Sorigué: A New Water Mining Project to Upgrade Cities Infrastructure
City governments do their best to manage and upgrade their infrastructures and services. Many times, however, a collaboration with private companies is necessary. This allows for greater efficiency and productivity, which benefits the city as a whole. To talk with us about how this collaboration unfolds, and the exciting projects being undertaken is Joan Pons, Sorigué’s Director of Innovation. Sorigué is a group of companies specialized in city services, construction, water engineering, and technology.
UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing & Womenpreneur | Bridging Inequality with Creative Solutions
Modernization and progress can prove to be a great boon for many people.
Rinat Guy, City of Tel Aviv Yaffo | Innovation is not a slogan, it’s a way of life!
Producing innovations can be a challenge, but encouraging others to become innovative and creative is its own type of challenge.
CARNET: Robot Ona as the Future of Delivery
In many ways it feels as if we’re already living in the future, with the rapid digitization and automation of many services and infrastructures. Cities are crucial grounds in which to implement new technologies and innovations that seek to make our lives more productive and efficient. To talk with us about an exciting innovation for urban spaces is none other than Laia Pagès, Executive & Research Manager at CARNET a Future Mobility Research Company. She got her PhD in Transportation Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
What Possibilities Exist for Startups to Scale in the Mobility Sector?
Being a Smart City is about much more than just implementing the latest digital technology to improve the use of resources. It also means becoming a more interactive and responsive city working to improve citizens’ quality of life and accelerate progress on climate targets. The European Smart Cities and Communities is a joint initiative of 30 initiatives led by the European Commission. To talk us through how the imitative is developing and deploying smart solutions and policies to achieve climate neutrality goals, we’re joined by Mr. Georg Houben, Policy Officer with the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Energy.
Urban Air Mobility: From Sci-Fi to Reality
Many of us imagined a future of flying cars and transport within cities. This has been recently turning from a fantasy into a reality, with advances in Urban Air Mobility. We’re not at the level of flying cars yet, but the future is quickly approaching. To speak with us Urban Air Mobility are two intriguing speakers. Denise Soesilo is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of the consultancy Outsight International, she’s also an ADDA Scaling Lead for UNICEF, and a UAS and Clean Technologies Consultant for the World Bank. Yoann Le Petit is a Business Development Manager at EIT Urban Mobility. Ms. Soesilo, Mr. Le Petit, what a pleasure to have you here. Mr. Le Petit, why don’t we start with you. Why does EITUM consider UAM a key sector in the future of mobility?
Kaisa Sibelius, Forum Virium Helsinki | Are Climate Agendas Ambitious and Effective Enough?
Climate change has been at the top of many citizens’ concerns, especially in recent years. Governments have been slow to act, but have slowly developed climate-sustainable agendas. However, are these agendas ambitious and effective enough? To discuss we have an expert on the field. Kaisa Sibelius is the Project Manager & Coordinator for the AI4Cities PCP Project, which focuses on cities employing artificial intelligence for sustainability, for Forum Virium Helsinki.
Hila Oren, The Tel Aviv Foundation | New Economic Models to Fuel Productivity
To ensure a steady growth in the world’s cities, one must be constantly looking for new economic models to fuel productivity.
University of Cambridge & IDC | Construction that Maximize Urban Potential
A city is constantly changing and improving itself.
Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings | 5G, a Great Step Forward for Citizens
From using autonomous cars to operating on patients in different cities, 5G technology represents an incredible advance for the development of cities of the future.