Smart Cities of the Future: Challenges and Great Expectations

January 10, 2017
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham

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The buzz: “I have an affection for a great city” (H. W. Longfellow, 1886). News flash: By 2050, over 70% of the world will live in cities (U.N., 2014). Combined with the digital revolution, this accelerated urbanization presents cities with challenges and opportunities to meet citizens’ and businesses’ transportation, water, energy and safety needs. What do Smart Cities experts predict for 2017? Welcome to our new series. The experts speak. Marlyn Zelkowitz, SAP: “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” (R. Buckminster Fuller). Ruthbea Yesner Clark, IDC: “Last guys don’t finish nice“ (Saul Alinsky). Jennifer Belissent, PhD, Forrester: “Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!” (Sherlock Holmes). Meghan E. Cook, Center for Technology in Government: “The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled” (Paulo Coelho). Join us for Smart Cities of the Future: Challenges and Great Expectations.

Game-Changing Smart Cities of the Future, Presented by SAP

Archives Available on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions.

Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional Coffee Break with Game-Changers for our special series on Game-Changing Smart Cities of the Future.

We’ll explore everything from drivers for smart city digital transformation and business models, to technology trends in smart cities which will improve people’s lives.

Learn how you can become the savvy Leader who takes your organization across the finish line as you look ahead to the next wave of business innovation.

Game-Changing Smart Cities of the Future, presented by SAP, on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

Bonnie D. Graham

Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”


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