An indispensable event for cities and urban innovation in the Covid era
Smart City Live: What cities should do in the new normal scenario?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on the outlook of the urban coat and is forcing city officials to rethink urban development to adapt to coronavirus risks and fears.
To talk through the variety of ways that cities around the world are coping with this new scenario, Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) will hold on November 17-18 an innovative edition under the name Smart City Live (#SCLive2020). Organised by Fira de Barcelona, this year’s summit presents a unique two-day digital experience aimed at providing cities with a global new tool for business and knowledge.
Accurate content will be broadcast from Barcelona to the world through the event’s website and also through social media in a new virtual and interactive format comprising two different blocks. The first one (17/11) consists of a full-day live television show with interviews, debates, reports, success cases and parallel sessions. The second one (18/11) features online workshops and side events.
The flagship event Smart City Expo World Congress as we knew it before the pandemic will be back in 2021.
The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative responds to the growing need to boost resilience at the local level. Crises such as COVID-19 and climate change remind us that managing disaster risk is everyone’s business, in which local governments play an instrumental role. Building resilience of local governments through robust risk governance structures and processes is a critical step to ensure that impacts are mitigated and measures are taken at the most localised and disaggregated level.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Europe, in partnership with ICLEI Europe – Local Governments for Sustainability, invite you to this regional webinar, which sets in motion a decade for city resilience through the implementation of the MCR2030 initiative across the Europe and Central Asia region.
This event brings to light cities at various stages of their resilience journey. The city experiences aim to showcase how, through robust risk knowledge, planning and implementation, city resilience can be strengthened in a spirit of peer learning and partnership central to the MCR2030 initiative.
World Urban Forum is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat. It examines the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.
WUF 11 will be held in the Polish city of Katowice from 26 to 30 of June 2022 under the theme, Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future. It will provide greater insights on the future of cities based on existing trends, challenges and opportunities, as well as suggest ways cities can better prepare to address future pandemics.
Interested organizations can book exhibition space or apply to host networking and training events at the World Urban Forum. The deadline to apply for events – 7 March 2022. The deadline for exhibition space – 13 May 2022. Forms to book exhibitions and events are accessed through the personal profile dashboard after completing the online registration.
More information on WUF11 at wuf.unhabitat.org.
Register today! Hope to see you in Katowice, Poland.
ITS European Congress, Lisbon 22 – 24 May 2023
ERTICO – ITS Europe and the Lisboa Câmara Municipal will host the 15th ITS European Congress in Lisbon, from 22 May to 24 May 2023 under the theme ‘ITS: The Game Changer’. The event will take place at the Lisbon Congress Centre, located in the historical area of Belém, next to the Tagus River.
Lisbon is part of Europe’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem and enjoys global recognition as a welcoming destination. In combination with ERTICO’s dedicated work to promote and develop smart and sustainable mobility solutions and services, the ITS European Congress promises an interactive Conference programme, innovative live demos and an energetic exhibition.
As the largest event in Europe entirely dedicated to smart mobility and digitalisation of transport, the 15th ITS European Congress will deliver an outstanding event built around three pillars:
- An International Conference with a High-Level Programme, Special Interest Sessions (SIS), Technical Paper presentations as well as interactive workshops
- Live demonstrations and technical visits will cover an area of 25.000 sqm to showcasing unique experiences of tomorrow’s mobility solutions
- A lively exhibition filled with cutting-edge solutions focusing on contributing to a more sustainable, smarter and cleaner mobility ecosystem
The ITS European Congress in Lisbon will also offer a cutting-edge exhibition with more than 100 exhibitors, including innovative start-ups area and unlimited networking opportunities.
The sheer speed and scope of innovative and smart mobility solutions, propelled by technological developments as well as social and environmental needs, are unprecedented. Intelligent transport systems and services have started to become more efficient, demand-responsive and safe, but more is to come. The innovative potential of ITS is too vast to foretell the mobile future. We only know that ITS: The Game Changer will keep changing the game – and the future.
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