Agenda

Welcome to our 2026 edition – the global stage where urban innovation comes to life. This opening session sets the tone for an exciting journey ahead, with a warm welcome from Smart City Expo director Ugo Valenti and Tomorrow.Mobility president Marc Rozendal. Joining them are high-level representatives who will share how territories around the world are becoming better places to live and thrive. Get ready for three action-packed days of bold ideas and groundbreaking strategies from around the globe.

This session showcases Barcelona as a living lab for urban mobility innovation through the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM). It presents the programme's methodology, highlights key outcomes from completed pilots, and shares progress from ongoing projects shaping a more sustainable, efficient and citizen-centred mobility model.   

As part of the AI Opportunity Fund (AIOF) training programme, ICLEI Europe is organising an in-person exchange at the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona. This special gathering brings together participants from the AIOF cohorts, offering them the chance to connect with other city officials from across Europe.

How can data and digital tools support local climate action? This session showcases practical solutions and real-world examples while inviting participants to discuss challenges, capacity needs, and opportunities for collaboration.

"The Planner’s Compass brings together experienced urban professionals, emerging planners and the SCEWC community to discuss career paths, transitions, skills and opportunities. Through an intergenerational conversation and a live mentoring session, participants can share career questions, hear different perspectives and gain ideas, experience and connections to help navigate their own professional path."

This session will explore global startup trends, emerging innovation hotspots, investment flows and ecosystem benchmarking. Drawing on StartupBlink’s international rankings and research, it will examine what makes urban innovation ecosystems competitive and resilient, and where new opportunities are emerging. The panel will bring together cities, innovation agencies, public-sector organisations and leading startup ecosystems.

This roundtable will bring together CEE and Baltic cities to exchange experiences and best practice in addressing the climate, energy and environmental challenges that cities currently face in relation to transport and mobility, with a particular emphasis on decarbonising transport systems, deploying innovation, and strengthening governance and stakeholder engagement.

Smart cities started with infrastructure. Now they are evolving to put people first, and culture and creativity are part of how. Hosted by EIT Culture & Creativity, this side event brings together startups, universities and local authorities to explore what that looks like in practice. Expect conversations on how cities learn, build and adapt, from education and digital platforms to new materials, design and resilience.

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What might city diplomacy look like in 2040? In this interactive, scenario-based workshop, participants will explore emerging trends, key uncertainties, and global shifts shaping cities’ international engagement. Together, we will identify strategic challenges and opportunities and discuss how cities and their networks can anticipate change, build resilience, and prepare for future challenges.

From algorithms that suggest to systems that decide and execute. What autonomous AI agents are already doing in the real world, and what it means for cities.

Governments are using data, AI and automation to modernize institutions, deliver better public services and transform the way they operate – from the inside out.

Renewables, decentralization, geography and long-term resilience: how cities and regions are making the defining energy choices of our time.

Human-centered design, accessible public spaces and everyday services are not just amenities – they are the building blocks of belonging. How do cities create places where people genuinely want to live?

An exploration of how cities can use integrated platforms combining satellite, sensor and mobility data to support urban air quality management and evidence-based interventions.

Join Paolo Guglielmini, Vice President of EMEA at NVIDIA, to discover how AI factories, physical AI and local partners can help cities improve public services. See how shared infrastructure and city-led governance can support safer streets, more responsive operations, and local AI skills. Learn how cities can move from AI ambition to public impact by setting priorities, building trust and measuring results.

Welcome to the first edition of the HOWS Barcelona - Housing World Summit, the new global meeting point for those shaping the future of housing. This opening session will bring together high-level representatives to set the stage for three days of dialogue, ideas and action around one of the defining urban challenges of our time. From affordability and land availability to new housing models, financing, innovation and regeneration, HOWS Barcelona starts with a shared ambition: turning the global housing challenge into concrete pathways for more accessible, resilient and inclusive cities.

This interactive event will help cities move from inspiration to implementation. As they tackle smart city challenges like climate adaptation, energy resilience, public wellbeing and digital transformation, participants will share practical experience on how smart lighting supports broader urban goals. Guided discussions and peer exchange will help explore concrete solutions and lessons learned for smarter and more sustainable cities at night.

Europe's emerging innovation regions are producing world-class mobility startups, yet too few succeed in scaling across borders. What is holding them back?

Founders who have been through the journey will share what worked - and what stood in their way. Through an interactive discussion with the audience, we will bring together founders, cities, investors, corporates, CEE governments and EU organisations to explore how to bridge the gaps in funding, procurement and market access to help startups scale across Europe.

What does it take to make AI work for a city, and for its residents? City leaders and NVIDIA discuss the public services they aim to improve, the decisions behind their AI plans and projects, and the obstacles around trust, skills and cost. The panel will examine how cities can measure outcomes, address unresolved challenges, and build the local expertise needed to sustain progress.

How can cities create conditions to safely test and validate innovative mobility solutions? This roundtable promoted by Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility brings together city leaders and mobility experts to explore the role of urban sandboxes as tools for experimentation, regulation and public innovation. Participants will share experiences, challenges and insights on enabling innovation while addressing urban needs and policy objectives.   

What if startups didn't have to pitch first? Hosted by Choose Paris Region, Reverse Pitch flips the traditional format. Instead of startups pitching to corporates, seven innovation leaders from major companies, public institutions and the Paris Region innovation ecosystem pitch their open innovation opportunities directly to startups and scale-ups.

How can local and regional governments turn political priorities into concrete responses to housing challenges? What knowledge, partnerships and capacities do they need to make this happen?

UCLG and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) invite you to an open dialogue to exchange experiences, identify needs and help shape the future Housing Justice Academy from the ground up. Rather than presenting a fully defined initiative, this session aims to listen to cities and explore how their experiences, peer learning and applied knowledge can come together to advance fairer housing policies.

Tech sovereignty is becoming a defining consideration in the roll-out of AI solutions across cities. As local governments accelerate AI adoption, they face growing challenges around regulatory compliance, resource allocation, citizen trust, and integration in the existing infrastructure. This session will explore how cities are balancing innovation and AI while navigating an evolving geopolitical landscape, where questions of societal impact, strategic autonomy and control over sensitive infrastructure and technologies are becoming increasingly pressing.

Urgent action is needed to address the housing affordability challenges and there is no single magic bullet solution: we need a combination of boosting supply, mobilising public and private investment, and supporting vulnerable groups. The housing challenge is a global phenomenon, and to deliver results in the EU means navigating the complexities of multiple levels of government. The housing affordability crisis is most affecting cities, including right here in Barcelona, but they operate within constraints defined by national frameworks, global capital flows and market dynamics while they need to serve the interest of their citizens. How can the EU help?

Many cities have an artificial intelligence strategy. Tampere has turned its digital vision into a service for residents and visitors. With Microsoft, Tampere built the City Experience Assistant: one trusted conversation with your personal city assistant or helper to avoid repetition, bringing together services and information once scattered across separate systems. Hear how leadership commitment and trusted intelligence, built on governed data, changed the daily experience for citizens and travelers. Leave with one pattern any city can reuse, and a first look at where Tampere takes it next.

Europe’s most innovative cities are redefining mobility in increasingly complex urban environments. In this session, promoted by Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility, representatives from leading European cities will share strategies, success stories and lessons learned on fostering innovation, deploying new mobility solutions and building more sustainable, resilient and accessible mobility systems across Europe.

As cities adapt to growing pressures such as climate change and population growth, urban leaders must rethink infrastructure, buildings, and energy systems to build safer, more sustainable, and future-ready urban environments. Built on today’s breakthroughs and tomorrow’s innovations, what lies ahead is both ambitious and fast approaching. Yet making this vision a reality will require the right funding models and strategic partnerships. This plenary explores what resilient urban infrastructure could look like by 2050, and how AI, energy systems, adaptive design principles, and new models of collaboration may reshape the future of urban life.

Public tools to increase land supply for housing, including land banking, activation of underused land, use of public land, and strategies to generate housing capacity within consolidated cities.

An examination of how cities can align their public transport with shared mobility modes through innovative governance models that enable effective coordination across public and private operators.

Smart cities must focus on people and be as human as those who inhabit them. Integrating a child-centered approach—addressing the needs and voices of children and adolescents through their participation—improves responses to challenges such as climate, mobility, and housing. UNICEF promotes a rights-based approach, with global standards and participation, to achieve more accessible, sustainable, and inclusive cities.

This co-organized session presents the CEMR–28DIGITAL programme “Empowering Local Leaders Through AI” and its AI training for local and regional governments’ leaders. By bringing together politicians and partners to discuss the importance of local leaders’ AI literacy for improving governance, and the need to scale practical capacity-building efforts to support cities and regions across Europe.

Cities cause 70% of global emissions but only control a fraction directly. To meet climate targets, they must collaborate with the private sector. Hosted by GCoM, this panel explores the City Business Climate Alliance (CBCA) framework by C40 and GCoM. Mayors and business leaders will share how to align corporate targets with municipal climate action plans to unlock accelerated action.

Cities are increasingly challenged by climate risks, environmental pressures and the need for more efficient urban operations. This session showcases startups helping governments and utilities improve resilience through wildfire and flood prediction, urban tree and water infrastructure monitoring, air quality and noise intelligence, urban sensing, and smarter management of public infrastructure.

Limited charging infrastructure slows the adoption of electric vehicles, while weak demand discourages investment in new charging points. This chicken-and-egg dilemma is also for logistics vehicles, which depend on accessible public charging infrastructure alongside dedicated depot charging. This session explores public-private approaches, incentives, and business models to accelerate charging deployment and support zero-emission freight.

Agentic AI is redefining the relationship between digital technologies and urban and institutional systems, moving beyond decision support toward autonomous execution and coordination. Its adoption is transforming service delivery, infrastructure management, and operational models across both public and private sectors. With recent breakthroughs from leading technology innovators, cities and institutions now have the tools to turn this potential into real, measurable progress. As these systems become embedded in everyday processes, the challenge, and the opportunity, will be to deploy them responsibly at scale, ensuring safety, accountability, interoperability, and lasting public value. The path forward starts with deploying these technologies responsibly, building cities and institutions that are more resilient, efficient, and adaptive for the communities they serve.

Regulatory frameworks to protect affordability and availability, including rent control, shortterm rental regulation, and anti-speculation policies.

Joint Developments For Urban ResiLIence Connecting Users To Public Transport Through SpAce Technology - is an Horizon project aiming to bring the European Space stack closer to the downstream public transport market. In this open final event, we'll present the 10 innovative applications and the results of the pilots across Europe.

The convening of the Coalition of Global City CIOs at the Smart City Expo and World Congress forms part of a programme of activities taking place in Barcelona. This is the second convening of the group of digital and innovation leaders from major European cities this year.

Cities are moving from digital ambition to real-world impact. This session explores how AI and digital technologies can support inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban development through practical city experiences and implementation pathways. It will show how people-centred principles can become scalable strategies and solutions, while gathering insights for the U4SSC People-Centred Smart Cities Toolbox to help cities leave no one behind.

How cities are anticipating, preparing for and absorbing escalating climate impacts: from extreme weather events to infrastructure stress and social vulnerability.

As cities move from pilot projects to city‑wide smart water deployments, many discover that proprietary connectivity and data models lock them into single vendors and constrain innovation. This panel will bring together a city/utility leader, meter and platform vendors, and the Open Mobile Alliance to discuss how standards‑based connectivity can unlock scalable, future‑proof water management.

As cities transition toward sustainable urban mobility, the interaction between heavy vehicles, passenger cars, and vulnerable road users—particularly cyclists and pedestrians—presents a critical challenge. The FIA and Euro NCAP will co-host an exclusive, closed-door session focusing on vehicle and truck safety in dense urban environments.

The decarbonisation of public bus fleets is essential to tackling climate change and improving urban quality of life. But how economically sustainable is the transition to zero-emission mobility? This presentation explores the economic viability of full fleet electrification through an independent study commissioned by TMB and conducted by CENIT-UPC, analysing investment, operating and maintenance costs from a life-cycle perspective.

Following the 2024 Eurocities-UITP declaration on sustainable and attractive public transport, cities continue to move from commitment to action. This session explores how public transport can respond to the energy crisis, tackle poverty, and ensure equitable access, drawing lessons from the UPPER project

This roundtable gathers cities, industry, academia and the EIT Urban Mobility Academic Research Board to discuss research priorities and innovation needs in urban mobility.

How can young people help shape safer urban mobility? This session explores how engaging young people can contribute to safer, more responsible and sustainable mobility. Drawing on 20 years of the Joves i Mobilitat ("Youth & Mobility") initiative, it will showcase how more than 27,000 young people have shared their views on mobility and road safety, and discuss how their perspectives can help shape the mobility of tomorrow.

Where do cities actually stand on 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and smart networks? An honest assessment of current deployment and the connectivity gaps that still need solving.

The way cities design, build and manage their built environment has changed forever. Digital tools are driving efficiency, reducing waste and unlocking new levels of coordination across the entire development lifecycle

The session aims to bring together city representatives and technical partners/tool providers to accelerate the adoption of digital twin applications at the city level, filling the gap between the potential of what is offered and the actual uptake by local administrations and decision-makers. The session will leverage the engagement of municipalities within city networks and other initiatives with the support and expertise of technical partners.

MCE Community will illustrate its main activities. The co-exhibitors Genova, Florence, Governikus and Freeland will illustrate their projects and initiatives. MCE Community is a participatory and interactive network of cities and regions for Innovation, fostering cooperation, exchanging experience, supporting innovation and digital transformation of local authorities and their services to citizens. Join us at Pav. 2, Level 0, Street B, Stand 153.

Cooperative housing, co-housing, community land trusts, and alternative housing models to foster social cohesion, emerging as responses to affordability challenges and changing social structures.

How do we plan, build and operate the cities of tomorrow? This session brings together startups transforming urban infrastructure and the built environment through predictive intelligence, AI-powered planning, climate-responsive design, sustainable construction, energy innovation and smarter public spaces. Discover solutions helping cities become more efficient, resilient and future-ready.

Join city leaders and urban innovators from around the world to discover how cities are leveraging artificial intelligence to improve their public services. Share experiences, discuss challenges, exchange best practices, and build new partnerships.

Europe is entering a new phase of autonomous mobility. This strategic briefing provides an exclusive update on Europe's progress towards deployment at commercial scale, from regulatory developments and city deployments to industry partnerships and European initiatives. Bringing together European institutions, cities, operators and industry, it highlights progress to date and upcoming opportunities for collaboration across the ecosystem.

An examination of how cities can strengthen integration between transport modes to enable seamless mobility for people and goods while improving the resilience of increasingly connected mobility systems.

How can cities effectively reduce transport-related air and noise pollution? This session explores complementary, data-driven solutions already being deployed across Europe. Discover how collaboration across the urban mobility ecosystem is helping cities turn environmental data into smarter policies, cleaner air and healthier urban environments.

This session explores how Austria has successfully implemented real, scalable urban mobility systems in daily use today. Discover proven approaches and solutions by: Skidata: Mobility Hubs; Commend: Digital Voice Assistant; A1 Digital: Secure Data Control; Designa: Digital Parking Transformation; Freeway: eSIM Technology; Gentics: Digital Lost and Found; Zelisko: Traffic Management and Ticketing Platforms.

Connecting AI and sustainability can help create greener, more livable cities, but scaling impact responsibly remains a challenge. The session explores how cities can use AI sustainably and equitably by addressing topics such as governance, partnerships, business models, data, carbon footprint, and accountability, while identifying the enabling conditions needed to build resilient, carbon-neutral and inclusive cities by 2030.

Urban health systems, social services and age-friendly strategies are redefining what it means to live well in a city – for children, aging populations and everyone in between.

This space will address the current state of progress of the data spaces that will help drive a data economy thanks to the advancement of digitization of local authorities

Five finalists, three winners, and thirty minutes that could change what gets built in your city next. The QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Top 5 Solutions take the stage for a live fireside panel — introducing their solutions, unpacking the urban challenges they're solving, and sharing what they need to scale. The session closes with the live winner announcement.

This joint session of the different Working Groups of the Innpulso Network is aimed at sharing the results of the work carried out by them throughout 2026.

Modular construction, off-site fabrication, and enabling technologies —from digital design and AI-assisted planning to industrialized delivery systems— to build housing faster, more efficiently, and at scale

Insights on how cities are accelerating the decarbonisation of urban spaces through integrated infrastructure and shared energy systems.

Who owns mobility data, who can access it and how can it be shared responsibly? This session explores the challenges of data governance, interoperability, trust and incentives, bringing together perspectives from across the mobility ecosystem. Discover how stronger collaboration can unlock the value of data while supporting innovation, better services and more effective transport planning.

Co-hosted by Gangnam-gu and KOVA and operated by SparkLabs, the "Gangnam Global Startup Pitching: Innovative AI Solutions" session is a global acceleration program featuring Gangnam-gu’s tech-driven AI startups. Join us to discover innovative companies aiming for global expansion with solutions like real-time multilingual translation, kids' financial education platforms, jewelry design, and 3D human body data analysis.

A high-level gathering that connects Latin American cities, governments, innovators, and urban solution providers shaping the future of the region.


Hosted by Trend Smart Cities, the event creates a space for meaningful conversations, partnerships, and collaboration around the most pressing urban challenges in LATAM — from mobility and climate resilience to digital transformation and quality of life.

Building resilient cities requires new approaches that connect infrastructure investment, energy systems, and long-term urban development strategies. This session will explore how cities and industry leaders can collaborate to accelerate the delivery of future-ready infrastructure while balancing economic growth, sustainability, and operational efficiency. From investment models and energy transition pathways to public–private partnerships that enable scalable solutions. Strengthening coordination across sectors will be essential to creating resilient, investable, and economically sustainable urban ecosystems.

A livable city is one that enables people to move, access services, care and be cared for safely and independently. Co-organized by CAF and UN Women, this session will explore how gender perspectives can be integrated into urban planning through safer and more inclusive mobility, care infrastructure, and the right to time, while addressing the inequalities that limit women’s autonomy and economic opportunities. It will also examine how investment can help scale solutions that make cities more inclusive and livable for all.

One year after presenting a shared European CitiVerse vision at SCEWC 25, the four EU co-funded projects return to showcase real results from pilot cities across Europe. Through live demonstrations, practical use cases and lessons learned, the session explores how immersive digital infrastructure can create public value for citizens, cities and regions.

Can youth ideas help shape the future of our cities? This inspiring session brings together global city leaders and brilliant youth voices from the C40's Youth Reinventing Cities competition. Through a dynamic roundtable, discover practical, groundbreaking approaches to tackling urban climate challenges and innovation. Join us to unlock powerful collaboration strategies that translate youth-led ideas into real-world urban transformation.

This session presents the MICAD Toolkit, a practical guide for local and metropolitan authorities to design inclusive climate and digital transition roadmaps. Through key insights and examples, it shows how to move beyond smart city solutions towards coordinated, participatory and metropolitan-scale transformation.

Join MRANTI as they open this showcase on cross-border sandbox partnerships, followed by four high-growth scale-ups pitching field-tested smart city tech which spans on AI infrastructure, IoT platforms, digital twins and unified city context brokers. Discover market-ready innovations and connect directly with leaders shaping future cities

Airport cities are often isolated, technically advanced entities ideal as test environments for other business districts. Although discussed for decades, market forces have not fully discovered their potential, and airports often develop urban environments without being aware of it. This stream aims to highlight the opportunities and challenges of airport city development and to foster dialogue with other neighbourhood developments.

Urban regeneration is no longer only about renewing buildings or infrastructure, but about reshaping everyday life in the city. This session will explore how cities can reclaim and redesign neighborhoods and public spaces to make them more livable, inclusive, safe and resilient, bringing together governance, planning, design, investment and innovation to create lasting public value.

Barcelona’s approach to complex housing renovation, combining public support, building rehabilitation, neighbourhood regeneration, and community engagement.

Artificial intelligence is becoming a defining force in the evolution of smart cities, reshaping how urban environments are understood, managed, and experienced. As AI moves from experimentation to large-scale implementation, cities are entering a new phase of transformation driven by data, automation, and predictive capabilities. Beyond efficiency and optimization, AI is also redefining the relationship between technology, governance, and society, raising important questions around trust, inclusion, transparency, and public value. This session explores how to harness AI not only to improve urban performance, but to build more resilient, sustainable, and human-centered futures.

Cities are rethinking how urban spaces are designed, built, and maintained in response to growing environmental, social, and economic pressures. Innovation in infrastructure, construction, and urban planning is driving a shift toward more sustainable, resilient, and adaptable urban environments. As cities expand and transform, the focus is moving beyond growth alone to creating spaces that improve quality of life, optimize resources, and respond to future challenges. The next generation of urban development will depend on integrated approaches that combine sustainability, efficiency, technology, and human-centered design to shape smarter and more livable cities.

Cities today stand at a turning point, where climate change, rapid urban growth, and environmental shifts are reshaping how urban areas function and evolve. These changes go beyond daily experience, influencing the very foundations and systems that support urban life. As cities adapt to increasing uncertainty and more complex challenges, the need for innovative, adaptive and resilient solutions becomes more urgent. This session brings together cutting-edge and practical solutions that help cities adapt, transform, and stay ahead of emerging challenges, paving the way toward more resilient, sustainable, and livable urban futures.

Urban livability is shaped by a wide range of cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors, making each city experience unique, constantly evolving. What defines a “good place to live” can vary significantly, yet there are shared approaches that help improve quality of life across different contexts. Taking a comprehensive view of society, addressing the needs of diverse groups across multiple dimensions, from accessibility and equity to public space and daily well-being. This session presents practical case studies and tangible approaches aimed at enhancing everyday urban living conditions.

City approaches to using data and digital tools to plan mobility systems that are more accessible, inclusive and responsive to diverse territorial needs.

Cities keep investing in mobility services and infrastructure, yet car dependency barely shifts. In this panel, practitioners and urban experts go beyond the showcase to examine what incentive schemes have genuinely moved behaviour at scale, which ones have created backlash or been quietly abandoned, and what political pressures stop cities from being honest about what does not work.

Cities face growing challenges around sustainability, infrastructure, public service delivery and environmental resilience. This session showcases startups helping governments, utilities and businesses address these challenges through solutions ranging from water intelligence and pollution prevention to urban management, trusted data, connectivity and intelligent buildings.

Citizens’ assemblies and deliberative processes can strengthen democratic efficacy by ensuring that citizens’ voices, concerns, and perspectives are meaningfully considered. A key challenge remains: how can citizen participation move beyond small, one-off exercises to become a continuous and scalable component of modern governance? The ASCIF Side-Event, “Scaling Democratic Engagement: Keeping Every Citizen in the Loop,”

Mediterranean cities increasingly face the impacts of climate change, from extreme heat and water stress to growing pressure on infrastructure and public spaces. The session explores how cities can scale adaptation through nature-based solutions, innovative governance approaches and new financing mechanisms. Drawing on concrete experiences from the Mediterranean, speakers will share practical pathways to more resilient urban environments.

What does, and should, smart lighting serve ultimately? Urban lighting is evolving into a strategic service supporting energy efficiency, sustainability, resilience and smarter city management. With industry experts, cities will explore how to move beyond technology-driven approaches to offer more human-centred lighting strategies through connected systems, digital twins, integrating green spaces for sustainable nighttime environments for all.

Communities worldwide are investing heavily in AI, digital infrastructure and smart city technologies. But similar investments do not guarantee similar outcomes, as maximizing return requires more than technology alone. Explore how effective governance, cross-sector collaboration, workforce development and long-term strategy combine to transform technology investments into lasting economic growth, resilience and improved quality of life.

As AVs deploy on European streets, local governments have a lot to learn. European cities need new tools for policy, data sharing, curb management, and oversight. This panel brings together global perspectives from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Waymo, Veluto, and the Open Mobility Foundation, exploring how cities can move from reactive to proactive stewardship, connecting U.S. experience with European regulatory realities and fast "followship".

The session will showcase a selected group of mature, market-ready climate solutions developed through the ICLEI Action Fund to cities and public organisations with the potential to adopt, replicate or procure them.

The stakeholders' dialogue, organised jointly by ICLEI, the Covenant of Mayors Europe and TIPS4PED, will explore the opportunities and challenges of using AI to support Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) and urban energy management. 14:00 - 18:00 The CLIMRES session will showcase the innovative digital tools developed by the CLIMRES, RETIME and MINORITY REPORT projects to support climate resilience and adaptation.

Participants to the side event will actively engage with real and challenging cases. Starting from ongoing projects, we will share strategies, issues and approaches with peers, and translate those insights into action through a curated walkthrough of the SCEWC exhibition where specific challenges will be connected with the actual technologies and vendors on the floor.

When buses, rail, micromobility, freight and cars share one network, technical integration outpaces institutional coordination. This session confronts the governance question: who holds decision rights, how data and authority are shared across operators and cities, and what keeps networks resilient when disruptions cross modal and jurisdictional boundaries. And how do we incorporate users in a fair and effective way?

Moderated by AECOC, this session will explore how e-commerce growth is reshaping urban freight distribution, addressing rising delivery volumes, changing consumer expectations and the need for more flexible and efficient logistics solutions. The discussion will feature Marcos Urbaneja (AECOC), Nuria Blanco (Las Rozas City Council), Juan Carlos Escudero (Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council) and Julio Suero (InPost Iberia).

This invite-only session brings together public authorities within the EIT Urban Mobility network for an engaging exchange on innovation in urban mobility. Through focused thematic discussions and interactive networking, participants will explore solutions to critical challenges shaping urban mobility and identify areas where collaborative efforts can drive impactful, city-led innovation.

Hosted by the ICF, this full-day side event explores how communities can move from smart technology adoption to intelligent, people-centered impact. Leaders from the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Spain, Brazil, Taiwan and more will discuss AI, infrastructure, governance, collaboration and innovation strategies that strengthen local economies and improve citizen quality of life.

URB!Talks explores how satellites are quietly reshaping the cities we live in. From smarter movement to greener planning and stronger resilience, discover how space-powered intelligence is helping cities think, connect and serve people better.

The meetings aims to bring together civil society organizations, grassroots organizations, the public sector and private sector, to share practical experiences on cross-sector partnerships and identify what makes them work in addressing complex urban challenges, strengthening collaboration, innovation and sustainable urban development.

Leveraging on the UN-Habitat Housing Primer Course, recently launched at the World Urban Forum 13 in Baku, UN-Habitat facilitators will identify gaps and opportunities in capacity building and development concerning the innovation sphere and lay the groundwork for a first training module that will combine housing affordability with innovation.

An invite-only roundtable for leaders of cities bidding to host major global sporting events or Expos in the next 20 years. An open discussion of the potential offered by the digital twins approach to enable the efficient delivery of hosting and business as usual city operations while strengthening city capability, services and resilience for future challenges and opportunities.

WeMind Summit, part of the WeMind International Forum, brings together experts to explore key trends in mental health, longevity and neuroscience. The event covers longevity, care, digital transformation and child and adolescent mental health, fostering knowledge exchange, innovation and collaboration across the international health ecosystem. https://www.wemindforum.com/en/program/#nov4

This panel explores how digital urban prototypes can move from one-off pilots to projects that are ready to finance, scale and deliver real impact. Led by the IDB Group, the session brings together IDB Cities LAB and the City of Vitória, Brazil, to discuss how public and private capital can share risk and return, align investment with urban priorities, and turn bold ideas into deployable solutions.