A Complete Guide to AIM 2022’s Future Cities Pillar Sessions & Workshops
AIM 2022 comprises a broad diversity of activities and features that come together to achieve the event’s strategic objectives. Under the umbrella of AIM 2022’s Future Cities Pillar, the event comprises the following sessions and workshops:
First: Pre-conference Sessions & Workshops
Workshop: Future Cities Workshop 1
Title: What are Future Cities? How can FDI be leveraged to deliver Future Cities' solutions?
Date: 28th March 2022
Synopsis: The workshop will cover the following points:
- Enabling policies and programs to create competitive city-regions.
- Examples of best practices in placing city-regions on the international world map for global trade and investment.
- The seven economic programs that all city regions need to deliver: from infrastructure to innovation.
- The entire city region development plan needs to be wrapped in a strategic international reputation development and management strategy.
Workshop: Future Cities Workshop 2 (RMA Advisory)
Title: An Immersive Metaverse Experience
Date: 28th March 2022
Synopsis: The workshop will discuss the Metaverse as the future of the internet, raising the question of how this will influence the future of our cities, and what investors need to know.
Second: Conference Sessions & Workshops
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar Keynote - In Partnership with WEIF 2022
Title: Green and Blue Infrastructure
Date: 29th March 2022
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: The Neural Smart City Model – How Should We Think About Smart Cities?
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: The speaker will ask a question whether supposedly Smart Cities are succeeding, noting that the recent pandemic has exposed many challenges that still exist in highly ranked, and heavily invested, ‘Smart Cities’. The discussion will also stress that while our current models for investments have existed since the 1960s, they need updating to help investors navigate the complexity, challenges, and opportunities around Smart Cities in the future.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar Panel
Title: Investing in AI and Digital Twins for Resiliency
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: At the session, the world’s leading artificial intelligence and digital twin solution providers as they explore how data analytics in its many forms can make a community resilient with targeted investments.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: Investing in Africa’s Smart Cities to Drive Economic Transformation
Date: 29th March 2022
Synopsis: The session Looks at how Africa can utilize Smart Cities to tap into Africa’s growing youthful population and drive the demographic dividend, and will, also, tap further into Smart Cities solutions that Smart Africa is piloting.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: The Breakthrough: Blockchain-Backed Public Administration
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: With Blockchain-based solutions set to transform society worldwide, the panel will provide insights and opinions on the way forward, the pace of progress, key enabling steps, and pointers to be mindful of in the next three to five years.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: Future Cities Pillar Virtual Reality Session
Date: 30th March 2022
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: Investing in Well-Being
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The discussion revolves around the how and why of improving community well-being.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: Leaving No One Behind: Promoting Interconnected and Inclusive Infrastructure
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The discussion revolves around how can modern urban centers best foster socio-economic development through inclusive urban infrastructure and digitization as well as how accessibility and inclusion for urban infrastructure can be driven in a citizen-centric approach by reshaping governance, services, and stakeholder engagement.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar - In Partnership with WEIF 2022
Title: Smart Services of the Future: FDI and Technology Adoption Trends, The Shift in Smart Services and What to Look Forward to in the Future
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: As the pressure is on for cities to optimize urban service management through efficient infrastructure, the session discusses the best transformational adaptations that solution providers and policymakers are taking to deliver higher quality services more efficiently.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar
Title: Exposed and Deconstructed: Future Cities of the World
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The session provides a glance at the smart cities of the future across the globe as they come to life before your eyes, and takes a deeper dive into their state-of-the-art features, innovative sustainability solutions, and visionary urban planning.
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar: Smart City Case Study
Title: Smart City Case Study – A Journey from The Past to the Future
Date: 30th March 2022
Synopsis: The speaker talks about the key lessons that investors can learn from Smart Cities schemes globally and how these should be applied to future Smart Cities opportunities?
Workshop: Future Cities Pillar Panel
Title: Platforms for Transportation and the Built Environment
Date: 31st March 2022
Synopsis: The panel discusses using data and analytics to improve investment results for transportation and the built environment.
Workshop: Round Table Discussion
Title: A New Definition for Innovation Districts - People Not Technology (Smart Cities Council)
Date: 31st March 2022
Synopsis: This roundtable session will focus on how any development, including brownfield, can kick start a city-renaissance by focusing on well-being, resiliency, and scale.
