Calendar
When:
April 18, 2018 @ 9:00 am – April 20, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
2018-04-18T09:00:00-04:00
2018-04-20T18:00:00-04:00
Where:
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
Place des Nations Unies
Casablanca 20000

Sessions

Keynote

The City as a Project
 10:00 – 10:45 (18/04/2018)  Auditorium
The need to build and consolidate a ‘City Project’ as the main challenge of its political and social leaders, and an indispensable condition for the development of a SMART CITY. The consolidation of ‘City Project’ will depend on the articulation between the Government, citizens and the private sector, conceiving technology as a great instrument at the service of the citizens and the ‘City Project’.

Sustainable Development

Strategic Masterplanning Green Urban Developments
 11:15 – 12:30 (18/04/2018)  Auditorium
Large-scale urban developments, particularly in rapid-development countries and regions, represent a unique opportunity to design lasting urban areas that fit high-quality standards in terms of sustainability. With this in mind, the session is designed as a showcase of experiences and practical solutions to plan and manage urban masterplanning with clear strategic goals and orientations to create greener and smarter cities.

Sustainable Development

Local Authorities at the Frontline of Urban Action
 14:15 – 15:30 (18/04/2018)  Forum 1
Urban policies comprise a multitude of areas of competence and interest that rely on the capabilities of local authorities. Nevertheless, with the co-operation with higher levels of governance, it would be even more successful and could consequently meet the needs of citizens. This session is designed as an exploration of how leadership, organisational arrangements or visions, to name a few, can be seen as assets to ensure local policies work.

Smart Technologies for Urban Innovation

The Quantified City: Data-driven Cities
 14:15 – 15:30 (18/04/2018)  Forum 3
As big data possibilities emerge as a powerful tool to transform urban management, new challenges appear in a scenario in which societal, ethical, technical and political issues have to be considered. A new understanding of urban data is opening up new possibilities that will only materialize if used from a wide perspective of these issues. So, this session is aimed at exploring recent development in the field of quantifying how cities work and can be managed.

Civic Technologies

Technologies for Social Good
 15:45 – 17:00 (18/04/2018)  Forum 1
Digital tools and the cultural shift towards more open, transparent, personalized and real-time life experience in cities is gaining attention as the main driver of the smart city. This session is aimed at exploring how civic technologies can be used to widen the chances for urban population to take part in shaping their cities and improve their everyday life in cities.

Community Engagement & Collaborative Societies

Fostering Social Innovation
 15:45 – 17:00 (18/04/2018)  Forum 3
Social innovation, which is gaining increasing importance in the public, private and third sector, can greatly contribute to addressing the growing challenges, such as migration, poverty and global warming. The main initiatives explicitly target the governance and funding mechanism of social innovation, including its regulatory environment, powering public-sector innovation, the social economy, as well as providing policy guidance and fostering new policy practices.

Place Making and Public Spaces

Designing Inclusive Public Spaces
 17:15 – 18:30 (18/04/2018)  Auditorium
The way the urban space is designed has two big impact for the city. On one hand it influences directly on relation; on the other hand it influences on the lives of the citizens. This session is aimed at exploring projects and initiatives that put inclusion at the centre of urban design and try to find new approaches to ensure urban spaces considering different needs, ages and uses to make them thriving spaces for people of all kinds in the city.

Smart Technologies for Urban Innovation

Smart City Strategies in Action
 10:00 – 11:15 (19/04/2018)  Auditorium
The session is designed to offer the audience a particular look into cities that are putting the ideas around smart cities into action with a clear strategic framework to ensure projects will be successful, explaining how to overcome the practical barriers.

Smart Technologies for Urban Innovation

Aligning Finance and Regulations for Urban Innovation
 11:45 – 13:00 (19/04/2018)  Forum 3
The repercussions of the global financial crisis, coupled with the mega-trends impacting cities – urbanisation, demographic shifts, resource depletion and climate change – have prompted institutions to pave the way for more innovative and joined-up urban solutions. But finance alone cannot solve these complex urban challenges, and that capacity-building, knowledge-sharing, institution-building, and wider governance support will be equally important.

Civic Technologies

Inclusive Cities and the Digital Divide
 11:45 – 13:00 (19/04/2018)  Forum 1
Smart cities must embrace a basic goal: being meaningful for citizens and enlarge their capabilities and agency. Digital appear as a tool to create conditions for inclusion. But it can only works if digital divide, accessibility and digital literacy are set as conditions to make these promises real. This session is designed as a showcase of how using digital projects to create more inclusive cities.

Keynote

What if we built smart cities, lovable places? Placemaking for Social Innovation or Democratizing Innovation through Placemaking
 14:45 – 15:30 (19/04/2018)  Auditorium
Placemaking is a means to connect people to place, and to each other, for greater entrepreneurship, inclusion and innovation. Focusing on public spaces and places can work to break down silos among sectors and within government and professional fields. When we start to lead with people and place, it quickly becomes clear that place attachment (or lovability) translates to economic and social capital – and it’s what will ultimately make our cities more innovative, distinctive, and competitive.

Community Engagement & Collaborative Societies

Engaging Citizens in Public Decision-making
 15:30 – 16:45 (19/04/2018)  Forum 3
The theory and practice of public administration is increasingly concerned with placing the citizen at the centre of policymakers’ considerations, not just as target, but also as agent. The aim is to develop policies and design services that respond to individuals’ needs and are relevant to their circumstances. Concepts of collaboration have emerged to describe this systematic pursuit of sustained collaboration between government agencies, non-government organisations, communities and individual citizens.

Place Making and Public Spaces

Transit-oriented Development and Energy-efficient Cities
 15:30 – 16:45 (19/04/2018)  Forum 1
Urban mobility has become one of the cornerstones of global sustainability. Then, the future of urban quality of life is considerably based on the way we create a new equilibrium of transportation modes. Firstly, the link between urban mobility and global carbon emissions, and secondly how it is determined by urban planning decisions will be addressed introducing to attendees a broad perspective on urban mobility and a closer outlook at transit-oriented development.

Place Making and Public Spaces

Attractive and competitive territories: the role of place-based marketing
 17:00 – 18:15 (19/04/2018)  Auditorium
Cities, regions and nations seek to find their place in the global economy and one of the tools they are using is the exploration of their own identity, strengths and capabilities to be offered to citizens and visitors to make their values and aspirations clear. This session is aimed at exploring territorial marketing practical examples and how they are being used to create a sense of community and an invitation for the investors to know the potential of territories as attractive and competitive territories.