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The Congress’s main theme “Fulfilling ITS Promises”, was chosen to highlight how Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can deliver affordable, impactful and innovative solutions that make daily life and mobility safer, cleaner, and more efficient. This report sums up the proceedings and highlights from this 2019 Congress and gives to mobility stakeholders pointers for future hot topics and further developments.
A strong message from this Congress was that as a society we are firmly placed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – with Data Connectivity as a guiding mantra: Connectivity anywhere, all the time, between everything. And as one speaker put it “If data is the new fuel then Artificial Intelligence is the new engine”.
It was clear that technology was not the big issue for fulfilling promises – it was getting its suppliers, regulators, customers and users together to work as a partnership. A holistic approach was essential to show how issues inter-relate and it needed all stakeholders to cooperate in delivering it.
Another message was keeping users at the heart of MaaS and focusing on what they really wanted from mobility.
The 2019 Polis Conference takes place on 27 and 28 November 2019 at The Egg in Brussels.
The annual Polis Conference provides a unique opportunity for your organisation to connect with up to 550 committed transport innovation professionals who work in local and regional governments and related public and private sector organisations.
The opening and closing plenary sessions focus on the European, urban and regional policy dimensions of a sustainable urban and regional transport system. They feature high level speakers such as mayors and deputy mayors from cities and regions, European Commissioners, Directors and MEPs, and thought leaders from international organisations, research and industry.
The technical parallel sessions feature in-depth presentations and discussions on urban transport solutions selected through an open call in view of their degree of innovation and their ability to meet the sustainable mobility policy needs of cities and regions.
Participants include members of Polis, i.e. transport practitioners and policy makers of local and regional authorities from across Europe; transport professionals and decision makers from other public authorities; representatives from the transport industry, SME’s and start-ups, mobility service providers, transport researchers & consultants; and high-level representatives and experts from the European institutions. Last year’s Polis conference in Manchester welcomed around 550 participants.
Meeting language: English
The 7th edition of the Smart Cities International Conference – Shaping the cities of Tomorrow will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on December 5-6, 2019. The conference is based on the traditions and success of the e-government, social innovation, urbanism and administrative dimension of a smart city. The Smart Cities Conference is an initiative dedicated to open, inclusive, formal and informal dialogue on Smart Cities issues among all interested stakeholders. It was built from the organizers’ desire to put into an academic debate different aspects of Romanian cities’ life, but also of the cities outside the country’s borders, through multidisciplinary scientific approaches that will talk about the past, present and future, starting from: acceptance of democracy as the most efficient tool of governance and also acceptance and compliance with the state’s rules.
The participation invitation is addressed to specialists and researchers from all domains of social and humanist disciplines, from political science, communication, legal science, medical science, European integration studies, sociology, to architecture, economy, computer science, cybernetics and many others. It brings together representatives of governments, intergovernmental organisations, private sector, technical community, academia and civil society, with the aim to facilitate multistakeholder discussions, exchanges and collaboration on Smart Cities related issues.
Smart Cities Conference objectives:
- Raise awareness and promote a better understanding of the Smart Cities concept among stakeholders
- Build and strengthen the capacity of these stakeholders to actively participate in national, regional and international Smart Cities developing process
- Facilitate multistakeholder discussions, exchanges and collaboration on Smart Cities related issues that are of particular concern for stakeholders
- Contribute to creating linkages between the Smart Cities realities at the national, European and international level