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 Webinar: Preparing for AI - understanding the data groundwork with Sunderland

Discover how Sunderland is turning a strong, city‑wide data foundation into real‑world impact by using secure, scalable AI to transform planning, services, and community outcomes.

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

As cities confront the combined pressures of climate change, infrastructure resilience and digital transformation, the SmartCitiesWorld Summit 2026 will bring together urban leaders and partners during London Climate Action Week to explore how these agendas intersect – and how cities can translate strategy into practical action.

Podcast: How cities can tackle their biggest challenges through partnershipSponsored by Venturous Group

Benson Tam of Venturous Group and Michael Kwok of Arup explain how innovative public and private partnerships are pushing the envelope for the future of cities.

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 – Sydney

In 2020, the City of Sydney released a Smart City Strategic Framework to harness the opportunities brought about by digital disruption, to plan for uncertainty and to sustain a global reputation as a leading place to live, work, learn and visit.

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.

Podcast: How cities can tackle their biggest challenges through partnershipSponsored by Venturous Group

Benson Tam of Venturous Group and Michael Kwok of Arup explain how innovative public and private partnerships are pushing the envelope for the future of cities.

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 – Shenzhen

Smart Cities Reports10 Oct 2022

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Las Vegas

Smart Cities Reports29 Nov 2021

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Las Vegas with its unprecedented growth, urban development, and leaps of imagination.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Seattle

Smart Cities Reports25 Aug 2021

We explore Seattle’s journey to becoming a data-driven city and how it plans to continue to develop its smart city strengths

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – London

Smart Cities Reports19 Mar 2021

The long term-impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the country’s poor performance in the Covid-19 pandemic, are among the complex set of challenges it faces if London is to remain one of the world’s most influential and enviable cities.

City of Darwin launches new data platform

Citizen engagement02 Apr 2026

Platform brings together a range of datasets and information from public sources to support greater transparency and more informed community decision-making.

Global index provides public transit network performance data

Open data04 Mar 2026

The Mosaiq Global Public Transit Index is built on open data from more than a 1,000 locations worldwide, providing an up-to-date view of network performance.

EU road safety project moves from concept to action

Road travel15 Dec 2025

With five pilot sites, the project aims to transform the way Europe monitors, evaluates and improves safety and maintenance of its urban and secondary roads.

City of Charlotte to host second data conference

Data management & software17 Nov 2025

City is inviting proposals from researchers, technologists, community leaders, and public sector professionals with a passion for using data to solve real-world challenges.

AI tool helps boost UK energy system operator’s solar forecasts

Solar power10 Nov 2025

Quartz Solar combines machine learning, live satellite imagery and weather data to generate forecasts up to days ahead, providing superior within-day performance.

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.

Auckland provides public access to coastal data

Open data11 Aug 2025

It enables Aucklanders to access data collected by the city council, including sand- and water-levels, as well as coastal camera imagery, at key beaches.

London launches next-gen city data platform

Open data11 Jul 2025

The Data for London Library, which replaces the Datastore, aims to make it easier to use data to benefit Londoners and power smarter, AI-enabled public services.

San José launches citywide data strategy to promote equity and innovation

Data management & software09 Jun 2025

Foundational principle of data-as-a-service makes it easier for departments to access, share, and use high-quality data to improve service coordination.

Rabat to host 11th FIWARE Global Summit

News14 May 2025

The Moroccan capital is staging the two-day, open-source event, which aims to highlight the potential of smart and sustainable territories beyond Europe.

Which US cities are emerging as leading tech hubs?

Smart Cities News29 Jan 2025

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

UK Smart Data Challenge Prize call for entries

Open data17 Jan 2025

Prize is calling on individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and civil society to prototype smart data solutions across different sectors of the economy.

UK announces £22m in new smart data services

Open data23 Oct 2024

It will help provide the first national smart data donation service, a pioneering satellite imagery service, and geographic and sustainable places data services.

Nasa and IBM Research apply AI to weather and climate

Climate action23 Sep 2024

The model seeks to offer a flexible, scalable way to address a variety of challenges related to short-term weather as well as long-term climate projection.

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

Climate action25 Jun 2024

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

Climate action24 Jun 2024

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.

New York launches data hub for Business Improvement Districts

Open data08 May 2024

The New York Places Data Hub aims to make it simple and easy for BIDs and small businesses to access critical data to better understand community needs.

Arup and ODI extend net zero data-sharing partnership

Climate action18 Apr 2024

In this next phase, Arup and the Open Data Institute will place renewed focus on the built environment and develop a roadmap for net zero data infrastructure.

Barcelona claims city data is “more accessible than ever”

Open data13 Feb 2024

The tool from the Municipal Data Office seeks to democratise access to and the usage of statistical data relating to the city from multiple perspectives.

Mayor unveils comprehensive One Seattle Data Strategy

Open data22 Dec 2023

It is designed to optimise City’s use of data for more informed decision-making, enhanced collaboration and protecting privacy and standardising best practices.

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

Webinars10 Dec 2023

SmartCitiesWorld gets up close and personal with the City of Dallas and its innovative smart city strategies. Panellist from City of Dallas, National League of Cities and Ubicquia. Watch OnDemand

Syracuse launches open data challenge to support Vision Zero

Open data06 Oct 2023

The open data challenge aims to come up with improvements that will help Syracuse deliver on Vision Zero aspirations to heighten traffic safety in the city.

Making sense of sensor data to build successful smart citiesSponsored by Opendatasoft

Data management & software17 Aug 2023

Adam Reiser, sales director, North America at Opendatasoft, explains how cities can liberate data from individual departmental silos so it can easily be used by all.

How the City of Coral Gables is making data more meaningful

Digital twins29 Jun 2023

Raimundo Rodulfo, director of IT and CIO at the City of Coral Gables, explains how digital twin technology is taking its smart city vision to the next level.

How can city data spaces transform data-sharing?

Data management & software26 Jun 2023

FIWARE Foundation and SmartCitiesWorld have collaborated on a whitepaper to show how city data spaces are paving the way for a new era of data-sharing in smart cities.

Open source event aims to create value from data transformation

Open data24 May 2023

The open source FIWARE Global Summit in Vienna will share sustainable solutions and showcase digital transformation projects in smart cities and other sectors.

Tech companies team with TomTom for open map data project

Open data04 Jan 2023

AWS, Meta and Microsoft will work with the location tech specialist to build reliable, easy-to-use and interoperable open map data under the Linux Foundation.

Industry data partnership formed to tackle societal issues

Open data07 Dec 2022

Big names such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LinkedIn and Microsoft are committing to advance more open and accessible private sector data for societal good.

Advisory board to create data strategy for London

Data management & software22 Nov 2022

The group of data and technology experts, corporate leaders and civic society will help deliver mayor’s commitment to harness data and emerging technologies.

Mayors chosen for inaugural City Data Alliance cohort

News14 Jul 2022

Twenty-two cities from North, Central, and South America have been chosen to participate in the Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative, which aims to take data-driven local government to a new level.

Building an urban data platform for the City of Vienna

Open data20 May 2022

How the city came to build an urban data platform and the importance of open-source platforms and standards in such developments.

Vendor lock-in and lack of interoperability still holding smart cities back

Internet of Things04 May 2022

ABI Research analysis found that smart city standards are key to unlocking the full potential but the standards ecosystem is still a diverse network and can be confusing.

Alliance aims to help cities set a new standard in using data for policy-making

Policymaking10 Mar 2022

Bloomberg Philanthropies will identify 100 cities in North and South America that are the most sophisticated at using data and aims to propel them to an even higher standard.

Ontario rolls out new platform to make data more usable for municipalities

Data management & software01 Mar 2022

UrbanLogiq’s Municipal Analysis Tool will allow each of Ontario’s 444 municipalities to access more streamlined and user-friendly property and assessment data geospatially.

Data alliance formed to promote global smart city standards

Open data31 Jan 2022

Fiware Foundation and the India Urban Data Exchange want to encourage standard-based development of solutions to exchange data among multiple organisations in different application domains.

Stocking the urban data pond

Special Reports21 Jan 2022

Urban data platforms are vital in many smart city initiatives but cities sometimes struggle to build a business case for them. Tobias Brandt, Ting Li and Rasmus Ramm put forward a metaphor for success.

Cities recognised for their use of data to inform policy and funding decisions

Policymaking15 Dec 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ certification celebrates US local governments that are leading the nation in the use of data and evidence to improve services, create operational efficiencies, and engage residents.

OnDemand Webinar: How 5G in smart cities accelerates innovation

On-Demand Webinars01 Dec 2021

The latest webinar from SmartCitiesWorld and Cloudera takes an in-depth look at how 5G is accelerating urban innovation, and the role of data analysis as part of that acceleration.

City Leaders: get started on a data-sharing programmeSponsored article

Opinions04 Nov 2021

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.

Webinar: How 5G in smart cities accelerates innovation

Webinars04 Nov 2021

The latest webinar from SmartCitiesWorld and Cloudera takes an in-depth look at how 5G is accelerating urban innovation, and the role of data analysis as part of that acceleration.

OnDemand Webinar: The IoT is rapidly overhauling how logistics and transportation industries operate

On-Demand Webinars05 Oct 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a vital role in the development of smart transportation and logistics. Smart transportation has facilitated huge development in the field of smart cities.

Consortium establishes alliance to tackle data-sharing challenges

News29 Sep 2021

The Data Spaces Business Alliance seeks to unlock the value of data and artificial intelligence by driving the adoption of data spaces across Europe and beyond.

OnDemand Webinar: Connected intelligent assets: overcoming the data management challenge

On-Demand Webinars22 Sep 2021

Realising the benefits of connected intelligent assets and digital twin and predictive maintenance platforms relies on advanced data management and analytics. This webinar will look at the challenges faced in this area and how to overcome them.

Newcastle launches website to showcase smart city innovation

News22 Sep 2021

Key aims of the site are to strengthen the UK city’s innovation community by creating new partnerships and commercial opportunities and provide a resource for sharing ideas and insight.

Glasgow City Council launches data hub to provide insight on how city operates

News14 Sep 2021

The council said it is focusing on adding a wide range of data to the hub in future on a range of subjects including the environment, transport and movement, the economy, education, and government.

OnDemand Webinar: The IoT is rapidly overhauling how logistics and transportation industries operate

Webinars08 Sep 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a vital role in the development of smart transportation and logistics. Smart transportation has facilitated huge development in the field of smart cities.

Embracing the connected life and intelligent future, RINGA Launch 2021

Webinars08 Sep 2021

Nascent technologies like smart devices and the IoT simplify our day-to-day operations. Smart devices provide our homes and workspaces with automation, advanced security, and a host of other benefits. The IoT gives us new business insights while reducing our operating costs.

Webinar: Connected intelligent assets: overcoming the data management challenge

Webinars12 Aug 2021

OnDemand WEBINAR: Becoming truly smart – how can new cities add value to fibre with sensing?

On-Demand Webinars09 Aug 2021

The webinar examines the unique opportunity for architects, designers and planners offered by fibre installation in greenfield sites.

White paper: Understanding Resiliency : What it means to be a resilient city and tools to support

White Papers09 Aug 2021

This whitepaper will provide a better understanding of the necessity for resiliency strategies, the challenges of implementing resiliency and digital tools to support cities and territories to build more resilient, sustainable and safe places to live.

Chicago street furniture used to launch air quality sensing pilot

News20 Jul 2021

Data from sensors will be accessible to the public on smartphones by scanning a QR code and will also be fed into the Chicago Open Data portal.

White Paper: Artificial Intelligence Within Cities – The Next Stage in Societal Digital TransformationSponsored by Fiware

White Papers16 Jul 2021

In collaboration with Matthew James Bailey (leading authority, pioneer, and consultant in innovation, AI and AI Ethics, Smart Cities, IoT, and a renowned author), this brand new white paper focusses on the role played by artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the future experience of Smart Cities.

Awards recognise smart city progress made by North America municipalities

News14 Jul 2021

Projects ranging from the use of AI and machine learning to inspect roadways to a housing rights challenge were among those highlighted as making “unprecedented progress”.

Report reveals critical gaps in governance of smart city tech

News13 Jul 2021

Research carried out by the World Economic Forum of the 36 “pioneer cities” identifies shortcomings in a number of areas, including data privacy, cybersecurity and accessibility.

On Demand Webinar: Becoming truly smart – how can new cities add value to fibre with sensing?

Webinars08 Jul 2021

Optimally installed fibre with Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology can vastly expand the range of applications that both improve quality of life for citizens and bring opportunities for other parties in the smart city ecosystem and greenfield sites

Connecting the silos to open up the smart city

Opinions22 Jun 2021

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.

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