchester
UK
Eva Bufi
Center of Excellence on PPP &
Smart Cities
Spain
Gerald Sutter
City of Graz
Austria
Gulnara Roll
Head - Housing and Land Management Unit Trade & Sustainable Land Management Division, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Switzerland
Iain Langlands
GIS Manager - Land and
Environmental Services
Glasgow City Council
Scotland
Kari Aina Eik
Organization for International
Economic Cooperation
Martinus Vranken
Project Manager - Energy
and Climate, Kadaster
The Netherlands
Nedal Al Hanbali
GIS Manager
Abu Dhabi Urban
Plannning Council
UAE
Nikolay Bobylev Marie Curie
Research Fellow University of
Birmingham
UK
Peter Creuzer
Head of Regional Directorate
Germany
Tony Bonnici
Economic Affairs Officers
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe
Switzerland
Ülo Sare
Chairman
Tartu Smart City Lab
Estonia
Senior Representative
from Austrian Environment
Agency
Senior Representative
Trimble
Senior Representative
ISPRS/Euro SDR
Mei-Ling(Milly) Yeh
Lecturer, Dept of Urban Planning and Spatial Information
GIS,FCU
Taiwan