IoT Enabling Urban Communities: the case of Las Condes
How did Smart Cities evolve in the last decade? Energy efficiency and sustainability continue to be mandatory, but there is a pressing call to move beyond and build carbon-neutral communities. It’s the time of Open Cities, shared innovation, and inclusion.
Join the discussion between Paradox Engineering and the Mayor of Las Condes (Chile) to learn how the Internet of Things enabled the smart journey of this municipality.
Global Study on Smart City Governance
UN-Habitat, CAF, and Edinburgh Napier University present a global review of smart city governance practices. This study brought together 250 cities from around the world and provides local governments with key strategic recommendations. You will have the opportunity to discuss the results of the study with the authors and a group of city officials who have been invited to share their expert views on the governance of smart city initiatives.
Kshitija Desai, Skyroads | Up In The Air – Is Urban Air Mobility What Cities and Citizens Want?
Few topics are more controversial than Urban Air Mobility (UAM) in the current mobility debate. While UAM advocates point to significant efficiency gains, questions have been raised about the contribution of the technology to more liveable cities, its safety, and maturity. In this session, our speakers will discuss the framework conditions impacting urban air mobility operations, and the use cases that directly support cities in the digitalisation and decarbonisation transition. They will reflect on cities and citizens’ expectations toward UAM.
Federico Savoldi, Solum Photovoltaic Innovation | The Right Infrastructure to Promote Shared and Active Mobility
Shared, on-demand active mobility are key ingredients of a successful transition to sustainable urban mobility. While the uptake of these solutions depends on specific city conditions and citizens’ attitudes, providing the necessary digital and physical infrastructure is a crucial step. In this session, city and industry representatives will discuss their roles in making multimodal mobility easier for citizens thanks to targeted changes in the built environment and user-friendly digital offerings.
Manel Villalante, Renfe | The Right Infrastructure to Promote Shared and Active Mobility
Shared, on-demand active mobility are key ingredients of a successful transition to sustainable urban mobility. While the uptake of these solutions depends on specific city conditions and citizens’ attitudes, providing the necessary digital and physical infrastructure is a crucial step. In this session, city and industry representatives will discuss their roles in making multimodal mobility easier for citizens thanks to targeted changes in the built environment and user-friendly digital offerings.
Andrés de León, Hyperloop | Getting Your Mobility Solutions Funded
The EU Green Deal objectives cannot be achieved without innovators and solution providers. Yet, entrepreneurs sometimes struggle to find the right funding sources to turn their ideas into reality. In this session, institutional and private investors will shed light on the current funding landscape, and successful entrepreneurs will share their experience with getting funded. What can we learn from high-performing start-ups and scale-ups? How can innovators connect with investors to maximise their impact?
Lucy Sadler | Urban Improvement with Vehicular Access Regulations
Improving air quality is key to more liveable urban spaces, and a priority for many European cities. The transition to a zero-emission transport sector is needed to achieve this goal. Across Europe, schemes to reduce traffic pollution such as low-emission zones (LEZ) have multiplied, and more are planned in the future. What specific aspects need to be considered when planning and implementing LEZ? Are cities ready for the increasing number of electric vehicles?
Gunter Pauli: The Blue Economy, a Portfolio of Opportunities
The Blue Economy transforms innovations into novel business models. How to communicate underwater using ultrasound. How to remove microplastics from seawater like our lungs extract CO2 from our blood. How to produce hydrogen from seawater at a third of the cost. How to forecast the weather measuring water density. How to capture wind power at altitudes using robotics and AI securing baseload power… are only a few of the breakthroughs that are the basis of a portfolio of new business models that can very turn into the industries of the 21st century.
Engaging Citizens for a Collective Future
Collaboration and co-creation for a better quality of life, well-being, development, and governance is the ultimate approach for trust-building and decision-making. How are cities tackling their main development and equity challenges? What is the role of citizens’ engagement and collaboration in this process?
Jim Walker, Walk21 Foundation | New Ways to Achieve Gender Equality in Transport
A growing body of evidence points to the differences between men and women travel patterns and mode usage. While it is common to consider urban transport to be gender-neutral, transport planning is unconsciously biased towards traditional male travel patterns and modes. What are the structural gender differences and mobility patterns resulting from them? How can they be best taken into account by cities and urban planners?