Transforming City Life with Advanced Digital Services
What are the new developments cities are using to enhance digital services? How are they ensuring a higher speed, accessibility, and efficiency in delivering top-notch city services? As city agencies take the lead in the use of digital technologies to better serve residents, businesses, visitors, and all who depend on urban services, this roundtable will unravel the skills and infrastructures reshaping advanced digital services.
Madrid’s AI-Driven Approach to Transforming Tourism
Discover how VisitMadridGPT is revolutionizing tourism by offering personalized recommendations, real-time support, and rich cultural insights to visitors. This session will delve into the creation of the VisitMadridGPT assistant by the City of Madrid, showcasing how it enhances visitor experiences and supports the city’s tourism goals. Join us to learn about the innovative ways that VisitMadridGPT is making Madrid a smarter, more connected city.
Does Space Matter in the Smart Age? Exploring How Digital Platforms Connect Across Space in African Cities
Decades of government and philanthropic policies have facilitated economically stagnant zones where people measure their success by how far they get away. This talent-extraction paradigm makes them far more vulnerable to real estate speculation and displacement, and removes individuals with spending power, day to day examples of success, and the investment and financial acumen needed to build local economies.
Future Challenges and Opportunities for City Logistics
Discussion exploring the future of urban logistics organisation models.
Key Concepts for Improving Urban Last-Mile Deliveries
Innovative solutions for faster, cleaner and more cost-effective deliveries.
Unified Urban Mobility: A Holistic Pathway for Sustainable Cities
Cities around the world face unprecedented challenges around congestion, accidents, and emissions. Thus, it requires transformative strategies for rethinking how people and goods move through urban spaces, emphasizing an integrated, sustainable vision that balances logistics with public transit, infrastructure innovation, and environmental responsibility.
Designing Future Cities: Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at the Core
Decades of government and philanthropic policies have facilitated economically stagnant zones where people measure their success by how far they get away. This talent-extraction paradigm makes them far more vulnerable to real estate speculation and displacement, and removes individuals with spending power, day to day examples of success, and the investment and financial acumen needed to build local economies.
Experiences and Takeaways from the Deployment of E-Mobility in Cities
A discussion on the rollout of urban e-mobility ecosystems.
This session featured the participation of our global partner PwC.
Innovative Approaches to Charging Infrastructure
Solutions to improve electric vehicle users’ charging experience.
Public and Private Collaboration to Create Better Future Transport Systems for Cities
With ever decreasing budgets, greater citizen expectations, social inequality challenges, and the pressure cities are facing with the climate emergency, the role of transport to support economic growth and further supporting healthier cities, there needs to be a transformative shift on how cities work with the market to move to sustainable collaborative partnerships and avoid low-level transactional activity.
Rikesh Shah, a global leader on open innovation will make the case on how cities can shape markets and work in collaboration to develop innovative solutions to achieve better, cheaper and quicker public policy outcomes. He previously led Open Innovation at Transport for London.
If you are a public body or an innovative start-up, academic, venture capitalists or accelerator, listen to Rikesh’s challenge to all of us.