14th Smart Cities Congress

8:00 AM Registration of participants

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9:00 a.m. Opening of the Congress

• Adrian Furgalski, President of the Management Board, TOR Business Advisory Team

• Katarzyna Strzegowska, Director, Public Transport Authority in Warsaw

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9:15 OPENING DEBATE: Local government and central government. How to collaborate wisely?

• Not just EU funds. How to make funding more accessible to local governments?

• Local development - where is the wrong legislation?

• Optimal levels of local government cooperation. Metropolitan unions

• Transport accessibility of the regions.

• Technology, environment, social development. How to prioritize?

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Panelists:

• Marcin Bazylak, Mayor of the City of Dabrowa Górnicza‍
• Anna Brzezińska, Member of the Board, Marshal's Office of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship ‍
• Adrian Furgalski, President of the Management Board, TOR Business Advisory Team ‍
• Jacek Karnowski, Secretary of State, Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy* ‍
• Renata Kaznowska, First Deputy President, Warsaw‍
• Arkadiusz Kosiński, Mayor of Brwinowa & Vice President of the Board, Union of Polish Towns ‍
• Adam Pustelnik, First Vice-President of the City of Łódź‍
• Mieczysław Struk, Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodeship

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Moderator: Łukasz Malinowski, Editor-in-Chief & Managing Director, www.transport-ny.pl & TOR Wydawnictwo

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10:10 Presentation: The turn of likes — which carrier dominates social media?

• Maciej Mysona, Director — City Market, TOR Business Advisory Team
• Jan Zając, President, Sotrender

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10:15 Award Ceremony

• Adrian Furgalski, President of the Management Board, TOR Business Advisory Team

• Katarzyna Strzegowska, Director, Public Transport Authority in Warsaw

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10:25 AM STRATEGIC DEBATE on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of SKM: The city-forming role of rail transport

Partner of the debate: Rapid City Railway in Warsaw

• What was the significance of the Act of 8 September 2000 on the commercialization, restructuring and privatization of the state enterprise “Polish State Railways” for the way of organizing regional and urban rail transport?
• Rail passenger transport and spatial planning

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Panelists:

• Marek Chmurski, Member of the Board, Rapid City Railway in Warsaw
• Bartosz Rozbiewski, Acting Director of the Office of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the City of Warsaw
• Ruta Leszek, Member of the Board, Municipal Bus Plant in Warsaw
• Mieczyslaw Struk, Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodeship
• Katarzyna Strzegowska, Director, Urban Transport Authority in Warsaw
• Tadeusz Syryjczyk, Expert, TOR Economic Advisers Team, former Minister of Transport

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Moderator: Maria Wasiak, President of the Management Board, Rapid City Railway in Warsaw

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11:55AM Occurrence: One shot, hundreds of data. How to use drones in traffic and safety analysis?

• Simon Bryzgalski, Traffic Engineering and GIS Specialist, TOR Business Advisory Team
• Nikolay Pieńkos, Deputy Director for Strategy and Traffic Safety, Municipal Roads Authority in Warsaw

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12:05PM Partner speech

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12:15PM DEBATE: Technology transfer to cities

• Absorption of new technologies in local governments, in particular in municipal companies — diagnosis of barriers

• Local governments and municipal companies as technological sandboxes

• Creating an environment for the implementation of modern technologies in local governments

• Digitization of the metropolis — open data, e-deliveries, electronic document management EZD, AI as a tool in urban development

• How to integrate the technological development of cities into strategic planning processes?

• Collecting data from commercial assets for better planning

• Using AI and Monitoring to Detect Hazardous Events and Ensure BRD

Panelists:

• Simon Bryzgalski, Traffic Engineering and GIS Specialist, TOR Business Advisory Team
• Małgorzata Ciechomska-Sołtyk, Director of Sales and Business Development, Orange Poland
• Mikołaj Pieńkos, Deputy Director for Strategy and Traffic Safety, Municipal Roads Authority in Warsaw
• Rep, Trapeze Poland

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Moderator: Weronika Wesołowska, Urban Innovation Development Expert, PFR for Cities

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13:25 Technical break/VIP lunch

14:10 DEBATE: Can cities become the beneficiaries of the rapid growth of the e-commerce logistics market?

• Planên lojîstîkên bajarî yên domdar (SULPy) - meriv çawa ji bo wan amade bike?

• Can the parcel machine market be regulated?

• Parcel machine sharing as an efficient and optimal use of urban space  

• Code of good practice for placing parcel machines  

• Road safety and further development of urban logistics and OOH and KEP segments

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Panelists:

• Krzysztof Kosiński, Mayor of the City of Ciechanów

• Maciej Mysona, Director — City Market, TOR Business Advisory Team

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Moderator:

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15:10 Partner speech  

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15:25 DEBATE: Regulations, regulations, law in spatial planning and transport in the city

• Metropolitan Act. Sole modo per gestire trasferimento in più grande città?

• A common ticket, innovative fare solutions and the role of an integrated fare and ticket system in the organisation and financing of public transport

• Spatial planning “on the horns” and access to public transport

• Alternatives to PTZ: city bikes, scooters, scooters, cars rented by apps

• Digital advertising in the city space, traffic lane light management

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Panelists:

• Maciej Fijałkowski, Secretary, Warsaw City Office

• Krzysztof Jałoszyński, Deputy Director of the Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Protection, Sopot City Office

• Bartholomew Kasiuk, Chief Strategic Projects and Data Analysis Specialist, TOR Business Advisory Team
• Michał Lorbiecki, PhD, Expert of the Real Estate Committee, National Chamber of Commerce

• Michael Tusk, Deputy Director for Transport Development and Integration, Marshal's Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship

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Moderator: Jakub Kucharczuk, Deputy Inspector, Department of Strategy and European Funds, Kraków City Office

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17:00 End of session II

Local government and business meeting area

Substantive patronage: PFR for Cities

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17:00 End of session II

2:00PM DEBATE: The preparedness of the city and its inhabitants for attacks and disasters. L'importanza di infrastruttura sicurezza per la sicurezza del città

• Preparing urban infrastructure for natural disasters. Flood experiences in 2024

• An efficient digital infrastructure and the development of transport infrastructure

• Urban critical infrastructure, building urban and social resilience in agglomerations, the prospect of implementing CER and NIS2

• Preparación y patencia de la arteria principal en caso de êrîşa hybrida
  

• Communication with residents in a crisis situation (natural disasters, wars, hacking attacks on public institutions)
• Civil defense: evacuation plans, preparation of authorities and residents for interruptions in the supply of drinking water, internet, electricity

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Panelists:

• Michal Bieda, I Deputy Mayor of the City of Bytom
• Mariusz Frankowski, Voivode, Mazovian Provincial Office in Warsaw
• Michal Grobelny, Transport Project Manager, TOR Business Advisory Team ‍
• Radosław Nielek, PhD, Director, NASK

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Moderator:

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15:15 Partner speech

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15:30 DEBATE: Informed participation and effective public consultation

• Living and modern shaping of urban-landscape layout without IT

• Traffic load and safe zone for residents

• Participation and effective public consultation. How do we engage people in a real dialogue?

• Política de comunicação. Awareness of the saving of time, money and the effectiveness of the solutions implemented by the authorities

• Inclusive cities (e.g. for the elderly, foreigners, people with disabilities)

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Panelists:

• Monika Arczyńska, PhD, Director, A2P2

• Marcin Bazylak, Mayor of the City of Dabrowa Górnicza

• Krzysztof Kukucki, Mayor of Wloclawek

• Michal Litvinyuk, Mayor of the City of Biała Podlaska

• Bartosz Rozbiewski, Acting Director of the Office of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the City of Warsaw

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Moderator: Robert Wojciechowski, Strategy Specialist, TOR Business Advisory Team

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17:00 End of the Congress