Join us for an interactive discussion to understand population mobility patterns for smarter cities, national transportation planning, infrastructure funding decisions and national disaster risk reduction – garnered through anonymous telecommunications data

Chair

Hyoung Gun Wang, Senior Economist, SSAU1

Presenters

Asesh Bhaumick, Director Business Development for Smart Cities, Swisscom

Andrei Iatsenia, Co-founder and the CEO, Risk Reduction Foundation

Swiss Smart Cities Hub, Deloitte, Swisscom and Risk Reduction Foundation are developing a Program “Smart Financing for Smart Cities”. City officials, residents and  investment partners will benefit from «Smart city in a smartphone» applications that both improve efficiency of public services and provide transparency to applying public and private investments to mutually agreed priority tasks.

The Parties also intend to expand the Swiss Smart Cities Solutions to other countries and facilitate the transfer to Smart Cities in emerging economies Swiss innovative financial and business solutions. Swisscom has developed an innovative SaaS cloud-based technology platform for smart cities infrastructure planning and disaster risk reduction. Using the AI algorithms to analyze real time and historical data, this technology predicts patterns and events, which helps municipalities make better public infrastructure funding decisions. Through the proposed Program, Swisscom could transfer this innovative solution to the big cities in countries in transition and other emerging economies, suffering from heavy urbanization problems.

World Bank Group and other IFIs are welcome to participate, together with their clients from the emerging economies, in study tours and workshops in those Swiss cities that already benefited from the applications of Swisscom Mobility Insights.

About the Presenters

Asesh Bhaumick currently holds the position of Director Business Development for Smart Cities at Swisscom, the incumbent telecom operator of Switzerland. Based on previously unexploited unique telecom data assets and the promising field of Artificial Intelligence, he successfully launched a new product line for the public sector in Switzerland bringing a new dimension to the digitalization and data-driven decision-making journey of the Swiss Cities and public sector. Asesh, with educational background in Engineering and Business administration, has over 20 years of experience in Telecom sector and Management consulting business across Europe and Asia.

Andrei Iatsenia is the co-founder and the CEO of the not-for-profit Risk Reduction Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland since 2010. The Foundation is supporting private-public partnerships that reduce environmental and health risks. After taking an early retirement from the UN in 2008,  he worked as the CEO and Senior Vice President in Swiss and International private sector companies in the domains of sustainable investments and health.  Prior to this he was senior advisor on Private-Public Partnerships in the UN and spent three years as the Director of Water Initiative at the World Economic Forum on staff exchange in 2003-2005. He is residing in Switzerland since 2000 when he moved from Washington on the World Bank Staff Exchange Programme. He joined the World Bank in 1992 and worked both in country operations and in environmental departments in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He was one of the founding members of the Environmental Emergencies Network that was developed as a private-public partnership in 1998-2000 with the support from the US Government and private sector that seconded several staff members to the World Bank team, coordinated by him.

To learn more about the Smart Cities KSB and our future activities, follow us on our C4D Page. We are excited to bring you many activities in the year to come! Remember, it's your KSB.

Thanks and kind regards,

Smart Cities KSB Core Team

Hyoung Gun Wang, Victor Mulas, Se-Eun Hwang, Gunes Basat, Lucine Park, Qiyang Xu, Ayah Mahgoub, Natsuko Kikotake, Nicholas Jones

To learn more about the Smart Cities KSB and our future activities, follow us on our C4D Page. We are excited to bring you many activities in the year to come! Remember, it's your KSB.

Thanks and kind regards,

Smart Cities KSB Core Team

Hyoung Gun Wang, Victor Mulas, Se-Eun Hwang, Gunes Basat, Lucine Park, Qiyang Xu, Ayah Mahgoub, Natsuko Kikotake, Nicholas Jones

To learn more about the Smart Cities KSB and our future activities, follow us on our C4D Page. We are excited to bring you many activities in the year to come! Remember, it's your KSB.

Thanks and kind regards,

Smart Cities KSB Core Team

Hyoung Gun Wang, Victor Mulas, Se-Eun Hwang, Gunes Basat, Lucine Park, Qiyang Xu, Ayah Mahgoub, Natsuko Kikotake, Nicholas Jones

To learn more about the Smart Cities KSB and our future activities, follow us on our C4D Page. We are excited to bring you many activities in the year to come! Remember, it's your KSB.

Thanks and kind regards,

Smart Cities KSB Core Team

Hyoung Gun Wang, Victor Mulas, Se-Eun Hwang, Gunes Basat, Lucine Park, Qiyang Xu, Ayah Mahgoub, Natsuko Kikotake, Nicholas Jones