ARAB FUTURE CITIES SUMMIT 2012
"Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities"
Under the patronage of
H.E. Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Khalifa Al Thani
Minister for Municipality and Urban Planning, State of Qatar
23-24 April 2012, Intercontinental Doha, Qatar

The Arab Future Cities Summit is an international gathering of city leaders, Government officials, city developers, academicians and urban service providers and city development experts to share strategies, insights and best practices to implement a smart and sustainable future for the cities of tomorrow. It gives a direction in urban planning and development with an emphasis on effective utilization of resources.

The objective of the summit is to facilitate an international platform to discuss the ways for the transfer of knowledge, know how and to reflect on technological and social innovations and transformations that are arising in cities.

Many municipalities around the world are exploring the Smart City concept as a way to make themselves better places to live, work, and grow. There is a growing consensus that information and communications technology (ICT) will play a critical role in creating sustainable cities of the future.

ARAB FUTURE CITIES SUMMIT 2012
"Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities"
Under the patronage of
H.E. Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Khalifa Al Thani
Minister for Municipality and Urban Planning, State of Qatar
23-24 April 2012, Intercontinental Doha, Qatar

The Arab Future Cities Summit is an international gathering of city leaders, Government officials, city developers, academicians and urban service providers and city development experts to share strategies, insights and best practices to implement a smart and sustainable future for the cities of tomorrow. It gives a direction in urban planning and development with an emphasis on effective utilization of resources.

The objective of the summit is to facilitate an international platform to discuss the ways for the transfer of knowledge, know how and to reflect on technological and social innovations and transformations that are arising in cities.

Many municipalities around the world are exploring the Smart City concept as a way to make themselves better places to live, work, and grow. There is a growing consensus that information and communications technology (ICT) will play a critical role in creating sustainable cities of the future.

The concept of Smart Cities is gaining increasingly high importance as a means of making available all the services and applications enabled by ICT to citizens, companies and authorities that are part of a city’s system.  It aims to increase citizens’ quality of life and improve the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing entities and businesses.  This perspective requires an integrated vision of a city and of its infrastructures, in all its components, and extends beyond the mere “digitalisation” of information and communication: it has to incorporate a number of dimensions that are not related to technology, e.g., the social and political ones.

Many cities are working on installing municipal wireless networks, implementing e-government initiatives by providing access to city departments and initiatives through websites, integrating public transportation with intelligent transportation systems, or developing ways to cut their carbon footprints and reduce the amount of recyclables consigned to the trash heap.

Arab Future Cities Summit will host up to 150 pre-qualified senior level decision makers from across the GCC and Middle East.

• Mayors & Ministers
• Heads for Municipalities
• Chairman/CEOs/Managing Directors
• Project Directors
• Departmental Heads for City Development
• City Planners
• Chief Strategy Officers
• Relevant Policy Advisors
• Government Consultants
• Heads of Procurement
• Chief Technology Officers
• Chief Investment Officers
• Directors of Infrastructure Development

• Examine the key ingredients of successful cities
• Participate in topical and interesting panel debates on the key issues facing your cities 
• Lively and topical panel debates on key issues facing smart cities development 
• Network with peers across public sector and leading lights from the private sector 
• Receive opinion leader and consumer research on what makes successful smart cities 
• Source smart cities solutions and expertise from specialists driving the development of smart cities
• Benchmark from the best practices in cities in developed markets

Arab Future Cities Summit, under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Minister for Municipality & Urban Planning, State of Qatar will be held at the Intercontinental Doha in Qatar on 23-24 April 2012

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