Cities involve a huge complexity of structures, functions, and actors. This conference highlights the advantages of universally designed smart cities, by showing how it can contribute to equality and independence, and increase community participation by individuals. We will highlight the value of universal design as a strategy, and present examples of accessible technology, and inclusive design thinking when planning and developing a smart city.

Our purpose is to bring together the market place, administrators, public service providers, researchers, designers, architects, planners, developers, users, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Universal Design and Information and Communication Technologies.

Registration is closed!

• Conference entrance is free.
• The main conference language is English.
• Conference language for track 2 and 3 will be Norwegian and Sweedish.
• The plenary and ICT sessions will be live streamed.

Please read our accessibility statement.

Program (not final)

Event moderator is Torgeir Waterhouse from IKT-Norge

Our speakers

Opening plenary 09.00 – 11-30

Opening comments 
Representative from Department of Children and Equality or Department of Local Government and Modernisation

WHOs work in age friendly cities
Manfred Huber, World Health Organization (WHO)

European accessibility act
Susanna Laurin, Funka

Urban Living Labs – a way to co-create sustainable and smarter cities
Christine Hvitsand, Telemark Research Institute (TRI)

Are we designing smart cities for all?  
James Thurston, G3ict and smartcities4all.org

LUNCH 11.30 – 12.30

Parallel sessions 12.30 – 15.30

Track 1: Technology that makes a smart city inclusive

Artificial intelligence and the smart city 
Lena Lundgreen, Microsoft Norway

Universal Design of Indoor Wayfinding    
Einar Myreng and Lars-Cyril Blystad, Next Signal

TravAble – a free travel app that shows accessible places and service    
Ósk Sigurdardottir, travable.is

Networking Dialogue – meet the experts

Track 2: Planning and Developing an Inclusive Smart City (in Norwegian)

Møteleder: Nassima Dzair, InterBridge

Hvordan bygg og by åpner og begrenser muligheter 
Mari Storstein, dokumentarfilmskaper

Smartbyen som demokratisk form – en introduksjon til digital urbanisme 
Kai Reaver, Norske arkitekters landsforbund

Folketråkk – en nasjonal digital medvirkningsveileder
Ingvil Aarholdt Hegna, DogA

Smart Bodø – planer for inkluderende planlegging
Ingrid Nøren, Bodø kommunen

Å flytte en by – sosial og urban transformasjon i Kiruna
Erik Stenman, Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter AS, Oslo

Oppsummering med avsluttende refleksjoner i panel

Track 3: Transportation in an Inclusive Smart City (in Norwegian)

Møteleder: Eirik Andersen, Ruter

Framtidens mobilitet 
Bernt Reitan Jenssen, Ruter

Tilgjengelighetsinformasjon og kollektivreiser – arbeid med universell utforming ved utvikling av nye produkter og tjenester
Rune Sperlin og Mari Flaaten, Entur

Ny måte å tenke kollektivtrafikk på – om Hent meg buss i Sauda
Svein Ystanes, Kolumbus.

Erfaringer fra et prøveprosjekt med selvkjørende busser i bydelen Kista, Stockholm 
Peter Hafmar, Nobina Technology

Hvordan utvikle tjenester ved å lytte til byen? 
Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby, Urban Sharing

ResLedaren – mobilapp spesielt utviklet for personer med nedsatt kognisjon 
Joel Holmberg, Haja Applikation

Erfaringer som bruker av teknologiske løsninger
Kristoffer Lium

Closing plenary 15.30 – 17.00

Ethical and security concerns in technology
Torgeir Waterhouse, IKT Norge

Navigating world travel with the help of technology for someone who happens to be blind – Perspectives, barriers and opportunities
Stein Erik Skotkjerra, Siteimprove

“Cybernetic ecologies”- the relationship between people and our technologies 
Dan Philips, Royal Academy of Art UK

Networking reception 17.00 – 19.00

Registration is closed!

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