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Thematic Roundtable

Digital Twins & AI: matching Innovation and Challenges

Enabling Technologies Infrastructure & Building

Thursday 06, 14:40h - 15:25h | Stage: Impact Tech All Passes

2025-11-06 14:40 2025-11-06 15:25 Europe/Madrid Digital Twins & AI: matching Innovation and Challenges

Today, as cities face their challenges, Digital Twins & AI are everywhere. Digital Twins deliver better prescriptions and greater efficiency and sustainability. AI brings data-driven decisions and uncovers hidden patterns, but also raises challenges in ethics, bias, and transparency. How can we ethically and sustainably combine Digital Twins & AI to maximize their synergies?

Stage: Impact Tech

Today, as cities face their challenges, Digital Twins & AI are everywhere. Digital Twins deliver better prescriptions and greater efficiency and sustainability. AI brings data-driven decisions and uncovers hidden patterns, but also raises challenges in ethics, bias, and transparency. How can we ethically and sustainably combine Digital Twins & AI to maximize their synergies?

Speakers

Cristina Garrido — Chair

Cristina Garrido

CEO of Anteverti & Curatorial Advisor of the Smart City Expo World Congress Anteverti

Barcelona, Spain

Michael Donaldson — Speaker

Michael Donaldson

Chief Innovation Officer-Director for the BIT Habitat Foundation-City Barcelona City Council

Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Cucchietti — Speaker

Fernando Cucchietti

Head of Data Analytics and Visualization Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

Daisuke Kawakami — Speaker

Daisuke Kawakami

Deputy Director General for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Cabinet Office Government of Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Helen Köpman — Speaker

Helen Köpman

Deputy Head of Unit, AI for Societal Good European Commission

Brussels, Belgium

Parent Session

Urban Digital Modeling Thursday 06, 13:20h - 14:55h | Stage: Tech X Cities All Passes

Organizers

Smart City Expo World Congress

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