A selection from URBIS The Smart Cities Meetup 2025
October 23, 2024 / 1:00 PM
10. 6. 2025
KEYNOTE: STRATEGIC INTRODUCTION | |
A look at the challenges facing cities and municipalities and the solutions we collectively face through the eyes of ministers and leading trend experts. Special guest: Ugo Valenti, Director of Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, the global mecca of smart cities. | |
CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES AS A CATALYST FOR PROSPERITY AND SMART SOLUTIONS | |
| Mayors in a debate with the Ministers for Industry and Trade and for Regional Development on the role of metropolitan areas as drivers of competitiveness and small settlements in regions promoting innovation as the best tool for cohesion. | |
WHERE IS OUR MOBILITY GOING (OR GOING TO GO)? | |
| A session with the Minister of Transport on new trends and solutions in the field of mobility. You will learn, for example, how demand-responsive transport is catching on in municipalities and regions, or what other ways to deal effectively with an increasingly tight traffic situation. | |
SOCIAL INNOVATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESILIENT COMMUNITIES | |
| The Centre for Regional Development as the main distributor of EU grants and funds to the territories on the future of Smart City projects and changes to the principles of grant funding in the coming years. Participation in this session means catching the right trends and thus preparing for future success. | |
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW TO DO IT? | |
| Presenting concrete solutions to help cities and municipalities cope with increasingly frequent weather extremes. You'll learn that data and greenery are great partners - and much more. | |
11. 6. 2025
AGE IS JUST A NUMBER: WE MAKE CITIES TOGETHER | |
| The older generation brings experience and stability, while the younger generation offers creativity and energy. Only by working together can we create truly vibrant and sustainable communities. JINAG and the National Healthy Cities Network will show directions on how to build trust, communication and cooperation in the territory. | |
CLIMATE NEUTRALITY: CITIES AND CITIZENS IN THE SAME BOAT | |
| The Ministry of Regional Development will present new activities providing guidance to municipalities and regions to manage the step that will make them valid players capable of facing climate change. International guests will show how the New European Bauhaus approach enables planning to be comprehensive and make citizens their allies in tackling major challenges. | |
HOW TO BE CLOSER TO YOUR OWN CITIZENS: CIVIC-TECH TOOLS IN ACTION | |
| The Participation Factory and the European Civic-tech Association will show an overview of the best tools for quality interaction with citizens available to cities and municipalities today, as well as how they help to solve specific situations in the territory. From there, we will move on to practical examples of participation - for example, how to negotiate a community energy project. | |
LIVING LABS AND AGILE PILOTING | |
| Successful global concepts for developing urban innovation have finally arrived in Central Europe to kick-start local innovation ecosystems. But putting them successfully into practice is a challenge that requires a lot of smart heads. Let's get together to bring them together and light the way together. | |
DEPLOYING AI IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: WHERE TO START? | |
| Artificial intelligence is the most talked about phenomenon today. And cities and municipalities can't avoid it. Those who know how to grasp it can get a powerful assistant. We look at what opportunities are opening up for even the smallest municipalities, and what risks to watch out for the most. | |
12. 6. 2025
COMMUNITY ENERGY: A REAL OPPORTUNITY AT HAND | |
| A new phenomenon that can kick-start the development of our communities and industry - if we get it right. The first projects in the Czech Republic are already underway and we can learn a lot from them. Under the umbrella of the Community Energy Union, we will show a range of positive examples from practice as well as concrete steps on how to build a successful energy community. | |
WHERE WILL 5G NETWORKS REACH EVERYWHERE? | |
| Demonstrations of projects that have already succeeded or are in the pipeline will show the full potential of 5G networks. We will look not only at the Czech Republic, but also at neighbouring Bavaria. Perhaps one of them will also be an inspiration for your municipality. | |
DATA AND DIGITISATION IN MUNICIPAL SERVICES | |
| Making the right decisions is easy - for those who have the right information and know how to work with it. This notebook will give you a solid foundation to help you stay on top of digitalisation. We will look at what can be done with geolocation data, what all data can be collected and how it can be used, and what it means to take a Smart City completely from the ground up if you are serious about it. | |
SMART CITY EDUCATION: MAKING TECHIES AND MAYORS UNDERSTAND | |
| The days when everyone had to make a smart city on their own are thankfully gone. Universities are educating smart city experts from their students, and programmes are also emerging to train experts directly in municipalities. At URBIS, we will bring these two worlds together to bring out the best of them and find a recipe for common ground between solution creators and their customers. | |
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