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Smart Cities & the Future Internet

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 from 09:00 to 16:00 (BST)

Brussels, Belgium
Smart Cities & the Future Internet

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How to become, sustain and evolve as a Smart city

Eurocities, Brussels, Belgium January 25th 2012

 

Background

The concept of “smart cities” has attracted considerable attention in the context of urban development policies for creating more inclusive, sustainable and competitive cities. At the same time the Internet as an enabler of city services is becoming more and more important for urban development while cities are increasingly assuming a critical role as drivers of innovation in such areas as health, inclusion, environment and business as more people and devices will be connected to the Future Internet than today. Cities and spaces will be connected and smarter, exploiting the Future Internet to organise, optimise,  and deliver on promises to citizens, both as creative professionals and as ‘prosumers’.  At the same time the Future Internet will be, even more than now, a critical infrastructure for  the public sector, citizens and business and move from being the Internet of technology into the Internet of content, things and people. In order to tackle the real problems of cities  new thinking is needed,  which is capable of grasping the big picture, including the interrelationships among all  the factors underlying them. Achieving systemic and sustainable innovation for the future society and to make future cities a good place to live and work requires much broader, more collaborative and innovative approaches.   

 

In this workshop invited speakers from EUROCITIES, FIRE (Future Internet Research & Experimentation), the Smart City Portfolio CIP projects and ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) will present views and results to open up the discussion on shaping the future ‘Smart Cities’ agenda,  starting from the needs of the cities, their citizens and partner organisations. In addition the workshop will create new linkages and enhance cooperation between different constituencies interested in Smart City development in order to operationalise policies for future problem solving and strategic actions.

 General objectives of the Workshop 

• To discuss the main issues that are being addressed by cities that want to become smarter, including which solutions cities are trying to develop to address the “real” problems and to demonstrate some initial examples of Future Internet in the context of Smart Cities’ needs and demands.

• To shape the agenda of issues regarding Smart Cities and Future Internet by opening this up for wider engagement in the creation of a Smart City roadmap.

• To discuss visions and perspectives in the context of Smart Cities of the future and how these might best be put into practice

·         To develop a knowledge exchange between cities, Living Labs and the FIRE research community about developments to date and future plans for new use cases, test bedsand local initiatives.

 Venue

EUROCITIES secretariat, Square de Meeûs 1, B-1000 Brussels


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Organization

The event is organised as a cooperation between FIREBALL, EUROCITIES and FIRE together with different projects in the area of Smart Cities including  Cities, Future Internet Research and Open innovation ecosystems such as Living labs.

 

Target audience

Selected participants by invitation only (limited seats)

 

Registration
Please register (above) http://smartcitiesfutureinternet.eventbrite.com/ by JANUARY 11 2012 at the latest.

Filming

We will be filming this event as part of the FIREBALL series of "showcases" and delegates may be asked for a short interview about "smart cities and the future internet."


Programme

 

Session 1
09.00 – 10.30

Moderator:
Michael Nilsson, Coordinator of FIREBALL,

Opening session: Towards Smarter Cities

Introduction by invited speakers from the European Commission, Eurocities, CIP portfolio , Fireball and guests

·         Welcome and agenda by Michael Nilsson, Coordinator of FIREBALL,

·         Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart Cities EIPby Director  Mario Campolargo, European Commission,  Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures.  DG INFSO.     

·         The importance of a Smart Cities agenda  by Ms Ingrid Goetzl, Eurocities , Chair of Knowledge Society Forum, Head of International ICT Affairs, City of Vienna

·         The Senseable City – part 1 by Director Carlo Ratti, MIT , (invited presentation)

·         The Smart City working group by Dave Carter, Manchester and Chair CIP portfolio

 

·         Roundtable discussion 30 minutes!

 

Session 2

10.30 – 11.30
Moderator:
Dave Carter,

Smart City CIP portfolio chair

Challenges for cities in becoming smarter: current practice, issues, solutions

This session introduces the current issues, problems and challenges which cities are addressing in “becoming smarter cities”, told by the cities themselves, as a starting point for improved knowledge sharing:

 

MANCHESTER  - Dave Carter ( Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency & chair of Smart Cities Portfolio Working Group)

AMSTERDAM – Audrie van Veen (Amsterdam Innovation Motor)

LISBON -  Joana Fernandes (Project Coordinator, Lisbon E-Nova)

HELSINKI  - Jarmo Eskelinen  (CEO, Forum Virium, Helsinki)

BARCELONA  - Julia Lopez Ventura (Project Manager & Technician, International Cooperation at Barcelona City Council)

 

 

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break and exhibition

Session 3

12.00 – 13.15

Moderator:

Pekka Sauri,

Deputy Mayor of Helsinki city

 

Opportunities for creating smarter cities,

This session brings a spectrum of topics to the foreground which are currently being worked on in various EU projects. Special emphasis on results from the FIREBALL  project. The FIRE relevance for cities. The Smart Cities CIP ICT-PSP projects will also address their relevance for cities.
Topics includes:

·         Technologies for smarter cities.

·         Promises of the Future Internet and how to realize them in cities

·         Future Internet empowered Innovation culture of the city


Speakers , (invited presentations , Maximum: 10 minutes each)

·    “The Senseable City – part 2”  Director Carlo Ratti, MIT

·     “Future Internet and Smart Cities: New approaches to Innovation. Results of FIREBALL”  – Hans Schaffers FIREBALL

·     “Sensor Technologies for Smart City services” – Jose Munoz The Smart Santander project

·      “Community Networks – Neutrality or Hostage?” – Malcolm Matson, The CONFINE project

·     “PERIPHERIA Challenge: social innovation for sustainable lifestyles”- Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL president and the Peripheria project

·     “Digital life 2.0” -  Albena Mihovska, Life 2.0 project

·     “Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI PPP) for Smart Cities“ - Ana Garcia the Concord project and ENoLL

·      “European Platform for Intelligent Cities”-  Wim Vanobberghen   IBBT and the EPIC project

 

13.15– 14.15

Lunch and exhibition

 

Session 4

14.15    – 16.15

 

Moderator/facilitator:
Dave Carter,

Smart City CIP portfolio chair

 

 

 

(Coffee will be served in parallel with the break out sessions)

Towards smarter cities: policies, approaches, actions

This break-out session is addressing the issues cities are experiencing with a forward looking view. What are the innovation roadmaps of cities? What are the actions, initiatives to be taken in next few years?  How could policies support such roadmaps, at EU, national, regional and urban level?  This session will see participants split into multi-disciplinary groups to discuss :

  • Roadmaps towards smarter cities: interactive session
  • Horizontal issues in the roadmaps: pilots for creating network effects, innovation culture, infrastructure, bottom-up empowerment etc.
  • Policies to stimulate the implementation of city roadmaps, at urban, regional, national and EU level

 

16.15    – 17.00

Moderator/facilitator:
Roberto Santoro,

FIREBALL

Panel - Conclusions and outlook
Panel of people from the previous sessions, representing the Commission, Eurocities, Fire, and Living Labs.

The questions will be answered by the panelists and by the participants. Discussion on:

  • Understanding : The Smartness in Smart Cities: what progress have we made today in understanding the substantial elements characterizing city`s programs that have decided to become smarter.
  • Experiencing : Are there Initial cities experimentation that show the way (reference practice)? Innovation Culture, FI Infrastructure, the Innovation process...
  • Building a Smarter Future: Strengthening interlinks among Cities, Future Internet and Living Lab Communities. Creating joint working groups on critical horizontal issues. Suggested groups form the workshop?

 

 

 

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