🏁 Smart Cities Morocco Roadshow – Closing Chapter
🕑 09:00 — Arrival & Check-in
🕑 09:30 — Opening Ceremony
Official Launch of the Benguerir Smart City ForumKey Speakers:
M. Hicham El Habti - President Of UM6P and General Chair of the Smart City Morocco RoadShow
M. Farid Chourak - Wali of the Marrakech-Safi Region
Dr. Nizar Baraka - Minister of Equipment and Water
Dr. Younes Sekkouri- Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills
M. Aziz Bouignane - Governor, Rehamna
M. Mohamed Dardouri – Wali in charge of National Coordination of the National Initiative for Human Development
M. Khalid Safir - Director General, Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG)
Prof. Aawatif Hayar - Scientific Chair of the Smart City Morocco RoadShow
🕑 09:55 — Presentation of the Smart Campus @UM6P
M. Charaf Hassar - Chief Operations Officer, UM6P
🕑 10:00 — Keynote 1
M. Charbel Aoun – Director of Smart Cities and Spaces for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region at NVIDIA
🕚 10:30 — Panel 1
Panel 1: Institutional vision for Smart Resilient Territories
🎙️ Moderator: Mokhtar Ghambou, UIR
🎤 Featured Voices :
Ms. Marta Lucia Ramirez - Former Vice-President of Colombia
Ms. Anita Bhatia - Former Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
M. Noureddine Boutayeb - President of FMPS
M. Ababu Namwamba - EGH – Kenya’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
M. Latif Ladid - President IPV6 Forum
M. Redouane El Haloui - President APEBI
12:30 PM – 01:00 PM🎥 Video Demonstration of the Digital Twin of the Smart Campus @ UM6PMr. Mouhcine Talbaoui – UM6P
Mrs. Ibtihal Labbassi – UM6P
Mrs. Sara Bouriad – UM6P
Mr. Matthieu De Broca – AKILA
🕑 14:00 — Panel 2AI for green cities and communities
🎙️Moderator: Jalal Charaf – Chief Digital Officer, UM6P
🎤 Featured Voices :
Dr. Sapna Poti - Director, Strategic Alliances in the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Dr. Manuel Gameiro Da Silva – Coordinator of the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra
Matthieu DE BROCA - Head of Sales EMEA & Strategic Accounts, Akila
M. Muhammad Al Araby - Head of Strategic Foresight Program at the future for Advanced Research and Studies in Abu Dhabi
Abdelhamid Diouri - Directeur Intelligence et Technologie Urbaines - SADV
M. Peter Jaewon Chun – Founder and President World Smart Cities Forum (WSCF)
🕑 15:30 — Keynote 2
M. Samer Al Jayyusi – GEN AI Regional Lead – Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East Europe, Middle Ease, Turliye and Africa, Dell Technologies
🕑 16:00 — Panel 3Jobs of Tomorrow in the smart cities: Unlocking Funds for Youth Employment
🎙️ Moderator: Dr. Jesko Hentschel - Affiliate Professor - UM6P
🎤 Featured Voices :
Nicolas J.A. Buchoud – Founding principal, Renaissance Urbaine, President, Grand Paris Alliance
Ms. Marielle Sander – Representative of UNFPA in Morocco
M. Larbi Hilali - President of the LEET Initiative – 1337
M. Santiago Murillo - Director of Smart City Cartagena de Indias
M. Abdelhameed Mohamed - Smart City Department Manager, Doha
Ms. Imane Belmaati - General Manager ANAPEC
🕔 17:30 – Keynote 3
Dr. Carlos Montes - Lead Innovation Hub for Prosperity at Cambridge Judge Business School
🕠 18:00 – Closing PanelM. Nicolas Buchoud: Co-founder and Manager – Founding Principal
🎙️ Moderator M. Nicolas Buchoud
🎤 Featured Voices :
M. Charaf Hassar - Chief Operations Officer, UM6P
Prof. Aawatif Hayar - Scientific Chair of the Smart City Morocco RoadShow
M. Nawfal Saoud - General Manager Dell Technologies for Morocco, West Africa
M. Charbel Aoun - Smart Cities and Spaces Director for the Europe, Middle East,and Africa