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Forward-moving conversations with the smart city ecosystem

A series of hyper-focused events turning the biggest urban challenges into real opportunities to build better cities. Full-day programs (engaging, we promise) featuring implemented solutions by world-renowned experts from all corners of the world.

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Partners

SMART PORTS: PIERS OF THE FUTURE

The Smart Ports: Piers of the Future is an annual congress linked with the Smart City Expo World Congress, the main international summit on smart cities and urban solutions. For the first time in 2019, six leading ports in the world, Antwerp, Barcelona, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal and Rotterdam, got together to link both concepts: Smart Cities and Smart Ports. In 2020, the Busan Port Authority joined the cause as one of the leading ports in Asia. It is a congress on innovation, sustainability and digital transformation. Some of the most innovative ports of the world share their innovative projects on Drones, Digital Twins, Green Smart Ports and Smart Port Cities among many others, while painting a picture of how our future should be. More sustainable, efficient and connected.

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SMART PORTS: PIERS OF THE FUTURE
SMART PORTS: PIERS OF THE FUTURE
Governance
HUAWEI 2021

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of ICT (information and communications) infrastructure and smart terminals. Our 207,000 employees work in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than 3 billion people worldwide. We are committed to bringing the digital world to every person, home, and organization, and building an intelligent world where everything is connected.

Huawei emphasizes research and innovation, adheres to the path of open innovation, and is willing to work with academia and industry to explore the frontiers of science and technology, promote innovation and upgrading, continuously create value for the entire industry and society, and work hand in hand to build a better smart world.

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HUAWEI 2021
HUAWEI 2021
Governance
GERMANY TRADE & INVEST

Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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GERMANY TRADE & INVEST
GERMANY TRADE & INVEST
Governance
C40 Cities

C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities who are working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis and create a future where everyone, everywhere, can thrive. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and people-focused approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities.

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C40 Cities
C40 Cities
Governance
Fab Lab Barcelona

The Fab Lab is an innovation centre rethinking the way we live, work and play in cities.

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Fab Lab Barcelona
Fab Lab Barcelona
Governance
The Better Block Foundation

The Better Block Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders to reshape and reactivate built environments to promote the growth of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods.

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The Better Block Foundation
The Better Block Foundation
Governance
Estudio Miralles Tagliabue

Estudio Miralles Tagliabue is an incorporated architecture, landscape, planning, interior and design studio based in Barcelona, Shanghai and Paris.

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Estudio Miralles Tagliabue
Estudio Miralles Tagliabue
Governance
BRIGHT CITIES

Bright Cities delivers tailor-made diagnosis and solutions roadmap to smart cities. It’s a disruptive platform that connects cities and public administrators to a new administration and development concept. It diagnosis cities and builds a roadmap so they can become better, more efficient and smarter every day, improving the lives of those who live and work there. It is passionate about public management and believes that any city can become intelligent through solutions that generate great impact on the daily lives of managers and citizens.

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BRIGHT CITIES
BRIGHT CITIES
Governance
Shanghai Smart City Development Institute

Shanghai Smart City Development Institute is a professional research institution in the field of smart city in China, guided by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization. Since its establishment in 2012, the Institute has been committed to providing the industry with high-quality services, such as smart city top-level design, programming project, standard assessment, industrial researches, cooperation and exchange, and professional training.

Shanghai Smart City Development Institute
Shanghai Smart City Development Institute
Governance

#1 LOCAL ACTIONS TACKLING GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Partners

HUAWEI 2021

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of ICT (information and communications) infrastructure and smart terminals. Our 207,000 employees work in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than 3 billion people worldwide. We are committed to bringing the digital world to every person, home, and organization, and building an intelligent world where everything is connected.

Huawei emphasizes research and innovation, adheres to the path of open innovation, and is willing to work with academia and industry to explore the frontiers of science and technology, promote innovation and upgrading, continuously create value for the entire industry and society, and work hand in hand to build a better smart world.

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HUAWEI 2021
HUAWEI 2021
Energy & Environment
EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The European Commission is the EU’s executive body. It represents the interests of the whole European Union. The Commission’s main roles are to propose legislation which is then adopted by the co-legislators, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers; enforce European law (where necessary with the help of the Court of Justice of the EU); set objectives and priorities for action, outlined yearly in the Commission Work Program, and work towards delivering them, as well as managing and implementing EU policies, the budget, and representing the Union outside Europe.

The European Commission’s has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and some services are also in Luxembourg. The Commission has Representations in all EU Member States and 139 Delegations across the globe.

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Energy & Environment
GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA

SmartCAT is the strategy of the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya which extends the concept of Smart City to a country-wide level to carry out a program that integrates and coordinates local initiatives and supralocal, support companies and deploy Smart initiatives throughout the territory. SmartCAT aims to turn Catalonia into an “Smart Country” of international reference that takes advantage of the use of digital technology and information to innovate in public services, drive economic growth and promote a smarter, more sustainable and integrator.

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GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA
GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA
Energy & Environment
DIPUTACIÓ BARCELONA

Diputació de Barcelona (Barcelona Provincial Council) is a local public authority that provides technical, economic and technological support to the 311 municipalities in the province of Barcelona, fostering quality local services throughout the region. Its mission is to ensure progress and well-being for all the citizens in the territory by providing services to people, either directly or, above all, in cooperation with the municipalities themselves. To this end, Diputació de Barcelona is determined to become a Smart Region: a community of Smart Villages and Smart Cities in which technology and citizens are the main drivers of change to achieve social, environmental and economic development for all, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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DIPUTACIÓ BARCELONA
DIPUTACIÓ BARCELONA
Energy & Environment
AMB

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is the public administration of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, which occupies 636 km² and encompasses 36 municipalities with more than 3.2 million inhabitants. The metropolitan area is a territorial, social, demographic, economic and cultural entity formed during the last century as a product of the growth and connection of urban systems around the city of Barcelona. This is the largest metropolitan conurbation in the western Mediterranean, which generates half of the GDP in Catalonia. The new public metropolitan administration replaces the three entities existing until 2011: Union of Municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Environmental Agency and Transport Metropolitan Agency. This new AMB rationalises and simplifies the metropolitan governance by creating a single administration.

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AMB
AMB
Energy & Environment
Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council.

Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet
Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet
Energy & Environment

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