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OnDemand Trend Report Panel Discussion: AI for personalised government services – building trust and inclusivity in cities

Join city and industry experts to explore how AI is enabling more personalised, accessible, and trusted government services, and uncover practical strategies for responsible AI adoption that benefits all citizens. Hear from Manchester City Council and the City of Tampere.

OnDemand COP30 Webinar: Unlocking climate finance: building city capacity and partnerships

Discover how cities can expand their fiscal and institutional capacity to attract and manage climate finance. This session explores the role of digital tools for tracking and reporting, data platforms for transparency, and innovative approaches that allow cities to unlock new sources of investment.

Special Reports

How AI cities shape Malaysia’s digital future – and the role of the region’s first Smart City ExpoSponsored by Smart City Expo Kuala Lumpur

Discover how Malaysia is leading the way in AI-powered urban innovation at the first Southeast Asian Smart City Expo in Kuala Lumpur.

A clean and efficient future: energy in focus at Cities Climate Action Summit 2024

Discover how this year’s Cities Climate Action Summit puts the spotlight on the switch to clean and renewable energy, and the importance of energy-efficiency.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.

Podcasts

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 31 – Resilient Sydney: 33 local governments, one resilience strategy

Join us for a journey of collaboration on the Urban Exchange Podcast, where we discover how Resilient Sydney is aligning more than 30 local councils on a single resilience plan.

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: Latitudo 40

Latitudo 40 sits at the convergence of satellite imagery analysis and AI and will demonstrate the vital role satellite data has to play in helping cities tackle the challenges of climate change.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: SSE Energy Solutions

SSE Energy Solutions will show how by leveraging the power of smart city data, cities have a key role to play in lowering carbon emissions and energy consumption and costs.

22 - 26 June 2026: Find out more

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

Smart Cities Reports

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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Trend Report 2025: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

Trend Series

Download our latest report to uncover how artificial intelligence is being used to support cities in how they plan and operate city services to ensure they are vibrant, sustainable and economically thriving modern spaces.

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

Webinars

Join us for insights from real-world case studies on the use of digital twins and AI as the present and future of urban management.

Latest Podcast

How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AI

Podcasts

Tune into the SmartCitiesWorld podcast to understand the world of sovereign AI for cities, featuring PNY Technologies’ Youssef Nadiri as our expert guest.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

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The latest news on air quality challenges and solutions for smart city projects across the world.

Edinburgh Lez penalties fund council projects

Edinburgh Lez penalties fund council projects

Air quality03 Feb 2026

After meeting the scheme’s operating costs, any surplus income from low emission zone enforcement must be used towards achieving the scheme’s wider objectives.

Chicago nears tree-planting target with 90 per cent achieved

Chicago nears tree-planting target with 90 per cent achieved

Parks and green space24 Nov 2025

Our Roots Chicago is a community-driven initiative to expand tree planting in the city, with a focus on underserved neighbourhoods with low tree canopy cover.

Rome crowned Smart City of 2025 at Barcelona Expo

Rome crowned Smart City of 2025 at Barcelona Expo

News06 Nov 2025

Judges at the World Smart City Awards gala said Rome’s visionary strategy is leveraging data, 5G and digital twins to enhance urban governance, improve public services and build resilience.

C40 World Mayors Summit 2025 opens in Rio de Janeiro

C40 World Mayors Summit 2025 opens in Rio de Janeiro

Climate action03 Nov 2025

More than 300 city leaders will attend the summit with the goal of moving from the era of climate negotiation to the decade of delivery, with cities taking the lead.

European Green Capital for 2027 winner announced

European Green Capital for 2027 winner announced

News03 Oct 2025

A total of 20 cities from 11 European countries competed for the awards, judged by an international panel of seven independent urban sustainability experts.

Alliance accelerates electrification of freight in Mexico

Alliance accelerates electrification of freight in Mexico

Electric vehicles01 Oct 2025

Laneshift is a pioneering initiative to speed up the shift toward EV trucks by expanding and strengthening charging infrastructure in Mexico, Brazil, and India.

Salt Lake City invites community to shape climate plan

Salt Lake City invites community to shape climate plan

Climate action24 Sep 2025

Residents are invited to share their vision for Climate Forward SLC, which aims to identify key priorities to help the City reach 2040 community climate goals.

Why cities need to make circular waste central to cutting urban emissions

Why cities need to make circular waste central to cutting urban emissions

Resilience11 Sep 2025

Analysis in a new report from the nonprofit Leading Cities and the Afkar Collective consultancy argue how we handle waste is “first-order resilience issue”.

‘Green economy heroes’ win 2025 Women4ClimateTO competition

‘Green economy heroes’ win 2025 Women4ClimateTO competition

Climate action24 Jul 2025

Twelve local Toronto entrepreneurs pitched climate-related initiatives to a panel of judges for a chance to win a financial award of $20,000 first prize.

Fifty cities chosen in 2025 Mayors’ Challenge

Fifty cities chosen in 2025 Mayors’ Challenge

News26 Jun 2025

Finalists from 33 countries will receive $50,000 and support to test breakthrough ideas for improving life in cities in the Bloomberg Philanthropies challenge.

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What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

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.

UK train station harvests kinetic energy from commuters’ footsteps

The project at Leighton Buzzard station aims to show how untapped footfall energy at transport hubs represents a real opportunity to provide sustainable energy sources.

AI used to monitor and optimise Swedish road infrastructure

Computer vision and machine learning specialist, Univrses, will work with the Swedish Transport Administration to digitise and manage roadside infrastructure.

Public technology Portal sculpture unites Dublin and New York

Each sculpture features a 24/7 visual livestream from a Portal in the other city, allowing real-time interaction between Dubliners and New Yorkers and visitors.

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 11 – Gareth Morgan, Cape Town – Mainstreaming and institutionalising urban resilience

Gareth Morgan, executive director of future planning and resilience for the City of Cape Town, joins the Urban Exchange to talk about his efforts to put resilience front and centre of all aspects of the city’s work.

SmartCitiesWorld Newsletters (Daily/Weekly)

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From smog to solutions: The case for cleaner air in our cities

Mete Coban, deputy mayor of London for energy and environment, and Jane Burston, CEO of the Clean Air Fund, discuss the ...

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 ...

Why UK leaders must double-down on active travel promises

Xavier Brice, CEO of walking, wheeling and cycling charity, Sustrans, says the drive to net zero, cost-of-living crisis ...

Air pollution is a social justice issue

PlanetWatch’s Claudio Parrinello says air quality improvement measures must be targeted and designed so they don’t fall ...

Helsinki’s journey to becoming a 15-minute city

Anni Sinnemäki, Helsinki’s deputy mayor for the urban environment, provides expert insight into the Finnish city’s ...

5G’s importance for smart cities has been underplayed

Everyone talks about 5G hype but Kevin Hasley RootMetrics & IHS Markit argues that the importance of 5G to connected ...

How smart cities can leverage open innovation to accelerate digital transformation

We have the technology…

Lack of funding, skills, and leadership are impeding larger scale smart city deployment, says Mathew Evans head of ...

The reality of MaaS has arrived, by Ben Foulser, associate director, Infrastructure Advisory Practice, KPMG

Mobility-as-a-Service enhances the user experienced and can achieve key policy objectives such as economic growth and ...

Choice financing, says Simon Hobday, partner at Osborne Clarke

A variety of funding models are needed to facilitate Smart Cities

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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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.

Latest Trend Report

Trend Report 2025: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

Trend Series

Download our latest report to uncover how artificial intelligence is being used to support cities in how they plan and operate city services to ensure they are vibrant, sustainable and economically thriving modern spaces.

Latest Webinar

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

Webinars

Join us for insights from real-world case studies on the use of digital twins and AI as the present and future of urban management.

Latest Podcast

How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AI

Podcasts

Tune into the SmartCitiesWorld podcast to understand the world of sovereign AI for cities, featuring PNY Technologies’ Youssef Nadiri as our expert guest.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

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Edinburgh Lez penalties fund council projects

G7 recognises role of cities and regions

Latin America accelerates high-impact urban climate action

Singapore launches governance framework for agentic AI

Birmingham establishes landmark knowledge quarter

SmartCitiesWorld Newsletters (Daily/Weekly)

Our editorial newsletter pulls together our latest news items into one email, direct to your inbox. We also feature our latest city interviews, Special Reports and Guest Opinions.

Special Reports

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

Using the fourth space to help cities cope with Covid-19

Using the fourth space to help cities cope with Covid-19

How the holistic approach is central to the Covid-19 recovery

How the holistic approach is central to the Covid-19 recovery

City Profiles

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – San Diego

Delve into this City Profile which focuses on how the City of San Diego is innovating through policy and technology to best serve its communities. Find out how it splits the city’s challenges and matches them to solutions that demonstrate exactly how technology, policy and investment come together to overcome both every-day and long-term issues.

Research

Insight Report: Smart lighting: how switched on are you?