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Smart Cities: As Enablers of Sustainable Development: A European Challenge

This document outlines the agenda for a conference on smart cities as enablers of sustainable development in Europe. The conference will discuss strategies for electric mobility and low-carbon solutions in European cities. Several Italian municipalities have already adopted digital connectivity and electric mobility as key investments. However, smart city projects require expertise across many fields like urban planning, transport, energy, and public services. The conference aims to foster cooperation between cities, technology providers, and other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to smart and sustainable cities in Europe.

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Smart Cities: As Enablers of Sustainable Development: A European Challenge

This document outlines the agenda for a conference on smart cities as enablers of sustainable development in Europe. The conference will discuss strategies for electric mobility and low-carbon solutions in European cities. Several Italian municipalities have already adopted digital connectivity and electric mobility as key investments. However, smart city projects require expertise across many fields like urban planning, transport, energy, and public services. The conference aims to foster cooperation between cities, technology providers, and other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to smart and sustainable cities in Europe.

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SMART CITIES

as enablers
of sustainable development:
a European Challenge

Wednesday, July 4th, 12 am – 9 pm


Berlin, Italian Embassy
PROGRAM Joachim Lonien, Smart City Standard Forum, DIN Institut
Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, CEO, ui! - urban institute and Smart City Forum Deutschland
12.00 – 12.05 WELCOME ADDRESS
H.E. Pietro Benassi, Ambassador of Italy to Germany 16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK

12.05 – 12.15 KEYNOTE SPEECH 16.30 – 17.30 KEYNOTES ADDRESSES - SPOTLIGHT SMART CITY INNOVATION
Citizen-centric and digital - Germany on its way to a smart nation
Renato Galliano, Director for Urban Economy, Innovation, Smart Cities and Employment, Milan
Dorothee Bär, Minister of State for Digitalisation at the Federal Chancellery Gernot Lobenberg, Director, Berlin Agency for Electromobility - eMO
Prof. Dr. Gernot Liedtke, Head of the Department on Commercial Transport, German Aerospace
12.15 – 13.15 ROUNDTABLE 1 Center - Institute of Transport Research
Mobility, Low-Carbon and E-solutions in Europe Andreas Gebhard, Founder, re:publica
Dr. Birgit Hofmann, Head of Division, Environmental Innovation and Electric Mobility, Federal
Between 2005 and 2016, the number of vehicles with an electric engine and plug-in hybrid electric Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy
vehicles in the world rose by an average of 94%, topping 2 million in 2016. Italy is also part of this
e-Mobility Revolution, even though there is a long way to go towards Italy’s transition to electric. 17.30 – 18.45 ROUNDTABLE 3
The panel will discuss different strategies. This is especially true of Italy, which has more vehicles per “Smart Outlook” 2030: How can we foster community- and commons-driven
capita than any other country in Europe (610 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, compared to 548 in Germany solutions in Europe?
and 484 in France), and where 14% of cars on the road are over 20 years old, placing Italy near the
bottom of the table in Europe, with serious consequences for environmental and urban sustainability.
While technology is a powerful tool to improve urban infrastructure, citizen engagement remains
essential to make cities truly sustainable and livable. Unfortunately, the citizen perspective is often
Julia Hildermeier, Clean Vehicles and E-Mobility Officer, Transport & Environment ignored in the smart city discussion. What will be the ultimate architecture for the governance of
Ulf Schulte, Managing Director, Allego GmbH, Berlin smart cities? Multi-stakeholder dialogue dominated by over-the-top platforms, or bottom-up
Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Kniejski, EIC Digital, Business Development approaches through civic engagement platforms?
Veronica Bellonzi, Head of mobility systems development, Milan
Klaus Illigmann, Director, Urban Planning and Regulation, Munich Dr. Georg Zachmann, Senior-Fellow, Bruegel
Dirk Vogel, Network Manager, AMZ – Network of Automotive Suppliers, Saxony Björn Siebert, Public Affairs Manager, Door2Door
Layla Keramat, Executive Creative Director, Frog Design, Munich
13.15 – 14.00 LUNCH BREAK Prof. Dr. Elke Pahl-Weber, Professor and Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning,
Technische Universität Berlin
14.00 – 15.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES – SPOTLIGHT CITIES Dr. Philipp Bouteiller, CEO, Tegel Projekt GmbH
Prof. Dr. Jochen Rabe, Guest professor for Urban Resilience and Digitalization, Einstein Center
Simone Mori, President, Elettricità Futura, and Head of European Affairs, ENEL for Digital Future
Dr. Thomas Becker, Vice President, Governmental and External Affairs, BMW Group
Giovanni Bettarini, City Counsellor for Urban Development and Smart City, Florence 18.45 – 19.45 FINAL KEYNOTES
Paola Pisano, City Counsellor Innovation and Smart City, Turin
Massimiano Tellini, Global Head of Circular Economy, Intesa San Paolo Innovation Center
15.00 – 16.00 ROUNDTABLE 2 Carlo Papa, Director, ENEL Foundation
The challenge of connectivity. Towards a European Framework? Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT Senseable City Lab and Founding partner of Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin

Cities will deploy different infrastructures, both for mobility and for connectivity purposes, adopting 19.45 – 21.00 DRINKS AND NETWORKING
various approaches: Which is the best solution for which municipality? How can we reshape the
future Energy and telecommunication cities’ network? Do we need a common legal basis in Europe Moderation: Jakob Schlandt, Head of Background Energy and Climate, Der Tagesspiegel
for Smart cities?

Francesco Fanciulli, Senior Vice President, Business Energy Products, Prysmian Group
Christian Kulick, Managing Director, Economy and Techologies, BITKOM
Nicola Brüning, Head of the BMW Group Representative Office to Germany
Nikolay Tcholtchev, Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
FRAMING THE TOPIC

Cities are consuming 80% of the worldwide


produced energy, producing 80% of the global Several Italian municipalities have already
domestic product and are responsible for 70% embraced digital connectivity and e-mobility
of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same as the main investment challenge for the
time political instruments for fostering a global upcoming decades. At the same time, smart
sustainable growth have to be applied and city projects are complex and require
coordinated. Commitments undertaken expertise in different fields to succeed, also to
through the Paris agreement on climate encourage greater public acceptance,
change, and through the 2030 Agenda for inclusive growth and integration: urban
more sustainable development adopted by the planning, architecture, transport, energy
General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 solutions, well-functioning public services and
September 2015 (including on: affordable and a conducive municipal administration. They
clean energy; climate action; industry, also require a cooperation between public and
innovation and infrastructure) must be private sector with reciprocal benefits in order
translated into action plans, legislative to balance all the dimensions: financing, public
frameworks and budgetary commitments, interest, technology, to name a few. There is
both at national and municipal level. In order also a pervasive need to establish effective
to focus on sustainable growth and to achieve relationships and interconnectedness among
the objectives set for 2030, municipalities have cities (especially small and medium-sized
to implement smart city solutions. municipalities since they do not have access
Global cities are already pivotal actors of to the same information as big metropoles)
sustainable development and e-mobility, but with technology and solution providers, but
several of them require a new concept to also to encourage a faster conversion of
complete their transition: ICT and the Internet European urban areas into smart cities, while
of Things optimize services, infrastructure and spurring innovation and growth. This is a first
resource allocation, allow for better-informed step for a more structured engagement of
decisions, increased control and choice for European cities and leading European
citizens, boost economic development and providers of smart city solutions which should
encourage social interaction. They can also lead to a faster, more secure and cost-effec-
make environments eco-friendly, more tive digitization of cities to the benefit of their
responsive to people’s needs and demograph- economic, environmental and social
ic and economic shifts. ICT enablement can development.
directly contribute to a reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions by up to 15%
globally by 2030. Nevertheless, the columns of
smart city like big data storage and data
processing as well as sustainable energy
resources are still uncertain issues to explore
and to address.

Media partner
Botschaft der
Italienischen Republik
Berlin

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