India as a Global Urban Power: Geopolitics, Digitalization, and Smart Cities
The future of inclusive city living relies on leveraging the latest technological tools to enhance affordability, inclusivity, and access in urban areas. Cities are increasingly embracing diversity, ensuring fairness, and fostering social cohesion through tech-driven solutions. However, as the urban landscape evolves, challenges like the digital divide and systemic inequalities persist. Can technology successfully bridge these gaps and create truly inclusive cities?
This session will feature the participation of our global partners Saudi Data and AI Authority, NVIDIA Corporation
2050: Designing Future Cities Today
The world is changing fast. Generational shifts, AI and new tech are redefining life and work – with cities as living labs of innovation. In her light-hearted yet insightful style, futurist Nikki Greenberg reveals what 2050 could look like, sharing global examples of tech transforming cities. Expect energy, vision and strategies to build future-ready, human-centered and inspiring places.
The City as a Place for Rights and Democracy
Technological advances are reshaping daily life, while cities remain key arenas for democratic action and civic rights. In this context, technology is a powerful driver of progress and transformation, enhancing urban living. Yet this development also brings challenges such as the digital divide, misinformation, and declining trust. This session explores how cities can form alliances to defend civic rights and ensure technology serves the public good.
Strategic Optimism for Smart Cities: Creating Urban Innovation That Amplifies Human Potential
In a world of ever-evolving technology, we tend to look for the next big thing to transform our urban environments. But is it really about the latest tech, or do we just need a more holistic approach when it comes to the smart and green city of the future? Join Mr. Sascha Pallenberg as he takes us on a journey to Taipei, where they’ve created a smart, green city that citizens love living in, showing that a sustainable future is within our reach.
How Cities Can Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles
In a world of ever-evolving technology, we tend to look for the next big thing to transform our urban environments. But is it really about the latest tech, or do we just need a more holistic approach when it comes to the smart and green city of the future? Join Mr. Sascha Pallenberg as he takes us on a journey to Taipei, where they’ve created a smart, green city that citizens love living in, showing that a sustainable future is within our reach.
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #12 | The U.S. Roundtable | Reimagining Our Future City with AI
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EPCOT, Walt Disney’s failed plan to create the city of tomorrow in the sixties
In the 1960s, Walt Disney had the dream of creating the world’s most advanced city,
EPCOT, but this project failed. Find out all about his vision here!
Whittier, the town where 85% of the population lives in the same building
A town that lives in one building or a building in which an entire town lives. The story of the town of Whittier, Alaska, and the Begich Towers condominium is, at the very least, unique. The 14-story building is home to a church and even the mayor’s office and its history is related to the army.
WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
The Centre for Urban Transformation advances public-private collaboration in cities, enabling more resilient and future-ready communities and local economies.
Building Smarter, Inclusive, and Resilient Cities with the World Bank GSCP
Metropolis is a global network of the world’s largest cities—providing innovative solutions to the critical challenges facing large metropolitan areas.
Bringing together over 150 member cities and 700 million inhabitants worldwide, Metropolis serves as a global hub where metropolises can connect, share solutions and mobilize on issues related to sustainability, social cohesion, metropolitan governance, future planning and gender equality.
Metropolis has long-attended Smart City Expo World Congress to share our latest projects to future-proof metropolitan areas. In November, we will seek to connect with global cities and other key actors who are looking to collaborate internationally to advance their work on urban innovation. This year we will also be representing the COMANAGE Project (funded by the EU LIFE Programme) to share knowledge and tools to help make renewable energy communities successful in metropolitan areas.