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Tomorrow.City is a digital content platform that combines knowledge, business and awareness to accelerate sustainable and inclusive cities for all. A global hub driven by the transformative power of shared intelligence, pushing the boundaries of city collaboration and raising awareness on the critical role of sustainable urbanization and disruptive innovation. Creating connections. Fostering talent. Exploring disruption. Sharing stories: this new platform generates opportunities for action to transform cities into better places to live.
Imagined by Smart City Expo World Congress.
Held in Barcelona since 2011, Smart City Expo World Congress is the international leading event for cities. Our mission is to empower cities and collectivize urban innovation across the globe. Through promoting social innovation and identifying collaboration opportunities, the event is dedicated to creating a better future for cities and their citizens.
More infoCo-organized by Fira Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, Tomorrow.Mobility is a new impulse and a driving force for change within the transport industry. An action-focused project to transform cities’ visions of mobility to adapt to the new global scenario.
More infoAmazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector helps government, education, and nonprofit customers deploy cloud services to reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across the globe. AWS allows customers to pay just for what they use, with no up-front physical infrastructure expenses or long-term commitments. Public Sector organizations of all sizes use AWS to build applications, host websites, harness big data, store information, conduct research, improve online access for citizens, and more. AWS and its partner ecosystem help cities implement smart city solutions to support their goals around energy efficiency, air quality, intelligent transportation, public safety, public health, and other programs focused on improving quality of life and make the world a better place through technology.
More infoFor over 30 years, Cisco has been helping communities around the globe connect, protect, and transform the lives of their residents. Our trustworthy technologies serve as a foundation to expand equitable access, build secure and resilient infrastructure, and power hybrid work and trusted workplaces. Accelerate transformation in your communities with Cisco solutions that enable sustainability, create a more inclusive future for all, and help you build your bridge to possible.
More infoDassault Systèmes provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life. With the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, a virtual experience platform, the company allows more than 290,000 customers in almost 140 countries to create innovative new products and services capable of improving the real world.
More infoThe world’s largest sports venues, airports, cities, schools, police departments, and hospitals rely on Dell Technologies Computer Vision solutions. We focus on industry centric customer outcomes to deliver workflows with our partner eco-system, that are tested by our dedicated engineers in extreme real-world scenarios in one of our three global computer vision labs. Our award-winning Validated design process addresses our customers unique requirements by providing a comprehensive workflow strategy that brings together a full range of scalable computer vision components from edge to core to cloud.
More infoIt is Deloitte’s ambition to improve urban living and create better futures for more than one billion people, leveraging our global and local networks as well as working with partners, governments, and NGOs. Deloitte translates a holistic vision of Smart Cities and Urban Transformation into actionable, concrete solutions through the use of advanced technologies, sustainable infrastructure, and smart mobility. Drawing on our cross-sector experience to solve key urban challenges, we aim to progress United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 11—“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”—and believe urban transformation has the potential to meet a full 70% of all UNSDGs.
More infoFCC Environment/Medio Ambiente is the company inside the FCC Group that, for over 110 years, has been delivering environmental services to 66 million people in more than 5,200 municipalities along the world. From waste management and recycling to every municipal service, it processes annually 24.6 million tonnes of waste as a resource at nearly 200 sustainable facilities, recovering 6.35 million tonnes of secondary raw materials (SRM) and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and 435 MWe of non-fossil power. Innovation is in the DNA of FCC Environment, committed to reaching the UN’s Agenda 2030 SDG by developing its 2050 Sustainability Strategy that includes implementing e-mobility and boosting the society to be transformed towards a Circular Economy model.
More infoGermany Trade & Invest (GTAI) is the agency of the Federal Republic of Germany for promoting trade and investment to and from Germany. It advises foreign companies looking to expand their business activities in the German market. It also provides information on foreign trade to German companies seeking to enter foreign markets.
More infoHuawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – the company is committed to bringing digital resources to every person, home, and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei’s end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, it creates lasting value for its customers. At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. It invests heavily on basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward.
Huawei’s mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will: drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks to lay the foundation for the intelligent world; provide the ultimate computing power to deliver ubiquitous cloud and intelligence; build powerful digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, offering consumers more personalized and intelligent experiences across all scenarios, including home, travel, office, entertainment, and fitness & health.”
With a foundation of security, privacy, and trust, Microsoft empowers Governments to deliver inclusive programs, transform operations, and enable thriving communities. To help to solve society’s biggest challenges, Microsoft delivers innovation in programs and experiences, empowers the government workforce, transforms operations and services, and secures data and protect resources in government agencies worldwide.
Leveraging comprehensive technology capabilities, Microsoft and its trusted global partner network enables government agencies to accelerate their digital transformation journey.
More infoNVIDIA pioneered a supercharged form of computing loved by the most demanding computer users in the world — scientists, designers, artists, and gamers. Our invention, the graphics processing unit (GPU), is the engine of modern artificial intelligence. Our technology also accelerates the fastest supercomputers, powers cutting-edge design and VR applications, and it’s the world’s largest gaming platform. We enable the da Vincis and Einsteins of our time to solve their most challenging problems: from building self-driving cars and AI-ready datacentres, to beating devastating diseases like cancer and dementia.
More infoThe Smart Ports: Piers of the Future is an annual congress linked with the Smart City Expo World Congress, the main international summit on smart cities and urban solutions. For the first time in 2019, six leading ports in the world, Antwerp, Barcelona, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal and Rotterdam, got together to link both concepts: Smart Cities and Smart Ports. In 2020, the Busan Port Authority joined the cause as one of the leading ports in Asia. It is a congress on innovation, sustainability and digital transformation. Some of the most innovative ports of the world share their innovative projects on Drones, Digital Twins, Green Smart Ports and Smart Port Cities among many others, while painting a picture of how our future should be. More sustainable, efficient and connected.
More infoThe European Commission is the EU’s executive body. It represents the interests of the whole European Union. The Commission’s main roles are to propose legislation which is then adopted by the co-legislators, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers; enforce European law (where necessary with the help of the Court of Justice of the EU); set objectives and priorities for action, outlined yearly in the Commission Work Program, and work towards delivering them, as well as managing and implementing EU policies, the budget, and representing the Union outside Europe.
The European Commission’s has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and some services are also in Luxembourg. The Commission has Representations in all EU Member States and 139 Delegations across the globe.
More infoICEX Spain Trade and Investment is a public corporation at the national level aimed to promote the internationalisation of Spanish companies to support their competitiveness and add value to the economy, as well as attracting foreign investment to Spain. ICEX Spain Trade and Investment renders its services through a network of 31 Provincial and Regional Divisions in Spain along with almost 100 Economic and Trade Offices around the world. It also boasts 16 Business Centres worldwide, offering Spanish companies temporary infrastructure and acting as incubators for internationalisation. Every year, ICEX organizes around 1.200 promotional activities in foreign markets and answers over 90.000 queries on internationalization.
More infoSmartCAT is the strategy of the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya which extends the concept of Smart City to a country-wide level to carry out a program that integrates and coordinates local initiatives and supralocal, support companies and deploy Smart initiatives throughout the territory. SmartCAT aims to turn Catalonia into an “Smart Country” of international reference that takes advantage of the use of digital technology and information to innovate in public services, drive economic growth and promote a smarter, more sustainable and integrator.
More infoDiputació de Barcelona (Barcelona Provincial Council) is a local public authority that provides technical, economic and technological support to the 311 municipalities in the province of Barcelona, fostering quality local services throughout the region. Its mission is to ensure progress and well-being for all the citizens in the territory by providing services to people, either directly or, above all, in cooperation with the municipalities themselves. To this end, Diputació de Barcelona is determined to become a Smart Region: a community of Smart Villages and Smart Cities in which technology and citizens are the main drivers of change to achieve social, environmental and economic development for all, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
More infoThe Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is the public administration of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, which occupies 636 km² and encompasses 36 municipalities with more than 3.2 million inhabitants. The metropolitan area is a territorial, social, demographic, economic and cultural entity formed during the last century as a product of the growth and connection of urban systems around the city of Barcelona. This is the largest metropolitan conurbation in the western Mediterranean, which generates half of the GDP in Catalonia. The new public metropolitan administration replaces the three entities existing until 2011: Union of Municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Environmental Agency and Transport Metropolitan Agency. This new AMB rationalises and simplifies the metropolitan governance by creating a single administration.
More infoEUROCITIES is the network of major European cities, with over 200 of Europe’s largest cities to improve the lives of over 130 million residents across 38 countries. We work in all areas of interest for cities, from culture to mobility, environment to social affairs, economic development to smart cities. We facilitate learning experiences between cities and represent cities’ interests towards the European Union. EUROCITIES is committed to working towards a common vision of a democratic, sustainable future in which all citizens can enjoy a good quality of life.
More infoThe effects of rapid urban growth combined with the impact of climate change are creating new challenges for cities, which require better usage of information. To manage these challenges and deliver better urban services, cities need to better leverage technology, people and processes. IDB works to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality. It helps improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. As the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, it conducts extensive research; provide loans, grants, and technical assistance. We are committed to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of increased integrity, transparency, accountability and sustainability.
More infoMetropolis brings together the governments of 141 urban agglomerations worldwide. Founded in 1985, today the association is the focal point of expertise on metropolitan governance. Raising the voices of metropolises to the global agenda and building capacity to deliver public policies and services, Metropolis contributes to finding common answers to the challenges of metropolisation. We provide global leadership and advocacy to build a case for the importance of sound metropolitan governance and our programs give metropolitan communities tools they need to make better decisions.
More infoUnited Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is the world organization of local and regional governments and their associations, representing and defending their interests on the world stage. UCLG’s network of members represents 70% of the world’s total population and is present in all world regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East and West Asia, and North America; organized into 7 regional sections, 1 metropolitan section and 1 Forum of regions. This network includes over 240,000 towns, cities, regions and metropolises, and over 175 associations of local and regional governments in 140 countries. Among UCLG’s key areas of political interest are: local democracy, climate change and environmental protection, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, local finance, urban development and city diplomacy in peace building.
More infoUN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.
In October 2016, at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III – member states signed the New Urban Agenda. This is an action-oriented document which sets global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, rethinking the way we build, manage, and live in cities. Through drawing together cooperation with committed partners, relevant stakeholders, and urban actors, including at all levels of government as well as the private sector, UN-Habitat is applying its technical expertise, normative work and capacity development to implement the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
More infoWith 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
More infoThe World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.
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