#SCEWC24

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Broaden your experience and get to the heart of key smart city issues with a wide range of panels and talks

Big Bets in Cities: How Philanthropy Can De-Risk Innovation
Hear from three city leaders how they used $1M to address their most pressing challenges: driving student motivation and engagement, increasing farmer livelihoods and local food production, and protecting trees while providing dignified jobs to residents! And... hear from Bloomberg Philanthropies about the upcoming Mayors Challenge and how your city can win $1M, staff, and technical assistance to bring your bold idea to life.
Making energy communities successful in metropolitan areas
Energy communities have a pivotal role in energy transition and they are growing around the EU but they often struggle to take-off. The COMANAGE project aims to tackle and counteract the main governance and management barriers faced by citizen-led and public-participated energy communities’ projects by creating a sustainable governance framework and new resources for public authorities that also could be replicated and upscaled.
Youth Reinventing Cities: How are youth ideas reshaping cities?
We need to include young people’s voices and innovative ideas to create cities of tomorrow. C40’s Youth Reinventing Cities competitions empower young people, from schools to universities, to collaborate with city leaders and share their vision. In dialogue with cities, young leaders, and other partners, the session will unpack solutions that are truly inspiring and changing urban areas into more green and thriving neighbourhoods.
Power of Communities: co-creating pathways to climate neutrality
The biggest roadblock to climate-neutral and positive energy districts isn’t technology -it’s the disconnection between stakeholders, each holding a crucial part of the solution but with differing approaches, often leading to misunderstandings or unrealised benefits. Join this session to discover ways stakeholder engagement can unite citizens, leaders, businesses, and financiers to create districts and cities as vibrant as they are sustainable.
Talents for Tomorrow: How Local Governments Can Address Emerging Challenges?
Energy communities have a pivotal role in energy transition and they are growing around the EU but they often struggle to take-off. The COMANAGE project aims to tackle and counteract the main governance and management barriers faced by citizen-led and public-participated energy communities’ projects by creating a sustainable governance framework and new resources for public authorities that also could be replicated and upscaled.
GCoM and Partners: Business to Cities Matchmaking and Climate Finance
Given the ever more pressing climate emergency and its impacts on cities and citizens, implementation of climate action plans needs to be accelerated especially in smaller or medium sized cities with less resources and leverage opportunities. The smart cities expo and world congress as the largest global event for city related innovation provides an excellent setting to launch this annual initiative.
How Can Public-Private Partnerships Leverage Vehicle Data to Improve Mobility?
Discover how Mercedes-Benz collaborates with public entities, like the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, to leverage vehicle data for enhanced road safety and sustainability. This presentation will explore the dynamics of public-private partnerships, highlighting successful projects, sharing a Live Demo, and will showcase how public entities can be empowered with actionable insights from car data.
Urban Transformation: Inclusive and Sustainable Neighbourhoods
Join our panel about the New European Bauhaus LAB project, focusing on "Inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods". The LAB project represents a collaboration between Drees & Sommer, DGNB, ICLEI, CPEA and Bable Smart Cities.
Cádiz Investment Hub
Intervención para exponer las bondades de la provincia gaditana como destino inversor, poniendo el foco sobre los sectores estratégicos con mayor presencia en el Congreso.

A Participatory Artistic Intervention at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2024:

Expressions of Democracy combine innovation and participation in society with the practice of contemporary visual art. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES, Austria) and Smart City Expo World Congress.

The Avenue – Hall 3

 

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Enabling Technologies

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Energy & Environment

Urban Shark Tank: Replication in Smart & Climate-Neutral Cities
07 NOV | 09:45 | Orange Agora
BABLE Smart Cities


Dive into the dynamic world of Urban Shark Tank, where innovative companies present bold, climate-smart use cases to a panel of city leaders. The stakes are high as these "sharks" probe deeply, asking tough questions about the replicability of each use case. Can these solutions be successfully implemented across diverse urban landscapes? The most adaptable and scalable cases will earn the sharks' support and win prizes from the audience!
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Adaptation and Transition to climate change in smart water cities and regions
07 NOV | 09:45 | Green Agora
Catalan Water Partnership


This event addresses the significant challenges climate change poses to water management in cities and regions reliant on water resources. It highlights best practices and strategies for smart water cities using IoT, AI, and data analytics to manage and mitigate climate impacts like droughts and floods. Key objectives include resilient infrastructure, advanced technology implementation, community engagement, and supportive policies.
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GCoM: business to cities matchmaking and climate finance
05 NOV | 16:30 | Green Agora
Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy


Given the ever more pressing climate emergency and its impacts on cities and citizens, implementation of climate action plans needs to be accelerated especially in smaller or medium sized cities with less resources and leverage opportunities. The smart cities expo and world congress as the largest global event for city related innovation provides an excellent setting to launch this annual initiative.
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Turning the Tide: Achieving Europe’s Energy & Climate Goals Through Local Action
07 NOV | 14:45 | Green Agora
The Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP)


A climate neutral EU can only be achieved with a strong involvement of cities and regions. Here, we bring together high-level representatives of sub-national authorities sharing their experience with proven scalable innovative planning and financing solutions to give local action the spotlight in the achievement of Europe's energy and climate goals.
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Making energy communities successful in metropolitan areas
05 NOV | 12:45 | Green Agora
Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises


Energy communities have a pivotal role in energy transition and they are growing around the EU but they often struggle to take-off. The COMANAGE project aims to tackle and counteract the main governance and management barriers faced by citizen-led and public-participated energy communities’ projects by creating a sustainable governance framework and new resources for public authorities that also could be replicated and upscaled.
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Strong Commitments: How European Cities Accelerate their Climate Transition
06 NOV | 17:15 | Green Agora
NetZeroCities


The Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission aims for 100 cities to become climate neutral by 2030, inspiring all other cities to follow suit by 2050. Since the Mission started in 2021, dozens of cities have built innovative climate plans, making bold commitments and rethinking their approach to climate action. Discover their journey!
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Community energy sharing in the city for the energy system of the future
06 NOV | 18:15 | Green Agora
Universitat de Girona - eXiT:Research group


This pilot comes from an energy community in Amsterdam, where more than half of the required electricity is generated by the inhabitants themself. The community will use as much of its own electricity as possible: 1. Behind their own connection, 2. That of the building and 3. Under the transformation house.
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Youth Reinventing Cities : How are Youth Ideas Reshaping Cities?
06 NOV | 11:30 | Green Agora
C40 - Costanza De Stefani


We need to include young people’s voices and innovative ideas to create cities of tomorrow. C40’s Youth Reinventing Cities competitions empower young people, from schools to universities, to collaborate with city leaders and share their vision. In dialogue with cities, young leaders, and other partners, the session will unpack solutions that are truly inspiring and changing urban areas into more green and thriving neighbourhoods.
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Governance & Economy

Institutional closing ceremony of the European Capital of Democracy
06 NOV | 10:00 | CC1 – Room 1.1
Capital Europea de la Democràcia


This session is divided into 2 parts: Ethics & Good Governance in the XXI Century, with David Velazquez, former judge and lawyer, Begoña Román, philosopher, Catalan Ethics Committee of Social Services president and Gemma Calvet i Barot, lawyer and consultant in transparency and good governance. For just over a year, Barcelona has been the European Capital of Democracy, an initiative promoted by the Innovation in Politics Institute and supported by the Council of Europe. This session is divided into two parts:   a. A talk on "Ethics and Good Governance in the 21st Century" . The how and why are questions that emerge behind the idea of democratic quality and the emergence of its ethical and integrity dimension. This new paradigm is reflected in the various regulations on transparency and public procurement, and in cases such as the regulation of Next Generation funds. The relationship between the public and private sectors requires an alliance of visions and missions to strengthen Europe in the 21st century. Speakers: David Velazquez Vioque, former judge and lawyer. Director of the Master in Compliance ESADE Law School. Begoña Román Maestre, philosopher, Professor of Ethics at the UB and President of the Ethics Committee of Social Services of Catalonia. Presented and moderated by Gemma Calvet i Barot, lawyer and consultant in transparency and good governance. Political analyst.   B. Closing words María Eugenia Gay, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Helfried Carl, cofounder the Innovation in Politics Institute and Jurgen Czernohorszky, City Councilor of Vienna.
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Living & Inclusion

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Mobility

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Infrastructures & Buildings

Paris Region: Designing Smart and Sustainable Cities
07 NOV | 15:45 | Orange Agora
Choose Paris Region


The Paris Region's approach to building smart and sustainable urban environments highlights the role of both territories and businesses in driving innovation. Attendees will learn about the Greater Paris Metropolis' experimentation program and its forward-thinking urban initiatives. The session will also cover the importance of low-tech solutions, resource efficiency, and the need to balance high-tech and low-tech approaches in city design.
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Green infrastructures, key in business action for more sustainable cities.
07 NOV | 15:45 | Green Agora
Forética


At this session Forética will conduct live interviews with the leading companies of the Sustainable Cities 2030 initiative. Each of them will tackle the topic of green infrastructure from a different angle.
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5CC+ An International Cooperation for Developing Digital Twins
07 NOV | 11:45 | Orange Agora
Rotterdam


5CC+ is an international colaboration between the Cities of Rotterdam, Hamburg, Helsinki, Vienna, Prague and Singapore for the adoptation and development of Digital Twins. The focus of our community lies on the usage of digital twins in urban planning, showing the needs of the cities and sharing best practices based on opensource software and open standards.
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EU Cities Paving the Way to the CitiVERSE
05 NOV | 17:45 | Orange Agora
Eurocities


A new concept is taking shape – the CitiVerse, a virtual world, where citizens can navigate and discover public and private cultural, historical, or touristic digital and physical assets, while businesses will offer innovative and circular services. How are EU cities creating the CitiVERSE? In this session, Living-in.EU will bring champion cities and companies together to discuss their approaches and lay the foundation for a strong collaboration.
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Five Circular Economy Deep Dives into System Challenges in the Built Environment
06 NOV | 12:30 | Green Agora
Circular Buildings Coalition


We investigate lessons from 5 novel firm-driven contributions to systemic barriers for adopting circular economy principles. How to crack the system lock-in bottom-up! We invite you to help us identify the systemic barriers we need to address in the next round of Blueprint Projects supported by Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC).
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Blue Economy

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