Held at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via venue, the event’s congress program will be structured around seven main tracks: Enabling Technologies, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Governance & Economy, Living & Inclusion, Infrastructure & Building, and Blue Economy. These tracks will address the key drivers shaping the future of cities, including digital transformation, AI applied to cities, green energy, efficient governance, sustainable urban development, and social equity.
The 2026 edition of Smart City Expo World Congress will have a special focus on housing, a critical challenge faced by cities worldwide. The event will delve into key elements such as Urban Planning & Land Policy, Housing Regulation, Social and Affordable Housing, Building Innovation, and Renovation, Retrofit, Reuse, aiming to open a debate for all actors to define the foundations of a new sustainable residential paradigm for generations to come.
The Director of Smart City Expo World Congress, Ugo Valenti, said: “In the age of AI, quantum technology, and robotics, we also need to embrace solutions that offer a real and immediate impact on the most pressing urban challenges. Housing is a clear example. Rapid urbanisation and rising populations are making access to affordable housing one of the defining challenges of our time. By having a special focus on this topic, we aim to provide a framework for cities, industry and experts to share practical solutions and accelerate actions on an issue that affects communities worldwide.”
The exhibition floor will host leading companies from around the world to showcase the latest solutions and technologies. Among the confirmed exhibitors are Advantech, Arrive Group, Bright, Dahua Technology, Dell Technology, Deutsche Telekom IoT, ESRI, FCC enviro, Google, Hanwha Vision, Lora Alliance, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Silicon Highway, Smart Ports, Ubiwhere, Urbio, Veolia, and Yuan High Tech. In addition to companies, the event will also house a large number of country and city pavilions including those from Argentina, Austria, Barcelona, Belgium, Berlin, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hamburg, Italy, Japan, Las Rozas de Madrid, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Tokyo, and the USA.
Top 50 solutions in sustainability
SCEWC 2026 will also host the “Terra50” exhibition, a new space that will unveil the world’s top 50 solutions yielding the best sustainability results to date in the urban field. This initiative aims to highlight best practices to scale up successful solutions in fields such as green energy production, waste collection, and urban greening, which can be replicated across different urban contexts and countries.
The Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 will be held jointly with Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, organised by Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility and aimed at developing a new and sustainable urban mobility paradigm; Tomorrow.Blue Economy, aimed at using the full potential of ocean resources for a sustainable economic growth, the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit, an event organised by Barcelona Activa focused on scientific tech entrepreneurship and university spin-offs, and the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress.
Find out more about the event here.
