The event will gather over 600 speakers and international experts in its congress to share the latest experiences, strategies, and breakthroughs in urban transformation. The conference program is structured around eight main tracks: Enabling Technologies, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Governance, Living & Inclusion, Economy, Infrastructure & Buildings, and Safety & Security.
The event will bring together metropolises from all over the globe to share their latest projects and experiences and promote the technologies developed to deploy them. There will be representatives from over 850 cities in attendance.
Ugo Valenti, Director of Smart City Expo World Congress, stated, “Smart City Expo 2024 aims to set a common target for urban innovation worldwide: improve welfare, create opportunities, and foster a better relationship with our planet and communities. To live better, we must rethink our way of life, leveraging technology, innovation, and collaboration. We want to offer a meeting point for all actors in this field to get together and draft a roadmap to a better tomorrow.”
Leading companies from around the world will showcase the latest solutions and technologies enabling cities to improve mobility, public services, utilities and citizen engagement such as Saudi Aramco, Axis Communications, Dahua Technology, Dassault Systèmes, Dell/Nvidia, FCC Medio Ambiente, Hail City, KHNP, KPMG, Madinah City, MDEC, Microsoft, New Murabba, Nova Cidade, PNY, PWC, Roshn Group, Smart Ports – Piers of the Future, and Veolia.
Moreover, in 2024 SCEWC will delve deeper into the role that start-ups have in their developing process of new technologies. To do so, 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 by Barcelona Activa focused on scientific tech entrepreneurship and university spin-offs.
The 2024 edition of SCEWC will feature an impressive lineup of keynote speakers, including Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University who examines the intersections of race and technology; Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist known for her work in the South Bronx; Stephanie Hare, who focuses on the impact of technology on public policy and human rights; and Melati Wijsen, co-founder of Bye Bye Plastic Bags and a leading youth advocate for sustainability.
Fira de Barcelona will strengthen its role as a global hub for urban innovation by holding SCEWC 2024 together with Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, Tomorrow Building World Congress, and Tomorrow.Blue Economy. Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, jointly organized by Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, a body of the European Union, aims to speed up the adoption of new sustainable urban mobility paradigms. Focusing on topics such as New Mobility Services, Public Transport, Autonomous Mobility, Last Mile Logistics, Data For Mobility, Mobility Infrastructure, Zero and Low-Emission Mobility, and Active and Inclusive Mobility.
In addition, Tomorrow.Building World Congress will bring together the construction sector to showcase the most innovative solutions, projects and strategies for transforming the industry. To do so, the event will focus on five major challenges: urban planning and landscaping, construction technology, design technology, decarbonised building and sustainable transformation of buildings. With over 100 experts and 30 conference sessions, the congress will give special relevance to women in the construction industry featuring architects Melike Altinisik and Liselott Stenfeldt as keynote speakers.
Tomorrow.Blue Economy will hold its third edition to promote the huge potential of the seas and oceans as a source of sustainable economic growth. Organized with the support of the Barcelona City Council, Port de Barcelona, World Ocean Council and Smart Ports: Piers of the Future, the event will gather experts, companies, institutions and community leaders to showcase innovative solutions, programs and best practices carried out in recent years to advance an interdisciplinary approach in this field, including public-private collaboration. Among the topics are climate change, finance, offshore energy, water management, biodiversity, green shipping, smart ports, and recreational boating.
 will host its largest edition yet from November 5-7, 2024, at Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via venue.){kind=link}