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Smart City Expo World Congress 2024 and bee smart city renew collaboration

Written by Thomas Mueller | 30. August 2024


Muelheim/Ruhr, September 29th 2024. bee smart city is delighted to announce its continued collaboration with the Smart City Expo World Congress in 2024. Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international event on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona will hold its biggest edition to date in 2024. Under the theme “Live Better” the show and congress will experience a 30% growth of the exhibition floorspace from the record-setting 2023 event. The summit held every year in Barcelona expects to host 1.100 exhibitors, 850 cities and over 25.000 attendees from November 5-7 and will spread over halls 2 and 3 of Fira’s Gran Via venue.

The event will focus on strategies to transform current metropolises into more sustainable, efficient, and livable spaces bringing together leading companies from around the world to showcase the latest solutions and technologies enabling cities to become more efficient in areas such as mobility, public services, utilities, citizen engagement and sustainability.

Along these lines, SCEWC will gather over 600 speakers and international experts in its congress to share the latest experiences and breakthroughs in urban transformation in a conference program structured around eight main tracks: Enabling Technologies, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Governance, Living & Inclusion, Economy, Infrastructure & Buildings, and Safety & Security.

The event confirms itself as the largest global showcase of innovative urban solutions and projects focusing on strategies to transform current metropolises into more sustainable, efficient, and livable spaces.

The event’s director, Ugo Valenti, said: “In the upcoming edition we aim to set a common target for urban innovation worldwide: improve welfare, create opportunities, and foster a better relationship with our planet and communities. If we want to live better we must rethink our way of life, leveraging technology, innovation, and collaboration. Industry leaders, government officials, researchers, and entrepreneurs will get together at Smart City Expo World Congress to address the complex issues lying at the heart of a new city model.”

Global Hub of Innovation

In 2024, SCEWC will delve deeper into the potential of new technologies and the role that start-ups have in their developing process. To achieve this goal, the event will debut the Innovation Playground, a space to connect the main players of the global innovation ecosystem including startups, investors, governments, corporations, and research centres. In addition, SCEWC will also hold the third edition of the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit, an event organized by Barcelona Activa focused on scientific tech entrepreneurship and university spin-offs.

To round off an unmatchable combination of events, the Gran Via venue will also host the third Tomorrow.Mobility, the event jointly organized by Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility aimed at developing a new and sustainable urban mobility paradigm; the second editions of Tomorrow.Building, focused on innovative construction, and Tomorrow.Blue Economy, aimed at using the full potential of ocean resources for sustainable economic growth.

Meet bee smart city in Barcelona

"We are proud to continue our long-standing relationship with Smart City Expo World Congress and to work with those who share our vision for more sustainable and resilient cities and communities. Smart City Expo World Congress is the place to be for us to discuss the latest trends and solutions for cities. With our consulting services, our software to efficiently manage municipal strategy and project management and our smart city tender service, we support cities and help solution providers. Naturally, we present these services and solutions in Barcelona", says Thomas Müller, Managing Partner at bee smart city.

Meet us and discover our services and solutions in Barcelona from November 5-7 in Hall 2, Booth C111 at the joint booth of the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW). We look forward to connecting with you in person!

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As a media partner of SCEWC24, we offer members of our network an exclusive 25% discount for congress passes. Get your 25% discounted ticket now by using code 82198RRH when purchasing your pass - and be a part of the world's leading event for cities.

 


About bee smart city

bee smart city is a specialist digital software and consulting company with the mission to empower municipalities to successfully manage the transformation to smart and sustainable cities and regions. With the Smart City Toolbox – a unique Software-as-a-Service solution for cities and regions - we enable the effective management of smart city strategies and corresponding projects digitally and collaboratively in one place. With 14.000+ Members from 170 countries, bee smart city operates the largest free smart city online network and community for smart city professionals to share knowledge, learn and gain market insights. The platform is also available as a white-label solution for organizations that want to foster collaboration between different stakeholders. In addition, we offer a unique global smart city tender service to give solution providers access to newly issued smart city tenders worldwide. Last, but not least, we advise cities in crafting and implementing smart city strategies and solutions through our smart city consulting services.

Learn more at: www.beesmart.city


Contact:

bee smart city GmbH
Tel. +49 (0) 208 62801331
Email: press@beesmart.city


About Smart City Expo World Congress

Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, November 5-7) is the world’s biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. The event is a premier venue where a diverse crowd of industry executives, government leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs gather annually to revisit complex issues at the heart of a new model of city and society.

This year’s event is bound to set records in speakers, exhibitors, and visitors, focusing on seven main tracks touching the most pressing issues facing cities: Enabling Technologies, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Governance & Economy, Living & Inclusion, Infrastructure & Building and Blue Economy.

For over a decade, SCEWC has been a reference point for powerful connections working together to make out cities better places to live in. Last year, more than 25,000 visitors attended the congress, where they had access to more than 1,100 exhibitors and 600 speakers from more than 130 countries around the globe. 

Learn more at: www.smartcityexpo.com


Contact:

Fira de Barcelona
Communications Team
Email: smartcityexpo.visitors@firabarcelona.com