Name: BIL Chennai 2017 : The Smart City Conference
Start: 2017-07-08
End: 2017-07-08
Location: Hotel Accord Metropolitan

Chennai, is an important hub of technology firms and automotive industry in India. Chennai is the fourth largest metropolitan area in India and with a population of almost 10 Million, is larger than 200 countries in the world. Chennai erstwhile Madras was found by the East India Company and has the second oldest Municipal Corporation in the world.

Chennai has been selected as one of the cities to be developed as a Smart City by the Indian Government. Chennai has put together projects to become a smart city and allocated a budget.

Founder Institute-Chennai and MaxBlox, Inc are together organizing a BIL conference in Chennai to highlight and discuss the Smart City initiative and its applicability to Chennai. It will be a full-day conference in a reputed hotel. We have brought in a number of local and international presenters to share their insights in their specific subject areas.

Founder Institute: Founder Institute – Chennai is one chapter among the more than 150 chapters around the globe of Founder Institute, a global corporation to enable Entrepreneurship and Startups. Founder Institute has graduated more than 2000 companies with market value of more than 15B$. Founder Institute has its headquarters in Silicon Valley, California.

MaxBlox, Inc: MaxBlox is the provider of a global Platform-as-a-Service solution to help software developers, startups and enterprises develop their web / mobile applications on the cloud for lower cost and less time taken, with high quality results. MaxBlox partner CellarStone has a development and operations center in Chennai, India with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California

Event

A smart city can be defined as a city which is equipped with basic infrastructure to provide a decent quality of life. Smart cities should provide good infrastructure, reliable economy, smart mobility, healthy environment, good education, meaningful living and faithful governance. The Government of India launched Smart Cities project in 2015 is a US 15 Billion Dollar (Rs.98,000 Crore) project that has a mission of urban renewal and retrofitting program to develop 109 cities, all over the country, making them citizen- friendly and sustainable. Chennai is one of the cities that has been selected from the list of 109 smart cities under Urban Development Ministry’s Smart City Mission.

In association with Founder Institute Chennai Chapter & MaxBlox Inc. BIL-Chennai is conducting the “Smart City Conference” that specially focuses on making Chennai one of the top smart cities in the country. Local & International international speakers, government officials & smart city purpose specialized individuals will be presenting and sharing their knowledge and experience regarding various challenges and solutions for the successful development of a smart city. More than 400 guests & registrants are going to participate. This event aims at bringing individuals together to contribute in this mission of making Chennai a role model for other cities in India and across the world.

Topics & Themes

Smart City: A City in the cloud
Climate: Weather Disaster Tracking
Energy: Smart Options
Housing: Resilient Townships
Water & Sanitation: Smart Options
Smart City Repository: Framework and tool for Smart City Sharing
Chennai City Government Initiatives
Entrepreneurship as an answer
Healthcare: Smart Options
Public Safety: Smart Options
Waste Management: Smart Options
Transportation: Smart Options
Business City: Rain or Shine

Agenda

9:00 AM-9:10 AM Welcome Note 9:10 AM-9:50 AM Speaker Note 9:50 AM-10:30 AM Vaidy Chandramouli, Ilango Vasudevan 10:30 AM-11:05 AM Oscar, Kenneth 11:05 AM-11:15 AM Tea/Coffee/Snacks Break 11:15 AM-11:55 AM Dayal Nathan 11:55 AM-12:30 PM Gopi Mattel 12:30 PM-01:30 PM Lunch Break 01:30 PM-02:10 PM Chandrasekaran 02:10 PM-02:50 PM Shriram Sanjeevi 02:50 PM-03:30 PM Dilipan Bose 03:30 PM-03:50 PM Tea/Coffee/Snacks Break 03:50 PM-04:30 PM Key Speaker Note 04:30 PM Closing Note