Smart Ports: Piers of the Future is an event organized by the Port of Barcelona and in collaboration with six of the most important ports of the world: Antwerp, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal, Rotterdam and Busan. These institutions will be sharing projects and knowledge related to different areas: sustainability, multimodal, agility, resilience and transparency, with the main objective of offering innovative solutions to present and future challenges that ports face. The event will be 100% online and the attendings will be able to follow it through the Smart Ports TV digital platform. Among this, the digital platform will be active 365 days and new content will be uploaded during this period.

Huawei is an independent, privately-held company that provides Information and Communications Technology (ICT). We have nearly 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany.

C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change.

The Fab Lab is an innovation centre rethinking the way we live, work and play in cities.

The Better Block Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders to reshape and reactivate built environments to promote the growth of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods.

Estudio Miralles Tagliabue is an incorporated architecture, landscape, planning, interior and design studio based in Barcelona, Shanghai and Paris.

A reference in Smart Cities, the Brazilian startup Bright Cities is an online platform capable of making cities of any size or nationality smarter. With the slogan “Upgrade your city”, its proposal is to guarantee a gradual evolution of cities, offering the necessary tools to improve its services, the public management and the quality of life of citizens.

Developed during more than five years by researchers and data scientists from UNICAMP, the platform uses an exclusive and innovative analysis methodology to develop diagnostics and roadmaps of urban solutions, technologies and good practices. With this information in hand, public managers are able to develop more assertive and effective strategic plans, in addition to evaluating and monitoring the performance of public policies and designing projects to solve the main challenges. Cities of different scales and profiles have adopted the Bright Cities platform, from Riyadh, capital and financial center of Saudi Arabia, with more than 7 million inhabitants, through Brazilian metropolises such as Aracaju (SE) and Campinas (SP). In partnership with the American organization Leading Cities, launched the Leading Cities U. S. Smart Cities Rating System, a tool that evaluated the 500 largest cities in the United States. For managers who have already used the service, the platform was able to provide a deep understanding of the municipality and to bring examples of good practices from other cities in the world: “It is a technology that brings together important data, opens up possibilities for going further and presents concrete solutions so that we can increasingly think outside the box", says Edvaldo Nogueira, mayor of Aracaju (SE).

Shanghai Smart City Development Institute is a professional research institution in the field of smart city in China, guided by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization. Since its establishment in 2012, the Institute has been committed to providing the industry with high-quality services, such as smart city top-level design, programming project, standard assessment, industrial researches, cooperation and exchange, and professional training.

Huawei is an independent, privately-held company that provides Information and Communications Technology (ICT). We have nearly 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

The 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 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.

SmartCAT 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.

Diputació 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).

The 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.

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council.