“Innovations, Sustainability, Surveillance and Development for Smart Cities”

After the success of 2017, Bharat Exhibitions is pleased to present the 4th edition of their industry flagship event – National Summit on 100 Smart Cities India 2018 scheduled to take place on 24th August 2018 at The LaLiT, New Delhi. With the theme – "INNOVATIONS, SUSTAINABILITY, SURVEILLANCE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART CITIES”. This forum will trace the importance of various aspects of infrastructure that needs to be planned, designed, built and operated in order to provide the 'Smart' attribute to a city development.

Smart cities emerge as the result of many smart solutions across all sectors of society. Each sector contributes with its own unique innovations to the overall success of the smart city. Harvesting the potential benefits from all relevant sectors is the challenge of the city. A smart city is the result of the efforts of many stakeholders, working together in partnerships of different shape and form. The citizen / user is at the center of the map, indicating that successful smart cities are always user-centric.

It is believed that by 2050, about 70% of the population of India would be living in cities. With this population shift, the need of the hour is Smart Cities that would support urban lifestyles. Cities that ensure optimal living conditions and benefits to everyone in the society. Cities, where economic development is sustainable and rationally incremental, by virtue of being based on success-oriented market drivers - such as supply and demand. The accrued benefits would be for its citizens, businesses, the government and the environment. In effect, the components of a Smart City would include enabling a better life, with services, mobility, environment, e-governance, economy, sustainability and inclusiveness as the pillars for success.

The summit will feature the designated heads of municipalities, urban/city planning, research/academic institutes, engineers/consultants, energy and utility experts, mobility and transportation experts, technology providers, and many more. The end objective behind bringing all these experts under one roof is to facilitate brainstorming on the opportunities, challenges and scope for developing a truly smart city infrastructure, encompassing the current situations pertaining to policy guidelines, regulatory norms, implementation challenges, etc., highlighting the importance of integrating ICT to support the Smart Cities mission in India.

Benefits to attend the summit:

• Learn about the Indian government's $7.3 billion smart city mission aimed at applying smart solutions to
  improve infrastructure and service delivery in Indian cities.
• Discover the key challenges with respect to regulation, funding and private/public partnerships.
• Understand how the Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting industries and causing convergence to create smart energy, smart transportation, smart infrastructure and smart buildings, smart security, smart or connected homes, and smart healthcare solutions.
• Gain an insight into commonly observed business models and their applicability to India.
• Analyze India’s area-based development strategy and the socio-economic divide.
• Explore the various financial flexibility opportunities that are available for India.
• Deduce the potential impact of the 100 smart cities on the future of the Indian economy.