2021
Side
Events

A first-level program of Side Events enhancing our attendees’ experience.

Side Events – In-person #SCEWC21

UCLG World Council 2021

UCLG will gather its World Council under the title "Smart Cities and Territories, Pillars of the Common Agenda" to define the strategy of the municipal movement & its contribution to the UN Common Agenda. The Council is composed of 342 representatives from 97 countries. GOVERNANCE

City Possible Summit

The City Possible Summit 2021 will unleash the superpower of collaboration to explore how leaders around the world are approaching challenges new and old and building innovative, sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous cities.

The New Challenges of Smart Ports

The notion of smart ports is based on the transformation of maritime transport and logistics thanks to different applications of digital technology. ENERGY & ENVIROMENT

Sustainable is the New Smart

The sustainable city does not have a single model, but it has objectives that can be shared: A sober city, An inclusive city, A resilient city, And a creative city. LIVING & INCLUSION

EIT Urban Mobility High-level City Event “Leading Innovation for Impact”

High level event to strengthen the sense of community within the EIT Urban Mobility City Partners among Europe and share the targets for achieving a more sustainable future of urban mobility. MOBILITY

Urban mobility trends 2021: User experience in MAD & BCN

Mobility Institute event, exclusively for members, in which data from our mobility barometer for Madrid and Barcelona will be presented. MOBILITY

Plus many more...

Localizing Global Agendas in Barcelona and in the Region of Catalonia

UN-HABITAT
How Barcelona is localizing 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals? How the New Urban Agenda will be implemented in the region of Catalonia? GOVERNANCE

Creating Innovation Hubs

SMART PORTS, PORT DE BARCELONA
More and more cities are betting on the creation of innovation hubs to attract talent and entrepreneurial potential. Barcelona is a success story in the development of innovative ecosystems, but what does it really take to be successful? INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDINGS

Meet and Greet Israel Delegation!

DELEGATION OF ISRAEL
We are welcoming the Israel Delegation to SCEWC. Main speakers: Ugo Valenti - SCEWC Director; Haim Bibas - President of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel; Yishak Borba - President of the Association of Municipal Corporations in Local Authorities GOVERNANCE

Data Spaces and Local Digital Twins for Cities and Communities

OASC
After decades of attempts to build local data ecosystems, cities and communities are now coming together with providers and regulators to take the next strides in establishing data spaces and local digital twins. Hear how the needs of cities and communities are driving the change.GOVERNANCE

How to Address the Digital Skills Missmatch vs the Businesses Demands

Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Activa, Eurocities
Policy practicioners from several European cities will discuss best municipal practices and city strategies to address digital skills mismatch of global labour force versus business demands. ECONOMY

EIT Urban Mobility Ready2Scale III Pitching Event

EIT Urban Mobility
The 15 most promising start-ups selected for the ScaleTHENGlobal programme of the EIT Urban Mobility will present themselves and their disruptive solutions. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

Creating a Pan-European Mobility Ecosystem

MobilitEU
MobilitEU enables people to plan, book, pay and travel on an easy way within the European Union. MobilitEU is a project of EIT Urban Mobility funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

Village Francophone

My Global Village
Debrief learning expedition. More information in the following link here. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Cities Coalition for Digital Rights General Assembly

Cities Coalition for Digital Rights
The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights is a network of +50 cities and organizations that work together to promote digital rights at a global level. This annual General Assembly sets the upcoming strategy and discuss projects and new alliances. GOVERNANCE

Governing Council

Red Innpulso
GOVERNANCE

Sustainable Cities: the Key Role of Public-Private Partnerships

Forética
During the session, trends in urban sustainability and high impact business experiences will be analyzed. Forética will also present the report on sustainable building and construction published within the scope of the Sustainable Cities 2030 project. INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDINGS

International Pitch Competition on Energy for Smart Cities’ Challenges

EIT InnoEnergy
Students from the Master "Energy for Smart Cities" come to Barcelona during a working week to create innovations to relevant challenges. Students will present in a elevator pitch format their innovation proposal to 10 innovation challenges related with energy and smart cities. ENERGY&ENVIRONMENT

Digital Technology: A Strength for the Environmental Transition

Smart Buildings Alliance for Smart Cities
Students from the Master "Energy for Smart Cities" come to Barcelona during a working week to create innovations to relevant challenges. Students will present in a elevator pitch format their innovation proposal to 10 innovation challenges related with energy and smart cities.

Technological Cooperation for the Smart, Connected and Inclusive City of the Future

IN-MOVE by Railgrup
Join us next 18th Nov and we will tell you a story about the “City of the Future” from the prism of our Cluster Members. More information here. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

World Smart City Award Winner 2019 Stockholm Fossil Free and Climate Positive by 2040

City of Stockholm
Stockholm won the World Smart City Award 2019 as part of the achievements of the GrowSmarter project implementing interlinked smart solutions in the field of energy, ICT and mobility. The journey started 1990 and the success story has required... GOVERNANCE

ARIADNA Project: Leveraging Galileo Satellite Technology for More Sustainable Cities

ARIADNA Project, FACTUAL
During its Final Event, the ARIADNA project will highlight how Galileo can enhance mobility services and improve accuracy, integrity, and continuity of the geolocation signal. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

Moving ahead: VC Investments in the Mobility Landscape

EIT Urban Mobility, Vilanova, Shotl
Business Creation organizes this 45 minutes round table to share the point of view of start-ups, Venture Capital firms and EIT Urban Mobility investment arm with regards to investments in the mobility landscape. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

Building the Cities of the Future: The key Role between Corporations & Startups

Gohub
Success story of a big company: digital transformation and the key role played by startups in the process and how to use it to improve life in cities. The roundtable will be formed by a corporate and 3 startups who will share their success cases...

Data & Citizen Engagement

Smart City Expo World Congress
Pitching session aimed at discovering and amplifying startups that tackle the most pressing engagement challenges for data management and community engagement. 6 projects from all over the world, in 4 minutes presentations each: Smart City As a Service, Kuorum, R4 Monitoring, The Predictive Company, Munipolis, mTap ENERGY & ENVIROMENT

Data to Solve City Challenges

Smart City Expo World Congress
Pitching session aimed at discovering and amplifying startups that tackle the most pressing governance challenges in any community. 5 projects from all over the world, in 4 minutes presentations each: Litterati, Zariot, Aware7, Awatree, SensorBee. GOVERNANCE

Meet the Mobility Solutions that will Reinvent Tourism

Andalucía Emprende
Andalucía Emprende has selected 5 startups with the most disruptive and impactful solutions to mobility challenges in the tourism industry. The focus will be on projects that improve mobility in the form of greater efficiency, reduction of pollution or increased security, for tourists as well as citizens. TOMORROW.MOBILITY

Women in Tech and Innovation

City Possible
Cities are complex blends of multigenerational, multi-ethnic and multi-gendered populations. The action city stakeholders take today directly impacts how everyone of us experience urban environments. Women often make up the most vulnerable populations of cities in terms of safety, health, family planning, and economic insecurity. Yet it sometimes seems that women are invisible in urban planning.

Barcelona Retail Lab

Readyfor
Barcelona Retail Lab is an initiative deployed in public-private collaboration by Barcelona City Council, the Department of Commerce and Barcelona Activa, and Cercle Tecnològic de Catalunya. The project focused on the transformation of physical stores into digitally sensitive environments. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

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Digital Side Events – Digital #SCEWC21

Reinventing the Future of Cities Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic

How are smart cities reinventing themselves under the pandemic and as the world prepares for reopening to the new normal? World Bank TDLC will share emerging ideas and cases from Japan and abroad. LIVING & INCLUSION

Scaling Better Governance for Smart Cities

Learn about smart city governance in Japan, India and Latin America, and what the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance is doing to scale better policies on the ground in these regions and beyond. GOVERNANCE

Digital Innovation for Inclusive Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Public sector leaders and technology experts discuss how AI and governance innovation can help push for digitization in Latin American and Caribbean cities while also ensuring equitable development. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Centering People in Smart Cities: a Roadmap

The event will present this new series of playbooks which establish a key normative component of UN-Habitat’s People Centered Smart Cities flagship programme. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Mobility Talks Special Edition: Sustainable City Logistics

Urban logistics is going through a major shift. In this episode of Mobility Talks we will give space to various players to see their perspective and analyse these changes from different angles. MOBILITY

Digitising City & Municipal Services and Operations in support of Government, Recovery and Resilience Goals

During this session you will hear how Microsoft partners are using cloud-based solutions to digitally transform government services & operations in support of governments recovery & resilience goals. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Plus many more...

Workshop: International Innovation Public Procurement

ACCIÓ
The Workshop of International Innovation Public Procurement event is an online webinar where public bodies will be able to present their international projects.GOVERNANCE

Think Smart, Deliver Sustainable Solutions

SCHEREDER
For more than a century, Schréder has been active in public lighting, an industry that has a life-changing impact on citizens worldwide, improving their comfort, safety and well-being.

5G in Metropolitan Spaces: Opportunities for Local and Regional Governments

METROPOLIS
Findings from exchanges between technology companies, and city and metropolitan governments involved in the processes of 5G implementation in the major urban areas of the world.ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Blue Economy & City Ports

AJUNTAMENT BARCELONA & SMART PORTS
Lively panel discussion on how blue economy impacts port communities and society as a whole. How is the maritime industry working with Governments on the future of city ports?

Innovative experiences in social services in the region of Barcelona

DIBA - Barcelona Provincial Council
Diputació de Barcelona will present different social innovative projects in which this institution and municipalities of the region of Barcelona are involved to improve the social welfare of the citizens of those cities and the region of Barcelona. Those projects are using new technologies... ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Enabling Urban and Rural Sustainability Session

Microsoft
Learn about real-world examples of how Microsoft and strategic partners are enabling smart infrastructure, smart energy and transport projects to support sustainability initiatives, climate emergency response and enable the transition to net zero.

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Working Today for the Mobility of Tomorrow

TMB
How is Metro Barcelona fulfilling their customer's needs in VUCA environments developing strategies and projects in order to anticipate future changes and new mobility trends. MOBILITY

Digital Business TMBgo

TMB
App to provide instantly service information plus entertainment contents to the passenger. MOBILITY

TMB & IOKI: the New Bus on Demand Service in Barcelona

TMB
The new Bus on demand service in Barcelona. MOBILITY

Leading the Mobility Transformation

TMB
Smart Buses, Power Train, Solutions. MOBILITY

What about Cybersecurity in Smart IoT Cities?

PARADOX
Cybercrime is a risk cities can no longer overlook. Paradox Engineering provides a secure foundation for smart IoT cities, with innovative services to manage cybersecurity as a lifelong journey. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

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