Opening Session: Cities Inspired by People
Dialogue with the Spanish Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda: Cities and Mobility of the Future
How can the Urban Agenda speed up the transformation of cities in Spain? This Dialogue with the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of Spain, discusses pressing urban matters such as the evolution of the digitalisation of public transport, data sharing between private and public companies, and emission reduction in cities.
World Smart City Awards 2022
The annual World Smart City Awards is a prestigious international competition that seeks to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies making cities around the world more livable, sustainable, and economically viable. In 2022, we received 337 top-level proposals from 60 countries worldwide.Meet the 2022 edition’s pioneering award winners!
When Technology Becomes A Push for Inclusion
The digital transition can be a force that transforms cities for the better, ensuring agile digital services for all citizens, and facilitating the accessibility to new technology tools. But these advancements need to be implemented with inclusion at the core, making sure at every step that digital gaps are lowered, citizen rights ensured and that […]
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.