Agenda

Pierre Mirlesse is the managing Director of Partner360.net. Pierre is a UN ITU U4SSC expert that has helped the State of Geneva become the first Swiss Canton to verified by the UN U4SSC program, and one of the 150 territories worldwide recognized as a Smart City. Partner360 is an Advisory Firm that enables cities and states such as the State of Geneva, to assess Operate and Innovate their sustainability improvement plan.  

Pierre is a regular keynote speaker on Digital Transformation for Smart Cities and the host of "The Smart and Sustainable city Podcast".

Stuart Johnston is the SIG (Geneva State Utility Company) Smart City Innovation Director.  
As the Director of Technical Innovation and Development  of solutions for the Smart City, Stuart is focused on innovation and solutions for Geneva that deliver sustainability and well-being, whether that be for individual customers, districts, towns or cities.

Louise is the Operations Manager & co-founder at SixSq, an Ekinops company. Louise is the creator of the “SixSq Way”, the spark of customer-oriented innovation, that engages employees and customers around sustainable outcomes. Louise combines her HR and Operations background with her pragmatic approach to drive SixSq’s agile, customer-centered engagements & culture.

Marc-Elian Bégin is CEO and co-founder of SixSq, now an Ekinops company. Founded in 2007, SixSq helps customers build edge-to-cloud solutions to deliver real and tangible benefits to society. Marc-Elian holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. He has worked with the Canadian and European Space Agencies, as well as CERN, on distributed software systems, grid, cloud and edge computing projects, at scale.

Sixsq has been named one of the 100 edge computing companies to watch in 2023. Sixsq is a Ekinops company. 

Jonathan Koifman works at TVP Solar, a Swiss-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative high-vacuum solar thermal panels. Jonathan is the Head Channel Partner Development and Joined TVP in 2010; leading partner and channel sales development globally, as well as direct sales in the USA.

He has 12 years of experience at TVP building partnership programs, engagement processes linking sales with engineering, and tools. The network currently spans over 10 countries, with more than 15 partners. Previously he was Commercial & Investment Real Estate Sales Associate at CORE Group in New York (2009-2010), Capital Introduction Specialist /Marketing & Client Services at the Royal Bank of Canada (2007-2008) and Financial Analyst for International Real Returns (2005-2007).

Jonathan holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in English Literature, both from Bucknell University in Lewisburg (USA).