BARCELONA, Spain, Nov 10 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —The 2023 edition of Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international summit on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona, contributed to open a new era of urban innovation after registering record-breaking figures and holding the event together with Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress – organized with the EIT urban Mobility –, Tomorrow.Building and Tomorrow.Blue Economy. After three days, the events gathered over 25.300 attendees from 140 countries at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via venue.
The 600 experts discussed the different strategies being deployed worldwide to tackle the challenges that cities are facing in areas such as Mobility, Governance, Sustainability and Inclusion. Among the keynote speakers featured Nathan Blecharczyk, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Airbnb; the President of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta; computer scientist and expert in Algorithmic bias Margaret Mitchell; AI-specialized lawyer Micaela Mantegna; and former UK Minister for Energy & Clean Growth and sustainable development expert, Claire O’Neill.