MUNICIPALITY OF KIFISSIA

The Journey to Smart City

A three-day innovating event at the Goulandris Museum.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for.

Konstantinos Kavafis

From the 15th and up to the 17th of June, the Municipality of Kifissia is organizing a three-day event that emphasizes on the concept of the Smart City.

The event will be consisted by a one-day Conference that will take place in the Goulandris Museum of Natural History (Gaia Centre) and a three-day open space Festival that will take place at the “heart” of the commercial center of Kifissia City.

In the Conference, Greek and Israel high-level speakers and participants coming from the sectors of Central Government, Local Government, Business and Entrepreneurship, will present to the audience the latest innovations in terms of policies and technological solutions, mapping in the process the necessary steps and adversities that must be overcome during the Journey of transforming a city to a Smart City.

Throughout the three days of the Festival, companies from Greece and Israel will display in specially formed exhibition areas their innovative technological solutions for Smart Cities, giving the opportunity to all visitors of Kifissia City to get acquainted with specific smart applications that are currently available to be used, making their cities more ecological, economical, efficient and smart.

Event Speakers

Distinguished participants

Giorgos Thomakos

Mayor of Kifissia

Nikos Pappas

Minister of Digital Policy

Kostis Chatzidakis

Vice President of New Democracy

Irit Ben Abba

Ambassador of Israel

Kostas Agorastos

Regional Governor of Thessaly

Kostas Bakoyannis

Regional Governor of Sterea Ellada

Uri Ben Ari

Smart City Expert

Liora Shechter

CIO Tel Aviv Muncipality

Giorgos Ioakeimidis

Mayor of Nicaea - Agios Ioannis Rentis

Grigoris Konstantellos

Mayor of Vari - Voula - Vouliagmeni

Dimitris Papastergiou

Mayor of Trikala

Nikos Koutsogiannis

Mayor of Naousa

Michalis Christakis

President of the Pan-Hellenic Union of General Secretaries "Cleisthenes"

Konstantinos Mochianakis

Director of Planning, Organization and IT
Municipality of Heraklion Crete

Maria Ladaki

Director of Planning, Organization and IT
Municipality of Kifissia

Conference Schedule

15 June - Goulandris Museum - Gaia Centre

09:30 - 10:00

Registrations

 

Welcome and Introductions

10:00 - 10:15

Giorgos Thomakos

Mayor of Kifissia

10:15 - 10:30

Irit Ben Abba

Ambassador of Israel to Greece

Keynote & Invited Speeches

10:30 - 11:00

Nikos Pappas

Minister for Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Information

11:00 - 11:30

Kostis Chatzidakis

Vice President at New Democracy Party

11:30 - 12:00

Uri Ben Ari

Managing Partner, Smart City Consulting

Mayor Speeches

12:00 - 12:15

Dimitris Papastergiou

Mayor of Trikala

12:15 - 12:30

Giorgos Ioakeimidis

Mayor of Nikaia - Agios Ioannis Renti

12:30 - 12:45

Grigoris Konstantellos

Mayor of Vari - Voula - Vouliagmeni

12:45 - 13:00

Nikos Koutsogiannis

Mayor of Naousa

Speeches by Regional Governors

13:00 - 13:20

Kostas Bakoyannis

Regional Governor of Central Greece

13:20 - 13:40

Kostas Agorastos

Regional Governor of Thessaly

13:40 - 14:10

Break

Light lunch

Presentation

14:10 - 16:10

The Smartest Technology Solutions

Presentation of COSMOTE / OCTOPUS / SINGULAR LOGIC / CISCO / ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΔΙΑΝΟΜΗΣ ΑΕΡΙΟΥ ΑΤΤΙΚΗΣ (ΕΔΑA) / CARBYNE / OLYMPIOS / CORE SOLUTIONS

Success stories

16:10 - 16:30

Liora Shechter

Head of the Department of Informatics of the Tel Aviv Municipality

16:30 - 16:50

Maria Ladaki

Director of Planning, Organization and IT Kifissia Municipality

16:50 - 17:10

Konstantinos Mochianakis

Director of Planning, Organization and IT Heraklion Municipality, Crete

17:10 - 17:30

Michalis Christakis

President of the Panhellenic Association of Secretaries – General of Local Government “Kleisthenes”

*The event will be in Greek/English with simultaneous translation.

Event Sponsors

Media

Conference Goulandris Museum
Three-day open space festival