Trend Report Panel Discussion (21 May): Operating smarter: using digital twins and AI to reshape urban infrastructure management

Discover how AI-powered digital twins are transforming urban infrastructure and how these innovations can improve efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.

OnDemand Panel Discussion: Digital twins and AI as the intelligent operating layer for cities

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SmartCitiesWorld Summit 2026: connecting climate action, resilience and urban innovation

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2024: unlocking climate finance

The 2024 Cities Climate Action Summit will focus on innovative funding mechanisms and strategies to mobilise private finance for urban climate initiatives as one of its central themes.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Sunderland

Find out how Sunderland is repositioning itself as a leading smart city – using digital infrastructure and low-carbon innovation to build a resilient, future-focused economy in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile.

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Find out how Dublin is innovating to improve experiences and services for its communities in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile, including digital twin projects, traffic reduction, and economic growth.

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How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AISponsored by PNY Technologies

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Podcast: Building resilient cities: trustworthy AI, digital twins, and urban innovation at YII 2025Sponsored by Bentley Systems

SmartCitiesWorld speaks with Bentley Systems leaders about unleashing AI and digital twins to drive innovation, resilience, and people-first progress in the world’s cities.

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: Libelium

Libelium will be demonstrating its cutting-edge IoT solutions designed to monitor and reduce urban pollution based on artificial intelligence and digital twins.

Towards the smart cities of 2025

From tech trends to behavioural shifts and new ways to make smart cities economically sustainable, Matthew James Bailey explores what the next five years could look like.

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Cities Thriving on Lighting, Episode 2 – Simplicity by design in smart lighting

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Discover the technology and considerations behind how cities can turn existing streetlight networks into secure, interoperable, and future‑proof infrastructure in the second episode of Cities Thriving on Lighting.

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Peachtree Corners partners to integrate mapping technology

Peachtree Corners partners to integrate mapping technology

Analytics21 May 2025

The US city is deploying Esri’s ArcGIS software to visualise, analyse and consolidate data from connected smart city solutions and unlock actionable insights.

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Denver Smart Futures Lab programme announces latest cohort

News29 Apr 2025

Ten startups will access the lab’s physical coworking and prototyping space, which features a private 5G network for the research and development of IoT tech.

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AI-powered Urban Metaverse to ‘revolutionise’ how smart cities operate

AI and Machine Learning29 Apr 2025

Peachtree Corners is collaborating with BizzTech to develop an AI‑driven metaverse platform that will redefine urban planning around local city challenges.

Sunderland smart city team wins People’s Choice Award

Sunderland smart city team wins People’s Choice Award

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2025 Digital Leaders Impact Awards invited the public to vote for projects that use digital technology to support communities and create meaningful change.

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Which US cities are emerging as leading tech hubs?

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The research was conducted to benchmark the leading metropolitan statistical areas based on their capacity to generate and embrace emerging technologies.

Viavi unveils 6G city-scale digital twin with native AI

Viavi unveils 6G city-scale digital twin with native AI

Digital twins04 Apr 2024

As 6G is the first AI-native generation of wireless communications, data sources such as the twin will be vital for training other elements of a 6G network.

Digital twin provides telcos with cellular coverage insight

Digital twin provides telcos with cellular coverage insight

Digital twins27 Feb 2024

Mapbox, Snowflake and Maxar Intelligence have announced an integrated offering to provide a visual representation of telecom organisations’ precise coverage.

Shanghai ranked top smart city for second year

Shanghai ranked top smart city for second year

Cloud and edge computing25 May 2023

Juniper Research’s ranking of 50 world cities evaluates transportation, infrastructure, energy, lighting, city management, technology and urban connectivity.

Birmingham: blueprint for a digital city

Birmingham: blueprint for a digital city

Fibre networks25 May 2023

Raj Mack, head of Digital Birmingham at Birmingham City Council, explains how the West Midlands city is building an international digital brand and reputation.

Digital Twin Consortium launches telco working group

Digital twins23 Mar 2023

The group plans to focus on telecommunications market challenges, including for platform development for emerging technologies and enabling smart cities.

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Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

Huawei seals smart city deal with Barcelona

They will collaborate on projects relating to 5G, smart city applications and digital transformation.

Never fear, Watson is here!

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

This white paper maps the end-to-end journey from data discovery to implementing complex AI models that can provide customised insight. It puts forward a blueprint for cities to use artificial intelligence to become smarter and more liveable by taking an outcomes-focused approach.

eBook: Harnessing open data to create smart communities

eBook: Harnessing open data to create smart communities

This eBook, illustrated with a range of case studies, brings together best practice from multiple open data projects and industry experts. It demonstrates The report includes examples from Town of Cary (USA), Bristol City Council (UK), Morrisville (USA), Kingston (UK), City of New Jersey (USA), Western Parkland Councils (Australia), Southern Grampians Shire Council (Australia).

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

This white paper covers how connected systems can help cities build sustainability and wellbeing into their indoor and outdoor spaces. We look at the scale of the decarbonisation challenge faced by cities, how cities can use connected technologies to create greener buildings and the vital role of retrofitting. We includes detailed analysis of the energy and cost-savings that energy efficiency programmes can bring in cities.

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OnDemand Panel discussion: The role of telecoms in building smarter cities

OnDemand Panel discussion: The role of telecoms in building smarter cities

OnDemand WEBINAR: Open Cities: Why interoperability and 6LoWPAN matter

OnDemand WEBINAR: Open Cities: Why interoperability and 6LoWPAN matter

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