Smart City Expo World
Congress
International Summit on Smart Cities and Urban Solutions
The 2015 edition of the summit of smart
cities organised by Fira de Barcelona was
the most successful to date. The event
brought together some 500 cities from
the 5 continents, with 465 exhibitors and
more than 400 speakers. This fifth Smart
City Expo took place jointly with BcnRail,
the International Railway Industry Show,
and together the two events attracted
some 14,000 accredited professionals.
As a platform to present the latest
urban smart solutions, the Expo highlight-
ed from apps to lampposts capable of
detecting emergency situations. However,
the star of the show was the first self-driv-
en minibus, which all visitors were invited
to try for themselves.
The speakers included the economists
Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University)
and Pankaj Ghemawat (New York Uni-
versity), and technology experts Juliana
Rotich, co-founder of a collaborative plat-
form to monitor crisis situations, and Beth
Simone Noveck, director of Governance
Lab and former head of the White House
Open Government Initiative, leading the
team appointed by US President Barack
Obama. The congress also included a
special session on mobility at which Ru-
pert Stadler, CEO of Audi, presented the
outlines of the car maker’s urban mobility
strategy.
One of the most outstanding initiatives
at the event was the inclusion of a small
symposium, organised in cooperation
with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation,
on the circular economy, a movement
promoting a new production model that
may well revolutionise the global economy
in the coming years.
Once more, the World Smart City
Awards recognised the most outstanding
Edition
5th
Area
36,000 m²
Exhibitors
465
Type
Professional
Activities
World Smart City Awards
Smart City Plaza
4YFN@ SCEWC
BcnRail Congress
Symposium on the
circular economy
CitiSense by the World
Bank
Smart City App Hack
Gran Via venue
17 19 /November
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Trade Shows
