Smart Cities: Importance of Management and Innovations for Sustainable Development

Prof. M.A. Dagmar CAGÁNOVÁ, PhD. acts as General Summit Smart City 360° Chairwoman, the co-founder of the European Alliance for Innovation in Slovakia, and at the same time full prof. in Economics and Management of Enterprise. Prof. Cagánová is at present Vice-dean for Strategic Development, Projects and Innovations at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. She is an International Advisory Council Member of Danubius University, Management Committee Member of E-COST (European Collaboration in Science and Technology) ) TN 1301 Sci Generation, the Executive Committee Member in Danubius Academic Consortium (Academic Network for Integral Innovation), a Steering Committee Member of Danube strategy Priority Axis 7: Knowledge society- science, research, innovation and ICT for the Slovak Republic, as well as a Member of iATDi (International Association for Technological Development and Innovations), Vice-chairwoman of Cultural and Educational Grant Agency (Committee 3), Member of Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. Prof. Cagánová’s professional interests, research topics, and international collaborations are mainly focused on Intercultural and Innovation Management, Managerial Skills, Communication in Management and Marketing, International Marketing, International Relationships, Mobility and Smart Cities, and Gender Diversity. She has been the member of numerous journal editorial boards, co-editor of current content Special issues journals (MONET, WINET), an organiser, and a steering committee member of numerous domestic and international summits and conferences. Prof. Cagánová has participated in 48 domestic and international projects as the project head and team member. She is the co-editor of Internet of Things, IoT Infrastructures 2014, part 2, Smart City 360 Degrees 2015, Internet of Things 2015, part 1 and 2 published by Springer and editor in co-authorship of the of Springer scientific monograph Mobility Internet of Things 2018, Smart Technology Trends in Industrial and Business Management 2019, Advances in Industrial Internet of Things, Engineering and Management 2021 and Industry 4.0 in Smart Cities 2022. To date, prof. Cagánová has published more than 400 publications, 7 scientific monographs, 17 papers in current content journals with IF, 89 papers in databases WOS and 131 in databases SCOPUS and has over 700 citations, 359 of them in quotation databases WOS and SCOPUS, h-index in WOS is 12 and SCOPUS h-index 14.

Dr.h.c. prof. MSc. Michal Cehlár, PhD. acts as Dean of the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Chairman of the Board of Slovak Mining Chamber; President of Union of Waste Industry; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Association of Industrial Unions and Transport; Member of the Supervisory Board, Union of Metallurgy, Mining and Geology; CourtExpert: reg. num.: 910398 (Expert field: Mining Specialization: Extraction and Evaluation of Mineral Deposits); Member of High-Level Steering Group EIP on Raw Materials European Commission; Member of Steering Committee EIT Raw Materials European Commission.

MSc. Natália HORNÁKOVÁ, PhD. works as a researcher at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. N. Horn?áková has received a doctorate degree in the study branch Industrial Management. Her professional interests, research topics, and international collaborations are mainly focused on Managerial Skills; Marketing; Innovation Management; Business Logistics; Mobility and Smart Cities; and Diversity. N. Hornáková is the author and co-author of 55 domestics and foreign publications, including 2 scientific monographs and 4 publications in the current content journals with IF, such as Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) and Wireless Networks (WINET), as well as the co-editor of a special issues of the current content journal MONET with the title Smart Solutions with the Focus on Innovations from Various Perspectives; Innovative Approaches in IoT, Management and Technology Challenges and the current content journal Sustainability, editor in co-authorship of the of Springer scientific monograph, Mobility Internet of Things 2018, books published by Springer, Advances in Industrial Internet of Things, Engineering and Management 2021 and Industry 4.0 in Smart Cities 2022. Her h-index in WOS is 5 and SCOPUS h-index 5. N. Hornáková has been a vice-head of 2 and team member of several and home and foreign projects including H2020 project. N. Horn?áková is also a member of organizational and program committees mostly of foreign and domestic conferences, as well as a member of iATDi (International Association for Technological Development and Innovations).