Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World

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In Africa, Accra leads in progress on SDGs

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Cities 4.0: Where Smart Solutions Meet Sustainability

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How Can Smart Cities Overcome Their Funding Challenge?

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December 21, 2020

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Smart Villages: the Digitization of Rural Areas

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Smart Cities from the Desert Up

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key insights

How Hyperconnected Cities Use Data to Improve Their Performance

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Bjarke Ingels Wants to Build a City on Mars

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December 3, 2020

The Biden Administration Could Be Good for Smart Cities

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November 22, 2020

Resurgent Pedestrian Cities and the Bike Revolution: A Side-Effect of COVID-19

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November 21, 2020

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Smart City Opportunities, Challenges and Implications in Africa

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IESE Cities in Motion Index 2020

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Strengthening the Capacity of Central Asian Countries to Develop Sustainable Urban Mobility Policy on Car Sharing and Carpooling Initiatives

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Innovation in the Face of Crisis: Insights From European Cities

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Connected Citizens: How Moscow engages citizens through smart technologies

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Mobility as a Service: Rides on a WHIM in Helsinki

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Innovative Approaches to Partnering Through Pilots

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Achieving Efficiencies Through PropTech

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January 13

Back at Work Successes & Challenges

Hear from industry leaders as they provide intel and insights on the successes and challenges of going back to work during the pandemic. This is an interactive session hosted by Women in PropTech. Questions are encouraged. Men are welcomed and encouraged to join.

January 13 - 15

CityxCity

The CityxCity Festival is an annual event of Open & Agile Smart Cities. Hosted digitally, the festival brings global change makers, hot topics, and the latest insights about digital urban transformation to a wide audience.

January 20

Best Practices for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector

Tom Noorkah, Director of Financial Systems at the City of Columbus and Gianluca Cairo, Industry Principal, Ceridian will discuss real-world strategies, best practices, and techniques that you can apply to help ensure the successful delivery and execution of your digital transformation projects.

January 27

The Intelligent Revolution: driving roi with ai

Join us for DataRobot, ESI ThoughtLab, and Pfizer for a live webinar to discuss the findings of a recently published study onhow executives are using AI to drive more business value. This comprehensive research benchmarked 1,200 organizations across industries and world markets and provides insights around the current state of artificial intelligence at major companies.

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how this program will help cities

From electric cars and renewable energy to cloud computing and AI, technology helps city dwellers work smarter, live healthier, and conserve resources. Cities such as Copenhagen, Detroit, and Tel Aviv are already successfully using technology to achieve these goals. But it's not enough.

City officials want more than examples of technological solutions: they need an evidence-based roadmap to making their cities safe, sustainable, and resilient. A roadmap that includes lessons learned from the current pandemic, centered on the social imperatives that matter most, and based on objective quantitative analysis that shows which investments work best.

smart city solutions for a riskier world

Our new study, Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World, will do this by examining how 150 cities harness technology to drive resilience, sustainability, and citizen-centricity. Our urban economists and experts will examine the social, environmental, and economic impact of investments in smart technologies—and the solutions and strategies that work best. We will work with a coalition of corporate, academic, and government leaders on this research initiative.

Our goal is to provide city leaders with an evidence-based roadmap to resilience and sustainability and open a valuable ongoing dialogue between cities and the companies that serve them.

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ESI ThoughtLab specializes in assessing the economic, financial, and social impact of the latest technology on cities, companies, industries, and world markets.

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CEO, ESI ThoughtLab

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Marc Andrew

CEO, CityAge

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