The SmartCommunities Conference 2023 “Smart and Human Cities” took place online on Thursday 6 October from 9.45 to 17.00: 27 speakers, 3 cities involved, over 220 online participants, 18 innovative solutions on three macro-themes: intelligent and collaborative mobility, government and data economy, physical and digital security.

Opening the proceedings were Claudia Porchietto , President of the Cluster and Laura Morgagni , General Secretary of the Smart Communities Cluster who illustrated the Cluster’s vision of the cities of the future. Download the Smart & Human Cities presentation

The SmartCommunities Conference 2023 was opened by Benoit Esmanne , from the European Commission’s DG Growth, who illustrated the many European initiatives for cities and how smart communities can be supported by clusters, like ours.
Download the presentation Smart Cities and clusters

Each thematic session of the conference saw the intervention of a keynote speaker to outline the theme and present development opportunities:

• Pierluigi Claps , professor of environmental, land and infrastructure engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin and representative of the RETURN extended partnership – download the presentation of the Partnership_Return
• Gianmarco Montanari , general director of MOST – National Center for Sustainable Mobility – download the MOST presentation
• Emanuela Girardi , founder and president of Pop AI – Popular Artificial Intelligence

A round table was also held with the cities on ” Rethinking cities: mobility and urban services of the future: a “story” of the cities together with  Nicolas Sassoli of the House of Emerging Technologies of Bologna, Alberto Corò of the City Innovation Division of Padua and Elena Deambrogio of CTE-Next of Turin. During the discussion, ambitious ideas and visions emerged on how to improve our cities to make them more sustainable, efficient and “communicative” with businesses. But above all we talked about the “ecosystem” and collaboration between different subjects – bodies, organisations, universities and companies – as a fundamental point for innovating in a useful and citizen-friendly way.

“ Our annual conference confirms itself as the opportunity for a direct comparison between companies, research organizations and public administrations to learn about and share skills, needs and interests in technological development. We reiterated our commitment to continue working together to implement projects that will make our cities even more ‘smart’ and ‘human’ cities. ” declared Laura Morgagni , general secretary of the SmartCommunitiesTech Cluster, at the end of the event.