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The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

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We ask cities and industry experts from around the world to give us their opinion on smart city technology and challenges.

John Fitzgerald, Project Director, Linesight

Rebuilding green: Analysing the Biden infrastructure plan

Opinions29 Apr 2021by John Fitzgerald, Project Director, Linesight

John Fitzgerald, Project Director, Linesight, explains why major reskilling, outreach work by government and the right messaging will be key to realising benefits.

Without smart transport networks, smart cities’ potential will not be realised

Opinions22 Jul 2020by Hong Eng Koh, Global Chief Government Industry Scientist, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei

Cities need to implement intelligent road management solutions in order to support citizens and businesses, writes Hong-Eng KOH, Global Chief Government Industry Scientist, Huawei.

Christopher Burghardt, Managing Director for Europe, ChargePoint

Cities prepare for the electrification of transport in an ever-changing world

Opinions18 May 2020by Christopher Burghardt, Managing Director for Europe, ChargePoint

E-mobility is set to transform all aspects of transportation across the next decade as the technology becomes mainstream, writes Christopher Burghardt, Managing Director for Europe, ChargePoint.

Kyra Appleby: Global Director of Cities, States and Regions, CDP

The smartest cities on climate: What can we learn?

Opinions05 Mar 2020by Kyra Appleby: Global Director of Cities, States and Regions, CDP

More cities must ramp up their climate ambition and deliver urgent action, fast, says Kyra Appleby, Global Director of Cities, States and Regions at CDP.

Toby Olshanetsky: co-founder and CEO of prooV

Less is more: Why smart technology is thriving in the suburbs

Opinions24 Jan 2020by Toby Olshanetsky: co-founder and CEO of prooV

Fast-growing neighbourhoods are the perfect testing ground for the latest connected technologies. Toby Olshanetsky, co-founder and CEO of prooV, highlights a "quiet" technological revolution.

Smart city trend tracker: The top stories on SmartCitiesWorld in 2019

Special Reports20 Dec 2019by Sarah Wray: Editor, SmartCitiesWorld

We round up our main takeaways from smart city developments in 2019. We’d love to hear yours.

Giel Mertens: Innovation Consultant, Bax & Company

Successful shared mobility in cities and beyond

Opinions08 Nov 2019by Giel Mertens: Innovation Consultant, Bax & Company

New mobility options can improve the livability of cities but without the right strategy could have the polar opposite effect, say authors Giel Mertens and Rolf Bastiaanssen of Bax & Company, and Nico Larco of the University of Oregon.

Smog: The next tech frontier for energy entrepreneurs

Opinions06 Mar 2019by Diego Pavia: CEO at InnoEnergy

Tackling smog is good for society and makes business sense, says Diego Pavia, CEO at InnoEnergy.

Daniel Itzigsohn: Senior Director of Technology and Strategy at TEOCO

Collaboration is the key to smart(er) cities

Opinions28 Aug 2018by Daniel Itzigsohn: Senior Director of Technology and Strategy at TEOCO

Combining citizen data with data from IoT systems and smart city sensors can help create truly actionable and life-saving intelligence. TEOCO’s Daniel Itzigsohn looks at how we can achieve this.

Oliver Heidrich, Newcastle University & Diana Reckien, University of Twente

We examined 885 European cities’ plans to tackle climate change – here’s what we found

Opinions04 May 2018by Oliver Heidrich, Newcastle University & Diana Reckien, University of Twente

Oliver Heidrich, Senior Researcher in Urban Resource Modelling, Newcastle University, and Diana Reckien, Associate Professor for Climate Change and Urban Inequalities, University of Twente, share their latest research on what cities are doing to tackle climate change and the urgency of the work still to be done.

Jacob Klimstra, Senior Energy Consultant and Member of the Advisory Board for Electrify Europe

Electric cars: Leading the charge

Opinions17 Apr 2018by Jacob Klimstra, Senior Energy Consultant and Member of the Advisory Board for Electrify Europe

Electric vehicles hold enormous potential but their deployment so far has fallen short. Jacob Klimstra, Senior Energy Consultant and Member of the Advisory Board for Electrify Europe, looks at how the industry could work to overcome the remaining barriers to a breakthrough.

Megan Goodwin, Interactive Rights Management digital innovation agency,

What is actually smart about cities right now?

Opinions13 Apr 2018by Megan Goodwin, Interactive Rights Management digital innovation agency,

Megan Goodwin, Interactive Rights Management digital innovation agency, looks at four key obstacles that need to be overcome before we can achieve truly smart cities.

Smart cities can change the world – if we radically rethink the approach

Opinions05 Apr 2018by Tom Goodwin, Head of Innovation, Zenith

Tom Goodwin has high hopes for how smart cities could improve our lives. To get there, though, he says we need to think differently, open up and look further ahead.

How Augmented Intelligence provides a key in understanding complex city systems, by Michel Morvan, CEO Cosmo Tech USA

Opinions11 Dec 2017by Michel Morvan, CEO Cosmo Tech USA

Augmented Intelligence shows cause-and effect-relationships, enabling decision makers to explain their rationale

Will cities join the renewable energy tsunami? asks Tom Lindberg, MD, ECOHZ

Opinions03 Jan 2017by Tom Lindberg, MD, ECOHZ

In the ’energy transition’ we all sense is upon us – the power of the consumer has so far been very much undervalued

Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA programme manager, Cities of the Future

How smart cities can improve resilience to extreme weather and natural disasters, by Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA programme manager, Cities of the Future

Opinions10 Oct 2016by Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA programme manager, Cities of the Future

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