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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 council on a single resilience plan.

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 30 – Norfolk: building coastal resilience before the storm

Blending green and grey infrastructure with innovative solutions like 3D printed reefs, discover how the City of Norfolk is tackling its coastal challenges head on.

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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.

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AI tools for city management launched at Bloomberg CityLab

Podcast: The central role of cities in the sharing economy, with Chelsea Rustrum

Investment platform will tackle infrastructure issues

OnDemand Panel Debate (11 Dec): Going behind the scenes of Dallas’ smart city initiatives

How air quality and weather data help cities boost resilienceSponsored by Vaisala

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Health and social care

The latest news on health and social care where smart city projects/technology are in use.

Barcelona pilots technology to tackle challenges of ageing

Barcelona pilots technology to tackle challenges of ageing

Health and social care12 Dec 2025

The latest edition of The Proactive City challenge called for entries that respond to society’s gradual ageing and to promote a more inclusive and caring city.

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.

Cop30: Brazil launches first climate adaptation plan for health

Cop30: Brazil launches first climate adaptation plan for health

Health and social care14 Nov 2025

It aims to enhance the health sector’s resilience to climate change via surveillance systems, capacity building, innovation, and evidence-based policymaking.

Platform supports those experiencing homelessness in Austin

Platform supports those experiencing homelessness in Austin

Health and social care08 Aug 2025

Open Now provides interactive, up-to-date information on the availability and locations of resources including daytime cooling centres and hygiene amenities.

Chicago expands Sustainable Community Schools model

Chicago expands Sustainable Community Schools model

Inclusivity07 Aug 2025

The model pairs schools with community-based organisations to provide integrated support and services and also aims to connect schools to neighbourhoods.

Detroit $700,000 startup fund to foster innovation and jobs

Detroit $700,000 startup fund to foster innovation and jobs

People and skills01 Aug 2025

Fund to build on Detroit’s legacy of innovation to help create jobs of the future with DECG selecting recipients for 26 grants to be awarded over the next year.

From safer cities to less congestion: 10 emerging technologies

From safer cities to less congestion: 10 emerging technologies

News25 Jun 2025

The emerging technologies are expected to achieve real-world impact within five years, addressing risks from congestion, pollution, disease and climate stress.

Cities unite to strengthen resilience through public health

Cities unite to strengthen resilience through public health

Climate action04 Jun 2025

Global initiative addresses the need to move beyond reactive healthcare systems, toward preventative, inclusive, and climate-smart urban health strategies.

Companies team to deliver intelligence at the edge

Companies team to deliver intelligence at the edge

AI and Machine Learning14 Apr 2025

Blaize and Broadsat aim to transform telecom and broadcast towers into intelligent AI-powered edge compute nodes for real-time video and global data delivery.

What do consumers really think of smart cities and AI?

What do consumers really think of smart cities and AI?

AI and Machine Learning01 Apr 2025

Report by Sand Technologies aims to help city and county leaders to better understand public sentiment about smart cities and artificial intelligence.

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ST Engineering to provide smart city platform for Lusail City

The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.

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.

US air-taxi completes 523-mile hydrogen-electric flight

It builds on Joby Aviation’s air taxi development programme and demonstrates the potential for emissions-free, regional journeys that don’t require a runway.

The threat of urban canyons to autonomous vehicles

The continued growth of skyscrapers and urban infrastructure means AVs are at risk of signal black-out in cities across the world, warns UK-based AV software specialist, Oxbotica.

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Digital Bangkok 2: How next-gen urban development is driving new growth opportunitiesSponsored by Huawei

Fan Yanjun, senior vice president, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies (Thailand), explains how taking a ...

Digital Bangkok: building a city of intelligence that puts people firstSponsored by Huawei

Kevin Cheng, president enterprise business group, Huawei Technologies (Thailand), details how technology is aiding ...

The technology helping hospitals shape the future of digital healthcareSponsored by Huawei

Libby Plummer explains how new technology is creating a new digital future for hospitals that will deliver better care ...

Think Tank: When the sea swallows your cities

In the latest of our opinion pieces from members of our Advisory Board, a grim warning is issued about the risk of ...

Think Tank: Cities on the frontline and lessons for a resilient recovery

In the latest of our opinion pieces from members of our Advisory Board, the question ’how can I build resilience for ...

Why cities need to get smart about maintenance

A new approach to maintenance work is the key to revitalising our cities, writes Chris Turlica, CEO of MaintainX.

Think tank: Sex(ism) and the city

In the latest of our opinion pieces from members of our Advisory Board, the question of whether our cities are truly ...

Smart waste, an opportunity cities should not trashSponsored by Paradox Engineering

Embracing smart waste will lead to healthier, more efficient and prettier cities, writes Gianni Minnetti, CEO of ...

The future of smart city technologySponsored by Huawei

Imagination and vision is required to enable successful digital transformation in our cities, writes Huawei’s Nadim ...

Jointly building a smart city helps us all enjoy better urban livesSponsored by Huawei

Closed ecosystems mean limited choices, limited innovation, limited success, writes York Yuekun.

Rebuilding tomorrow’s smart cities with a people first approach

Cities need to invest in its number one asset - its people - in the wake of Covid-19, writes Michael Proman, Managing ...

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

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Podcast: Using mobility data to shape the future of cities

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TomTom’s Ralf-Peter Schäfer discusses the power of real-time data in reshaping city life, and what the future holds for smart urban mobility.

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

Urban Exchange Podcast

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

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How NYC aims to be the world’s most language-friendly city

Brighton & Hove deploys AI sensors on active travel corridor

Barcelona pilots technology to tackle challenges of ageing

UK government launches tool for better transport connections

Bloomberg aims to supercharge the impact of UK metro mayors

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Free flows: New Jersey turns to AI to safeguard water quality

Free flows: New Jersey turns to AI to safeguard water quality

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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White paper: Securing smart city systems against cyberattacks

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