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OnDemand Global Local Executive Panel: From Smart Cities to Sustainable Futures – AI and Local Governance

In this virtual session, panellists will explore innovative approaches to issues such as urban planning, transportation, and public safety, with a specific focus on the role of local governments in implementing AI solutions.

OnDemand Panel Debate: Clearing the air: strategies for enhancing urban air quality

Join the latest SmartCitiesWorld Panel Debate to understand how to improve air quality in urban environments, and hear real-world case studies from leading cities. Watch Here

Special Reports

MaaS: Are cities going to miss the bus?

At a recent roundtable event, city leaders cut through the MaaS hype.

Manchester road tests MaaS

A MaaS trial in Manchester in the UK generated fascinating insights.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Chicago

Chicago is looking to smart city technology to solve issues including poverty, inequality and racial segregation.

Podcasts

Podcast: Using mobility data to shape the future of citiesSponsored by TomTom

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.

Opinions

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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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.

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 (20 Jan): 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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We ask cities and industry experts from around the world to give us their opinion on smart city technology and challenges.

Carlo Bernocco: Head of Business and Customer Success, Paradox Engineering

Smart lighting: enabling smart cities beyond illumination

Opinions20 Nov 2025by Carlo Bernocco: Head of Business and Customer Success, Paradox Engineering

Carlo Bernocco, Head of Business and Customer Success at Paradox Engineering, explores how smart lighting is evolving from energy-saving infrastructure to a multifunctional platform at the heart of urban innovation.

Francesco Amato: Business Development Manager, Latitudo 40

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

Climate action25 Jun 2024by Francesco Amato: Business Development Manager, 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.

Martin Walker: Product Marketing Manager, SSE Energy Solutions

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

Climate action24 Jun 2024by Martin Walker: Product Marketing Manager, 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.

Natalia Kuniewicz: Sales Representative, SatVu

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: SatVu

Climate action24 Jun 2024by Natalia Kuniewicz: Sales Representative, SatVu

SatVu will show how the nature of earth observation data makes it exceptionally inclusive and can help to create a much safer and more sustainable world.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: ESA’s Business Applications and Space Solutions (BASS)

Climate action21 Jun 2024

ESA’s Business Applications and Space Solutions (BASS) will be showcasing the potential for space applications to tackle the challenges of climate change and the unprecedented growth that cities are facing.

Paul Harding: Head Of Local Authority – ESG and Sustanability Lead, REEN

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: REEN

Climate action21 Jun 2024by Paul Harding: Head Of Local Authority – ESG and Sustanability Lead, REEN

Are static routes for waste collection out and dynamic routes the future? REEN will be highlighting its sensor technology to demonstrate how cities can move away from old ways of working to smarter methods of collecting waste.

Benjamin Martin: Head of Sustainability Solutions, NeuerEnergy

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: NeuerEnergy

Climate action19 Jun 2024by Benjamin Martin: Head of Sustainability Solutions, NeuerEnergy

NeuerEnergy will demonstrate how it can help cities drive change by reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment using its net zero platform.

John David Babyack Hernández: Environmental Global Sales Manager, Libelium

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: Libelium

Climate action18 Jun 2024by John David Babyack Hernández: Environmental Global Sales Manager, Libelium

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

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: AppyWay

Climate action17 Jun 2024by Dan Hubert: CEO & Founder, AppyWay

AppyWay will show cities why they need to adopt dynamic and data-driven kerbside management systems to optimise the use of kerb space and reduce congestion.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Shelby Rust Busó, City of San Diego

Climate action23 May 2024by Shelby Rust Buso

Shelby Rust Busó, chief sustainability officer, City of San Diego, Sustainability and Mobility Department, explains why it’s important to hear about climate action failures as well as successes.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Matt Greener, Arriva UK

Climate action07 May 2024by Matt Greener

Matt Greener of Arriva UK will share his insights on prioritising public transport and making the modal shift away from private cars as a top priority in climate action.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Yiu-Shing Pang, UK Power Networks

Climate action29 Apr 2024by Yiu-Shing Pang

Yiu-Shing Pang of UK Power Networks will share how the electricity distribution operator’s open data programme can help to accelerate the journey to net zero.

Michael Baker: Business Development, Innovation Products at Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure

City Leaders: get started on a data-sharing programme

Opinions04 Nov 2021by Michael Baker: Business Development, Innovation Products at Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure

Hexagon’s Michael Baker explains how city leaders can become the champions and architects of change for their communities by setting goals and equipping agencies and organisations with the right collaborative tools.

Daniel Chick: Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer, Zipabout

Londoners deserve better transport information

Opinions09 Jul 2021by Daniel Chick: Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer, Zipabout

If we’re serious about getting better quality crowding information, we need to leave historic data in the past and replace it with data based on travel intent, says Zipabout’s Daniel Chick.

Connecting the silos to open up the smart city

Opinions22 Jun 2021by Franck Le Gall: CEO, EGM

Franck Le Gall, CEO, EGM, and Juanjo Hierro, CTO, FIWARE Foundation, explains why interoperability and open systems need to be on every city’s radar.

Mike Ger, managing director, manufacturing and automotive, Cloudera

The road ahead for machine learning

Opinions06 May 2021by Mike Ger, managing director, manufacturing and automotive, Cloudera

Michael Ger, managing director, manufacturing and automotive, Cloudera, explains why the data-intensive processes behind autonomous vehicle development will light the way for future ML use cases.

Watch: Cloudera and IBM Storage discuss how cities can unlock the true value of their data

Opinions30 Mar 2021by Douglas O’Flaherty

SCW talks to Cloudera and IBM Storage on the power of big data and machine learning

Alexander Zschaler, Regional sales director, Cloudera

Podcast: The data tech unlocking new value in smart cities

Opinions23 Mar 2021by Alexander Zschaler, Regional sales director, Cloudera

In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, Graeme Neill speaks to Alexander Zschaler, regional sales director at Cloudera Germany.

Shagun Sethi, Corporate Social Responsibility at Grant Thornton

Think tank: Sex(ism) and the city

Opinions08 Mar 2021by Shagun Sethi, Corporate Social Responsibility at Grant Thornton

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

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.

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