The MCCI held an online conference "Implementation of “Smart City” Practices: Moscow and Beijing". The event provided the participants with the opportunity to receive relevant information from the spheres of high technology and artificial intelligence, as well as to ask questions of the experts.
"We decided to expand the topic of the “Smart City” and see how different countries are developing this direction. We decided to start with our Chinese friends from Beijing, considering that recently, China has made a tremendous breakthrough in this direction," said Mr. Suren Vardanyan, the Vice President of the MCCI, in his opening speech. He invited the participants of the Conference "to listen, think and analyze the information, based on what steps can be taken, where we can cooperate to create something together".
The Deputy Director of Marketing of the Eurasian Strategy Department of Huawei Technologies Co., Mr. Ilya Levchuk, gave a presentation, titled "Smart City Diaries, the new generation of “Smart Cities”. He spoke about the directions in which Huawei is moving, which trends the firm has chosen as its key strategies.
Mr. Vartan Avakyan, the General Director of Moslift JSC, made a report "Through the “Smart Quarter” to the ‘Smart City". He presented all the areas of Moscow's development, touching on healthcare, education and “smart” transport.
Ms. Elena Tyatenkova, the Head of the Alfa-Bank's Network Development and Transformation Department, spoke in detail about the best practices of the Phygital’s Office project.
Xiaomi RU and CIS regions’ Public Relations Director. Mr. Xie Shuang, gave a presentation, titled the "Smart Home System," in which he talked about “Smart City” tactics. "Xiaomi aims to create the world's most advanced smart home ecosystem and the most convenient way to interact with artificial intelligence to provide a better quality of life for people around the world," Mr. Shuang said.
Ms. Anna Bessmertnaya, the Chairman of the MCCI’s Commission on Foreign Economic Cooperation with partners in China, at the end of the event made a brief analysis of the situation, summarized all of the information and compared some results of the "Smart City" system implementation in Moscow and Beijing. "China is so advanced in its technology now, they have gone so far that it is difficult for me to make an analogy. But we are moving in this direction and the future is looking bright ," said Anna Bessmertnaya.
Mr. Vardanyan urged to continue the discussion during next seminars, which will be devoted to the problems of a “Smart City”. He announced the next event, which will continue the discussion of the introduction of “Smart City’”practices. It will take place on June 9, and there one will be able to learn about how European cities are developing, taking Düsseldorf as an example.