Barcelona hosts the International Congress of Smart Cities – People in line

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Updated to the 15/11/2016 – 08:59

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The Spanish city of Barcelona hosts the 15th to the 17th of November the sixth edition of the “Smart City Expo World Congress”, the most important international event of the sector on smart cities, with the participation of over 500 exhibitors.

according To the organizers, this year’s edition confirmed their attendance exhibitors of 600 cities, who expected to cater to about 14,000 visitors, 2.000 more than last year.

The “Smart City Expo World Congress” in 2016 will be the second edition of the “Smart City App Hack”, a project to create a global network of smart cities that face similar challenges with a common vision, encourage their citizens to create solutions and develop applications.

Portland, San Francisco, New York, Phoenix, Helsinki, Ghent, Barcelona, Berlin, Lyon, Dubai and Hong Kong have participated in the creation of 190 applications focused on urban mobility, energy, emissions, the “retail” (retail), culture and tourism and the collaborative city”, stressed the organization.

The celebration of this event will convert to Barcelona for three days in the capital of smart cities, where representatives of some 600 cities around the world will gather in the Catalan capital to address the challenges of urban transformation that will be faced in the near future to ensure the sustainability of the society.

The “Smart City Expo World Congress” will provide the necessary resources to combine the ideas and tools related to mobility, technology, energy efficiency, urban development and knowledge economy.

in Addition, about 400 speakers of international prestige will participate in the sessions and months of round-the congress and the representatives of the 600 cities that will attend the event with the exchange of experiences and the momentum of initiatives joint formed by the main axes of the participation of cities present in Barcelona.

it will Also put the focus on the optimization of the electrical network, the development of renewable energy, energy storage, the whole range of services and energy efficiency, as well as the opportunities and challenges posed by the “internet of things” (devices connected to the internet), cyber-security and data management.

Barcelona will be host to representatives from Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Dublin, Hamburg, Jerusalem, Kyoto, London, Nairobi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Yokohama.

will Also be attended by government delegations of Austria, the Republic of Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom and China, the latter of which held a forum on development of their cities.

Among the exhibiting companies who will showcase their technological advances and solutions in urban include Bosch, Cisco, FCC, Ferrovial, Fiware, Huawei, Mastercard, Microsoft, Philips, SAP, Seat, Siemens, Suez, Telefonica, and ZTE.

it Is expected that the total investment accumulated up to 2020 on the market the “smart cities” is greater than 117.000 million dollars.

According to the Association of Companies of Electronics, Technologies of Information, Telecommunications and Digital Content, the digital economy will create up to 2017 175,000 to 300,000 direct jobs in Spain, while the European Commission forecasts that the potential market reach some 150,000 million dollars a year.

according To the director of the “Smart City Expo”, Ugo Valenti, no other event of this type is able to gather so many cities and businesses, since this event combines business and it knowledge to drive new projects to improve the cities.

The “Smart City Expo World Congress” is organized by the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), public business entity attached to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, in collaboration with ACCIO, the agency for the competitiveness of the company linked to the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.

she Also collaborates in the organization of this event the Center of Development of the High Technology Industry (TORCH), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

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