Kommersant and Reed Midem Opening Conference
Russia 2016: Smart vector in urban development
March 15, 2016, 11.00 – 12.30 RUBY ROOM HALL (level 5), Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France
The Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI France Russie) invites you to take part in the opening conference of Kommersant Publishing House and REED MIDEM – the Russian Business Programme within the frameworks of MIPIM-2016.
Global trend towards urbanization and population growth exert great environmental pressure on cities. This situation dictates the need of using ecologic and energy-efficient technologies to cope with the consequences of population growth and ensure comfortable living conditions in cities. The agenda of the conference arranged by Kommersant Publishing House within the frameworks of MIPIM 2016 includes the issue of smart cities advantages. The key feature of smart cities is integration new technologies into urban infrastructure. How innovation helps us to reduce costs and to maximize outcomes of the global projects?
IN PROGRAMME:
10.30-11.00 Welcoming coffee
11.00-12.30 Discussion panel
Moderator: Brian Evans, Professor of Glasgow School of Art
- What are the assets of a ‘smart city’?
- What impact does integrating new technologies into urban infrastructure have on global construction and development plans?
- How does innovation help in reducing costs and in maximizing the outcome of global projects?
- Urban evolution: how developers and authorities contribute to the process?
- Are developers and authorities ready to find solutions together?
- Transformation of consumer’s demand in the context of development of new technologies. How much is final consumer ready to pay for living in a “smart city”?
- Creation of comfortable urban environment: is it a developer or a consumer who establish rules?
The experts on the panel will debate on the following:
- Mikhail Men, Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector of the Russian Federation
- Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of the city of Moscow in the Moscow Government for Urban Development and Construction
- Sergey Cheremin, Minister, Head of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow, Moscow City Government
- Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of the city of Moscow, First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Architecture Committee
- Andrey Peregoudov, Senior Vice-President of VTB, Director General, VTB Arena-Park
- Sergey Riabokobylko, Partner, Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield
- Veniamin Golubitsky, President, Kortros
- Alexander Khrustalev, Chairman of the board of directors, NDV Group
- Dominique Fache, Chairman of the board, RTF, Head of Sophia-Antipolis Foundation
- Sangeeth Ram, Principal, McKinsey&Company, (Dubay)
- Andrey Nazarov, Co-Cairman of All Russia Public Organization Business Russia
Invited speakers:
12.30-13.00 Final coffee break
