Eduard Xatruch, Disfrutar: Creative Cuisine Sparking Inventive Cities
Just as it happens in creative cuisine, where trials and errors can turn into ideas and relevant solutions, city labs and participatory projects devising future cities can follow a similar approach. Parting from Eduard’s belief that team philosophy and inventiveness are the differential values of the creative culinary process, the session explores how these values […]
Dassault Systemes – Decision-Making Through VR Experiences
Increasing fuel prices and rising inflation means many local governments will have to do more with less. During these uncertain times, being able to assess the impact of an innovation up front will be key for cities looking to save time, money, and materials.
Smart Ports – Ports of the Future, Driving Cities Forward
The gateway to the world in many of cities is through its ports. They prove to be a vital artery of trade, connection, and expansion for a city’s livelihood. As with many sectors of our society, the modernization of ports has led them to transform into Smart Ports. To talk with us today about how Smart Ports are impacting and evolving our cities is none other than Emma Cobos, the Director of Innovation and Business Strategy for the Port of Barcelona.
Are Smart Cities Putting Safety First?
As cities expand in size and population, and in a context where digital and physical threats continue to increase, the demand for responsive safety and security in cities, from a holistic and people-centric perspective, grows. How can city governments respond to safety and security challenges in a tailored manner that directly improves people’s lives? How to establish flexible and resilient enough systems so that they can rapidly adapt to hazards and new dangers?
The Energy Crisis – A Chance For Change?
We need to transform our cities and our mobility systems to have a chance of reaching carbon neutrality. The fast increase this year in oil and gas prices has impacted the energy and mobility sectors’ decarbonisation efforts. In this high-level session, speakers will reflect on challenges and opportunities resulting from this situation and discuss their approaches to liveable cities in this new context.
GTAI – Adapting to Welcome Outside Investments
For a city to thrive and progress it is oftentimes necessary to attract outside investment. This helps jumpstart potential and fuel opportunities. To talk with us about how to become welcoming to outside investment is Rob Compton, the Deputy Director for Energy, Building, and Environmental Technologies for Germany Trade & Invest, an organization specialized in facilitating international companies’ landing in Germany.
Marco te Brömmelstroet: Why was John Lennon in bed with a bicycle?
The language we use to think about mobility problems and solutions is not a mirror of reality, but profoundly shapes the reality we create. And in turn how people negage with each other and develop themselves while underway. If we think that the current unsustainable mobility system needs a radical change, we need to challenge this undelrying language and actively look for alternatives.
Infrastructure Shaping Cities for the Better
As the pressure to act on climate change increases, local authorities aim at setting ambitious urban agendas that can advance energy-efficient and sustainable buildings, infrastructures, and cities as a whole. What do city leaders need to consider for contributing to a better quality of life through smart and sustainable buildings and a well-integrated and intelligent […]
Hiroshi Ishii: Beyond Pixels, Towards the Radical Atoms
The future of the city is not the Metaverse made of 3D pixels but the Matterverse empowered by the Radical Atoms that blend bits and atoms.Radical Atoms assume a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and properties dynamically. It is a vision for the future of Human-Material Interaction, in which all digital information […]
Cities at The Frontline of Climate Action
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to reach unsustainable levels and concerns on the lack of speed of the green transition keep raising worldwide, more voices are calling for clear decarbonization strategies in the post-pandemic era. How can we ingrain sustainability at the core of urban development? How can cities continue exploring innovative solutions to meet their energy needs while tackling climate change?