TORONTO — (Marketwired) — 07/11/13 — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Meeting of the Minds is an annual global leadership summit focused on the development of smarter cities, next-gen infrastructure, and advanced urban development solutions. The conference is key to accelerating the emergence of successful cities with a connected future around the globe.
Meeting of the Minds brings together select leaders from the world-s most innovative organizations to explore strategic investments, smart policies and breakthrough technological innovations — all designed to enable cities and regions to better respond to increasingly complex urban planning, design, technology and development challenges. More than 350 global innovators including government officials, corporate executives, and foundation/NGO leaders will gather in Toronto to discuss and launch new initiatives, while exploring answers to the following burning questions.
What new technologies and policies are enabling cities to become greener, safer, and more livable?
How are we already making our cities simultaneously smarter and more equitable?
What cross-sector bridges are being built to hasten the move toward sustainable, connected and just cities?
What exactly are city leaders — from the private, public and independent sectors — doing to accelerate the transitions now underway?
September 9-11, 2013
Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4W 3X8, Canada
Meeting of the Minds will gather at — a LEED Platinum facility that stands as a remarkable example of adaptive reuse, brownfield remediation, and Toronto-s commitment to urban sustainability.
The following sample of global leaders will present a “rethinking” of a city-s economic, social and technological development to reshape our urban future:
, chief planner, City of Toronto
, premier of Ontario
, national manager of advanced technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA
, senior vice president, Smart Cities – strategy & innovation at Schneider Electric
, VP and chief design officer, Philips Lighting
, executive vice president, industry solutions & chief globalisation officer, Cisco
, director, urban innovations, Cisco Consulting Services; co-Founder and convenor of Meeting of the Minds
And, more than from more than a dozen countries, including China, Canada, Australia!
Three Next Gen Leaders – Inventing the Urban Digital Future; Connected Boomers Will Change Mobility, Are We Ready?; Connecting the Dots – Clean Energy Generation – Smart Grid – Electric Vehicle – Efficient Building; Chaos in Urbanism – Harnessing Uncertainty for Successful Cities; Smarter Cities Challenge: A Conversation with Four Mayors
The full Meeting schedule is outlined at:
Confirmed speakers are listed at:
Real-time access to the program is being broadened for this Meeting-s sessions. The 2013 Meeting will feature live on-site Cisco TelePresence® videoconferencing to connect the Toronto event with locations around the globe.
As a global sponsor of Meeting of the Minds 2013, Cisco will be presenting a thought leadership paper on the Internet of Everything and the implications for public sector.
Each year, Toyota joins forces with key partners to present this Meeting and to encourage rich dialogues that link public sector, private sector and independent sectors. The program-s organizer is Urban Age Institute, based in San Francisco. This year-s host and co-organizer is Evergreen in Toronto. Urban Age Institute partners with renowned, high-impact non-profit institutions to develop the program such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The Global Sponsor is Cisco. Gold level sponsors are Schneider Electric and Philips Lighting. Silver Level sponsors are IBM, Itron, Metrolinx, HOK, Golder Associates, Volvo Research and Educational Foundation and Jones Lang LaSalle. Bronze sponsors include Ryerson, Institute on Governance and the Oxford Properties Group.
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