The 2020 summit will gather over 200 speakers on its two days of conferences and side events
Smart City Live, the new two-day digital edition of Smart City Expo World Congress held on the 17 and 18 November 2020, begins tomorrow. On the first of its two days, the leading summit on smart cities and urban innovation organized by Fira de Barcelona will gather top speakers and city representatives from all over the world to tackle the most pressing issues for the global urban ecosystem within the COVID-19 pandemic context and beyond.
Here are the highlights of tomorrow’s agenda:
A Conversation with Minister Takuya Hirai: A New Digitalization Strategy for Japan
09:41h – 09:54h (GTM +1)
Parag Khanna: Cities Reshaping the World Order
09:54h – 10:15h (GTM +1)
Chicago’s inclusive response to Covid-19 (with Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago)
10:43h – 10:49h (GTM +1)
Paris, The 15-minute City (with Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris)
13:31h – 13:47h (GTM +1)
Carlo Ratti: Reinventing the Post-pandemic World
14:22h – 14:38h (GTM +1)
Saskia Sassen: Urban Fragilities in a Post-pandemic World
15:09h – 15:24h (GTM +1)
How to Accomplish the Right to Housing? (with Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona)
15:24h – 15:41h (GTM +1)
Economic and social recovery leaving no one behind (with Daniel Quintero, Mayor of Medellín, and Núria Marín, Mayor of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat)
15:41h – 16:01h (GTM +1)
Catalonia: The First Open Laboratory of 5G in Europe (with Jordi Puigneró, Minister for Digital Policy and Public Administration of the Governement of Catalonia)
16:50h – 17:01h (GTM +1)
Sameh Wahba: Rethinking Urban Planning in Developing Economies
18:02h – 18:20h (GTM +1)
Barcelona, November 16th 2020
Source: firabarcelona.com
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