Governance D1

Governance & Platforms

Presented by Christian Geiger, Chief Digital Officer, St. Gallen | Nathalie Klauser, Co-Founder, Co-Director Intersections, Powered by Smart City Alliance | Marina Sumic, General manager, VOXELGRID.

Moderation: Vicente Carabias-Hütter

9.30 - 9.45 h 
Cities handling digital change
Christian Geiger, Chief Digital Officer, City St. Gallen, Smart City Hub Switzerland 
The expert gives insight into a variety of ongoing smart city topics and specific smart city projects in different cities, in conflicting topics between:

  • Innovation and continuity  
  • Sustainability and consumption  
  • Cooperation and competition

9.45 - 10.00 h
Swiss Smart City Compass: Sustainable cities through trendsetting technologies
Nathalie Klauser
Co-Founder, Co-Director Intersections, Smart City Alliance
Pierre Filohn, Babble
Massimiliano Franco, CityZen
Combining their extensive experience and expertise in the local and global smart city sector, the Smart City Compass was developed as part of a unique partnership between four existing smart city networks (Smart City Hub, SmartCity Alliance, CityZen and Bable). There is a growing number of great smart city initiatives in Switzerland. Our goal is to create a catalogue of ongoing, and implemented, projects in Switzerland. Learn from pioneering use cases in the largest online library for Swiss smart city projects.

10.00 - 10.15 h
Digital twins for existing real estate
Marina Sumic, 
General manager, VOXELGRID
VOXELGRID creates plans and other digital information for real estate at disruptive prices. Existing properties without reliable planning documents make up 95% of the global real estate portfolio. The data material digitized with the VOXELGRID hardware and software is the most cost-effective basis for the creation of true-to-scale 2D plans. On top, Voxelgrid provides its hardware to partners who digitize real estate all over the world.


Speakers (3)

Christian Geiger

Christian Geiger

Chief Digital Officer, City St. Gallen

Nathalie Klauser

Nathalie Klauser

Co-Founder, Co-Director Intersections, Smart City Alliance

Marina Sumic

Marina Sumic

General manager, VOXELGRID

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