Yesterday, the 6th Ljubljana Forum began at the Ljubljana Castle which this year focuses on the future of smart and green cities. The forum was opened by Mr. Zoran Janković, the Mayor of Ljubljana, Mr. Tomaž Berločnik, Chairman of the Board of Petrol, Mr. Joris Scheers, the President of the European Council of Town Planners, and Mr. Blaž Golob, the President of Ljubljana Forum. The participants were addressed via a videoconference by Mr. Miro Cerar, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia.
In its keynote, Mr. Jerome C. Glenn, the CEO of the Millenium Project, presented an astonishing vision of technological advances in the next 15 years and the transition to intelligent technological cities of the future based on the self-learning and self-regulated 3rd generation artificial intelligence.
The two-day conference is attended by over 140 distinguished guests, mayors, representatives of the capitals, institutions and companies, including Mr. Tadej Slapnik, the State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister, Ms. Tanja Bogataj, the State Secretary at the Ministry of Administration, Mr Miran Gajšek, the Head of the Department of Urban Planning at the Municipality of Ljubljana, and Mr. Jože Mermal, the Chairman of the Board of BTC. As part of the efforts of VZMD's international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors' Network (invest-to.net), the forum is attended by the VZMD President, Mr. Kristjan Verbič as well.
At the moment, 7 roundtables and project presentations are taking place whereas an award ceremony took place last night. VZMD has been successfully working with Ljubljana Forum since 2012, when Ljubljana hosted the largest meeting of investors globally Investors' Week (VIDEO) as part of the programs investo.si and invest-to.net. The two events were then brought together with a joint evening reception and an award ceremony (VIDEO).
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INDIA – visit of Slovenian government and business delegation – on the basis of Memorandum between ICPE and VZMD international investors' programs investo.si and investo.international also present (New Delhi, February 2013)
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