Business Forum
Building alliances that accelerate the transition to smart and climate neutral cities
The Smart City Business Forum brings together around 400 decision makers to discuss key challenges for the smart and climate-neutral city. This year, we will focus on the private sector's role in achieving cities' smart and cllimate-neutrality targets, creating opportunities for public and private actors to connect, build partnerships and take steps in accelerating urban transformation. The program will consist of high-level keynotes, matchmaking, and workshops around spefic challenges hosted by a variety of international public and private partners.
Agenda
10:00
| Welcoming words - Bàrbara Pons Giner, Commissioner for2030 Agenda Barcelona City Council
- Karen van Dantzig, Urban Envoy, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
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| 10:45 | Fire-side Chat with Smart City Visionaries
Bas Boorsma (Chief Digital Officer of the City of Rotterdam | Professor of Practice Thunderbird School of Global Management | Author of A New Digital Deal)
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| 11:20 | Keynote from the European Commission on the 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission
Patrick Child (Deputy Director DG Environment, Mission Manager for the Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities)
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| 11:40 | Panel Discussion: Financial institutions as partners to the smart and climate-neutral city - How do we make this work for real?
- Marja Ruigrok - Deputy mayor municipality of Haarlemmermeer and Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
- Niklas Bäckström - City of Helsingborg, Swede
- Yolanda Minguito Esteban - Triodos Bank Spai
- Heimen Visser – Primevest Capital Partners
Moderator: Asen Charliyski |
| 12:20 | Business Keynote - scene setting for the afternoon
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | NETWORKING LUNCH –with matchmaking facilitated by Enterprise Europe Network |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | 1:1 matchmaking by Enterprise Europe `Network |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Parallel session 1 - The value of real-time wastewater monitoring for better health and climate resilience (led by Scorewater EU project partners)
- On our way to a green mobility system (Brainport Eindhoven)
- Sustainable urban logistics - matching challenges and solutions (Bable and Invest Skåne, Helsingborg)
- Future-shaping and impact leadership as a holistic approach to designing resilient, smart and sustainable cities (VTT & Tampere)
- City-wide deep energy retrofit of buildings (Bloxhub, Barcelona)
- Accelerating innovation adoption in the public sector (VEFRESH, Univrses)
- Climate Neutrality Investment Plans
- High-Impact Solutions from Europe part 1
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Networking break –with matchmaking facilitated by Enterprise Europe Network |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | 1:1 matchmaking by Enterprise Europe `Network
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| 15:30 - 17:00 | Parallel session 2- Smart Mobility technological developments in Human-Centric cities (Brainport Eindhoven)
- Bridging the gap between cities and fnancial innovation (Civiesco/cities including Helsingborg)
- Acceleration of transitions: an appeal to everyone working in or with cities (Amsterdam Trade & Innovate)
- Digital dealmaking beyond imagination (rvo)
- Scaling IoT Solutions - opportunities and challenges (IoT Sweden & RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)
- City + Citizen = Smarter Climate Action (Nordic Edge and Ducky, Innocode, Augment City, city of Stavanger, city of Oslo and city of Trondheim, Amsterdam Smart City)
- Next Generation EU – a driver for a digitalized Spain and Italy & an opportunity for the private sector (Business Finland, Business Sweden, and Netherlands Business Support Office)
- High-Impact Solutions from Europe part 2
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Networking cocktail –with matchmaking facilitated by Enterprise Europe Network |
