The Launch of the First Smart Parking Event in the Region

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 07, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Today witnessed the launch of Smart Parking UAE conference at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Dubai. This conference brought together the designers, contractors, materials and technology providers with building and community owners and managers, event organizers and other car park and parking facility operators.

“Smart Parking UAE had useful sessions for enhancing awareness on Smart Parking issues. The event has been very well organized giving good opportunity for networking during break sessions. There was a good mix of speakers from various kinds of organizations sharing their valuable experiences, making this conference highly interesting,” confirmed Senior Traffic Engineer at Louis Berger.

Informative sessions were presented by leaders and professionals in the parking industry. Keith Williams, the Associate Director at Parking Matters and the conference’s Chairman, highlighted on the transport and parking from an international perspective. Neil Walmsley, the Director at Arup, shared a presentation on the future of transport and parking in the UAE. John Awad, Managing Partner at Secure Parking, highlighted the importance of revolutionizing customer service through technology excellence. Deon Bender & Ezra Kramer from Walker Parking Consultants discussed car park design should have the end user in mind. Manish Gupta from Xerox presented significance data and analytics in the managing of your parking.

The General Manager at GITECH commented “You can easily hook up with people that you and your assistant tried to reach for a long time.”

From the many organizations that were present: Dubai Municipality, Abu Dhabi Municipality, Road and Transport Authority (RTA), Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, ADNEC, AECOM, Al Munajem Group, Emaar Malls Group, Adelsons & Co, Louis Berger, Masdar, Ballast Nedam and many more.

“The Smart Parking event was a fantastic venue for meeting the market. Innovators and leading consultants in the parking field,” stated Associate Director at Atkins.

Associate Director at Ramboll added, “Great knowledge sharing and networking event.”

Day two (October 6) of the conference will provide a platform for presentations about Smart parking as part of the sustainable transport planning toolkit, green parking, how smart cities run parking smart, what is the future of SMART Parking and many more. Take a look at the full agenda following this link: http://smartparkinguae.com/Agenda-340

Associate Creative Design Manager at Dubai Tourism was very pleased with this event and said “SPU welcomed new ideas for our new projects. Very relevant to what we do, refreshing with new ideas.”

Organizers: Advanced Conferences & Meetings is a premium business-to-business conference company focused on the requirements of the MENA region. Its events are highly tailored networking and learning opportunities, bringing senior decision makers together and providing up-to-the-minute information on industry trends, government initiatives, technological advances and developments in regulation. As such, they act not only as extremely effective tools for gaining business advantage, but also as high level platforms for change in the industries they serve.

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