The 8th FIWARE Global Summit in Gran Canaria
The FIWARE’s 8th Global Summit will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), September 14-15, hosted and supported by SPEGC and Cabildo Gran Canaria with the collaboration of CidiHub, FIIHub, Best In Gran Canaria and Innovalia.
This is one of the leading open source conferences for public administrations, academia, developers, technologists, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, SMEs, large enterprises and investors, that will equally gather a professional community and technological market leaders to discuss challenges and create opportunities for businesses and open innovation around the digital transformation of public administration processes, economic development, business operations and society.
This year, the Global Summit will provide latest highlights on Open Source innovations and implementations, present more than 250 Smart Cities that use FIWARE technology, references in AgriFood, Industry, Energy, Water and Tourism, trends of the future of Digital Twins, Data Spaces, Smart Data Models, and will combine a variety of activities ranging from technical roadmaps to open calls, from expert talks to business workshops, from networking to interdisciplinary negotiations.
The Summit is organised by FIWARE Foundation with participation of its members including Atos, AWS, Engineering, NEC, Telefónica, RedHat, to mention but a few, and the FIWARE iHubs network, that will bring together more than 150 renowned speakers and leading experts from across the world such as Antonio Morales (President of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria), Cosme García (SPECG, Managing Director), Francesco Bonfiglio (CEO, Gaia-X), Dr. Cameron Brooks (AWS, General Manager, Europe Public Sector), Ana Garcia (CEO, The Big Data Value Association, BDVA), Lars Nagel (CEO, The International Data Spaces Association, IDSA), Dario Avallone (Engineering, and Chairman of the FIWARE Board of Directors), Alberto Palomo (Chief Data Officer with the Spanish Government, Chairman Gaia-X Governmental Advisory Board), Inder Gopal (CEO, IUDX), representatives of the European Commission, and many others.
The agenda of the event is targeting organisations and individuals as well as Public Administrations, ICT companies, SMEs, Accelerators, Universities and R&D organisations that are interested in the development of smart solutions based on open source and open standards technologies.
The FIWARE Global Summit is supported by Global Sponsor Funding Box, Keystone sponsors: Clean Carbon, Red Hat, Telefonica, Super sponsors: CidiHub, FIIHub and Core Sponsors: La Lonja de la Innovación
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The prestigious and highly anticipated Awards ceremony for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 will take place in the City of Utrecht on 25th September 2024 at the Future Green City World Congress.
The 2024 Awards ceremony will take the form of a dedicated gala dinner, set to be hosted on 25th September 2024 at the Royal Jaarbeurs in the heart of the City of Utrecht, Netherlands. Building on the legacy of the inaugural 2022 edition, this momentous occasion forms an integrated part of the official program of the first Future Green City World Congress, which is a global four-day event organised by the Royal Association Stadswerk the Netherlands, the Royal Dutch Society for Garden Designers and Landscapers (VHG), and the City of Utrecht.
The Future Green City World Congress will be held from 23rd – 26th September 2024 at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht, with over 3,000 experts from around the world expected to attend and share their passion and knowledge for shaping greener cities of the future. The gala dinner is expected to have more than 400 guests in attendance to share in this historic celebration of city-led urban greening.
Connecting all professionals and decision makers in the urban greening sector, the Congress boasts an exciting programme which will showcase the most inspiring examples of green city transformations from all over the world, making it the perfect global stage on which to celebrate the Finalists and winners of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024.
All 21 Finalist cities, who stand a chance of being named as winners, will be invited to benefit from attending the full four-day programme offered by the Future Green City World Congress. Finalist certificates will be presented at the gala dinner, which is also the moment at which the 7 category winners and the Grand Winner of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 will be announced and awarded their trophies. In addition, the event will also be the stage on which the Certificate of Merit recipients are awarded their certificates and where the winner of the AIPH Youth Award will be announced.
