Program 16. SMART CITY FORUM
DAY I, 31st May 2023
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:40 The Ceremonial inauguration
9:40 – 10:40 CITY MAYORS’ SUMMIT
Inauguration debate:
- The economic condition from the local governments’ perspective
- Challenges before the Smart City concept – a multidimensional approach to a city
- Sharing economy – the important voice of local governments at times of crisis and new economic models
- Debt and regional inequality – financial strategies and efficient implementation of projects and tasks
- the future of regional policy in Poland – the perspective till 2030
- Education, inspiration, and upbringing of future generations in the spirit of innovation
10:40 – 11:30 SMART CITY – COOPERATION
Debate:
- Models of cooperation with business used in smart cities
- Smart City strategy building
- structures and organizational solutions in a local government
- Local government start-ups – exchange of experience
- Collaboration between local governments and non-government organizations in terms of the creation of public policies regarding smart cities – innovation-oriented
- Non-prescriptive acquisition of funds from local governments
- E-government as a way to meet financial, environmental, and service challenges
- creating available services and administration openness
- Automation and solution development – where are we heading?
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 OPEN DATA – DEVELOPMENT FUEL OF MODERN CITIES
Debate:
- City data analysis – development planning and maximization of information value
- data analytics and video analytics – coordination of early response
- Creation of new services and applications on the bases of data
- The use of AI in a city
- Monitoring and video analytics – as a source of information on what is happening in the city
- Education concerning threats and self-awareness of local governments
- how to prevent data leakages and data loss
- means of data protection and backup
- Citizen’s perspective – data use ethics and GDPR
13:30 – 15:00 ECO CITY AND SMART ENVIRONMENT
Debate:
- Sustainable city of today and future generations
- technological trends for green cities – inspiring and innovative solutions
- The open data potential – the use of open data in eco-cities
- Green transformation funding
- Smart building – re-urbanization, architecture, and thermo-modernization
- smart planning – do smart cities require tearing down and rebuilding the existing infrastructure?
- The significance of green areas in city centers
- the education of future generations
- Closed Circuit Economy and the advantages of transformation – where are we?
15:00 Lunch
DAY II, 1st June 2023
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Opening of Day 2
9:10 – 10:20 ENERGY TRANSFORMATION OF A SMART CITY
Debate:
- The energy crisis of 2022/2023 – the effects on the economy and power engineering
- group purchases of energy
- advisory services regarding optimization of power energy use parameters
- Optimization of measuring systems –
- Carbon neutrality of cities till 2050 – European Green Deal
- Saving strategy for the future – how to speed up the construction of renewable energy sources
- community power engineering
- an efficient approach to carbon footprint
- Energy storage and energy banks – infrastructure and technological solutions
- renewable energy sources in a city – functionality increase of photovoltaic installation with the use of electric cars
- Smart-lighting in infrastructure management
10:20 – 11:20 WATER IN THE CITY
Debate:
- Smart metering and remote monitoring of the work of district heating networks and water and sewer systems
- remote reading – the way from utility companies to the building manager
- availability of dedicated solutions in a city
- Water purity analysis and monitoring
- Water management
- Water treatment technology – the quality of water in Polish cities
11:20-11:50 Break
11:50 – 12:40 SMALL CITIES AND COMMUNES – THE STRATEGY OF BEING SMART
Debate:
- Smart City 4.0 – how to use the community, involvement, and the voice of inhabitants
- Adoption of smart solutions and generation of savings in smaller communes – barriers, and solutions
- a search of unobvious income sources
- Model of open innovations – funding and acquisition of funds
- Investments in IT infrastructure development
- Suburbia – what strategy for the suburbs and who is going to benefit
- cooperation of suburban communes with metropolitan areas
- Smart farming – development concepts (Smart Rural)
12:40 – 13:40 TRANSPORT TO THE FUTURE
Debate:
- Ecological forms of transport – key aspects
- traffic flow and comfort of movement
- operation and maintenance of transport systems
- micro-mobility as the integration of transport networks
- How to efficiently manage public transport and traffic in large urban areas – best practices
- Digital twin and IoT in transport
- Challenges connected with investments into charging infrastructure for electric cars and buses
- Hydrogen – the fuel of the future for Polish cities
- Transport, smart parking, and mobile payments
- unification and payment standardization
- E-control – regulation of paid parking zones
- attractive tourism – amenities for tourists visiting Polish cities
- Vehicle maintenance and safety – control over non-standard behaviors of drivers
13:40 – 14:30 DIGITAL CITIZEN – A MAN IN THE CITY
Debate:
- Payment Security for seniors and children – education
- Review of participatory budgets – inspirations and the most exciting ideas of inhabitants
- The role of Urban-labs and urban business incubators
- Health care and senior care – the role of local governments in providing access to telemedicine and telecare
14:40 Lunch
Update 26.02.2023