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BARCELONA, Spain, March 28, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

From tomorrow until Wednesday, Msheireb Downtown Doha will allocate the second

edition of Smart City Expo Doha (SCED), the main urban innovation event of its

region. Organized by the Government of Qatar's Ministry of Communications and

Information Technology; with the support of its innovated Smart Qatar Program,

TASMU, hosted by Msheireb Downtown Doha, and brought by Fira de Barcelona, the

show will address the main challenges facing the cities of the future.

It will do so through a complete program of conferences that will have the

participation of more than 70 international and local speakers, around four

topics: sustainable cities, global economy and digital readiness, sporting

events and connected society, the city as a platform, and reshaping digital

public services. The sessions can be followed both in person and online around

the world, through the Tomorrow.city platform [

https://tomorrow.city/sc-doha-2022/?utm_source=banner&utm_medium=hometomorrowcity&utm_campaign=scedoha2022

].

Among the speakers who have confirmed their participation in the event there

are names such as: Jonas Kjellberg, Venture Investor, Lecturer & Author and

Founder of Nornorm; Peter Hirshberg, CEO - Catalyst Opportunity Zone Impact

Fund Lighthouse.one - Venture Partner; Hayfa Al-Abdulla, Innovation Director

Qatar Science & Technology Park; Amy Hochadel, Director of Global Business

Connected Places Catapult; Sunil Dubey, Strategy, Infrastructure and

International Relations University of Sydney; Ayman Smadi, International

Association of Public Transport (UITP) Director MENA; and Jeff Merrit, Head of

IoT, Robotics and Smart Cities World Economic Forum.

In addition to the congress part, Smart City Expo Doha will also have an

exhibition area with more than 90 companies representing more than 60 countries

around the world that will show the attending public the main advances in urban

innovation. Among the participating firms will be: Ooredoo, QNB, Huawei,

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Meeza, Microsoft, Vodafone, Hamad International

Airport, DELL, Cisco – Mannai Corporation, GBM, or QFZ.

Smart City Expo Doha is part of the internationalization strategy of Smart City

Expo World Congress, the leading international summit on smart cities and urban

solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona, which will hold its 12th edition from

15 to 17 November 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Source: Fira de Barcelona