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SmartCitiesWorld is a World glass content and demand generation agency for the global smart, sustainable and resilient cities sector. 

 

Through the data on our community platform and ability to convene, we have a unique global view of the trends, challenges, and opportunities in the sector.

 

SmartCitiesWorld builds creative campaigns for our clients to a brief designed to surface buyer intent and raise the profile of clients' products and services and create business opportunities.

 

Maximise your Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 investment with SmartCitiesWorld

Smart City Expo World Congress

SmartCitiesWorld is proud to be an official Global Media Partner of Smart City Expo World Congress for over ten years.

Maximise your investment in Smart City Expo World Congress 2026

10 Years

Global Media Partner

1.6m+

Annual Website Views

55,000+

Members

3,000+

Cities

Whether you're exhibiting, sponsoring or launching new solutions in Barcelona, SmartCitiesWorld helps you build awareness before the event, create meaningful engagement during it and generate commercial momentum long afterwards.

Our integrated marketing and city engagement programmes are designed to help you stand out, connect with senior decision-makers and maximise the return on your investment before, during and after Smart City Expo World Congress.

 

Request a Media Pack

Generate more qualified meetings
Launch a new product or service
Build thought leadership
Engage senior city leaders
Position your product/solutions responsibly
Extend your campaign beyond the event

Three reasons organisations partner with SmartCitiesWorld for their Barcelona campaign

1
 
Maximise your investment

Maximise your investment

Turn your Barcelona investment into measurable awareness, engagement and opportunities.

2
 
Give your team time back

Give your team time back

We become an extension of your team, handling the planning, content and delivery.

3
 
Reach trusted city audiences

Reach trusted city audiences

Engage senior decision-makers through trusted content and meaningful conversations.

Maximise Your investment

Maximise Your investment

Turn three days in Barcelona into a campaign that delivers awareness before the event, meaningful engagement during it and commercial momentum afterwards.


Give your team time back

Give your team time back

Think of SmartCitiesWorld as an extension of your marketing and business development team. We plan, create and deliver integrated campaigns, allowing your team to focus on customer meetings, networking and closing business.

Reach trusted city audiences

Reach trusted city audiences

Connect with one of the world's largest and most engaged communities of city leaders through independent editorial, thought leadership and trusted conversations.

SmartCitiesWorld supports every stage of your Campaign

1

PLANNING

 
 
  • ·  Campaign strategy
  • ·  Content planning
  • ·  Messaging development
  • ·  Audience targeting
2

BUILD AWARENESS

 
 
  • ·  Thought leadership articles
  • ·  Sponsored content
  • ·  Email campaigns
  • ·  LinkedIn promotion
  • ·  Video content
  • ·  Audience development
3

BARCELONA

 
 
  • ·  Executive interviews
  • ·  Fireside conversations
  • ·  Video production
  • ·  Live reporting
  • ·  Exhibition support
  • ·  Networking opportunities
4

EXTEND THE CONVERSATION

 
 
  • ·  Campaign reports
  • ·  Lead nurture
  • ·  Thought leadership
  • ·  AI CityXchange
  • ·  Roundtables
  • ·  Webinar opportunities
5

COMMERCIAL OUTCOMES

  • ·  Qualified sales pipeline
  • ·  Higher quality meetings
  • ·  Brand authority
  • ·  Stronger city relationships
  • ·  Better ROI
  • ·  Long-term commercial momentum

    1. Planning  

  • Campaign strategy
  • Content planning
  • Messaging development
  • Audience targeting

    2. Build Awareness  

  • Thought leadership articles
  • Sponsored content
  • Email campaigns
  • LinkedIn promotion
  • Video content
  • Audience development

    3. Barcelona

  • Executive interviews
  • Fireside conversations
  • Video production
  • Live reporting
  • Exhibition support
  • Networking opportunities

    4. Extend the conversation  

  • Campaign reports
  • Lead nurture
  • Thought leadership
  • AI CityXchange
  • Roundtables
  • Webinar opportunities

    5. Commercial
        outcomes

  • Qualifies sales pipeline
  • Higher quality meetings
  • Brand authority
  • Stronger city relationships
  • Better ROI
  • Long-term commercial momentum

SmartCitiesWorld supports every stage of your campaign

How we help you succeed

Building industry authority

Build industry authority


Position your organisation as a trusted thought leader through independent editorial, executive interviews, reports and expert opinion

Convereations

Generate qualified conversations


Create meaningful engagement with senior city leaders, public sector decision-makers and strategic partners

Awareness

Increase
awareness


Ensure your organisation is recognised before delegates arrive in Barcelona through integrated pre-event campaigns

AI conversations

Create trusted AI conversations


Through AI CityXchange, engage cities on the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence and future public services

content

Capture content that keeps working


Create high-quality video, interviews, reports, articles and digital assets that continue generating value long after the exhibition

Barcelona

Extend your Barcelona investment


Transform a three-day event into months of marketing, relationship building and demand generation

Why SmartCitiesWorld?

Traditional event marketing
Stand traffic
Advertising
One-off activity
Internal resource only
Short-term awareness
Event contacts
SmartCitiesWorld
Audience engagement before, during and after Barcelona
Trusted editorial engagement
Integrated campaigns
Extension of your marketing team
Long-term demand generation
Ongoing relationships with city leaders

OUR REACH

1,600,000

website visits pa

55,500+

global members

2,650+

cities represented

211+

countries & regions

WHY ATTEND?

  • Join the most action-oriented climate event for cities on the planet
  • Surround yourself with a global audience of climate, technology, finance, policy, and smart city professionals to hear the latest climate advancements. 
  • Unlock actionable insights in urban climate resilience.
  • Obtain valuable perspectives on developing strategies for building a smart, resilient city.
  • Understand real world solutions from city leaders that are transforming cities across the globe.
  • Engage in dynamic discussions and learn from other’s experiences. 
  • Create relationships and partnerships with organisations that are already solving urban climate challenges
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Our Vision:

At SmartCitiesWorld, we truly believe that the Cities Climate Action Summit is helping to showcase the way cities can act against the realities of climate change and develop sustainable and resilient models across city departments. 
 

Our events are focussed on the outcomes that cities have achieved alongside the challenges and need for collaboration to overcome climate related barriers within our cities. 
 

Our vision is to facilitate positive change. So, although we already have the support of international bodies and partners, we strive to involve every CSO, every CTO and all those involved in the decision-making process within cities to be a part of this journey. 
 

Together we will help create change, department by department, town by town, city by city and country by country.

 

Just some of the quotes that City Halls gave us:

 

"Cities shouldn’t wait for a new optimal technology to emerge in the future to get started because there are already so many ways to get started off the shelf."

Björn Hugosson, Chief Climate Officer, City of Stockholm

 

"The importance is working with other levels of government, communities and the private 
sector as we just can’t do it alone."

Lord Mayor Sally Capp, City of Melbourne

Our ground-breaking Report:

Our ground-breaking Cities Climate Action Trend Report lays the foundation for this event - which analyses 200 cities’ targets, actions and priorities in the fight against climate change. We also build on the work achieved through the SmartCitiesWorld COP26 Charter alongside our recent Cities Climate Action Panel Discussion

 

Our world-class speakers make the case for a new climate imperative. Our audience provides the network to mobilise best practices for cities worldwide.

 

Just some of the quotes that City Halls gave us:

 

"Cities shouldn’t wait for a new optimal technology to emerge in the future to get started because there are already so many ways to get started off the shelf."

Björn Hugosson, Chief Climate Officer, City of Stockholm

 

"The importance is working with other levels of government, communities and the private 
sector as we just can’t do it alone."

Lord Mayor Sally Capp, City of Melbourne

Latest 2024 Speakers

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen

Anna Lisa Boni

Anna Lisa Boni

Carlos Evans

Carlos Evans

Shelby Rust Buso

Shelby Rust Buso

Ricardo Rio

Ricardo Rio

Oleg Polovynko

Oleg Polovynko

Nancy Sutley

Nancy Sutley

Jaromir Beranek

Jaromir Beranek

Genesis Gavino

Genesis Gavino

Jennifer Sanders

Jennifer Sanders

James Nowlan

James Nowlan

Martijn van Stam

Martijn van Stam

 

Featured Partners for 2024

Cities who have already registered for 2024

City Of Copenhagen

City Of Copenhagen

City of Philadelphia

City of Philadelphia

City of Melbourne

City of Melbourne

City of Helsinki

City of Helsinki

City Of Prague

City Of Prague

City Of Toronto

City Of Toronto

Trusted by leading organisations

We’ve managed to make a lot of progress and we have done it very fast thanks to our webinars and these closed events. [SmartCitiesWorld] have built something not only from the customer base but also in the way of delivering key contacts and key events.

Youssef Nadiri, Product & Business Development Manager AI Applications EMEA at PNY Technologies

Paradox Engineering has been working with SmartCitiesWorld for over six years and every year has been positive collaboration. We trust the SmartCitiesWorld team in supporting us and providing insightful information.
Valentine Taddeo, Marketing and Communications Leader at Paradox Engineering

I've loved the one-on-one connection with cities at the Smart Cities World event today. I think it's it's wonderful to bring people together to talk about things in a more informal way..
Veena Mahesh, General Manager, Critical Infrastructure at Intel

We’ve managed to make a lot of progress and we have done it very fast thanks to our webinars and these closed events. SmartCitiesWorld have built something not only from the customer base but also in the way of delivering key contacts and key events.
Youssef Nadiri, Product & Business Development Manager AI Applications EMEA at PNY Technologies

Paradox Engineering has been working with SmartCitiesWorld for over six years and every year has been positive collaboration. We trust the SmartCitiesWorld team in supporting us and providing insightful information.
Valentine Taddeo, Marketing and Communications Leader at Paradox Engineering

I’ve loved the one-on-one connection with cities at the Smart Cities World event today. I think it’s wonderful to bring people together to talk about things in a more informal way.
Veena Mahesh, General Manager, Critical Infrastructure at Intel

This session has been wonderful. We are really seeing how different city leaders are coming together to share informal feedback on what works, leading to a lot more ideas.
Nam Guan NG, General Manager and Head, Global Smart Cities and APJ AI Innovation Hub at Dell Technologies

The beautiful thing about SmartCitiesWorld events is you can have in-depth conversations in a more intimate environment. We are all trying to solve problems, and when you get in smaller, closed environments like this, you can really have those meaningful discussions.
Jonas Allen, VP Global Marketing at Sand Technologies

The experience of working with SmartCitiesWorld has been fantastic. It’s a group that has great contacts and pulls in the right people, the right city leaders, into these conversations.
Dan Evans, Global Director for Smart Cities at Itron

Hosting these events is really important so everyone has access to coming and hearing, but also so that everyone can be sharing. There’s a lot of mythbusting you can do in these forums.
Robin Denton, Director, Local Public Services at Microsoft

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Planning your Barcelona Campaign?

Let's discuss how SmartCitiesWorld can help you achieve more from Smart City Expo World Congress 2026.

During your complimentary planning session we'll discuss:

Your objectives
Product launches
Priority city audiences
Campaign ideas
AI CityXchange opportunities
Post-event demand generation

SmartCitiesWorld is an official Global Media Partner of Smart City Expo World Congress. This page promotes SmartCitiesWorld's independent editorial, marketing and city engagement programmes and is not an official Smart City Expo World Congress website.

What is unique about the Cities Climate Action Summit?

Different from traditional city events, the Summit seeks to uncover tangible solutions—you will see and hear the latest from leading policymakers, technologists and financiers to learn what is working and what is not working.

 

The Summit will provide a holistic view of how urban climate action can be achieved at scale.

 

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Why host the Cities Climate Action Summit?

Experts across the globe from the World Bank to the World Economic Forum estimate investment needed to combat the climate crisis surpasses US$90 trillion by 2030.

 

And cities are at the crossroad for this investment! The Summit will focus on the policy, the finance and the technology to make these investments wisely—to inform city leaders so they can work to serve and protect their citizens

 

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