OASC Conference 2025

Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (OASC)

Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Communities?

Technopolis Yliopistonrinne

AI can play a pivotal role in addressing various challenges that cities and communities face today.Together with the City of Tampere in Finland, we invite you to the OASC Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Communities? conference in January 2025. This conference dives into how AI can help create smarter, more sustainable and resilient local &amp; regional environments and highlights current AI developments in Tampere, the new deputy coordinator of the OASC Council of Cities.The Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Communities? conference is organised in Tampere, one of the forerunners in the digital transformation. As digital innovations continue to reshape urban environments, enormous opportunities and various challenges arise. The city of Tampere collaborates in extensive international networks with a human-centric perspective toward a city where smart technologies and AI will increasingly enable seamless interaction between the physical and virtual worlds, adding value to citizens’ everyday lives. Tampere is collaborating closely together with businesses, research organisations, communities and the members of the OASC network. Such partnerships underline the importance of inclusive, progressive and technology-driven urban development.Artificial intelligence, alongside other emerging technologies, has the potential to greatly enhance city planning and digital services. However, this progress comes with its own set of challenges, including questions around sustainability, ethics and the allocation of limited resources. These complexities make AI a key theme of this year's conference. We invite you to join us in Tampere for this forward-looking event, where together we can shape the cities of tomorrow.Join us at the Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Communities? conference, where thought leaders and innovators collaborate to advance cutting-edge solutions for local &amp; regional digital transformation. In the conference, we will look into how regional and local authorities work with technology companies, research institutions, citizens and key stakeholders to advance the ethical use of AI and emerging technologies.The first Conference day is the community day, where we listen to your use cases of AI, its successes and challenges. The second day brings the insights of additional experts in the field of AI. They will engage in foresight sessions with you and host deep-dives to show you the ins and outs of current and future AI projects, the European AI Act, procurement, AI ethics and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation shaping the smart cities of the future!

Day 1 Agenda

OASC Community Enters the Cosy Conference 

Welcome to OASC Conference 2025 – Day 1: Community Day

OASC Community Gets Started

Updates from the Council of Cities and OASC working groups

OASC Community – The Best is Yet to Come

Welcome to our new members & partners! Introducing the municipalities of Ajdovščina (Slovenia), Södertälje (Sweden) and Tsukuba (Japan). 

OASC Community is Expanding

OASC Community Shares its Local Best Practices

AI TEF, Citcom.ai – Testing AI in Smart Cities at Smart Communities

Pitch #1: CitCom.ai

City Challenges and Pilots: AI for Social Innovation


Pitch #2: CommuniCity

The European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC-DEP) provides tangible technical and non-technical resources for communities to launch a cross-sectorial data-sharing initiative. The project published its blueprint that includes elements for multi-stakeholder governance as well as technical building blocks accompanied by a list of specifications and recommendations, a high-level architecture and a cookbook. Currently, the project receives applications to realise smart city data spaces and ultimately be part of the European data space for communities. Join the session to learn about available resources, the lessons learned, and the remaining challenges.  

Pitch #3: DS4SSCC-DEP

ExPEDite’s approach is to develop and integrate modular components that can be used to analyse and predict a district’s energy performance under various what-if scenarios. These components form a district Digital Twin, enabling not only a visualisation of the built environment, but also real time information on energy flows and spatiotemporal optimization of the district’s energy needs. This tool allows for district planning actions to be designed, analysed and compared, leading to evidence-based decision making.

Pitch #4: ExPEDite – Enabling Positive Energy Districts through Digital Twins

Robocoast EDIH offers Proof of Concept (POC) trials to help manufacturing and technology providers drive innovation and growth. By connecting with our network, you gain access to expert support and tailored solutions designed to accelerate your business. Our POC services provide a valuable opportunity to test, validate, and scale new technologies, enabling you to stay competitive in today's fast-evolving market.

Take the first step towards transformative growth by engaging with Robocoast EDIH and exploring the benefits of our POC trials.

Pitch #5: Intelligent Cities Challenge

Discover how Tampere's IoT platform transforms urban operations by integrating and visualising diverse data sources. Learn how real-time situational awareness enables automation and better-targeted actions, such as optimising road maintenance using weather and sensor data. See how these solutions drive efficiency and positively impact citizens' daily lives.

Pitch #6: IoT Platform - City of Tampere

Discover how MyData principles can transform smart cities by empowering residents to control their personal data while enabling efficient and personalized urban services. This session will introduce MyData as a human-centric approach to data management, showcasing real-world examples of its transformative impact on urban services.

Pitch #7: MyData

Showcasing how human-centric AI and digital twins can effectively address the labor market matching challenge.

Pitch #8: Skills Inventory in Citiverse

The SPACE4Cities is a pre-commercial procurement project that creates replicable solutions, via smart use of European satellite data, for better and more dynamic management of urban space.

Pitch #9: SPACE4Cities

In Horizon WeGenerate, Tampere aims to revitalise its city center into a walking-friendly hub, attracting people and businesses while promoting a healthy, low-carbon lifestyle. By leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies, the project fosters citizen participation and enhances decision-making in urban regeneration to reduce the city's carbon footprint.

Pitch #10: WeGenerate

This session will highlight the need for civil servants to pay attention to emerging AI standards. Whether setting procurement criteria or aligning with best practices, standards offer cities and communities a roadmap to leverage AI responsibly, unlocking its benefits while protecting their communities.

Pitch #11: Why Standards Matter, Also for AI

Lunch & Networking

Södertälje (SE) and Porto Digital (PT), two OASC members, share their local digital transformation journeys, highlighting key steps, challenges, and future plans. 

OASC Community Learns About Cities’ Digital Transformation

Coffee & Networking Break

Open Mic Session on Your AI Practices & Challenges

OASC Community Speaks Up

OASC Community Chooses the Next Conference Host City

The session will unite the OASC Community to explore multi-level governance in digital transformation and the community's role in shaping Living-in.EU’s 2025 objectives. Discussions will focus on collaboration across government levels, addressing challenges, and enhancing impact, while emphasising the role of digital tools in supporting initiatives like urban planning and net-zero strategies. By leveraging Living-in.EU’s partnership strategy, the session aims to identify synergies across local initiatives and scale them up for broader transformative impact.

Living-in.EU: Community-Led Digital Transformation

OASC Community Looks Back on Day 1

Community dinner at the Old Tampere City Hall (Keskustori 10, 33200 Tampere).

OASC Community Goes Out for Dinner

Day 2 Agenda

Welcome to Day 2 of Our Cosy Conference

Welcome to OASC Conference 2025 – Day 2: Conference Day

Welcome by OASC & the City of Tampere

AI Insights from Our Keynote Speakers

AI Foresight Game Show with Kristine Alanko (Senior Specialist, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications), Carl Mörch (Co-Director, FARI), Tatsuo Igarashi (Mayor, City of Tsukuba) and Yasunori Mochizuki (Fellow, NEC) and Edgars Indriksons (Municipality of Riga). Moderated by Martine Delannoy (EU Advisor, Digital Flanders). 

AI Foresight Game Show

Lunch

This session offers parallel AI-focused workshops tailored to various interests and expertise. Attendees can select topics most relevant to their city’s or community’s needs.

Each session runs four times, allowing participants to explore multiple topics across different breakout rooms. Sessions are designed to share actionable insights and foster engagement between cities, communities, researchers, business leaders, and government officials.

Pick & Choose Your AI Deep Dive 

This 30-minute session provides an overview of the practical implications of the EU AI Act for cities and communities, highlighting practical challenges, opportunities, and priorities for regulating your AI-based systems. Together with you, we would like to identify some of your key concerns surrounding the adherence to, and implementation of, the AI Act on a local level. As such, this will also be an informative session for members and stakeholders from outside the EU. Your insights will directly inform OASC's future initiatives and activities, helping us to better support the needs of our community in the evolving AI regulatory landscape within and beyond the EU. Join us to make sense of the AI Act for your city's next steps!

Deep Dive #1: European AI Act & its Relevance to Cities

Deep Dive #2: DS4SSCC-DEP

Explore how the City of Tampere collaborates with Wapice to drive innovation through IoT platforms and the adoption of Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs). 

Deep Dive #3: IoT Platform - City of Tampere

This session focuses on the concept of AI Regulatory Sandboxes, a key tool introduced in the EU’s AI Act. These sandboxes provide a framework for dialogue, testing, and evidence-based learning, helping to refine regulation and share best practices in AI. As part of the EU's broader AI ecosystem, they aim to support responsible innovation while ensuring compliance and fostering collaboration across member states. Within this session, you will also be able to formulate your own needs and wants regarding this new AI tool.

Deep Dive #4: CitCom.ai – AI Regulatory Sandboxes

Explore how the city of Aarhus has worked with AI analysis for the municipality, and how this analysis serves as a governance tool for implementing AI in city operations. This includes six guiding principles and screening tools for evaluating new AI projects. 

Deep Dive #5: AI Strategy & Screening Tool – City of Aarhus

In this session the focus will be on the implementation of AI ethics in different organisations. 

Deep Dive #6: AI & Ethics

The “Deep Dive: European CitiVerses” session will explore three groundbreaking projects—European Citiverses Uniting for Inclusiveness, X-Cite, and SENSE—each driving innovation to foster inclusivity and collaboration in urban environments. By leveraging digital twin technologies and participatory approaches, these projects demonstrate how cities can unite communities, address societal challenges, and co-create sustainable, inclusive urban solutions.

Deep Dive #7: European Citiverses

See You Soon!

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