L to R: Arun Srivastava, Vice President, ICCC, Bill Hutchinson, Chair, I-Canada Alliance, Sanjay Makkar, President, ICCC

Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) will be collaborating with I-Canada Alliance to organize the World Future Cities Summit to be held in Toronto’s world renowned MaRS District on June 9 and 10, 2016. The agreement to collaborate was inked between ICCC President Sanjay Makkar and I-Canada Alliance’s Chair Bill Hutchinson at the ICCC. I-Canada Alliance is a national movement dedicated to the creation of Smart Cities across Canada, where every one enjoys the benefits of higher income, better healthcare, and a rising quality of life.

After agreeing to collaborate, Sanjay Makkar, President,ICCC, said, “The Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce is pleased to collaborate with I-Canada Alliance on the World Future Cities Summit because Smart Cities will bring a new dimension to the bilateral relations between Canada and India. We plan to be the conduit for channeling Canadian investments and know how to India’s Smart Cities project.”

Bill Hutchinson has played a pivotal role in Canada’s emergence as a global leaders in Smart Cities technologies and infrastructure. He shared historic moments in Canadian telecommunications, from his role as the founding chair of Canarie Inc., whose national research and education network has brought Canada much international recognition, to a Waterfront Toronto executive role in conceiving communications infrastructures. Bill Hutchinson is the chair of SAVI, a five year research project involving ten Canadian universities investigating the future of cloud computing and related communications and he is a distinguished research fellow of the Munk School at the University of Toronto.

The upcoming World Future Cities Summit will be a platform for communities, value-makers and network builders. The two-day convention kicks off with a detailed analysis of India’s Smart Cities project by Pratap Padode, Founder and Director Smart Cities Council India. During the recent India Mission 2016, the ICCC delegation confabulated with senior government officials both at the Indian federal government and different provincial governments to discuss the possibilities of transfer of technologies on India’s ambitious $2 trillion Smart Cities project.

The other topics to be covered during the two-day Summit include:

• How communities leverage the innovation economy: Inventing value – there’s no ‘Plan B’
• Governor’s Choice Program – the Internet of Things (IoT), Cognitive Solutions, Transportation, Applications and Savings
• The ROI From Broadband – New opportunities and new financing
• Rising communities: Smaller but innovative - A caucus of small communities motivated

Among the speakers are:

• Steven Adler, IBM Global Leader Information Strategy
• Sara Diamond, President and Vice Chancellor OCAD University
• Dermott Sweeny, Principal Dermott Sweeny & Co
• Dan Matheson, Mayor Stratford ON
• David Sandel, Founder Gigabit City Summit
• Patricia McCarney, President and CEO World Council on City Data
• Terry Dalton, President i-Valley
• Tom Rivington, President f6 Networks
• Suneet Tuli Singh, President and CEO Datawind
• Damodar Arapakota, President Imex Systems
• Mark Romoff, President and CEO, Canadian Council on Public Private Partnerships
• Anthony Sarget, CEO, Luminato
• Janet Da Silva, President and CEO, Toronto Board of Trade
• Fawn Annan, President and Group Publisher IT world Canada

For more information about the Summit, click here: World Futures Cities Summit