Digital Program 2023

The biggest event for urban innovation – Available at Tomorrow.City!

The Smart City Expo World Congress and its co-located events were poised for a monumental edition that brought the entire smart city ecosystem back to Barcelona with full vigor. Urban enthusiasts, including some of the most daring experts and prominent brands in the sector, shaped the world's greatest melting pot for urban innovation and smart transformation.

Couldn't make it to Barcelona? No worries. Tomorrow.City designed a fresh Digital Program that was streamed for free on November 7-8-9, running parallel to the in-person event. Now it's for free on VOD. What can you expect from it?

  • Full talks taking place at the event conference rooms
  • Short interviews with world-renowned experts
  • A live showcase of state-of-the-art solutions that are changing the game in cities

Register now to enjoy all the content and stay tuned!

BUZZWORTHY TALKS OF SMART CITY EXPO 2023

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Disruptive Technologies: The future is already here

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Sci-fi visions or street walking? This is how we'll move around in cities

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The Green Challenge: Decarbonization, energy & climate emergency

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How can we construct and operate better buildings & infrastructures?

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Cities for All: Combating discrimination and inequality traps

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Are we prepared to face smart cities' safety threats?

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New governance, new economy models in the digital age

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RADAR: MAPPING OUT GROUNDBREAKING INDUSTRY INNOVATION

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The blue economy revolutionizes coastal cities

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ORGANIZED BY

TOMORROW.CITY

Tomorrow.City is a digital content platform that combines knowledge, business and awareness to accelerate sustainable and inclusive cities for all. A global hub driven by the transformative power of shared intelligence, pushing the boundaries of city collaboration and raising awareness on the critical role of sustainable urbanization and disruptive innovation. Creating connections. Fostering talent. Exploring disruption. Sharing stories: this new platform generates opportunities for action to transform cities into better places to live.
Imagined by Smart City Expo World Congress.

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TOMORROW.CITY
TOMORROW.CITY
 
Smart City Expo World Congress

Held in Barcelona since 2011, Smart City Expo World Congress is the international leading event for cities. Our mission is to empower cities and collectivize urban innovation across the globe. Through promoting social innovation and identifying collaboration opportunities, the event is dedicated to creating a better future for cities and their citizens.

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Smart City Expo World Congress
Smart City Expo World Congress
 
Tomorrow.Mobility

Co-organized by Fira Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, Tomorrow.Mobility is a new impulse and a driving force for change within the transport industry. An action-focused project to transform cities’ visions of mobility to adapt to the new global scenario.

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Tomorrow.Mobility
Tomorrow.Mobility
 
Tomorrow.Building

Held within the framework of Smart City Expo World Congress, Tomorrow.Building World Congress aims to catalyze a positive change in the way we plan, construct, renovate and operate buildings and urban infrastructures.

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Tomorrow.Building
Tomorrow.Building
 
Tomorrow.Blue Economy

Tomorrow.BlueEconomy, the summit dedicated to promoting and developing the potential of the Blue Economy. A disruptive vision providing an alternative use of ocean resources for economic growth that can equally improve the health of maritime ecosystems.

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Tomorrow.Blue Economy
Tomorrow.Blue Economy
 

GLOBAL PARTNERS

Aramco

Aramco is a global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by our core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. This helps promote stability and long-term growth around the world.

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Aramco
Aramco
 
Axis Communications

Axis enables a smarter and safer world by creating solutions for improving security and business performance. As a network technology company and industry leader, Axis offers solutions in video surveillance, access control, intercom, and audio systems. They are enhanced by intelligent analytics applications and supported by high-quality training. Axis has around 4,000 dedicated employees in over 50 countries and collaborates with technology and system integration partners worldwide to deliver customer solutions. Axis was founded in 1984, and the headquarters are in Lund, Sweden.

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Axis Communications
Axis Communications
 
CISCO

For over 30 years, Cisco has been helping communities around the globe connect, protect, and transform the lives of their residents. Our trustworthy technologies serve as a foundation to expand equitable access, build secure and resilient infrastructure, and power hybrid work and trusted workplaces. Accelerate transformation in your communities with Cisco solutions that enable sustainability, create a more inclusive future for all, and help you build your bridge to possible.

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CISCO
CISCO
 
Dassault Systemes

Dassault Systèmes provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life. With the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, a virtual experience platform, the company allows more than 290,000 customers in almost 140 countries to create innovative new products and services capable of improving the real world.

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Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systemes
 
Dell technologies

The world’s largest sports venues, airports, cities, schools, police departments, and hospitals rely on Dell Technologies Computer Vision solutions. We focus on industry centric customer outcomes to deliver workflows with our partner eco-system, that are tested by our dedicated engineers in extreme real-world scenarios in one of our three global computer vision labs. Our award-winning Validated design process addresses our customers unique requirements by providing a comprehensive workflow strategy that brings together a full range of scalable computer vision components from edge to core to cloud.

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Dell technologies
Dell technologies
 
DELOITTE

It is Deloitte’s ambition to improve urban living and create better futures for more than one billion people, leveraging our global and local networks as well as working with partners, governments, and NGOs. Deloitte translates a holistic vision of Smart Cities and Urban Transformation into actionable, concrete solutions through the use of advanced technologies, sustainable infrastructure, and smart mobility. Drawing on our cross-sector experience to solve key urban challenges, we aim to progress United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 11—“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”—and believe urban transformation has the potential to meet a full 70% of all UNSDGs.

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DELOITTE
DELOITTE
 
FCC ENVIRONMENT

FCC Environment/Medio Ambiente is the company inside the FCC Group that, for over 110 years, has been delivering environmental services to 66 million people in more than 5,200 municipalities along the world. From waste management and recycling to every municipal service, it processes annually 24.6 million tonnes of waste as a resource at nearly 200 sustainable facilities, recovering 6.35 million tonnes of secondary raw materials (SRM) and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and 435 MWe of non-fossil power. Innovation is in the DNA of FCC Environment, committed to reaching the UN’s Agenda 2030 SDG by developing its 2050 Sustainability Strategy that includes implementing e-mobility and boosting the society to be transformed towards a Circular Economy model.

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FCC ENVIRONMENT
FCC ENVIRONMENT
 
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.

Honeywell delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.

Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is transforming the way every building operates to help improve the quality of life. We are a leading building controls company with operations in more than 75 countries supported by a global channel partner network. Commercial building owners and operators use our hardware, software and analytics to help create safe, efficient and productive facilities. Our solutions and services are used in more than 10 million buildings worldwide.

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HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
 
HUAWEI 2023

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 2023
 
MASTERCARD 2023

Mastercard leverages its technology and trusted network to build highly collaborative and productive partnerships across the public sector to solve pressing government challenges with a focus on inclusion, innovation and trust.

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MASTERCARD 2023
MASTERCARD 2023
 
MICROSOFT

With a foundation of security, privacy, and trust, Microsoft empowers Governments to deliver inclusive programs, transform operations, and enable thriving communities. To help to solve society’s biggest challenges, Microsoft delivers innovation in programs and experiences, empowers the government workforce, transforms operations and services, and secures data and protect resources in government agencies worldwide.

Leveraging comprehensive technology capabilities, Microsoft and its trusted global partner network enables government agencies to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

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MICROSOFT
MICROSOFT
 
NEC CORPORATION

NEC brings innovative technologies for Smart City around the world based on our wide range of ICT business expertise and various cutting-edge technologies.
Our aim is to produce grater social values including safety and security, quality of life, circular economy, carbon neutrality, and more.
NEC enables more utilization of data to bring benefits to be shared, and to realize citizen-centric, sustainable, and high well-being communities through co-creation with our partners across public and private sectors.
For more information, please check our website: Smart City: NEC Insights | NEC , and visit our booth #C101 in JAPAN Pavilion, located at Hall 1.

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NEC CORPORATION
NEC CORPORATION
 
NOVA CIDADE – Urban Analytics Lab

The NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab is a network of people and organizations, promoted by NOVA Information Managment School (NOVA IMS), representing the protagonists of the construction of smart cities and territories, which collaboratively develops a set of activities that aim to promote the creation and transfer of knowledge applied in the context of urban intelligence aiming to actively contribute to the construction of smart and sustainable cities and territories. Based on information management and data science and involving local government, academia and industry, we aim to actively contribute to the fulfillment of SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities of the United Nations, in particular to ensure that those who live, work or visit cities sustainability, inclusion, resilience and security in the multiple dimensions of urban intelligence , with emphasis on responding to the climate emergency, promoting decarbonisation and the energy transition in a move to the circular economy.

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NOVA CIDADE – Urban Analytics Lab
 
Nvidia

NVIDIA pioneered a supercharged form of computing loved by the most demanding computer users in the world — scientists, designers, artists, and gamers. Our invention, the graphics processing unit (GPU), is the engine of modern artificial intelligence. Our technology also accelerates the fastest supercomputers, powers cutting-edge design and VR applications, and it’s the world’s largest gaming platform. We enable the da Vincis and Einsteins of our time to solve their most challenging problems: from building self-driving cars and AI-ready datacentres, to beating devastating diseases like cancer and dementia.

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Nvidia
Nvidia
 
PwC

With offices in 152 countries and almost 328,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Advisory, Assurance and Tax services.

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PwC
PwC
 
ROSHN

ROSHN Group is Saudi Arabia’s most trusted multi-asset class real estate developer, & a giga-project wholly owned by the Kingdom’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). ROSHN’s integrated developments offer a new way of living, supported by amenities within walking distance, green spaces, sports hubs, cycle lanes, & living beyond walls. The Group is building at an unprecedented scale with a land bank of over 200 million sqm and launched its flagship 20 million sqm community in Riyadh, SEDRA and went on to launch the 4 million sqm ALAROUS in Jeddah and announced two more integrated developments, WAREFA in Riyadh (1.4 million sqm), and ALFULWA in Al Ahsa (10.8 million sqm).

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ROSHN
 
Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)

The Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) is the competent authority in the Kingdom concerned with data and AI including big data. SDAIA is also the national reference in all matters related to the organization, development, and handling of data and AI; in addition, it has the original competence in all matters related to operation, research, and innovation in the field of data and AI.

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Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
 
SIEMENS AG

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power.
In fiscal 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €72.0 billion and net income of €4.4 billion. As of September 30, 2022, the company employed around 311,000 people worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

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SIEMENS AG
SIEMENS AG
 
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
 
VEOLIA

Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 220,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys practical solutions, enhanced by a specific range of digital services, to support cities in the management of water, waste and energy. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them to create more liveable, resource- and energy-efficient, resilient cities that are closer to their citizens. In 2022, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced nearly 44 million megawatt hours and recovered 61 million tonnes of waste.

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VEOLIA
VEOLIA
 

SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS

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
 
ICEX SPAIN TRADE AND INVESTMENT

ICEX Spain Trade and Investment is a public corporation at the national level aimed to promote the internationalisation of Spanish companies to support their competitiveness and add value to the economy, as well as attracting foreign investment to Spain. ICEX Spain Trade and Investment renders its services through a network of 31 Provincial and Regional Divisions in Spain along with almost 100 Economic and Trade Offices around the world. It also boasts 16 Business Centres worldwide, offering Spanish companies temporary infrastructure and acting as incubators for internationalisation. Every year, ICEX organizes around 1.200 promotional activities in foreign markets and answers over 90.000 queries on internationalization.

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ICEX SPAIN TRADE AND INVESTMENT
ICEX SPAIN TRADE AND INVESTMENT
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
Council of European Municipalities and Region – CEMR

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) is a prominent European organisation representing local and regional governments across the continent. With a rich history of advocacy and collaboration, CEMR serves as a vital platform for sharing knowledge, fostering cooperation, and advocating for the interests of over 150,000 local and regional authorities. CEMR plays a pivotal role in shaping European policies and promoting the principles of local democracy, subsidiarity, and territorial cohesion. Through its diverse initiatives, CEMR empowers local and regional governments to address common challenges, exchange best practices, and contribute to a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous Europe.

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Council of European Municipalities and Region – CEMR
Council of European Municipalities and Region – CEMR
 
EUROCITIES

EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities, with over 200 of Europe’s largest cities to improve the lives of over 130 million residents across 38 countries. We work in all areas of interest for cities, from culture to mobility, environment to social affairs, economic development to smart cities. We facilitate learning experiences between cities and represent cities’ interests towards the European Union. EUROCITIES is committed to working towards a common vision of a democratic, sustainable future in which all citizens can enjoy a good quality of life.

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EUROCITIES
EUROCITIES
 
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB)

The effects of rapid urban growth combined with the impact of climate change are creating new challenges for cities, which require better usage of information. To manage these challenges and deliver better urban services, cities need to better leverage technology, people and processes. IDB works to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality. It helps improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. As the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, it conducts extensive research; provide loans, grants, and technical assistance. We are committed to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of increased integrity, transparency, accountability and sustainability.

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INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB)
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB)
 
Local Governments for Sustainability – ICLEI

ICLEI is a global network of local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development and is active in 125+ countries. ICLEI Europe supports local governments in implementing the European Green Deal, the overarching EU strategy for climate neutrality, to build more resilient and equitable communities.

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Local Governments for Sustainability – ICLEI
Local Governments for Sustainability – ICLEI
 
UN-HABITAT

UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

In October 2016, at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III – member states signed the New Urban Agenda. This is an action-oriented document which sets global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, rethinking the way we build, manage, and live in cities. Through drawing together cooperation with committed partners, relevant stakeholders, and urban actors, including at all levels of government as well as the private sector, UN-Habitat is applying its technical expertise, normative work and capacity development to implement the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

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UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT
 
United Cities and Local Governments – UCLG

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is the world organization of local and regional governments and their associations, representing and defending their interests on the world stage. UCLG’s network of members represents 70% of the world’s total population and is present in all world regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East and West Asia, and North America; organized into 7 regional sections, 1 metropolitan section and 1 Forum of regions. This network includes over 240,000 towns, cities, regions and metropolises, and over 175 associations of local and regional governments in 140 countries. Among UCLG’s key areas of political interest are: local democracy, climate change and environmental protection, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, local finance, urban development and city diplomacy in peace building.

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United Cities and Local Governments – UCLG
United Cities and Local Governments – UCLG
 
World Association of the Major Metropolises – METROPOLIS

Metropolis brings together the governments of 141 urban agglomerations worldwide. Founded in 1985, today the association is the focal point of expertise on metropolitan governance. Raising the voices of metropolises to the global agenda and building capacity to deliver public policies and services, Metropolis contributes to finding common answers to the challenges of metropolisation. We provide global leadership and advocacy to build a case for the importance of sound metropolitan governance and our programs give metropolitan communities tools they need to make better decisions.

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World Association of the Major Metropolises – METROPOLIS
World Association of the Major Metropolises – METROPOLIS
 
WORLD BANK GROUP

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.

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WORLD BANK GROUP
WORLD BANK GROUP
 
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.

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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM