Sharing ideas about urban development across the globe
Moscow Metro, Palaces for the People
Moscow Urban Forum: Projects for a Better City
Smart cities bring together infrastructure and technology to improve quality of life and enhance the urban environment. How can we use data from public transport, air quality meters, or energy production more effectively? The Moscow Urban Forum, the largest international congress on the development challenges of global megacities, dives into this question and more.
Sharing Cities Alliance: Barcelona Summit
The Sharing Cities Alliance empowers policymakers to better govern in the digital age. It respects the character of each city, while championing solutions that make the world more livable, equitable, and enriching for all citizens. Working with 50+ cities globally, the Alliance collaborates on research, shares data and knowledge, and works together to craft effective policies that future-proof cities.
Smart City Expo World Congress
Barcelona and New York City launched an annual Housing Tech Challenge at the Smart City Expo World Congress with 18,000 urbanists. The cities are advancing innovative tools including offsite prefabrication, alternative building materials, and mobile solutions to reduce the cost of housing construction and promote inclusive growth.
F8: Facebook Developer Conference
Over 5,000 developers, creators, and entrepreneurs come together for F8, Facebook’s annual conference about the future of technology. The event’s Hackathon focuses on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and developers use Facebook’s tools to create social technologies to promote sustainable cities.
The Ismaili United States: Critical Conversations
The Ismaili USA’s Critical Conversations series features faith-based perspectives on the questions of our time. "Voting and Faith - Exploring Economic Disparity" focuses on the roots and consequences of economic inequality, building a stronger and more inclusive economy, and the faith imperative to work towards social and economic justice.
World Bank: Transforming Transportation
How can we bring about trillions in GDP growth, reduce emissions, and eliminate road fatalities? Global infrastructure specialists gather annually at Transforming Transportation to showcase solutions at the intersection of transport, technology, and climate action, revolutionizing the way we move people and goods and promoting inclusive economic growth.
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