Speakers Bio & Abstract

 
DR. HANUMAN PRASAD CHODAGAM Deputy General Manager-Smart Solutions
Cyient
India

Abstract Smart City Concept and OpportunitiesOne another perspective of looking at the Smart City concept is the opportunity that it provides to the technology Industry. According to Frost and Sullivan, the smart city market is likely to be worth $1.565 trillion by 2020. IBM has been at the forefront of this initiative by starting the Smarter Cities program in 2009 and is now an unquestioned leader in smart city solutions market. Cisco with its Internet for Everything solutions is another leader in the Smart city solutions market. General Electric is offering solutions in this market through its platform named Intelligent Environment for Cities. Microsoft with its CityNext Initiative provides technology solutions for it. Oracle has its own Smart City Platform Solution to cater this segment. SAP using its HANA platform as base is providing solutions . All other leading technology vendors too, have their own solutions to address this Smart city market. From India, Tech Mahindra is one of the first Indian IT companies to address the Smart city market and has become a thought leader in this segment. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when they are created by everybody.