I´m Miguel Rodrigues CEO and Co-Funder of Expo Cities2020, a large innovative Smart Cities initiative that impacts on 200 cities of Sao Paulo State in Brazil, a hybrid event that combines virtual exhibition over 11^th months a year, 24h a day and acceded form any place in the world.

From 2012 in Brazil, I found several technologic companies on smart cities, smart buildings and smart retail environment, as MtoM Consulting, Inteled and Expo Cities2020.

MtoM Consulting develops a large number of Apps for advanced marketing and smart operational management, based on multiple sensors and actuators, design the architecture of solutions that can provide immersive experiences based on augmented reality, virtual reality, image recognition, or near field communication solutions, exploring the potential of the IoT Internet of Things field with large number of projects under development in Brazil.

Inteled is a hardware company that install all the sensors and actuators necessary for the solutions designed by MtoM, for smart cities, smart buildings or smart retail, whenever the hardware is necessary to provide the support for the Apps functionality on smart cities , smart buildings or smart retail environments. Expo Cities2020 is the innovative platform already mentioned that will have available thousands of other technologic startups, SME´s or large technologic corporations on smart cities field.