smart provinces summit 2015

25th & 26th February 2015Hotel Al Khozama, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Smart Provinces Summit 201525th & 26th February 2015, Hotel Al Khozama, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Transforming Smart Cities to Kingdom-wide Smart Provinces

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Conference OverviewThe Smart Provinces Summit was successfully held on the 25th and the 26th of February 2015 to discuss the innovative future to be integrated to attain a comfortable, informative, connected and secure lifestyle. During the opening ceremony the conference was inaugurated by H.E. Eng. Ali Bin Saleh Al-Soma the Director General of e-Government Program (Yesser), Mr. Zane Husain Sarraf Smart City Project Director Royal Commission at Yanbu, KSA and Mr. Abdulrahman A. Al-Friah General Manager - CERT-SA (CITC).

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has already stepped into the future of innovative technology where the respective leaders and infrastructure developers are transforming Smart Economic Cities into Kingdom wide sustainable Smart Provinces of the future. Smart cities are the next stage in the process of urbanization as there is a growing population out of which more than 50% of the country’s population are living in cities.

A city can be considered ‘smart’ when there are investments, participatory action, engagement in areas such as social economic development, Transport modernization, implementation in integration of modern (ICT) communication for secure infrastructure, sustainable economic development, wise management of natural resources, introduction of smart grids metering systems to reduce energy losses and all of this to provide a well-connected high quality of life.

For sustainable prosperity, the systems need to be managed optimally. The systems need to become smarter, secure, more efficient and environmentally friendly, on various intelligence projects and visions of the future. We study the current market to identify key trends and issues so we can create and provide the right platform to discuss various solutions for an efficient andwell-connected future focusing on implementations and integration of an Innovative Structure.

The Kingdom Smart Cities and Smart Provinces Summit on the 25th & 26th Feb, 2015 will enable and equip the Kingdom’s Stakeholders such as Province Authorities, Infrastructure Project Developers, Public Safety Authorities, Education Authorities, Medical and Healthcare Authorities, Transport Authorities and Emergency Response Authorities with Smart CitiesTechnologies & Secure ICT Solutions that will be the main drivers.


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Dr. Al-MotrifSr ICT consultant, Ministry of Higher Education, CEONew Thinkers

Emad AlrajihGM, Railway & Metro, Alayuni Investment & Contracting Company (AICC)Member Council of Saudi Chambers

Musfer Mohammed Al ShalawiCEOAl Jafel Hospital

Eng. Muhammad Hafeez ur RahmanElectricity Specialist, General Utilities DeptRoyal Commission, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia

Abdulrahman (A.R.) M. AlamoudProfessorMicroelectronics and Solar PV Energy at (KSU) SASIA

Dr. Eng. Mohammed Alhaj HusseinBoard member and Head of ResearchSGBC

Mostafa OmaishED Consultant / Health Informatician Royal Clinic of the Custodian of the two holy mosques

Waleed JomahGeneral DirectorSustainable Social Development, PME

Mohammed SerroukhDirector GeneralITS Arab

Dr Abdulaziz AldusariCEORiyadh Techno Valley

HE Eng. Ali AlSoma Director General e-Government Program

Aiham Al-AkhrasHead of Business Development and OperationsFujitsu, Middle East

Abdulrahman A. Al-FriahGeneral ManagerCERT-SA (CITC)

Eng. Fahad Al-HezayenHead of IT Networks Department The Ministry of Interior of Saudi Arabia

Zane SarrafSmart City Project DirectorRoyal Commission at Yanbu, KSA

Moufid CharafeddineChief Executive OfficerHudoud ALTeqnia Ltd.

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