Join the next SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion to discover how AI can transform cities, enhancing operations and services for communities and empowering the workforce.
In this virtual session, panellists will explore innovative approaches to issues such as urban planning, transportation, and public safety, with a specific focus on the role of local governments in implementing AI solutions.
Kate Wright, executive director of Climate Mayors, details the unique role of mayors in furthering urban climate action, explaining how they’re getting closer to communities to make the most of unprecedented federal funding.
Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.
Agustin Botteron, author of a new Visa on government disbursements and former Chief Resilience Officer of Santa Fe, and Robert L. Matthews, Director of the Washington D.C. Child and Family Services Agency, are the latest guests on the Urban Exchange podcast.
Mike Lake, CEO of Leading Cities and a member of the SmartCitiesWorld Advisory Board is joined by Genesis Gavino, Chief of Staff Resilience Officer for the City of Dallas. Genesis provides a behind-the-scenes look at her role, detailing the essential elements that the role encompasses that don’t necessarily fit elsewhere but are crucial for city operations.
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Nigeria’s data centre industry set to explode, bringing high bandwidth speeds to urban areas. Sherisse Alexander, chief business officer, WATT Renewable Corporation, discusses how solar plus storage can help the country affordably secure the power it needs to realise this vision.
Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.
Join the next SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion to discover how AI can transform cities, enhancing operations and services for communities and empowering the workforce.
Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.
Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.
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Harry Meier, deputy CIO for Innovation with the City of Mesa Department of Innovation and Technology, explains how the city sets out to explore what’s possible with each new generation of technology that comes along.
Michael Hammett, director of the Office of Innovation in the City of Phoenix, explains how the strategic use of data and evidence, along with a series of hackathons, is helping the city overcome every day challenges.
Monica Duhem, Director of the Global Advisory Center at the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict), explains how she has been working to make accessibility by design a priority for cities, and how model policies have helped make an impact.
With inclusion, diversity and technology central to the smart city vision, María J Martínez reports on how the ‘Enlightened City’ has obtained the UN-Habitat Gold Recognition in the SDG Cities Programme.
Liz St. Louis at Sunderland City Council and David Conway at Sunderland University delve into how Sunderland has forged ahead in delivering connectivity for all.
Anatolii Vovniuk, deputy CIO of Kyiv Council, explains how Kyiv.Digital evolved from a Covid-19 lifeline to an integrated services app used by 80 per cent of citizens.
Kate Wright, executive director of Climate Mayors, details the unique role of mayors in furthering urban climate action, explaining how they’re getting closer to communities to make the most of unprecedented federal funding.
Thomas Madreiter, director of planning for the city of Vienna, explains how citizen participation and engagement on critical issues has shaped the city’s urban planning strategy to earn it the top ranking in this year’s Economist Intelligence Unit Liveability Index.
Raimundo Rodulfo, director of IT and CIO at the City of Coral Gables, explains how digital twin technology is taking its smart city vision to the next level.
Sarah Hannah-Spurlock, night-time economy manager, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, believes cities have to break out of the nine to five mindset if they are to build night-tme economies that work for citizens and visitors.
Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.
In this edition, we focus on Dortmund in western Germany. With around 600,000 inhabitants, Dortmund is the eighth-largest city in Germany and the gateway to the Rhine-Ruhr region in the heart of Europe.
The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.
Computer vision and machine learning specialist, Univrses, will work with the Swedish Transport Administration to digitise and manage roadside infrastructure.
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