Connected Smart Cities Conference

Organised in Brussels on January 22nd, 2015, the Connected Smart Cities Conference is a public event set up as a space for sharing and debate about technology, ecosystems and toolkits for open and connected smart cities.

The conference will cover the following topics:

• Interoperability, harmonisation of APIs, solutions portability, avoid vendor lock-in.

• Connected Smart cities at national, regional and European level: National networks and their local work. Using the Integrated territorial investments of the structural funds to establish national and local smart city collaboration

• Models for holistic procurement – the Smart City innovation ecosystem booster

• Citizen engagement and tools. Standardised measurements systems and performance indicators.

• From smart city pilots to deployment. Exploring the concept City as a Living Lab.

• The communities (open source developers, coders, citizens). Labs and hubs in cities. Fostering community-driven innovation and entrepreneurship.

Who should join this event?

• City and city innovation agency representatives, researches, and companies, interested in Future Internet Open Platforms and community-driven innovation.

• City and city innovation agency representatives interested in sharing information about results from IoT, Future Internet and open data pilots and deployments in cities, and the positioning of the different technologies, tools and solutions tested in different environments.

• City and city innovation agency representatives, researches, and companies, interested in protecting cities from vendor lock-in, open platforms and open data, and fostering city interoperability and solution portability.

• Project representatives of smart city projects pursuing for synergies with other European initiatives.

• Policy and project officers from the European Commission, cities, regions and National Goverrments contributing to the City Innovation Chapter.

• SMEs, companies and entrepreneurs working in urban innovation.

The Connected Smart Cities Conference is hosted by ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) supported by FIWARE (FIWARE.org), Organicity, and ECIM (http://www.ecim-cities.eu/) as it is a result of the ongoing collaboration in between ENoLL, Eurocities KSF, the CIP Smart City portfolio and FIRE.

The conference is free of charge but registration is compulsory and spaces very limited.

Venue: Flagey, Studio 1 (Place Flagey, 1050 Brussels)

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DRAFT AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome words from ENoLL Chair and Eurocities KSF

9:15 - 9:30 Keynote 1: Mrs. Bianca Debaets, Brussels Regional Secretary of State for IT and Digitalisation.

9:30 - 9:45 Keynote 2: Mr. Mario Campolargo, Director “Net Futures” - DG CONNECT at European Commission

9:30 - 10:45 Panel 1: Open and Agile Cities - From European Pilot Projects to National Deployment (inspired by 6AIKA)

Session moderated by Jarmo Eskelinen

• MAIN THEME: tools for collaboration of cities and city networks
• Harmonisation of APIs and solution portability
• Scaling up the results of the European projects to structural funds and national strategies
• Communities

Speakers:

• Introduction: Jarmo Eskelinen
• Ivonne Jansen-Dings (Waag Society): Code4Europe
• Pekka Koponen (Forum Virium Helsinki): City Service Development Kit - API shortcuts to interoperability
• Seppo Haataja (City of Tampere): 6Aika - Open and Smart Services, first national Open And Agile Cities initiative

Panel:

• FI-WARE representative (Telefonica)
• Ivonne Jansen-Dings
• Pekka Koponen
• Seppo Haataja

10:45 - 11:05 Technology enabler case: Juanjo Hierro, FIWARE Open Platforms/Open APIs for Open Cities

11:05 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Panel 2: Strategies for City-driven Innovation

Session moderated by Martin Brynskov (Aarhus University, Organicity).

Themes:

• Holistic procurement
• National networks of Cities
• Tools for co-creation and engagement
• Experimentation as a service. Urban prototyping

Speakers and panelist:

• Lene Hartig Danielsen: Director of Citizen Services, Aarhus Municipality, Denmark
• John Lynch: Future Cities Catapult, London
• Luis Muñoz: University of Cantabria, Santander Spain

12:30 - 12:45 City case: Katalin Gallyas Open Innovation Policy Advisor, City of Amsterdam

12:45 - 13:45 Networking lunch

13:45 - 14:15 Building up communities in Cities: Coders, citizens and entrepreneurs.

Speakers: Prof. Pieter Ballon, iMinds

Contributions from IoT Lab by Sébastien Ziegler (Mandat International) and Code for Europe by Ivonne Jansen-Dings

14:15 - 14:30 City Case: Sippo, Finland by Mikael Grannas (Mayor of Sipoo)

14:30 - 15:00 Mobility solutions with harmonised APIs

Topics:

• Approach to a specific city problem (Mobility / Parking
• Harmonisation of APIs and solution portability in a mobility scenario.

Speakers:

• “API harmonisation: Mobility case” by Sergio Garcia, FIWARE Smart Cities expert at Telefonica
• “A solution driven example: Smart Parking integration” by Gorazd Marinic, ECIM project leader at iMinds

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 - 16:15 Panel 3: From city pilots to city deployments in community-driven cities

Session moderated by (TBC)

Topics:

• From smart city pilots to city solutions deployment
• City as a Living Lab
• Procurement
• Indicators
• Harmonisation of APIs, avoiding vendor lock-in,...
• The challenges...

Panelists and Speakers:

• City of Manchester, Adrian Slatcher
• City of Barcelona, Gustavo Orozco
• City of Eindhoven, Wim de Kinderen
• City of Valencia, Ramón Ferri

16:15 - 16:30 Performance indicators and measurement systems – Miimu Airaksinen, VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland (Initiative)

(Short Break)

16:45 - 17:45 Get involved now! The low hanging fruits in ongoing initiatives. Brief pitches from some of the ongoing initiatives:

• • FIWARE and FIWARE Lab opportunities for Cities. Nuria de Lama, ATOS

  • OrganiCity. Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University

  • IoT Lab. Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International/Annika Sallstrom, LTU

  • MyN. Alvaro Oliveira, Alfamicro

  • iCity and CitiOS. Gustavo Orozco, City of Barcelona

  • Code for Europe. Ivonne Jansen-Dings. Waag society

  • CitySDK, Pekka Koponen, FVH

  • Creative Ring. Simon Delaere, iMinds

  • Citadel.. on the move. Jesse Marsh, Atelier studio

  • ECIM. Gorazd Marinic, iMinds

17:45 - 18:00 Closing notes

18:00 - 20:00 Networking (on-site)

Event moderated by Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen, CEO Forum Virium Helsinki and Chair of ENoLL