Søren Hansen

Søren Hansen is an expert on master planning, urban development, transportation and transport planning services as well as environmental assessment studies. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Hansen has been developing livable cities strategies in urban development projects. He is an experienced Project Director with a demonstrated history of working in and across the civil engineering industry disciplines. He also has strong professional skills in engineering, urban master planning, design management, business development, feasibility studies, and comprehensive infrastructure planning.

Hinako Maruyama

Hinako Maruyama is a Senior Urban Development Specialist in the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank. She works with governments in the People’s Republic of China to formulate and implement strategic and innovative urban and rural projects. She supported multi-sectoral projects in the PRC secondary cities and promoted a nature-based approach in addressing urban flooding and restoring the local environment and water quality, human capital development and creation of innovation ecosystem, and institutional strengthening of urban and rural health and elderly care systems.

Yokohama City’s 9th Asia Smart City Conference

"Smart City Development” is sustainable city development. It should raise the quality of life of citizens by promoting well-balanced sustainable development and making use of diverse and innovative technologies created by public and private sector partnerships.

Many discussions about Smart Cities have taken place on the international scene. Now is the time to move forward and take concrete actions based on those discussions.

Joy Amor Bailey

Joy Amor Bailey is an Urban Climate Change Resilience Specialist with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - administered Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF) which supports cities in eight countries by improving urban planning, designing climate-resilient infrastructure, and investing in projects and people.

Theresa Fink

Theresa Fink is a Researcher in Urban Design Computation in the Competence Unit Digital Resilient Cities at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. Her expertise lies in the field of digital, parametric urban master planning using computational methods and urban analyses. She graduated in Architecture at the Graz University of Technology in Austria. During her studies she gained experience in parametric design in international architectural offices like Herzog & de Meuron and Baumschlager Eberle in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Saibal Das Chowdhury

Saibal Das Chowdhury is an urban technologist and CEO and Co-Founder of Urbanetic –   a ‘City-as-a-Service’ software platform for digitization of buildings and infrastructure and their development financing, securitization and exchange.  A former VP of Hewlett-Packard for start-ups investments and VP of AT&T Solutions Asia-Pacific, Saibal has been among the pioneers in the areas of industrial robotics and Product Life-Cycle management (PLM) technologies.