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Cityx - The Future Cities Expo
Tuesday 25 September 2018, 09:00am - 08:30pm
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Contact Future Cities Catapult

Cities are humanity’s greatest innovation. They are engines of prosperity. Yet they also create huge challenges, from congestion to social isolation. Tackling these is a vital role of mayors and city managers, and also presents a commercial opportunity for businesses.

Cityx is an opportunity to dive into the priority challenges facing today’s cities, discover how UK businesses are harnessing emerging technologies to unlock radical new solutions, and develop the relationships needed to drive the adoption of ‘advanced urban services’.

Join leading businesses, market disruptors, pioneering researchers, city mayors and managers and other key city stakeholders for three days of presentations, workshops and curated networking.

Each of the three days are themed around the most pressing challenges facing cities, but will be interspersed with sessions on general challenges, like emerging technologies, and improving procurement.

Day 1: The Adaptable City

Cityx will focus on how emerging technologies like AI, extended reality and ‘strong simulation’ are helping planners, developers, infrastructure providers and others make smarter choices about how to plan, build and manage more prosperous, more sustainable places.

Day 2: The Liveable City

Toxic air results in more than 400,000 early deaths across Europe each year and has been shown to have significant effects on healthy brain development in children. Many of the core activities of cities such as building, freight, waste management and transportation have significant air quality ramifications.

As well as thinking about the challenges of clean air, Day 2 at Cityx will focus on understanding the demand for environmental solutions in cities across other areas vital to well-being and liveability such as the provision of clean water, waste management, sustainable energy and acting on climate change. We will discover how businesses are harnessing innovation and rising to these challenges.

Day 3: The Mobile City

As urban populations grow, so does the demand for effective transportation around the city. And despite vast investment in public transport and ride sharing apps, private car use still chokes the world’s cities. Up to 30% of city traffic is made up of people looking for a parking space.

Day 3 at Cityx will focus on innovations in urban mobility, such as last mile solutions, electrification and automation of vehicles. It will consider how innovations are making city environments more navigable and inclusive to users with additional needs, including how the latest neuroscience research can be applied to urban design for better wayfinding and inclusion.

To register for this event, click here

Location Future Cities Catapult, 1 Sekforde St, EC1R 0BE

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