ABES participates in the Smart City Business America Congress & Expo 2018

Tan Yigitcanlar, Jamile Marques and Leopoldo Albuquerque

Institutional supporter of Smart City Business America Congress & Expo 2018, ABES also indicated to the organizers the participation of professor and researcher Tan Yigitcanlar, from the School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Included in the April 16 schedule, Yigitcanlar shared with event attendees its expertise in Sustainable Urban Development, Knowledge Cities and Smart Urban Technologies and presented data on ongoing initiatives in the Australian state of Queensland. On the 17th, the professor also participated in a panel alongside representatives from Microsoft, Intel and Cisco. 

 

Invited to represent ABES at this event by Jamile Sabatini Marques, director of Innovation and Promotion of the association, Yigitcanlar maintains a continuous connection with Brazil, as he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Laboratory of Smart Cities (LabCHIS) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis. (SC). He has been responsible for research, teaching, training and capacity building programs in the areas of urban and regional planning, development and management at prestigious Australian, Brazilian, Finnish, Japanese and Turkish universities, in addition to having dozens of published articles and being editor-in-chief of “Smart Cities” book series, by Elsevier, among other publications.

 

The Smart City Business America Congress & Expo (SCBAC&E), which took place in São Paulo from April 16 to 18, 2018, is an event of the Instituto Smart City Business America (SCBA), a non-profit organization that promotes the advancement of discussions related to to smart cities on the American continent. According to Leopoldo Albuquerque, president of the Institute, the event is a catalyst for new technologies and discussions on advances that are already seen in successful cases of smart cities. “We aim to support the development of metropolises based on innovation and technology, aiming at the well-being of people”, says the executive.

 

SCBAC&E 2018 had a space of 6000m² for exhibition and 200m² in the technology square, in addition to areas for parallel events – thematic forums, strategic meeting islands and the 6th edition of the InovaCidade Award. More than 70 companies presented technological solutions to meet the demands of smart cities with quality and safety. The congress had more than 50 panels, in which professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs and representatives of the public power, national and international, presented successful cases and discussed the main points for the development of cities.