Building alliances that accelerate the transition
to smart and climate neutral cities
November 14th 2022
BARCELONA
Building alliances that accelerate the transition to smart and climate neutral cities
BARCELONA
November 14th 2022
About
The Smart City Business Forum brings together around 400 decision makers to discuss key challenges for the smart and climate-neutral city. This year, we will focus on the private sector’s role in achieving cities’ smart and climate-neutrality targets, creating opportunities for public and private actors to connect, build partnerships and take steps in accelerating urban transformation. The program will consist of high-level keynotes, matchmaking, and workshops around specific challenges hosted by a variety of international public and private partners.
Speakers & Panelists
Agenda
9:30am – 10:15am – Check-in and Coffee
9:30am – 10:15am – Check-in and Coffee
10:30am – 10:45am – Welcoming words
10:30am – 10:45am – Welcoming words
10:45am - 11:15am - Fireside chat with smart city visionaries
10:45am - 11:15am - Fireside chat with smart city visionaries
11:20am - 11:40am - Keynote from the European Commision Mission Board for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities
11:20am - 11:40am - Keynote from the European Commision Mission Board for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities
11:40am - 12:20am - Panel Discussion: Financial institutions as partners to the smart and climate-neutral city - How do we make this work for real?
11:40am - 12:20am - Panel Discussion: Financial institutions as partners to the smart and climate-neutral city - How do we make this work for real?
12:20am - 12:30am - Business Keynote
12:20am - 12:30am - Business Keynote
12:30am - 13:30am - Enterprise Europe Network Matchmaking - LUNCH BREAK
12:30am - 13:30am - Enterprise Europe Network Matchmaking - LUNCH BREAK
1:30pm INTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
1:30pm INTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
Bottom floor, Neptune B
A vast reservoir of information on human health and lifestyle habits lives in our sewage. Smart cities can gather information from their inhabitants which had not imagined before.
In this session, the Scorewater EU project partners will present their experience within the city of Barcelona for wastewater monitoring in sewers. We managed to place multiple measuring stations across the city, and gathered valuable data. Now it’s time for the next steps, since in our opinion all cities should have a network of sensors to manage water quality & quantity. But how do we scale from here? We invite government representatives, solution providers in the field of water management, investors, organizations active on the topics of health and education to join the discussion on how to create different types of value for cities, citizens, and investors with wastewater monitoring.
Speakers/Moderators:
Maria José Chesa Marro
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
Lluís Corominas
Research Scientist at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)
Pieter de Jong
Programme Manager
SCOREwater
Fredrik Hallgren
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
First floor, Golden Hall
Increasing urbanization asks for a new vision on urban mobility. To create an inclusive and welcoming mobility system for everyone from 8 to 88 years old, we need an ever-growing multi-modality system. Until now, the car has been dominant in our mobility systems, but it is likely that in the future we need a different approach.
During this session we will discuss the implementation and exploitation challenges of multi-modal solutions, the technological aspects, lessons learned, and the creation of mobility hubs. We want to have stakeholders with different backgrounds at the table from the public and private sector because we believe that we need to work together to create a well-functioning system. What we want to get out of this session is cooperation and to learn from each other’s experiments and best practices.
Speakers/Moderators:
Heerd Jan Hoogeveen
Program Lead
Drive Program
Arno Bonte
Deputy Mayor for Sustainability, Mobility and Climate Adaptation at City of Helmond
Andréas von Kaenel
CEO at Cortexia
Bottom floor, Neptune A
This workshop will focus on the challenge of transitioning to sustainable logistics from varying perspectives. Cities and regions are invited to share challenges they face in this area and companies are invited to share their solutions.
Speakers/Moderators:
Jonathan Herrlin
Business Developer
Logistics, Retail & Smart Cities
Invest in Skåne
Alexandra Hallonqvist
Head of Investment Promotion at City of Helsingborg
Tamlyn Shimizu
Global Partnerships & Communications Lead at Bable Smart Cities
Edgar Valverde
Innovation Consultant at PNO Innovation
Second floor, Consuls Hall
Despite the existing knowledge in every vertical in city design, we are still not living in a sustainable way. One of the challenges we face is that we are lacking a systematic holistic approach and a framework that allows us to reach a much better global solution, and not just marginal local improvements. This session aims to highlight the huge impact of using a systemic approach in combination with several technical verticals to tackle the most urgent problems today. We invite participants to bring their challenges and analyze them from a different and more powerful perspective than you have before.
Speakers/Moderators:
Sami Kazi
Research Team Leader
Smart cities and intelligent buildings
VTT
Andro Lindsay
Carbon Neutral Solutions for Smart Cities at VTT
Kirsi-Maria Hyytinen
Research Team Leader Future-proof societies at VTT
Teppo Rantanen
Executive Director of economic policy, competitiveness, and innovation at City of Tampere
First floor, Consulates Hall
Despite the existing knowledge in every vertical in city design, we are still not living in a sustainable way. One of the challenges we face is that we are lacking a systematic holistic approach and a framework that allows us to reach a much better global solution, and not just marginal local improvements. This session aims to highlight the huge impact of using a systemic approach in combination with several technical verticals to tackle the most urgent problems today. We invite participants to bring their challenges and analyze them from a different and more powerful perspective than you have before.
Speakers/Moderators:
Jakob Norman-Hansen
Head of Global Networks at BLOXHUB
Pau Planelles Oliva
Senior Technical Manager
Ecology, Urban Planning, Infrastructures and Mobility
Barcelona City Council
First floor, Plenary Hall
It’s no secret that adopting innovation in the public sector tends to be a challenge, both for the municipalities and for innovative companies that want to partner up with cities. This workshop will dive into challenges of balancing the risk of losing public money on failed innovation against the need for new solutions to solve hitherto intractable problems.
Speakers/Moderators:
Viesturs Celmiņš
Director of innovation movement at VEFRESH
Jonathan Selbie
CEO
Univrses
Second floor, Lions Hall
A vast reservoir of information on human health and lifestyle habits lives in our sewage. Smart cities can gather information from their inhabitants which had not imagined before.
In this session, the Scorewater EU project partners will present their experience within the city of Barcelona for wastewater monitoring in sewers. We managed to place multiple measuring stations across the city, and gathered valuable data. Now it’s time for the next steps, since in our opinion all cities should have a network of sensors to manage water quality & quantity. But how do we scale from here? We invite government representatives, solution providers in the field of water management, investors, organizations active on the topics of health and education to join the discussion on how to create different types of value for cities, citizens, and investors with wastewater monitoring.
Speakers/Moderators:
Maria José Chesa Marro
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
Lluís Corominas
Research Scientist at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)
Pieter de Jong
Programme Manager
SCOREwater
Fredrik Hallgren
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
First floor, Lucrecia Hall
This session will consist of short presentations from a number of innovative high-impact solutions. The entrepreneurs will describe their solutions but also what lessons they’ve learned when working with municipalities. The aim is to showcase technology that can dramatically reduce emissions but also to learn about how we can improve partnerships between such solution providers and cities.
15:00pm - 15:30pm Enterprise Europe Network Matchmaking - NETWORKING BREAK
15:00pm - 15:30pm Enterprise Europe Network Matchmaking - NETWORKING BREAK
15:30pm - 17:00pmINTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
15:30pm - 17:00pmINTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
First floor, Golden Hall
A vast reservoir of information on human health and lifestyle habits lives in our sewage. Smart cities can gather information from their inhabitants which had not imagined before.
In this session, the Scorewater EU project partners will present their experience within the city of Barcelona for wastewater monitoring in sewers. We managed to place multiple measuring stations across the city, and gathered valuable data. Now it’s time for the next steps, since in our opinion all cities should have a network of sensors to manage water quality & quantity. But how do we scale from here? We invite government representatives, solution providers in the field of water management, investors, organizations active on the topics of health and education to join the discussion on how to create different types of value for cities, citizens, and investors with wastewater monitoring.
Speakers/Moderators:
Maria José Chesa Marro
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
Lluís Corominas
Research Scientist at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)
Pieter de Jong
Programme Manager
SCOREwater
Fredrik Hallgren
Head of Environment and External Relations Service
Barcelona Water Cycle
Barcelona City Council
Second floor, Consuls Hall
The Cities Mission has launched a Moonshot: 100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030. If cities want to play the Moonshot “game”, they have to play by “moonshot” rules: unlimited access to funding, unlimited access to a pool of talented human resources, a vision going beyond political disputes, unquestioning support of the ecosystem, and the use of the 21-century digital tools
The challenge is particularly high when it comes to financing as cities are very classical risk-adverse players. However, the financial landscape is profoundly evolving with the ESG regulation, the ETS and even crowdfunding. Investors are now urged to find investments producing revenues and creating social and environmental values.
Trust and common understanding between cities and investors present a major challenge, but progress has been made, embodied by the latest generation of Smart Cities and Communities projects.
Our workshop aims to address those critical challenges and engage a debate between cities and investors on how they can work together to: bridge the funding gap, create cities' specific climate purpose vehicles or innovative financial schemes, combining public/private partnership (with the cities taking a golden share) and accelerate the pace of implementation.
Angelo Giordano
Senior Advisor
CIVIESCO
David Cassanmagnago
Project Manager
Climate Alliance
Ernesto Faubel
Head of Smart City Department
City of Valencia
Albert Engels
Ruggedised coordinator
City of Rotterdam
Roel Massink
IRIS Coordinator
City of Utrecht
Philippe Fournand
CEO
Blue-Sight Conseil
Bottom floor, Neptune A
What should cities do to become more livable and sustainable, according to companies and according to civil servants? How can governments accelerate innovations?
The city of Amsterdam will share 10 recommendations for cities to accelerate transitions as well as Amsterdam’s experience working on these topics. We would like to discuss how companies look at this role of the government and how they experience collaboration. Furthermore, we would like to discuss solutions other European cities have, learn from their examples and discuss the important role of the private sector in their cities.
Speakers/Moderators:
Sacha Stolp
Director Future-Proof Assets and Climate Adaptation
City of Amsterdam
Department of Engineering
Jaleesa Schaap
Strategic Advisor
City of Amsterdam
Department of Engineering
Peter de Kruijk
Director
City of Amsterdam
Amsterdam International Business
Nancy Zikken
Trade developer sustainable and smart cities
City of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Trade & Innovate
First floor, Consulates Hall
The EU and its programs will help European cities in its ambition to achieve climate-neutrality and will provide lots of frameworks and models. However, top-down frameworks do not automatically lead to more finance, ownership and innovation. The candle burns at two ends. Climate neutrality is a quest that can be won only by connecting and combining top-down and bottom-up innovative approaches and finance opportunities.
Digital transformation is a key driver of transformational change of existing and new digital (energy) infrastructures. Unfortunately, the development of digital infrastructures does not always keep up with the pace of digital innovation and the need of citizens. This slows down the market development of innovative, integrated and sustainable solutions, which are highly necessary to achieve climate goals. How to speed up?
In this session a broad spectrum of people addresses four challenges from their point of view and let participants in the workshop work out an implementation plan for cities – that includes solutions from start-ups and business. Since nothing will happen in isolation, challenges are brought in by a cluster of organisations.
Challenge 1. ‘Grid congestion’
Challenge owner
Heimen Visser
Fund Director
Smart City Nederland
A lot of electricity grid operators Europe wide are struggling with the upgrade and renewal of their electricity networks due to growing electricity demand by consumer and business customers. Also the demand of EV charging and the generation of solar energy, tops the challenges of the grid operators. This leads to certain areas where electricity grid operators can’t deliver electricity connections to new business customers.
- How do we cope with the increasing demand on energy consumption?
- How do we plan the upgrade of the energy grids?
- How do we finance these upgrades and enlargements of the energy grids?
- What is the cost of capital of the different solutions?
Challenge 2. ‘Accelerating climate neutrality by scaling (human) connectivity?’
Challenge owner
Jan-Willem Wesselink
Program Manager
City Deal ‘Smart Cities’
The digital transformation can help us to accelerate to accomplish our shared mission to become climate neutral. To move from mission towards concrete steps we work with iconic projects; digital solutions that solve several societal challenges with multiple technologies. One of these iconic
projects are Local Digital Twins; the future operating system of the sustainable city. But how do we get there?
Challenge 3 & 4 are yet to be defined!
Please reach out to climateneutralandsmartcities@rvo.nl
Our panel of city experts consists of:
National perspective & growth fund
TBC
Ministry of Infrastructure & Water
Digital Economy
Frank Vieveen
City of Rotterdam
Scaling solutios from testbeds
Tijn Kuiper
Program Manager
City Deal ‘Smart Cities’
International expert TBC
International expert TBC
First floor, Plenary Hall
How to make Europe greener and more digital are the twin challenges for our generation, and our success in meeting them will define our future. BUT, the cities are not good enough at data sharing, and with no data there will be no twin transition.
This seminar-style session will begin with educational presentations covering what can be achieved when we agree on a common infrastructure, what are the consequences if there is no agreement, and the different paths towards a common IoT data infrastructure – within a city, within a country, and within the EU. We will then look at practical case studies from the City of Stockholm and from Europe. Lastly, we will open it up to interactive sharing - share your good advice, share your failures, share your experience.
Speakers/Moderators:
Claus Popp Larsen
Head of Connected Cities
RISE & Digital Systems
Olle Bergdahl
Programme Director
IoT Sweden
Bo Baudin
Head of Strategy
IoT Sweden
Maria Holm
Project Manager -Stockholm IoT, City of Stockholm -City Management Office
Second floor, Lions Hall
How can solution providers work together with the cities to reduce consumption-based emissions and increase the quality of life at the same time? We have the knowledge and technology available, but we are moving too slow.
The cities of Oslo, Trondheim and Stavanger will present different challenges they face to reduce consumption-based emission, whereafter the participants will be divided into different groups (together with one pre-determined facilitator per group).
Speakers/Moderators:
Bjarne Uldal
Chief Innovation Officer
Nordic Edge
(Norwegian Smart City Innovation Cluster)
Werner Olsen
Product Manger
Innocode
Mads Simonsen
Co-founder
Ducky
Inger Hanne Vikshåland
Head of Stavanger Smart City
City of Stavanger
Bottom floor, Neptune B
This session aims to highlight the investments to be made within digitalization in Spain and Italy, as part of the 2ext Generation EU funds, which open business opportunities for private companies. As cities are aiming to become smarter, sustainable, and more livable, investing in digital technologies will be a key component in managing a successful green and digital transition. The financial support that will be provided to Spain and Italy within the scope of Next Generation EU represent the largest investments ever made into digitalization.
Business Sweden, Business Finland, and Netherlands Business Support Office will within this session present key investments opportunities outlined the Spanish and Italian Recovery & Resilience plans, highlight key public and private stakeholders’ active in the implementation, as well as discuss Spain’s and Italy’s digital agenda. The session would therefore provide with both insights and thoughts on the digital investments taking place in Spain and Italy, highlighting the complexity of dealing with large scale digital investments.
The session will focus on both a public and private digital sector audience. Local municipalities, such as the cities of Milan, Bologna, Parma, Barcelona, Madrid and/or Malaga will be engaged in the discussion.
First floor, Lucrecia Hall
This session will consist of short presentations from a number of innovative high-impact solutions. The entrepreneurs will describe their solutions but also what lessons they’ve learned when working with municipalities. The aim is to showcase technology that can dramatically reduce emissions but also to learn about how we can improve partnerships between such solution providers and cities.
05:00pm NETWORKING COCKTAIL
05:00pm NETWORKING COCKTAIL
* ALL DAY * Opportunity to book 1:1 meetings
* ALL DAY * Opportunity to book 1:1 meetings
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