Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), an international event on cities and smart urban solutions organised by Fira de Barcelona, closed its fifteenth edition this afternoon with 29.721 attendees from 140 countries gathered at the Gran Via venue. Under the theme "Urban Solutions, Real Impact", the congress showed that the technologies cities have been committed to already make an impact on today's most pressing urban challenges. This year's main topics included the affordable housing, climate change abatement solutions and mobility.
The programme, structured around seven tracks, brought together 668 international experts and representatives of over 1,000 cities. Among the speakers were Anne Hidalgo, Andre Dickens, Anacláudia Rossbach, Nikolas Badminton and Ayumi Moore Aoki.
SCEWC was held together with Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress – organised with EIT Urban Mobility, HOWS Barcelona, Tomorrow.Blue Economy, the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit and the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress, gathering 1,276 exhibitors such as Dell Technologies, Deutsche Telekom IoT, Esri, FCC Enviro, Google, Hanwha Vision, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Ubiwhere, Urbio and Veolia.
"Three days ago, we set out to show that smart city initiatives are already making an impact. Having welcomed over 27,000 attendees and 1,276 exhibitors, and having brought together mayors, companies and experts who are delivering results all over the world, we can affirm that the message from cities has been clear: they are ready and willing to scale what works and we are ready to help them speed the process," said Ugo Valenti, Director of Smart City Expo World Congress.
