Smart City Expo World Congress is the leading event for cities, pushing to create a better urban life by empowering citizens and enabling more efficient and inclusive urban services. Since 2011, it has been at the vanguard of change for cities and has developed a groundbreaking model of advocacy for a better urban world.
After a year of pandemic, SCEWC21 celebrates its 10th anniversary with the physical event coming back to Barcelona and a parallel digital program broadcast by Tomorrow.City. The event will gather leading international experts and 400 exhibiting companies to share knowledge and tackle the many challenges involved in urban transformation.
To cover the many fields involved, the congress program will be structured in eight themes, Enabling Technologies, Energy & Environment, Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, Governance, Living & Inclusion, Economy, Infrastructure & Buildings, and Safety & Security. and will feature topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, New Energy Models, Green Spaces, Low Carbon, Micro & Shared Mobility, Cross-sector Governance, Citizen Engagement, Critical Infrastructures, City Ethics & Privacy, Urban Safety and Emergency Response.
Cross industry collaboration has been one of the goals of SCEWC since its inception. The SCEWC 2021 edition will strengthen its role as a world platform for knowledge sharing and widen its reach by hosting two new events: Tomorrow.Mobility and PUZZLE X. Tomorrow.Mobility will focus on promoting the design and adoption of new sustainable urban mobility models. PUZZLE X aims to grasp the potential of Frontier materials to solve some of the challenges that society is facing. The initiative includes a yearly event and a venture builder incubator to support Materials Deep Tech startups, attract investment and build a global ecosystem.
RUGGEDISED Final Event & Recharge Earth
The EU-funded project RUGGEDISED Smart Cities and Communities is hosting its final event next 6 September 2022 in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), followed by the Recharge Earth Energy Transition Conference (7-8 September), which will also feature RUGGEDISED best practices. The entire event takes place in the RUGGEDISED demonstration area, Heart of South, at the Rotterdam Ahoy Conference Centre.
The event will showcase the lessons from the RUGGEDISED project, where the cities of Rotterdam, Glasgow, Umeå, Parma, Brno and Gdansk have worked with researchers and private industry on pushing urban transition through Smart City developments and methods.
The first day of the final event is dedicated to learning, discussing and exchanging views based on the work done in RUGGEDISED. In sessions that will require engagement and openness from all participants, RUGGEDISED will invite attendees on a journey to shape how we will create buildings, districts and entire cities in support of climate neutrality. The programme will include sessions on ‘The Lighthouse Stories’, ‘Innovation capacity in European Smart Cities’, ‘How to set up city-led urban innovation systems?’, and ‘The Legacy of RUGGEDISED’, among others. There will also be different networking opportunities throughout the day. The event will close with study tours in Rotterdam to learn more about the RUGGEDISED innovations.
On 7-8 September, professionals involved in the energy transition will convene at the Recharge Earth conference, where RUGGEDISED will also share its best practices. The conference will include high-level political speakers and engaging plenary session. Important themes will be discussed in an international programme with RUGGEDISED partners putting special focus on how digitalisation and a social perspective can help support the energy transition throughout Europe.
To register, visit here: https://ruggedised.eu/final-event/