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In order to tackle this challenge, cities will have to be transformed in order to integrate larger populations and manage existing resources, guaranteeing quality of life of their inhabitants and driving economic development. This involves combining the ideas, resources and tools of mobility, ICTs, the environment, energy efficiency, town planning, knowledge economy and demographic management.

The second Smart City Expo & World Congress, which will highlight technology and sustainability, will reflect this diversity of disciplines in its congress programme that will be structured around 9 topics: Energy, Environment, Innovation & Technology, Collaborative City & the Smart Society, Town Planning, Mobility, Economy & Governance, Emergency & Security, Smart GEO; the latter two are new to this year’s programme.

The list of over 200 keynote speakers includes Kenneth Berlin, lawyer specialising in the environment and advisor on the subject to US President Barack Obama; Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aaron Renn, analyst and Principal of the urban studies studio The Urbanophile; Dan Hill, coordinator in design of the Finesa Foundation for Innovation, Sitra; Charles Landry, economist specialising in urban development and founder of Comedia; Robert Puentes, specialist in infrastructures and urban mobility at the Brookings Institution, New York; Thomas Barrett, Director of technical services and financial advice at the European Investment Bank; John Moore, analyst and founder of Government in the Lab; and Ricky Burdett, urbanist and professor at the London School of Economics. (See full list of confirmed speakers).

The second Smart City Expo & World Congress will be held from the 13th to 15th November 2012 in the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via Exhibition Centre. In its first year, it brought together over 6,000 visitors from 51 countries, 118 companies and over 200 international speakers making it one of the leading world events on smart cities and sustainable urban development.

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Complete list of speakers confirmed by 13th September 2012

Aaron M Renn Principal, Urbanophile LLC

Abdallah Abdallah Sales & Marketing Manager - Middle East, Wonderware

Abha Joshi-Ghani Manager, Urban Development and Local Government Unit - The World Bank

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Founder, Good Night Lamp / Designwarm

Alfonso Rubio Chief Executive Officer, ESRI Spain

Alfredo Escribà Transportation General Manager, Telvent

Allan Jones Chief Development Officer, Energy and Climate Change - City of Sydney

Andreas Lykke-Olesen Partner Architect, MAA - Kollision

Andreas Wytzisk Second Managing Director, 52º North

Andrew Carter Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Cities

Andrew Vande Moere Author of infosthetics.com and Associate professor at the K.U.Leuven

Anne Culver Executive Vice President, Scenic City Certification program

Annie Xu Smart Cities Senior Vice President, Schneider Electric

Antoni Peris President, Sedigas

Ashley Atkinson Director of Project Development and Urban Agriculture, The Greening of Detroit

Ayman Moghnieh Consultant, Quadrigram

Bastian Fischer Vice President Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit

Ben Hamilton-Baillie Director, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd.

Beth Urban Executive Director, American Community Gardening Association

Bill Dunster Principal, ZED Factory

Boyd Cohen Director of Center for Entrepreneurship, La Universidad de San Andrés

Brent Toderian President, Toderian UrbanWORKS & former Vancouver Chief City Planner

Bruno Berthon Global Managing Director, Sustainability Services – Accenture

Carlo Ratti Director, SENSEable City Laboratory – MIT

Chao Teng-Hsiung Chairman, Farglory

Charles Landry Founder, Comedia

Charlotte Gabriel-Robez Marketing, Astrium Geo, EADS

Chetan Vaidya Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi

Chris Johnson Chief Executive Officer, Urban Taskforce, Australia

Claudio Orrego Larraín Mayor of Comuna de Peñalolén

Colette Maloney Head of Unit, Smart Cities & Sustainability (DG Connect), European Commission

Daan Roosegaarde Director, Studio Roosegaarde

Dan Hill Strategic Design Leader, Sitra - the Finnish Innovation Fund

Dar Roberts Professor in the Department of Geography, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara

David Beeton Director, Urban Foresight

David Comas Partner and manager, Nexus Geografics

Didac Lee Entrepreneur, Inspirit

Dimitri Zenghelis Senior Economic Advisor, Cisco - Senior Fellow, London School of Economics

Donald C. Clark Vice President of Global Industry Solutions, Invensys Wonderware

Esteve Almirall Professor, Esade and Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Federico Casalegno Director, MIT Mobile Experience Lab

Fernando Rayón Director of Planning and Technology, Agbar

Florian Brack Head of the Center of Open Space Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Gero Kura Infrastructure Development Manager, Invensys Wonderware

Gordon Falconer Director, Urban Innovation Smart+Connected Communities - Cisco Systems

Greg Clark Chief Executive Officer, The Business of Cities Ltd

Guliz Ozturk International Marketing Manager, Kentkart Ege Elektronik A.S.

Guy Vekemans Strategy developer smart cities, Flemish Institute for Technological Research

Heike Barlag International electric mobility research projects, Green eMotion

Hung Song President & CEO, KCSS - KT Cisco Smart Services

Isher Alhuwalia Chairperson (ICRIER), Vice Chairperson (GDN), Vice Chairperson of the Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi - Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi

Ismael Fernández Mejía President, ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners

Jacques Soignon Green spaces director, City of Nantes

Jean Robert Mazaud Chief Executive Officer, S'PACE architecture & environment

Jeb Brugmann Founding Partner, The Next Practice

Jeffrey Risom Associate, Head of Gehl Institute - Gehl Architects

Jennifer Belissent Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Jim Poss President & Founder, BigBelly Solar

Jim Walsh Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AECOM

Jin-Hyeok Yang Director, KC Smart Service, A KT and Cisco Collaboration

John B. Robinson Associate, Provost Sustainability Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Professor, Department of Geography - University of British Columbia‘s Vancouver

John E. Fernández Professor and Director of the Building Technology Program - Department of Architecture, MIT

John F Moore Founder and Chief Executive officer, Government in The Lab

John Howkins Director, Howkins & Associates

John Tierney Chief Innovation Officer, Dublin City Council

Jong Sung Hwang Chief Innovation Officer, Seoul City Council

Jordi Corbera Centre Suport Programa Català d'Observació de la Terra - ICC

Jorge Nuñez Ferrer Associate Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies

Justin Hall-Tipping Chief Executive Officer, Nanoholdings

Kareem Yusuf Vice President - Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, IBM

Katherine Woodhouse Green Buildings Program Director, Schneider Electric

Kenneth Berlin Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Policy and Planning - Coalition for Green Capital

Klaas Schuring Chief Executive Officer, Co-Location Benelux - KIC-InnoEnergy SE

Kulveer Ranger Former Director, Environment & Digital London

Leda Guidi Citizen communication service, Comune di Bologna

Lluís Domenech Director Architecture, Barcelona Sagrera Alta Velocitat

Lluis Puerto Director of the RACC Foundation and Member of the Board of Directors at the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP)

Manuel Valdés Director of Infrastructures, Barcelona City Council

Mark Major Clean Transport and Sustainable Urban Mobility Title Policy Officer - Project Officer - European Commission

Markku Raitio IT Director - Economic and Planning Centre, City of Helsinki

Matthias Ruth Professor, Northeastern University

Melissa Stark Clean Energy Leader, Accenture

Michael Braungart Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University Lüneburg and Twente Founder and Scientific Director, Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency

Michael Dixon General Manager - Global Smarter Cities, IBM

Mike Lydon Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative

Mike Short Vice President, Telefonica Europe

Neil McInroy Chief Executive, Centre for Local Economic Strategies

Nicola Villa Managing Director, Global Urban Innovation - Cisco

Nigel Jacob Co-Chair - Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston

Norela Constantinescu Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission

Olivier Parodi Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Pablo Sánchez Chillón Innovative Urban Planner, Eolexcitylab

Paolo Gamba Associate Professor in Telecommunications, Università degli studi di Pavia

Patrick Meier CEO and Founder, Ushahidi

Paul Timmers Director of Sustainable & Secure Society (DG Connect), European Commission

Pedro Ballesteros Coordinator, EU China Urbanization Partnership

Pedro Vidal Matamala ITS Unit Coordinator, Sub-secretary of Transport

Per Blixt Head of Unit (DG Connect), European Commission

Peter Corbett Chief Executive Officer, iStrategyLabs

Peter Hirshberg Chairman, Reimagine Group

Peter Kageyama Producer, Creative Cities Summit

Peter Williams Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations - IBM

Philip Monaghan Founder & CEO, Infragilis

Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Praveen Subramani Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Projjal K. Dutta Director of Sustainability Initiatives, New York Transportation Authority

Ralf-Peter Schäfer Head of the TomTom R&D Centre Berlin, TomTom

Ricky Burdett Director of LSE Cities and Professor of Urban Studies - London School of Economics

Rob McIntosh Creative Director, Frog Design

Robert Puentes Senior Fellow and Director, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative - Brookings Institution

Robert Widz EMEA Geospatial Executive Director, SG&I

Robin Duke-Woolley Chief Executive Officer, Beecham Research Ltd

Santiago Olivares Chief Executive Officer, Ferrovial Servicios

Sascha Haselmayer Director, Living Labs

Scott Henneberry Smart Grid Strategy Vice President, Schneider Electric

Simon Keith Goddard Architect, Gehl Architects

Stephen Lau Professor and Acting Head of Department of Architecture - The University of Hong Kong

Suzana Kahn Ribero Green Economy Sub-secretary, State Environment Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro

Svetlana Grant Director of Smart Cities - Connected Living Programme, GSMA

Tengfei Tong Deputy Director, Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy & Information Resources

Theresa A. Pardo Director - Center for Technology in Government, SUNY Albany

Thomas C. Barrett Director, European Investment Bank

Thomas H. Kolbe Professor and Director - Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin University of Technology

Tim Campbell Chairman, Urban Age Institute

Tim Stonor Managing Director, UCL Space Syntax

Torbjorn Lahrin Chief Executive Officer, Astando

Valentín Alfaya Quality and Environment Director, Ferrovial

Vinodh Swaminathan Director - Strategy & Market Management, IBM

Youssef Diab Professor and Scientific Director - University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Yulong Wu Chairman, Lilosoft