ruhrvalley Smart City Summit

9.30 a.m.: Arrival

10.00 a.m.: Welcome

• City Director Dr. Hans Werner Klee, City of Herne
• Pierre Golz, Head of Digitalization Department, City of Herne
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bock, partnership spokesman ruhrvalley

10.15 a.m.: Welcome address by Josef Hovenjürgen, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Regional Identity, Communities and Local Government, Building and Digitalization of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

10.30 a.m.: "Cyber security and trustworthiness for smart cities", keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences

11.15 a.m.: Transformation of urban mobility: best practice for sustainable
e-micromobility in the Ruhr metropolitan region", keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Semih Severengiz, Bochum University of Applied Sciences

12.00 - 13.15: Break and visit to the Smart City exhibition

13.15: Speech by Dr. Frank Dudda, Lord Mayor of the City of Herne

13.30 - 15.15: Session tracks

• 13.30 - 14.15: Track I (parallel)
  • Building a smart city data ecosystem - successful business cases for cities (Philip Wizenty, Fachhochschule Dortmund and Pierre Golz, Head of the Digitalization Faculty of the City of Herne)
  • The city of the future: Sustainable charging infrastructure for e-micromobility (Jaron Schünemann, Bochum University of Applied Sciences)
• 14.30 - 15.15: Track II (parallel):
  • Smart solutions for CO2 credits: With blockchain on the way to climate neutrality (Benedikt Faupel, Bitkom e.V.)
  • Real-world laboratories for smart energy and smart mobility (Leonie Wegener and Martin Neuwirth, Bochum University of Applied Sciences)

15.30 - 15.45: Summary of the sessions

16.00 hrs: End of the event

Moderation: Katja Leistenschneider

The developments towards sustainable and digital cities affect us all - citizens, cities and companies. The Smart City Days offer a varied program that deals with the city of tomorrow. From September 21 to 22, 2023, you can expect a mixture of practical examples, innovative research and tangible smart city concepts. The event includes the FIWARE Community Meeting, events organized by Herne.Business and the DeepTech innovation network ruhrvalley.

Click here for the current program: www.smart-people-city.de(Opens in a new tab)