MIDDLE EAST SMART MOBILITY

Host:
Oualid Ali, President, Future Cities Council

Panel: Integrating mobility for efficiency

• Gaining overall efficiency with an existing infrastructure upgrade
• Optimising, planning, way finding and payment technology for seamless customer journey
• Connecting existing vehicles with multi service networks
• Forming relationships with the disruptive models for enhanced mobility
• Repositioning towards sustainability with passenger mobility

Syed Gilani, Chief Executive Officer, Safr

Luis Cardenas, Chief Executive Officer, A Todo Tren llc.

Andrew Wheeldon, Advocacy And Research, Bicycle Cities

Chen-Yu Lee, Director, Taipei Smart City Project Management Office

Panel: The blended transportation transformation: a unified mobility

• Harnessing the technology to book multimodal trips from door to door
• Improving real time mobility information for commuters
• Adapting to transport integration, sharing models and autonomous vehicles: refining operations
• Using public and private transport more intelligently

Tino Abdellatif Waked, General Manager, Uber

Rene Seyger, Managing Partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Abdelrahman Elgamal, Founder And Chief Executive Officer, FriendyCar

Timothy Woodward, Network And Operations Manager, Bahrain Public Transport Company

Hasib Khan, Chief Executive Officer And Founder, Udrive

Mohammad Shamlouli, Geographic Information Systems Specialist, Ras Al Khaimah Municipality Department

A future vision to a future reality: the Hyperloop

• Encouraging travellers to embrace long distance travel with speed
• Growing an intelligent operating system from the bottom up
• Reaching more people, worldwide
• Meeting customer choice and embedding tools for customisation
• Implementing hyperloop today and assessing impact on current networks
• Where are the new markets to be explored?

Harj Dhaliwal, Managing Director - Middle East And India, Virgin Hyperloop One

Dubai Green Mobility Strategy

• Government role in influencing adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles
• Case Study: Green Mobility Initiative to reduce carbon emission from transportation sector
• Benchmarking global penetration of electric vehicles
• Cost of electric vehicle / hybrid ownership
• Advancement in technology and availability of electric vehicle models

Taher Diab, Senior Director Of Strategy And Planning, Dubai Supreme Council of Energy

Shaping smart, safe transport: empowering women

• Reviewing women’s participation to wider economic development
• Understanding mobility challenges for women
• Exploring connected transportation initiatives for passenger and employee safety: opportunities for women in the rideshare economy
• Instilling and implementing safety provisions and the impact of women empowerment

Sayeeda Ramla Hassan, Chief Executive Officer Pakistan, Safr

Connecting the future of urban mobility: manageable, omnipresent communications

• Harnessing the capabilities of telecos in the new transport ecosystem
• Utilising telecom capability for cybersecurity provisions
• Leveraging network connectivity for seamless, intermodal journeys
• Understanding the challenges faced by telecos and preparing for more devices, fiber infrastructure and data traffic on networks

Spencer Dando, Director Of Wifi And Advertising, du

Smart mass transport systems for global mass transit mobility

• Relieving urban congestion with integrated, smart mass transport systems
• Reshaping mass transit alongside increasing smart unbanisation
• Offering travellers new and easy modes of transportation journey wide
• Turning transport vehicles into WiFi hotspots

Gaurav Agarwal, Director, Corporate Coordination, Indian Railways

Case study Urban formation in Oman

• Reviewing current urban practices in the region
• Analysing social, economic and physical impact on the urban growth of the region
• What can geographical neighbours learn?

Mahmood Al-Wahaibi, Urban Planning Expert, Supreme Council for Planning, Oman

Panel: The ‘mixed-economy’ of data ownership: synergy for success

• Reviewing the importance and benefits of managing and sharing data across transport networks, technical teams and the wider transport industry
• Creating value potential with high quality data collection and curation
• Unlocking new models for how transportation, mobility and infrastructure is planned, built and operated

Nabeel Alzaka, Executive Director, Surface Mobility Consultants

Panel: Approaching customer centricity

• Ensuring positive passenger experiences with contactless, connected systems
• Encouraging new customers with state of the art technology
• Improving, innovating and enhancing the traveller and customer experience
• Becoming both decentralised and integrated

Sudath Amaratunga, Rail Project Strategist, Transport for New South Wales Ltd

Timothy Woodward, Network And Operations Manager, Bahrain Public Transport Company

Ahmed Elleithy, Chief Operations Officer, Mwasalat Misr

Harnessing transportation big data with analytics in the age of smart mobility

• Basic concepts & definitions
• Formulating your big data strategy
• Building your digital business, and data and analytics technology platforms
• Case study
• Big data platform integrations options and cost-benefit trade-off

Alaa Mahjoub, Data Management Senior Expert, Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi

Using technology and innovation to drive customer satisfaction

• Prioritising the importance of highly functional, efficient solutions for passenger management
• Using technology creatively to reduce traffic congestion at events
• Providing real-time updates for transparent passenger experiences
• Encouraging new customers with state of the art technology

Mohamed Nabhan, Passengers Transport Activities Monitoring Director, RTA

Future-proofing networks: secure storage and skills shortage

• Addressing the heightened security challenges that come with evolving tech
• Employing robust, secure and accessible infrastructure to prevent fraud
• Exploring data centres for smart storage and analysis
• Advancing workforce skills in security to cope with new technology, enabling digitalisation and responding to impending advanced cyber attacks

Irene Corpuz, Section Head Of Planning And Information Technology Security, Western Region Municipality

Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS): innovation for the last mile

• Reaching smart mobility goals with MaaS technology
• Bundling transportation options in urban areas
• Incorporating real-time travel conditions, user preferences (e.g. time and convenience vs. cost) and seamless mobile payment
• Establishing collaborative cross industry relationships and fostering collaboration

Nadeem Shakir, Technical Director And Head Of Transport Planning, Aurecon