Rio de Janeiro 2011

Chairman Palmisano's opening remarks (45KB)

Participant biographies (1.8MB)

• Session I: A Planet of SmarterCities

  Cities are the economic engines of sustainable growth for the 21st century. In this session, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, and Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, discussed the steps that have been taken by the government of Rio in order to respond to the growing demands of urbanization. One of the key topics of the conversation was the creation of the Rio Command Center and the safety, security, advance notice it offers to the citizens of Rio to help predict natural disasters.

  Sam Palmisano discussed the fundamental characteristics which will define a new breed of global urban leader. He explained that, in order to build cities that drive global progress, leaders will need to be non-ideological; they will need to think in terms of systems of systems; and they must manage for the long term.

  Session Chair: Ricardo Pelegrini, General Manager, Brazil, IBM

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  Special Address: SmarterCities-Crucibles of Global Progress
  Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM

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  Special Address: The SmarterCities Agenda-The Transformation of Rio de Janeiro
  Eduardo Paes, Mayor, City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  A Conversation with:
  Eduardo Paes, Mayor, City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM
  Discussion Leader: Dr. Fareed Zakaria, CNN Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS; Editor-at-Large, TIME; Columnist, The Washington Post; and Author

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• Session II: The SmarterCities Agenda—Seizing the Opportunities

  Global competition for funding, energy and talent is increasingly requiring leaders to do more with less. On this session, Bruno Di Leo, IBM General Manager for Growth Markets and the mayors of the cities of Antofagasta, in Chile, San Jose, in Costa Rica and Tigre, in Argentina explored how enterprising, forward-thinking mayors from some of Latin America's most rapidly growing cities have garnered support and addressed citizen concerns to embark on serious urban transformation.

  This session also took a close look at the transformation of the role the mayor in recent years, as well as the partnerships that are necessary to form with leaders of companies and federal government agencies in order to work toward progress and urban development. The panelists also discussed their opinions about the changes that lie ahead for their cities in the coming decades.

  Session Chair: Bruno Di Leo, General Manager, Growth Markets, IBM

  Special Address: The Transformation of Mega Cities
  Johnny Araya Monge, Mayor, City of San José, Costa Rica and Co-President, United cities and Local Governments Association

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  Seizing the opportunity in Latin America
  A Conversation with:
  Johnny Araya Monge, Mayor, City of San José, Costa Rica and Co-President, United Cities and Local Governments Association
  Marcela Hernando, Mayor, City of Antofagasta, Chile
  Sergio Massa, Mayor, City of Tigre, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Discussion Leader: Christiane Pelajo, Editor and Anchor, Jornal da Globo, Rede Globo

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  Special Address: At the Intersection of Globalization and Urbanization
  Dr. Fareed Zakaria, CNN Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS; Editor-at-Large, TIME; Columnist, The Washington Post; and Author

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  Closing Comments:
  Bruno Di Leo, General Manager, Growth Markets, IBM

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• Session III: The Smarter City — A System of Systems

  The benefits of city growth are far-reaching, and multiple players have a stake. Lead by Alfonso Vegara Gómez, president of Fundación Metrópoli, this session explored urban subsystems and the ways in which they overlap, support and influence each other to improve the mechanical functioning of the city and its quality of life. In this session, experts came together to discuss how to enhance collaboration between organizations, whether public or private, to address structural problems throughout the urban landscape. One of the key themes of the conversation was the mobilization of private entities to help cities with limited government resources, and the key considerations of civic leaders when entering into public-private partnerships.

  Session Chair: Elly Keinan, General Manager, Latin America, IBM

  Special Address: Economic Recovery, Urbanization and the City
  Dr. Alfonso Vegara Gómez, President, Fundación Metrópoli

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  A Conversation with:
  Dr. Pablo Allard, Dean of Architecture and Arts, Universidad del Desarrollo, and Senior Advisor, Urban Policy and Reconstruction, Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, Government of Chile
  Dr. Néstor Bercovich, eLAC (Regional Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean) Coordinator, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
  Erik Camarano, President, Movimento Brasil Competitivo

  Discussion Leader: Dr. Alfonso Vegara Gómez, President, Fundación Metrópoli

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• Session IV: Investing in the SmarterCities Innovation Ecosystem

  Around the world, governments are working closely with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to drive economic growth. New investments in Smart Grid, renewable energy, government services, transportation, and water management are all fueling economic expansion and technological development. Investors from Latin American markets such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile contributed $7.2B to economic growth and development in 2010. In Brazil alone, 2010 investment totaled $5.5B, up from only $2.0B the year before.

  In this session, key leaders of this innovation ecosystem shared their insights and experiences with investing in SmarterCities opportunities in growth markets. They discussed how they are investing in entrepreneurial initiatives to drive transformation, establishing new partnerships with city leaders and fostering the collaboration that is critical to the success of SmarterCities.

  Session Chair: Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, Venture Capital Group and Vice President, Corporate Strategy, IBM

  Special Address: Smart Investments—Managing for the Long Term
  Professor Luciano Coutinho, President, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)

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  A Conversation with:
  Jim Breyer, Partner, Accel Partners
  Professor Luciano Coutinho, President, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)
  Marcelo Haddad, Executive Director, Rio Negócios
  Discussion Leader: Marcus Regueira, Founding Partner, FIR Capital

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• Session V: How to Build a Smarter City

  Cities today are at the intersection of major global shifts. As the world's population becomes more urban, the center of gravity of major challenge and opportunity is being shifted to cities. At the same time, systems within those cities are under new stresses. To respond to these challenges, civic leaders are coming up with creative solutions to reshape and redefine those systems.

  In this session, conducted by Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Strategy, IBM, experts discussed the drivers of new smarter city initiatives; common progression paths across more than 2,000 such initiatives; and key lessons for city and business leaders.

  Session Chair: Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Sales, Marketing and Strategy, IBM

  Special Address: How to Build a Smarter City
  Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Sales, Marketing and Strategy, IBM

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  A Conversation with:
  Dr. Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, Chairman, Board of Directors, Gerdau
  Kenneth Schwartz, Favrot Professor and Dean, Tulane School of Architecture, Tulane University
  Discussion Leader: Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Sales, Marketing and Strategy, IBM

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  Key Observations
  Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM

The SmarterCities Leadership Series
The SmarterCities Leadership Series provided an in-depth look - across a variety of city sub-systems - at how urban leaders are modernizing their systems and infrastructures to spur economic development, drive innovation, transform for competitive advantage and meet the pressing demands of a more engaged and intelligent citizenry.

• Smarter Public Safety—Crime Prevention

  The first duty of any state or city is to protect its citizens and provide a safe environment for people to live and for businesses to thrive. The question is how to achieve this goal in an urbanized world that has become more interconnected, fast-paced and unpredictable every day. In recent years, forward-thinking law enforcement officials and government leaders have made great strides in applying innovative, community-based approaches and new technologies to help reduce crime and prevent terrorism and other threats to social order. But even with these advances, the challenges to public safety and social order continue to grow. Fortunately, technology continues to advance and provide better capabilities to help make urban public safety systems not just more connected and efficient, but smarter. Safety, security, and low crime are crucial factors in determining overall quality of life, and are particularly important issues for cities competing in the global marketplace for investment and talent. This is why smarter public safety is an imperative for cities to succeed in the global economy. This session highlighted how public safety agencies use analytics to analyze, anticipate and actually work to prevent crimes and reduce the threat of terrorism, thereby making the citizens they protect safer.

  Moderator: Mark Cleverley, Director, Public Safety Solutions, Global Government Industry, IBM

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  Alvaro Batista Camilo, General Commander, Military Police Department, State of São Paulo

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  Professor W. Richard Janikowski, Director, Center for Community Criminology and Research, and Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Memphis

  Presentation (1.3MB)

  Ankie van der Zanden, Forensic Data Miner, Knowledge and Expertise Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis, Netherlands Forensic Institute

  Presentation (2.6MB)

• Smarter Public Safety—Emergency Management

  Over the past decade, the world has witnessed a number of devastating natural disasters and tragic terrorist incidents that created disruptions to our cities and the lives of citizens. The complex nature of the infrastructure that supports communications, power, water, transportation, and medical assistance demands that city leaders have the insight to anticipate multiple disaster scenarios, understand the likely problems that could occur, and be prepared to respond. Today, many new technologies are showing promise in helping cities improve emergency response measures. However, these alone cannot ensure protection from large-scale urban threats. Being prepared requires new guidelines for infrastructure projects, emergency response plans, government employee training, citizen awareness, and tested methods of cross-organization collaboration. This session explored innovative approaches and advanced technologies to respond quickly and effectively to disruptive threats and emergencies. Leaders from three cities who have responded to very different disasters will discuss their challenges, experiences and outcomes.

  Moderator: Dr. Guruduth Banavar, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Global Public Sector, IBM

  Presentation (415KB)

  Dr. Pablo Allard, Dean of Architecture and Arts, Universidad del Desarrollo, and Senior Advisor, Urban Policy and Reconstruction, Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, Government of Chile

  Presentation (3MB)

  Pablo Escudero Pérez, General Director, Security, City Council of Madrid (CISEM)

  Presentation (924KB)

  Carlos Roberto Osorio, Municipal Secretary, Conservation and Public Services, City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Presentation (239KB)

• Smarter Transportation

  The movement of people and freight across towns, between cities and around the world is critical to economic vitality and quality of life. Congestion is a worldwide problem, where transportation demand far exceeds capacity. Studies have revealed that a 10% reduction in congestion can lead to a 3% improvement in employment and 2% improvement in local GDP. Cities cannot afford to simply build their way out of congestion. City transportation managers must balance capacity needs while addressing four key imperatives: predicting demand and optimizing transportation infrastructure and assets; improving the end-to-end traveler and customer experience; improving operational efficiencies while reducing carbon emissions; and sustaining safety and security. To address these requirements, smarter cities must consider the multimodal transportation needs within the city and the movement between cities and countries. This will require integrating the transportation system - which is really a system of systems with ports, airlines, airports, freight terminals, public transit systems, private cars, taxi networks, etc. This session examined the relationships across these systems and the ways in which those relationships can create smarter transportation that is adaptable, responsive, sustainable and affordable.

  Moderator: Jeffrey Rhoda, General Manager, Global Government and Education Industries, IBM

  Presentation (453KB)

  Dan O'Connell, Vice President, Distribution Sector, Growth Markets, IBM

  Presentation (418KB)

  Nick Fairholme, Director, Congestion Charging and Traffic Enforcement, Transport for London

  Colin Lim, Group Director, Vehicle and Transit Licensing, Land Transport Authority Singapore

  Presentation (520KB)

  Paul Smitton, Head, International Development, Qantas Loyalty, Qantas Airways

  Presentation (467KB)

  Eduardo Zegarra, Deputy Mayor, City of Lima, Peru

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• Smarter Energy

  New technologies and new capabilities for system-level analysis and optimization can dramatically improve one of a city's most critical services: energy. This basic service is foundational—in fact, a prerequisite—for making any city smarter. We can improve the way power is generated, distributed, and used by adding digital intelligence to current systems. Using these smarter systems, an energy company can address complex issues such as: optimizing grid performance, preventing faults and outages, integrating more renewably generated wind and solar energy, restoring power faster after disruptions, better supporting large-scale use of electric vehicles, and helping consumers manage their energy usage right down to individual networked appliances. As the system becomes smarter, it becomes more efficient, reliable and adaptive-qualities essential for 21st century cities. This session offered examples of how collaboration across the energy ecosystem is helping transform and modernize energy systems around the globe, with particular focus on the integral role energy systems play in supporting smarter cities.

  Moderator: Michael Valocchi, Vice President and Partner, Global Energy and Utilities Industry Leader, Global Business Services, IBM

  Presentation - Opening (419KB)

  Presentation - Closing (226KB)

  Newton Tanaka, Sales and Distribution,, Communications Sector Executive, Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM

  Presentation (274KB)

  Jerson Kelman, President, Grupo Light S.A.

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  Dr. Ronald Melton, Senior Power Systems Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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  Nelson José Hübner Moreira, General Director, Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL)

  Presentation (251KB)

• Smarter Buildings

  Smarter buildings are an important building block of smarter cities. They house critical city services and are connected to systems such as smart grid, water, and transportation. Over the past few decades, buildings not only supported burgeoning urban populations and growing economies, but also served as symbols of modernity and progress. On a smarter planet, we can think about buildings differently and see offices not just as static structures where work is done, but as manifestations of all the ways the world works. In a smart building, systems are not managed separately-they interoperate, both within and outside of their walls. Information from smarter building dashboards can be ported to city command centers for higher visibility and coordination of events. Inside the building, thousands of sensors can monitor everything from motion and temperature to humidity, energy use, equipment status, occupancy and light. With this new data, the building doesn't just coexist with nature, it harnesses it. This session provided practical, actionable advice as we explore the new heights, and reduced energy use and carbon footprints, that can be achieved by filling new and existing buildings with intelligence.

  Moderator: David Bartlett, Vice President, Industry Solutions, IBM

  Presentation (3.2MB)

  Marcos Maran, President, Brazilian Association of Facilities (ABRAFAC)

  Presentation (12MB)

  Wagner Bittencourt de Oliveira, Minister of Civil Aviation Secretariat, Office of the President, Federative Republic of Brazil

  Presentation (2.4MB)

  Kenneth Schwartz, Favrot Professor and Dean, Tulane School of Architecture, Tulane University

  Presentation (5KB)